Legal Defense Fund (LDF) President and Director Counsel Janai Nelson testified before the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Rules and Administration about barriers facing Black voters and the dangerous attacks on voting rights and democracy ahead ...
Today, Massena Law, P.C., the Vessup Law Firm, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and the Initiative for a Just Society reached a settlement of $212,500 in Smith v. City of New York, on behalf of ...
(NEW YORK, NY) – The federal monitor overseeing the consolidated monitoring process to reform the NYPD in Floyd v. City of New York, Davis v. City of New York, and Ligon v. City of New ...
Today, the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Education and Workforce Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development held a hearing entitled: “Divisive, Excessive, Ineffective: The Real Impact of DEI on College Campuses.” The hearing ...
Today, New York State Governor Kathy Hochul announced a five-point plan that includes deploying 1,000 members of the U.S. National Guard and New York State police throughout New York City’s transit system. Hochul’s plan includes ...
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed an amicus brief in Smith v. United States in support of Glenn Smith, a Black man, who was convicted in a case where the prosecutor struck all four Black ...
Last week, the Legal Defense Fund’s (LDF) Thurgood Marshall Institute released a new research brief, When the State Takes Over: How State Officials Usurping Local Control Threatens Local Black Political Power, authored by Senior Researcher ...
