LDF Testifies in Support of Legislation Banning Prison-Based Gerrymandering in California

(Sacramento, CA) – Today, Dale Ho, Assistant Counsel with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) will testify at a hearing at 1:30 pm before the California State Assembly’s Committee on Elections and ...

Leading Civil Rights Groups Urge Department of Justice to Require Florida to Submit Voting Change for Review

Announced Changes to Voting Have Not Been Approved by Department of Justice (New York, NY) – Today, the nation’s leading civil rights organizations, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF), NAACP, Florida State Conference ...

Mumia Abu-Jamal’s 1982 Death Sentence is Again Declared Unconstitutional

(New York, NY) –The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has unanimously declared that Mumia Abu-Jamal’s death sentence is unconstitutional.  In today’s decision, the Court of Appeals reaffirmed its 2008 finding that ...

Rights Groups Sue Louisiana over Voting Rights Violations

State Agencies Failed to Register Minority and Low-Income Voters under National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) (New Orleans, LA) –Today, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Inc. (LDF), Project Vote, and New Orleans attorney Ronald Wilson filed ...

Post-Katrina Housing Case Continues After D.C. Circuit Ruling

Joint Statement from Plaintiffs and Counsel on Recent Decision in Road Home Case (New York, NY) – Today a federal court of appeals issued a ruling explaining its decision to set aside preliminary injunctions previously ...

Leading Civil Rights Groups Urge Florida to Comply with the Voting Rights Act

(Tallahassee, Florida) — Today, the nation’s premiere civil rights organizations, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the NAACP, including its Florida State Conference of Branches, and Advancement Project, together urged Florida Governor ...

Appellate Oral Argument in Chicago Firefighters’ Discrimination Case on Remand From LDF’s Supreme Court Victory

(New York, New York) – On Tuesday March 29th oral argument will be presented before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Lewis v. Chicago, the ongoing litigation to secure justice for ...

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