LDF testifies before U. S. Senate on access to justice rules

On November 5, 2013, Sherrilyn Ifill testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Bankruptcy and the Courts.  The hearing was entitled, “Changing the Rules:  Will Limiting the Scope of Civil Discovery Diminish Accountability and ...

United States District Judge Shira Scheindlin Removed From Floyd v. City of New York and Ligon v. City of New York

  On October 31, 2013, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit took the shocking and extraordinary step of removing United States District Judge Shira Scheindlin from presiding ...

Congressional Tri-Caucus Calls on Senate to Confirm Rep. Mel Watt as FHFA Director

The Chairs and Members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC), and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC), Leslie Proll, Director of the Washington D.C. Office of the NAACP Legal Defense ...

Congressional Tri-Caucus Calls on Senate to Confirm Rep. Mel Watt as FHFA Director

The Chairs and Members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC), and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC), Leslie Proll, Director of the Washington D.C. Office of the NAACP Legal Defense ...

LDF supports nomination of Mel Watt to Federal Housing Finance Authority

Today, we are asking the Senate to do what it has done time and again, and that is to confirm one of its own colleagues – a fellow sitting Member of Congress – to a ...

LDF is thrilled to receive award from FALDEF

LDF is honored and humbled to receive an award  from the Filipino American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (FALDEF) at their first Gala and Awards night. We will be named among a host of other ...

Christina Swarns visits cast of “A Time to Kill”

Christina Swarns, Interim Director of Litigation and Director of the Criminal Justice Practice at LDF attended a performance of the new Broadway adaptation of “A Time to Kill,” which is based on John Grisham’s bestselling ...

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