After serving 20 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, Richard Rosario, a former client of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), was freed last week, returning to his ...
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) is profoundly disappointed that the Brooklyn District Attorney, Ken Thompson, has recommended that former New York City Police Officer Peter Liang receive no jail time in ...
March 20, 2016, marks the 76th anniversary of the incorporation of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF). Thurgood Marshall, LDF’s founder and, later, the nation’s first African-American Supreme Court Justice, drafted LDF’s ...
LDF is Hopeful the Decree Will Be Implemented Effectively, Faithfully and Expeditiously to Heal the Ferguson Community, Subject to a Fairness Hearing NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) is pleased to learn ...
Today, President Barack Obama nominated Chief Judge Merrick Garland of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. If confirmed, Judge ...
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) is profoundly disappointed by the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) decision not to convene a grand jury to consider the police shooting death of Ramarley Graham, an 18-year-old unarmed African ...
Yesterday, Hon. Mark L. Earley, Hon. Timothy K. Lewis, Hon. Gregory B. Craig, and Hon. Sheila Jackson Lee filed a “friend of the court” brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to consider the appeal of ...
