On June 12, 2024, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed a brief in its ongoing St. John the Baptist Parish school desegregation case in Louisiana seeking to close Fifth Ward Elementary and relocate its students ...
Today, the Supreme Court has ruled that it prematurely granted review of Moyle v. United States and United States v. Idaho, a case involving whether an Idaho law trumps the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor ...
Media Contacts Legal Defense Fund (LDF), media@naacpldf.org ACLU of Florida Media Office, media@aclufl.org Community Justice Project, nadege@communityjusticeproject.com Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, srichmond@akingump.com Florida Supreme Court Issues Decision Confirming that Anti-Protest Law Cannot Be ...
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) is deeply saddened by the death of Reverend James M. Lawson Jr., a pioneering civil rights leader who worked steadfastly to advance racial justice throughout his lifetime. Rev. Lawson Jr. ...
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court has unanimously decided in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine and Danco Laboratories LLC v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine that a group of anti-abortion physicians and medical organizations had no ...
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and other civil rights organizations sent a letter to the Superintendent of the South Carolina Department of Education denouncing its decision to remove course credit for Advanced Placement (AP) ...
Last Thursday, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and Southern Legal Counsel (SLC) filed an appeal on behalf of nonprofit civil rights organization the Council on American-Islamic Relations-Florida (CAIR-FL), which ...
