CHARLESTON, S.C. — A federal court in South Carolina heard closing arguments today in a major voting rights case challenging the state’s new congressional map. The Legal Defense Fund (LDF), American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), ...
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed an amicus brief in Cerisier v. City of New York, in which New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer Saurabh Shah stopped and held motorist James Cerisier at gunpoint ...
LDF Tribute to Cecilia Marshall 1928 – 2022 The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Cecilia “Cissy” Suyat Marshall on November 22, 2022. Ms. Marshall was the wife of ...
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) is deeply saddened by the passing of Cecilia “Cissy” Suyat Marshall. Ms. Marshall was the wife of LDF’s founder and the nation’s first Black Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, a ...
On Sunday, 22-year-old Anderson Lee Aldrich killed five people and injured 25 others in a mass shooting at Club Q, an LGBTQ+ nightclub in Colorado Springs. The horrendous attack came on the eve of Transgender ...
Today, the Legal Defense Fund submitted comments addressing the risk of algorithmic bias in economic justice and law enforcement technologies and proposes a framework the Federal Trade Commission should use as it considers regulation these ...
Today, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi announced that she will step down from House leadership when the 118th Congress begins its term in January 2023. Speaker Pelosi will continue to serve ...
