LDF Demands Independent Investigation Into the Death of Quawan “Bobby” Charles

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On November 3, 2020, 15 year-old Quawan “Bobby” Charles was found dead in a sugarcane field in Iberia Parish, Louisiana, four days after his family reported him missing. According to Quawan’s family and other local ...

LDF Files Emergency Amicus Brief Supporting a Motion to Stay the Federal Execution of Orlando Cordia Hall

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Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit supporting a motion to stay the federal execution of Orlando Cordia ...

LDF Urges Mississippi Governor to Reinstitute a Statewide Moratorium on Evictions and Foreclosures

Read the full letter here Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) wrote a letter urging Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves to re-institute a statewide moratorium on evictions and foreclosures on behalf of ...

LDF Opposes the Nomination of Kathryn Mizelle to the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter urging the Senate to oppose the nomination of Kathryn Mizelle to the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida. ...

Civil Rights Organizations Call on Congress To Investigate Senator Lindsey Graham’s Conduct

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Kiren Marshall, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, marshall@civilrights.org, 202.780.9835 Sandra Hernandez, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, shernandez@MALDEF.org, 310.386.5768 Don Owens, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, dowens@lawyerscommittee.org, 202.934.1880 Phoebe Plagens, NAACP ...

LDF Mourns the Loss of Drew S. Days III, Revered Civil Rights Attorney and Law Professor, Former U.S. Solicitor General

Drew Saunders Days III (Photo courtesy of the U.S. Department of Justice, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.) The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) mourns the loss of Drew Saunders Days III, who ...

LDF Files Amicus Brief Challenging Trump Administration’s Memorandum Excluding Undocumented People from 2020 Census Count

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Yesterday, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and law firm Milbank LLP filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to affirm a lower court ruling in Trump v. New York, ...

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