Natasha Merle Joins LDF as LDF/Fried Frank Fellow

Natasha Merle joined the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) as a LDF/Fried Frank Fellow in January of 2016. Natasha spent the first two years of her fellowship as a litigation associate in the ...

LDF Applauds Supreme Court’s Montgomery v. Louisiana Decision to Apply Ban on Juvenile Life Sentences Retroactively, Affecting Thousands Who Were Imprisoned as Children

The NAACP Legal Defense Fund & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) applauds today’s U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Montgomery v. Louisiana, declaring that its previous decision in Miller v. Alabama–which banned mandatory sentences of life without ...

LDF Urges Systemic Reforms to Eliminate Police Sexual Misconduct Following Sentencing of Daniel Holtzclaw, Former Oklahoma Police Officer

Today, former Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw received a sentence of 263 years for raping and sexually assaulting eight Black women while on duty. “In this case, justice, although late, was served,” said Sherrilyn ...

LDF Statement on Thomas v. School Board of St. Martin Parish

School Segregation Remains Problem in Many Schools Nationwide The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) is pleased to announce that a federal district court in Louisiana has approved a school desegregation plan involving the St. ...

Black Voters in Fayette County, Georgia Win Historic Opportunity to Elect Candidates of Choice and Settle Voting Rights Act Case

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), and co-counsel Neil Bradley, on behalf of the Georgia State Conference of the NAACP, Fayette County Branch of the NAACP, and ten Black voters, have successfully ...

LDF Urges Maryland Legislature To Override Governor Hogan’s Veto and Restore Voting Rights to People with Felony Convictions

On January 19, 2016, Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), sent a letter to the Maryland State Senate and the Maryland House of Delegates urging them to ...

LDF Supports New York State Court Decision in Gifford v. McCarthy Re-Affirming Ban on Discrimination in Public Accommodations

Last week, a New York State appeals court unanimously held that the owners of an upstate New York wedding venue violated the state’s Human Rights Law by refusing to host a wedding because they objected ...

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