Yesterday, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and co-counsel Lambda Legal filed a motion for a preliminary injunction in National Urban League v. Trump, a federal lawsuit challenging three executive orders by President Trump banning diversity, ...
Today, a group of civil rights organizations sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Education calling on the federal agency to rescind a “Dear Colleague” letter threatening to terminate federal funding to schools that ...
Today, the Legal Defense Fund and Donati Law, PLLC filed a lawsuit on behalf of 5 individual Black voters and the Fayette-Somerville Branch of the NAACP challenging a racially discriminatory electoral map in Fayette County, ...
As the Senate Judiciary Committee considers the nomination of Harmeet Dhillon to be Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) sent a letter to Senate leadership outlining Ms. Dhillon’s troubling record ...
Yesterday, elected officials in Georgia passed sweeping legislation to address water affordability issues and implement stronger protections against shutoffs in DeKalb County. These efforts are the result of years of advocacy by the Legal Defense ...
Press Contact: Troi Barnes, Legal Defense Fund, media@naacpldf.org Alejandra Lopez, The Legal Aid Society, ailopez@legal-aid.org Sarai Bejarano, media@latinojustice.org Alora Sherbert, Queens Defenders, press@queensdefenders.org Stopping Racial Profiling and Protecting our NYC Community New York, NY – ...
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and Lambda Legal claim these orders will severely limit organizations’ ability to provide critical social and health services. Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and Lambda Legal filed a federal ...
