Tuesday, October 1, 2019 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF), along with ten civil rights organizations, filed an amicus brief in Comcast v. National Association of African American-Owned Media and Entertainment Studios Networks, Inc., a case involving allegations of racial discrimination that has grave implications for the nation’s oldest civil rights statute. A year after the Civil […]
Friday, April 8, 2016 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and the Texas Defender Service (TDS) released a video about an extraordinary case of racial bias in the administration of the death penalty. A Broken Promise in Texas is a film about Duane Buck, an African-American man who was sentenced to death in Texas after […]
Monday, June 10, 2013 | case-update
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. released a new video highlighting the racial discrimination in the Texas death penalty system and the shocking case of death-sentenced prisoner, Duane Buck. Mr. Buck was sentenced to death in Harris County (Houston), Texas, after his trial prosecutor elicited testimony from a psychologist indicating that Mr. […]
Tuesday, July 29, 2025 | news
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) vehemently opposes the nomination of Emil Bove to the 3rd Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals. LDF is the nation’s oldest civil rights law organization. LDF was launched at a time when America’s aspirations for equality and due process of law were stifled by widespread state-sponsored racial inequality and […]
Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue
On July 18, 2017, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joined The Ordinary People Society, an Alabama-based community organization, in filing a federal lawsuit against the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, which the President created by an executive order signed on May 11, 2017. Our complaint alleges that the Commission was […]
Wednesday, December 23, 2020 | case-issue
On April 30 2020, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed a lawsuit against Attorney General William Barr, the United States Department of Justice, the Presidential Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice (“Commission”), and the chair and vice chair of this Commission. Our suit challenges the creation of the Commission – […]
Monday, May 20, 2019 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) today joined an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case about the standards for lawful searches and seizures under the Fourth Amendment. In Sievers v. Nebraska, the Nebraska Supreme Court conflated “suspicion-based” searches and seizures, which require probable cause or reasonable suspicion of […]
Friday, June 20, 2025 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) submitted formal comments to the U.S. Department of Education (ED), expressing strong opposition to two of the agency’s three proposed supplemental priorities for federal grantees. LDF urges ED to abandon these proposals and reinstate its 2021 priorities, which more robustly addressed expansion of access, racial equity, investments in public […]
Tuesday, March 13, 2018 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. LDF Urges Trump Administration to Keep School Discipline Guidance and Disband Commission In response to the Parkland shooting, the Trump Administration is creating a Commission that is reportedly charged with repealing the school discipline guidance the Departments of Education and Justice released in 2014. Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel […]
Monday, November 20, 2023 | news
Today, LDF sent a letter to address the first-ever exploratory proceeding concerning an alleged violation of the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of New York (the “NYVRA”) initiated by the Town of Mount Pleasant (the “Town”). On July 13, 2023, a group of individual Hispanic voters sent the Town an NYVRA notification letter alleging […]
