Contact: press@endqiny.org Governor Hochul’s budget and proposed immigration package would codify qualified immunity in New York for the first time. A coalition of civil rights, community, legal, and advocacy organizations, along with legislators, is demanding ...
MEDIA CONTACTS Legal Defense Fund: media@naacpldf.org ACLU: media@aclu-md.org Campaign Legal Center: media@campaignlegalcenter.org Common Cause: mmajikas@commoncause.org General Assembly Must Act to Empower Voters Now Amid Federal Attacks on Voting Rights and an Affordability Crisis Today, a ...
Read a PDF of our statement here. Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) announced it reached a settlement on behalf of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) challenging the U.S. Department ...
This week, a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report revealed that, under the current administration, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) failed to adequately enforce civil rights protections in schools while ...
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) joined Seyfarth Shaw LLP in filing a state lawsuit in Alameda County, California on behalf of a descendant of Sidney and Iréne Dearing, who were dispossessed of their home when ...
Yesterday, independent journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort, along with two other individuals, were arrested after reporting on protest activity last week at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota. The journalists were covering demonstrators, some of ...
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), along with several civil rights legacy organizations, delivered a letter to Congress urging U.S. Senators to oppose any effort to advance appropriations bills related to the funding of the ...
