This week, a referendum campaign by the Cop City Vote coalition faces a new hurdle: the City of Atlanta has revealed it will engage in a signature matching process that courts have repeatedly found to ...
Today, a multi-racial group of students, families, and alumni of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJ) denounced a petition filed by the Pacific Legal Foundation, a conservative legal advocacy group, on behalf ...
ATLANTA — A federal court in the Northern District of Georgia issued rulings today in response to emergency motions filed by civil rights groups to lift restrictions put in place by Georgia’s anti-voter law, Senate ...
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) remembers former Board member Clarence Avant, a giant in the entertainment industry, who passed away on Sunday in Los Angeles, California. He was 92. Avant, who overcame immense poverty and ...
Civil rights organizations sent a letter to every K-12 superintendent in Texas today urging them to update their policies to be compliant with the Texas Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair Act ...
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court along with eight other organizations in Acheson Hotels, LLC vs Laufer. The case focuses on whether “testers” whose rights under ...
LDF Tribute to Charles Ogletree The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) is deeply saddened at the passing of former Board member Charles J. Ogletree Jr. A renowned professor of law at Harvard Law School, Professor Ogletree, ...
