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LDF Sues on Behalf of NAACP to Challenge U.S. Department of Education’s “Dear Colleague” Letter and Certification Requirement

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Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) challenging the U.S. Department of Education’s attempts to prohibit and chill lawful ...

Forty Civil Rights Organizations and Education Advocacy Groups Urge State PK-12 Education Leaders to Continue Investments in Equal Opportunity for Students Amid Title VI Compliance Concern

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Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and 44 other civil rights organizations and education advocacy groups sent letters to elementary and secondary State Education Agencies (SEAs) and Local Education Agencies (LEAs) urging them to continue ...

LDF Files Lawsuit Against Madison County, Alabama, Commission for Violating the Rights of Black Voters

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Madison County, Ala. — Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and Wiggins, Childs, Pantazis, Fisher & Goldfarb filed a lawsuit against the Madison County Commission on behalf of the Alabama State Conference of the NAACP ...

LDF Files Amicus Briefs Defending Wilmer Hale and Jenner & Block from the Trump Administration’s Targeting of the Legal Profession

Read a PDF of our statement here.  Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed amicus briefs supporting law firms Jenner & Block and WilmerHale in their respective lawsuits to permanently block the implementation of executive orders ...

LDF Exits Meta’s Civil Rights Advisory Committee Over Harmful Content Moderation Practices, Urges Company to Reverse Course on DEIA Rollbacks

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In two letters sent to Mark Zuckerberg today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) has removed itself from Meta’s external civil rights advisory group due to concerns over its content moderation and diversity, equity, inclusion, and ...

LDF Denounces House Passage of SAVE Act, Urges Senate to Reject Bill that Will Disenfranchise Millions of Americans

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Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) urges the U.S. Senate to reject the misleadingly entitled “Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act”, a disastrous, discriminatory, inefficient, and unnecessary bill passed by the House that would disenfranchise ...

Civil Rights Organizations Call on University of Michigan Law School to Ensure Equal Access to Educational Opportunity in Response to Troubling Email About Law Review

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Today, a group of civil rights organizations sent a letter to the University of Michigan Law School calling on the institution to affirm its commitment to providing equal educational opportunities for its Black, Latino, Indigenous, ...