Monday, February 22, 2010 | case-update
LDF defends job applicant rights under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act (New York, NY) — John Payton, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) presented oral argument today before the United States Supreme Court on behalf of a class of six thousand African Americans who were denied […]
Monday, August 17, 2009 | case-update
(New York, NY) – Today, a federal district court upheld the University of Texas at Austin’s (UT) consideration of race in student admissions. Fisher v. Texas is the first federal court challenge to the use of race in university admissions since the 2003 Grutter v. Bollinger decision, where the United States Supreme Court declared that universities can take account […]
Wednesday, October 15, 2014 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund (LDF) strongly praised U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s announcement today that Vanita Gupta has been appointed Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General and Acting Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the U.S. Justice Department. Vanita is currently Deputy Legal Director of the ACLU and Director of its Center […]
Friday, October 19, 2018 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the nation’s oldest civil rights legal organization, is pleased to announce the addition of Christine Gregory as its new chief operating officer and Lisa Cylar Barrett as senior policy counsel, as well as several recent changes in its litigation department. Jin Hee Lee is now senior deputy director of Litigation, Leah Aden is now […]
Friday, November 9, 2018 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joined national, Tulsa, and Baton Rouge-based civil rights leaders and stakeholders today in a letter to the Southeastern Homicide Investigators Association (SEHIA), opposing the group’s decision to invite the officer who killed Terence Crutcher, an unarmed Black man, to headline its annual conference next week in […]
Monday, April 21, 2014 | case-update
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., and the NAACP (two separate entities) have jointly filed a friend-of-the-court brief in Bostic v. Schaefer, a case before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit that seeks to overturn Virginia’s marriage ban. The groups call for marriage equality for lesbians and gay men by invoking the principles […]
Wednesday, January 18, 2017 | news
Read the PDF of our statement here. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and Muslim Advocates commend the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) decision to release a Passengers’ Right to Fly Free from Discrimination and guidelines for airlines, reaffirming that federal law prohibits discrimination against airline passengers on the basis of race and/or religion. […]
Saturday, April 29, 2017 | news
Today, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas entered a preliminary injunction to immediately halt Harris County’s practice of jailing people charged with misdemeanors solely because they are unable to pay bail. On March 31, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and Harris County Commissioner Rodney Ellis filed an […]
Friday, March 31, 2017 | news
NAACP Legal Defense Fund and Harris County Commissioner Rodney Ellis File Brief Urging Immediate End to Wealth-Based Bail for People Charged with Misdemeanors in Harris County The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and Harris County Commissioner Rodney Ellis filed an amicus brief in the United States District Court for the Southern District […]
Wednesday, April 26, 2017 | news
NAACP Legal Defense Fund and a Coalition of Organizations Committed to Advancing Constitutional Policing Send Letter to OMB on the President’s Proposed Budget Read a PDF of our statement here.
