Thursday, April 20, 2017 | news
Read the PDF version of our statement here. NAACP Legal Defense Fund Objects to Policies and Procedures of NYPD’s Body Worn Camera Pilot Program The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) today objected to the proposed policies and procedures of the New York City Police Department’s (NYPD) body worn camera (BWC) pilot program. […]
Tuesday, August 9, 2016 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) remembers Michael Brown, an unarmed African-American teenager whose death at the hands of police in Ferguson, Missouri served as the catalyst that sparked a nationwide movement against police violence in communities of color. “Our thoughts are with the family members of Michael Brown and countless […]
Friday, August 16, 2013 | news
His remarks reflect the City’s entrenched policies and practices of treating public housing residents like prisoners in their own homes In this morning’s John Gambling radio show, Mayor Michael Bloomberg criticized Davis v. City of New York, a putative class action lawsuit filed by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”) and co-counsel […]
Monday, October 25, 2010 | case-update
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) filed a friend-of-the-court brief challenging the constitutionality of California’s Proposition 8 in Perry v. Schwarzenegger. In its brief LDF argues that the principles set forth in Loving v. Virginia (in which LDF also filed an amicus brief in 1967), establish the fundamental right of any individual, including […]
Monday, March 13, 2017 | news
“Today LDF lawyers go to court in Louisiana to represent Black voters in Terrebonne Parish, who have been denied the equal opportunity to elect their preferred candidates to the 32nd JDC, a Louisiana state court that has jurisdiction over Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana,” said Leah Aden, LDF Senior Counsel. “We will argue that Louisiana must open […]
Wednesday, August 10, 2016 | case-update
Just days after the 46th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and Georgia attorney Wayne Kendall filed a federal lawsuit alleging that Fayette County, Georgia’s at-large method of electing members to the County Board of Commissioners and Board of Education violates the Act. The case was […]
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 | news
Just days after the 46th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and Georgia attorney Wayne Kendall filed a federal lawsuit alleging that Fayette County, Georgia’s at-large method of electing members to the County Board of Commissioners and Board of Education violates the Act. The case was […]
Tuesday, October 23, 2018 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed a suit in federal court today against election officials in Waller County, Texas, who have refused to provide any early voting location on the campus of Prairie View A&M University, a historically black university, during the first week of voting that starts today. In general, […]
Thursday, March 25, 2010 | case-update
(New York, NY) – On Friday, March 12, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) in the case of Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin.This case is the first federal litigation challenging the use of race in university admissions […]
Friday, November 9, 2018 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) today filed a complaint in federal court on behalf of four Black college students who were unlawfully denied their right to vote in Tuesday’s election in Alabama. The complaint is against Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill and election officials in Madison County, Alabama. “Nothing is […]
