Friday, August 15, 2025 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), the NAACP, and Cooley LLP filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court supporting the petitioners in Carter v. United States and Rutherford v. United States, two cases where the Third Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the district court’s denial of sentencing reduction motions in a manner inconsistent […]
Thursday, September 27, 2012 | news
NYCDOE Never Validated Test; Blacks and Latinos Excluded from Elite Schools (New York, NY) Today, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF), LatinoJustice PRLDEF and The Center for Law and Social Justice at Medgar Evers College filed a federal civil rights complaint on behalf of a broad coalition of New York education, civil rights and social […]
Friday, August 22, 2014 | news
In the aftermath of the tragic death of Michael Brown, LDF and Dignity in Schools call for an end to criminalization of youth. LDF is a federal liaison for the Dignity in Schools Campaign (DSC) an umbrella for 84 organizations from 22 states dedicated to reforming overly punitive discipline practices that disproportionately push students of […]
Wednesday, March 14, 2018 | case-issue
LDF, alongside Earthjustice, and the Environmental Justice Law Clinic at Yale, represents the Ashurst Bar/Smith Community Organization (ABSCO) in Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 administrative complaints against the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM). The first Title VI complaint was filed in 2003 with the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Civil Rights (OCR). The second Title […]
Monday, November 13, 2023 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), the Committee for Public Counsel Services (CPCS), and the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts filed an amicus brief in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on behalf of Warrens Gelin, a Black man who was sent to prison after his probation was unjustly revoked following a traffic stop. On […]
Thursday, March 13, 2025 | news
Recently, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), alongside Disability Rights Arkansas, the ACLU of Arkansas, Professor Omavi Shukur of the University of Maryland, and counsel from Squire Patton Boggs, reached a settlement with the State of Arkansas in Kent, et al. v. Graves. LDF and co-counsel filed this lawsuit on behalf of individuals incarcerated in the […]
Monday, March 11, 2024 | news
Today, Massena Law, P.C., the Vessup Law Firm, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and the Initiative for a Just Society reached a settlement of $212,500 in Smith v. City of New York, on behalf of Andrew Smith, a Black man who was unjustifiably pepper-sprayed while participating in a peaceful protest. Mr. Smith’s facemask was forcibly […]
Tuesday, February 15, 2022 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and co-counsel Arnold & Porter submitted an administrative complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) on behalf of two organizations, Cultural & Racial Equity for Every Dragon (CREED) and the Southlake Anti-Racism Coalition (SARC), as well as individual students and their […]
Thursday, July 28, 2011 | news
A statement by the ACLU of Michigan, Detroit Branch NAACP, the Michigan State Conference NAACP, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF), and the national ACLU. The ACLU, NAACP and NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) announced today that they oppose the Michigan Attorney General’s request to convene a special 16-judge panel to […]
Thursday, July 28, 2011 | case-update
The ACLU, NAACP and NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) announced today that they oppose the Michigan Attorney General’s request to convene a special 16-judge panel to reconsider the court’s decision this month striking down Michigan’s Proposal 2. The attorney general expressed his plans to request a rehearing by the full court of appeals […]
