On November 12, the Appellate Court of Maryland dismissed a lawsuit brought on behalf of families with children in Baltimore City Public Schools (BCPSS) challenging the State’s chronic failure to provide sufficient funding to ensure ...
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), along with co-counsel Shania King, filed an en banc brief in Gilmore v. Milton, a case where correctional officers were granted qualified immunity following an invasive strip-search of Clarissa ...
On September 23, 2024, a federal court judge in the NYPD stop-and-frisk and trespass enforcement cases published a detailed report that examined the NYPD’s disciplinary system for misconduct by uniformed officers. The Discipline Report reveals ...
Legal Defense Fund (LDF) President and Director Counsel Janai Nelson issued the following statement in response to the President-elect’s nomination of Rep. Matt Gaetz to be Attorney General: “It’s hard to imagine a more dangerous ...
LDF Files Brief Opposing Arkansas’s Motion for Summary Judgment in Redistricting Case Late yesterday, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), O’Melveny & Myers LLP, and longtime LDF cooperating attorney Arkie Byrd filed a brief in opposition ...
Tomorrow, November 11, several student and faculty advocacy organizations and civil rights groups will testify at Monday’s Texas Senate Higher Education Subcommittee hearing on the topic “Stopping DEI to Strengthen the Texas Workforce” to underscore ...
On Nov. 7, a New York State Supreme Court trial judge in Orange County issued an opinion striking down the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of New York (NYVRA). Today, the Legal Defense Fund ...
