Today, Legal Defense Fund (LDF) President and Director-Counsel Janai S. Nelson testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Rules & Administration as part of its hearing, “The Electoral Count Act: The Need for Reform.” In ...
In a show of historic and overwhelming support for affirmative action, 82 corporations and business groups (see list below) signed three amicus briefs filed in the Supreme Court of the United States in Students for ...
Today, the United States District Court for the District of Maryland dismissed Association for Education Fairness v. Montgomery County Board of Education, a lawsuit that sought to prevent school districts from promoting equal opportunity for ...
As organizations that have spent years fighting for civil rights, racial justice and the genuine safety that all of our communities deserve, we stand together to oppose a vote in the House of Representatives on ...
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court of the United States in Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. University of North Carolina (UNC) on behalf of LDF and ...
Today, 25 Harvard student and alumni organizations, represented by the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court of the United States in Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. Harvard asking ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Mattie Goldman, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, goldman@civilrights.org Lacy Crawford, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, lcrawford@lawyerscommittee.org Chris Ford, The Legal Defense Fund (LDF), media@naacpldf.org Rotimi Adeoye, ...
