Frazier v. Kelley:LDF Files Complaint against Arkansas Officials Allowing COVID-19 to Decimate Prisons The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), ACLU of Arkansas, Disability Rights Arkansas, and law firm Squire Patton Boggs filed ...
Today, the United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of the plaintiff in Ramos v. Louisiana, establishing that the Sixth Amendment’s guarantee of a unanimous jury verdict applies to the states through the due process ...
Yesterday, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Inc. (LDF) joined the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and over 100 other organizations in a letter to Congress outlining key health and economic security priorities for lawmakers to ...
Robert Garcia (Courtesy of Community Partners) LDF mourns the loss of our colleague Robert Garcia, a lifelong civil rights advocate and LDF staff attorney from 1992 to 1996. In 2000, he founded and led the ...
On Wednesday, Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards announced that the State’s K-12 schools will remain closed for the remainder of the academic year, but pointedly emphasized that instruction will continue. “This is not the end ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joined the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and over 80 other civil rights organizations in a letter to congressional leadership urging them to ...
Today, the Charleston Area Justice Ministry (CAJM), the American Civil Liberties Union of South Carolina (ACLU-SC) and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter, signed by over 200 area residents ...
