CONTACT: Phoebe Plagens, media@naacpldf.org, 646-979-7382 Ella Wiley, ACLU, media@aclu.org, 925-819-0555 Paul Bowers, ACLU-SC, pbowers@aclusc.org, 843-608-8141 COLUMBIA, S.C. — A three-judge district court issued an order allowing South Carolina’s racially gerrymandered congressional map to remain in ...
Independent Monitor Ends Oversight of Upstart Network Amid Impasse and Offers Guidance for Fair Lending Oversight in Financial Services; Parties Warn of Risk of AI-Driven Bias in Consumer Lending March 27, 2024 | WASHINGTON, D.C. ...
Last week, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and co-counsel Quinn, Connor, Weaver, Davis, & Rouco LLP filed a motion for a preliminary injunction in Braxton et al., v. Stokes et al., a federal lawsuit challenging ...
(New York, NY – March 27) Sixteen civil rights organizations sent a letter to every school superintendent in Texas clarifying misconceptions about hair discrimination in the wake of a state court ruling about the Texas ...
Today, LDF submitted written testimony to the Maryland Senate Education, Energy, and Environment committees in support of HB627, a bill to implement Automatic Voter Registration for formerly incarcerated Marylanders upon release. The Automatic Voter Registration-State ...
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed an amicus brief today in support of the plaintiffs in Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians et al. v. Michael Howe, Secretary of State of North Dakota, a major ...
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund announced the appointment of Legal Defense Fund (LDF) President and Director-Counsel Janai Nelson to its board of trustees. The Rockefeller Brothers Fund is a private family foundation with a mission to advance social change that contributes to a more ...
