Today, LDF submitted written testimony urging the New York City Council Public Safety Committee to eliminate funding for the NYPD Strategic Response Group (SRG) and invest funds in local communities. The Council is currently beginning ...
Today the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) announced Sharing Our History, Informing Our Present, Envisioning Our Future, a new archives initiative led by the Thurgood Marshall Institute. The initiative will encompass a collection of oral histories ...
Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued a decision in Mack v. Yost et al., vacating the District Court’s grant of qualified immunity to corrections officers who are alleged to have ...
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), the Abolitionist Law Center, and the law firm of Kairys, Rudovsky, Messing, Feinberg & Lin LLP announced an unprecedented settlement with the City of Philadelphia for the Philadelphia Police Department’s (PPD) excessive, ...
Today, LDF submitted testimony to the Connecticut General Assembly Government Administration and Elections Committee in support of the S.B. 1226, An Act Concerning State Voting Rights in Recognition of John R. Lewis. The CTVRA will ...
In an important victory for professors, other educators, and students across Florida, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals left in place a preliminary injunction blocking Florida’s HB 7 — also known as the Stop Wrongs ...
The decision from the Court in the Bradford case, which spans three decades, leaves another generation of schoolchildren in Baltimore City Public Schools without the equitable funding needed for a quality education On March 3, ...
