Thursday, July 16, 2020 | news
This week, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed a petition for rehearing en banc in a significant voting rights case that challenged how judges are elected in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. The petition was filed in response to a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals’ reversal of a trial […]
Thursday, March 28, 2024 | news
Last week, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and co-counsel Quinn, Connor, Weaver, Davis, & Rouco LLP filed a motion for a preliminary injunction in Braxton et al., v. Stokes et al., a federal lawsuit challenging racially discriminatory voting and electoral practices in Newbern, Alabama. The motion asks the United States District Court for the Southern […]
Tuesday, January 6, 2015 | news
On Monday, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) submitted a letter to Judge Maura McShane, the Presiding Judge of the 21st Judicial Circuit in Missouri, requesting that the court conduct an appropriate and thorough investigation of the grand jury proceedings that resulted in the non-indictment of former Ferguson, Missouri police officer Darren Wilson. The letter […]
Monday, March 22, 2021 | news
Today, a federal district court in Louisiana began hearing witness testimony and evidence in Thomas v. School Board of St. Martin Parish, a school desegregation case. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and co-counsel Gideon Garter of Baton Rouge represent Black students in this class action. While the school board seeks to […]
Tuesday, January 10, 2023 | news
On Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a decision in Getzen v. Long, affirming the District Court’s denial of qualified immunity and permitting David Getzen’s civil rights claims to proceed to trial. The Legal Defense Fund (LDF), working with Rights Behind Bars, represented Mr. Getzen, who was twice electrocuted and […]
Tuesday, July 15, 2025 | news
The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision en banc in Gilmore v. Georgia Department of Corrections, reversing a judgment of qualified immunity and allowing plaintiff Clarissa Gilmore’s claims to go to trial. The Legal Defense Fund (LDF), along with co-counsel Shania King, represented Ms. Gilmore, who endured an invasive and retaliatory strip search by […]
Tuesday, August 5, 2025 | news
The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision in Hardy v. Rabie, affirming the denial of qualified immunity from a previous court decision. The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) represented Ralph Marcus Hardy, a man who was incarcerated within Adams County Detention Facility in Colorado. While in custody, Mr. Hardy fell from the wheelchair he […]
Friday, March 5, 2021 | news
Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit issued a decision in Vette v. Sanders, affirming the denial of qualified immunity and permitting Eric Tyler Vette’s civil rights claims to proceed. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational and Fund, Inc. (LDF), working with Rights Behind Bars, represented Mr. Vette, who was assaulted by […]
Thursday, February 25, 2021 | news
Yesterday, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia granted summary judgment on a remaining undue influence claim in an NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) case challenging the creation and composition of the Presidential Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice (Commission). The court also ordered the defendants […]
Friday, January 29, 2016 | news
On Wednesday, January 27, 2016, the City of Ferguson released a proposed consent decree with the Department of Justice (DOJ) resulting from a “pattern and practice” investigation undertaken by the DOJ in the wake of the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed teenager, by Ferguson police officers in 2014. The consent decree, consisting of over […]
