LDF is fighting to stop water shutoffs in Detroit as we also challenge Texas’ discriminatory photo ID law. Today, a two-week trial begins in United States v. Texas, a federal challenge to Texas’s discriminatory photo ...
Michael Brown was beating the odds. He made it through the minefield that can be the public education system in America; he graduated from Normandy High; he had no criminal record; and he was poised ...
Texas’s Photo ID One of the Most Discriminatory in the Country (Corpus Christi, TX)—Today, a two-week trial begins in United States v. Texas, a federal challenge to Texas’s discriminatory photo ID law, Senate Bill 14. ...
LDF mourns the passing of George Barrett, our cherished cooperating attorney in Nashville, Tennessee. At age 86, George was still practicing law at his firm, Barrett, Johnston, Martin & Garrison, at the time of his ...
Detroit’s bankruptcy judge is being asked to extend a moratorium on water shut-offs scheduled to resume Tuesday. The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund are consulting on a motion filed Sunday asking U.S. ...
Click here to read the temporary restraining order asking a judge to stop water shutoffs.Click here to read the letter to DWSD expressing concerns about the manner of the shutoffs. Click here to see the FOIA ...
In the aftermath of the tragic death of Michael Brown, LDF and Dignity in Schools call for an end to criminalization of youth. LDF is a federal liaison for the Dignity in Schools Campaign (DSC) ...
