Thursday, November 29, 2018 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter today to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to voice concern over reports that some Senate leaders are considering reducing the number of members on the Senate Judiciary Committee for the incoming Congress. The letter expresses apprehension that […]
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 | case-update
ayette County, Georgia—Today, in an important voting case, a federal court struck down, as violative of the Voting Rights Act, Fayette County’s discriminatory at-large method of electing members to the County Board of Commissioners and County Board of Education. In the case, Georgia State Conference of the NAACP, et al. v. Fayette County Board of Commissioners, […]
Wednesday, December 17, 2008 | case-update
After 23 years on Texas’ death row, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) client Mariano Rosales was granted a new trial on Friday, December 12, 2008. The United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas vacated Mr. Rosales’ capital conviction and death sentence because his trial prosecutors improperly excluded African American […]
Wednesday, February 22, 2017 | case-update
Court Rules in Favor of New Sentencing Hearing for LDF Client Duane Buck Today, the United States Supreme Court unequivocally condemned the injection of racial bias into the capital sentencing hearing of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) client, Duane Buck. In Buck v. Davis, the Supreme Court, by a vote of 6-2, […]
Wednesday, February 22, 2017 | news
Read the PDF of our statement here. NAACP Legal Defense Fund Wins Major Victory in United States Supreme Court Court Rules in Favor of New Sentencing Hearing for LDF Client Duane Buck Today, the United States Supreme Court unequivocally condemned the injection of racial bias into the capital sentencing hearing of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational […]
Wednesday, October 15, 2014 | news
Statement of Ryan P. Haygood, NAACP Legal Defense Fund Attorney Who Made Closing Arguments at Trial for Plaintiff-Intervenors “Today’s decision by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals allowing Texas’s intentionally discriminatory photo ID law to be used in the upcoming elections does not engage the overwhelming weight of the District Court’s factual findings. While the Fifth Circuit’s […]
Wednesday, August 29, 2018 | news
Todd Cox, Director of Policy at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., issued the following statement in response to the Senate confirmation yesterday of seven of President Trump’s district court nominees: “The seven judges confirmed yesterday will all sit on the federal bench for life, giving them the power to shape American jurisprudence […]
Friday, May 12, 2017 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. NAACP Legal Defense Fund Urges Missouri General Assembly to Oppose Proposed Enhanced Penalties for Crimes Against Law Enforcement The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter today to members of the Missouri General Assembly urging legislators to oppose late additions to S.B. 34 and H.B. […]
Wednesday, November 30, 2016 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF), joined by co-counsel Gideon Carter of Baton Rouge, LA, filed a brief asking the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to reverse a July decision granting a Louisiana charter school’s motion to operate a virtually one-race school in the St. James Parish School District, which already […]
Monday, August 27, 2018 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) submitted comments today on the Baltimore Police Department’s (BPD) 2019 Use of Force Draft Training Plan. In a letter to Kenneth Thompson, the court-appointed monitor of the consent decree between the BPD and the Department of Justice, LDF expressed significant concern “with the brevity and lack of detail” […]
