LDF and Co-Counsel Reach Unprecedented Settlement For Protestors and West Philadelphia Residents Who Suffered Police Violence During 2020 Protests

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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, ...

LDF Submits Testimony to Connecticut Lawmakers in Support of the Connecticut Voting Rights Act

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 ...

Eleventh Circuit Affirms Decision to Preliminarily Block Unlawful “Stop W.O.K.E.” Censorship Law

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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 ...

Circuit Court Decision Finds, Despite Evidence of Chronic Underfunding, Baltimore City Public Schools Receives “Constitutionally Adequate” Funding from State of Maryland

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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, ...

LDF Commends Department of Justice Investigative Findings on the Louisville Metro Police Department

Today, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) concluded its investigation of the Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD), finding that there is reasonable cause to believe that the LMPD has routinely violated the constitutional rights of ...

Hearing Wraps in Case That Will Determine Fate of Louisiana’s Highest Court

Today, a hearing concluded in a battle that will determine the fate of a longstanding Louisiana Supreme Court seat, anchored in Orleans Parish, that was created as a result of a 1992 consent decree, and ...

Civil Rights Coalition Releases Report Highlighting Federal Agency Progress and Gaps on Voting Access, Urges the Biden-Harris Administration to Finish the Job

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Washington, D.C. – Today, a diverse coalition of 53 health, racial justice, environmental, labor, immigration, faith-based, disability rights, education, LGBTQ+, housing, justice reform, and voting and civil rights organizations published a new report – Strengthening ...

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