The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) submitted an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to overturn its decision in Apocada v. Oregon, a case that allowed states to have non-unanimous jury verdicts. ...
The NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc (LDF) sent a letter with the Center for Constitutional Rights urging New York State Legislators to repeal Civil Rights Law 50-a (CRL 50-a), allowing public disclosure of ...
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Inc. (LDF) submitted a letter to officials in Hazlehurst, GA requesting they reopen Precinct 1 Polling Place. The letter urges them to approve this reopening during Jeff Davis County election officials’ upcoming meeting on June 18, 2019. ...
LDF Fellow Sparky Abraham joins News Five Cleveland’s Ron Regan to discuss how water liens are disparately impacting Black communities in Cleveland and how Cleveland News Five’s investigation into water liens was instrumental to developing ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), with co-counsel, Arkie Byrd of Mays, Byrd & O’Guinn, P.A., and the law firm of Shearman & Sterling, LLP filed a federal lawsuit on behalf ...
Janai Nelson, Associate Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), testified before the House Homeland Security Committee on how Transportation Security Administration (TSA) policies are profiling and disproportionately burdening people of ...
Today, the Supreme Court unanimously strengthened Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, holding that the statute’s presuit “charge-filing” requirement is not jurisdictional, which means that an employment-discrimination victim’s failure to perfectly satisfy ...
