Monday, February 25, 2019 | news
Yesterday, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), submitted a letter to U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos demanding guidance that sets rigorous standards for how local educational agencies demonstrate their compliance with the “supplement, not supplant” (SNS) requirement of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) as amended by the […]
Monday, November 18, 2019 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational fund submitted a comment letter regarding the proposed questions for the 2019-2020 Civil Rights Data Collection. The letter “strongly encourage[s] the Department of Education (the Department) to maintain the collection of information on preschool enrollment and discipline, school finance, and teacher experience levels and absenteeism” because they “are […]
Friday, September 28, 2018 | news
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) submitted a comment letter in response to revised policies introduced by the Baltimore Police Department (BPD). In the letter to the BPD Monitoring Team outlined recommendations to address a range of policies, from the handling of rape and sexual assault cases to warrantless arrest procedures and probable […]
Wednesday, November 17, 2021 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational and Fund, Inc. (LDF), working with Rights Behind Bars, submitted an appellate response brief on behalf of LDF’s client Marcus Briceno, who suffered unreasonable force at the hands of Officer Blake Williams of the San Diego Police Department. As Mr. Briceno was helping his mobility-impaired friend into a […]
Friday, February 7, 2020 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) submitted an amicus brief in Torres v. Madrid, a Supreme Court case that will determine whether the Fourth Amendment’s protection against unreasonable seizures applies to a significant number of police shootings. The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals held that there is no “seizure” under the […]
Friday, August 19, 2022 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed an amicus brief in the United States Supreme Court in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, arguing that the Petitioner, the founder of the design studio 303 Creative, should not be allowed to violate public accommodations laws based on her religiously grounded objection to same-sex marriage. The Petitioner has claimed […]
Friday, July 8, 2022 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed an amicus brief in the United States Supreme Court in Rodney Reed v. Bryan Goertz, arguing that the petitioner — a Black man on death row in Texas for a crime he likely did not commit — was wrongfully denied post-conviction DNA testing that could help prove his […]
Monday, October 31, 2022 | news
Last Friday, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in United States vs. Flores-González, in support of the appellant Mr. Emiliano Flores-González. Mr. Flores-González, a 19-year-old with no criminal history, was sentenced to 48 months in prison – far more than the federal […]
Friday, June 11, 2021 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief in Thompson v. Clark, a U.S. Supreme Court case that will determine whether a plaintiff filing a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 civil action for unlawful seizure pursuant to legal process—commonly referred to as malicious prosecution—under the Fourth Amendment must show that […]
Friday, March 6, 2015 | case-update
Consistent with LDF’s ;work over the last 75 years to enforce the Constitution’s guarantees against all forms of discrimination, we urge the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down discriminatory state laws that impinge upon the freedom to marry. Four decades ago, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that state bans on interracial marriage were unconstitutional in Loving […]
