On August 29, a majority of the en banc panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued a decision that allows the state of Louisiana to end the landmark Chisom consent ...
Media Contact: LDF Media Office, media@naacpldf.org Audrey Martin, AMartin@legal-aid.org, 774-266-5233 (NEW YORK, NY) – Last night, the Independent Federal Monitor (Monitor) of the New York City Police Department (NYPD) released a report finding that the ...
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), alongside co-counsel Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, filed an amicus brief in United States v. Skrmetti – a case challenging a Tennessee law that bans medically necessary gender-affirming health ...
Civil and voting rights organizations scored two significant wins for Georgia voters when they secured preliminary injunctions that would ease burdensome birthdate requirement for casting absentee ballots and allow “line relief” for voters waiting in ...
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF), along with Black Voters Matter Fund, Georgia Muslim Voter Project, National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (“NAPAWF”), Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials (“GALEO”), Barred Business, Rep Georgia Institute Inc. ...
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), along with co-counsel Shania King, filed a petition in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, calling for a rehearing of a case where a correction ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 21, 2024 Troi Barnes, Legal Defense Fund, media@naacpldf.org Emily Berkowitz, ACLU National, media@aclu.org Keisha Williams, ACLU-NC, kmwilliams@acluofnc.org Gretchen Engel, The Center for Death Penalty Litigation, gretchen@cdpl.org RALEIGH, N.C. – Attorneys ...
