LDF and Civil Rights Groups Urge Court to Find Cranston, Rhode Island Prison-based Gerrymandering Scheme Unconstitutional

In a friend of the court brief, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) urged the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit to uphold a key lower court decision that ...

LDF Urges California Governor to Sign Legislation Enabling More Than 50,000 People with Past Felony Convictions to Vote

In a letter to California Governor Jerry Brown, LDF urges the signing of Assembly Bill (AB) 2466, which will codify a recent court decision, Scott v. Bowen, concerning voter eligibility and eliminate residual ambiguity in ...

LDF Joins the Election Protection Coalition in Open Letter to Political Parties Concerning Voter Intimidation

As part of the Election Protection Coalition, the largest nonpartisan voter protection coalition led by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, LDF sent an open letter to the leadership of the four political ...

Sherrilyn Ifill in SCOTUSBlog: How Will the Confirmation of a 9th Justice Affect the Future of Diversity in Higher Ed?

Source: SCOTUSBlog

The Court after Scalia: Affirmative action in a changing Court How will the confirmation of a ninth Justice affect the future of diversity in higher education? After years of going back and forth to the ...

LDF Requests Additional Clarification from Baltimore County Police Department

On August 19, 2016, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) received a letter from the Baltimore County Police Department (BCoPD). In that letter, the BCoPD responded to the LDF’s August 15 correspondence ...

LDF Files Objection to Gardendale’s Efforts to Stymie Desegregation

Gardendale Practice Part of Troubling Trend of Reinstating Racially Segregated Education The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an objection in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama ...

Celebrate the Anniversary of the March on Washington By Continuing Its Work

 Legal Defense Fund Honors the 53rd Anniversary of the March on Washington Fifty-three years ago, on August 28, 1963, Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. exhorted the audience of 250,000 people who had gathered at the steps ...

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