Tuesday, April 30, 2013 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joined its co-counsel in signing an agreement with the Connecticut State Department of Education to further the implementation of desegregation remedies required by Sheff v. O’Neill, the landmark Connecticut Supreme Court case which required the State to end the racial and ethnic segregation faced by Hartford […]
Thursday, June 23, 2016 | case-update
A new agreement was reached in the ongoing Sheff vs. O’Neill case to continue the existing desegregation efforts at schools in Hartford, Connecticut and the surrounding suburbs through at least June 30, 2017. The most recent stipulationsets new goals, including increasing by 300 the number of seats in suburban schools that are available to students in Hartford through […]
Friday, October 13, 2023 | news
On Wednesday, a federal court entered an order memorializing an agreement between the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and the Board of Education of Fayette County in Tennessee in a school desegregation case. LDF, along with local counsel Elijah Noel Jr., Of Counsel at Harris Shelton Hanover Walsh, PLLC, represents Black students and their parents as […]
Friday, June 2, 2023 | news
On May 31, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced that law enforcement officials raided the Atlanta Solidarity Fund, arresting and charging three of its staff with charity fraud and money laundering. In response, Legal Defense Fund (LDF) President and Director-Counsel Janai S. Nelson issued the following statement: “We are deeply concerned about the apparent targeting […]
Thursday, March 22, 2018 | news
Related Case or Issue: Policing Reform Campaign Johns Hopkins University is requesting permission from Maryland lawmakers to create its own private police force. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter to the school’s president raising a number of concerns with the proposal, including that the plan lacks sufficient accountability measures and […]
Thursday, January 23, 2025 | news
This week, President Trump issued a sweeping series of pardons and commutations to roughly 1,500 individuals who participated in the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. This misuse of clemency powers includes leaders of anti-government groups with white nationalist ties: Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys, and Stewart Rhodes, the […]
Thursday, November 12, 2015 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educations Fund, Inc. (LDF) strongly supports the bipartisan, bicameral legislative package on water rights introduced by Michigan legislators today. These bills would establish sanitary and affordable water as a human right and reform the process for terminating water service to ensure proper due process is given to all customers. The […]
Thursday, June 23, 2016 | news
Democracy Diminished The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) observes the three-year anniversary of the Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder decision while preparing for the first presidential election in more than 50 years without the full force of the Voting Rights Act. In our briefing and oral argument to the Supreme Court in […]
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”) urged the Louisiana State Legislature to adopt House Bill 582 which would provide all voters an equal opportunity to elect judges of their choice by creating a fair election system for the Thirty-Second Judicial District in Terrebonne Parish. The current at-large system denies African-American voters, […]
Tuesday, March 26, 2013 | news
The U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Columbia is the second most important court in the country. It has special jurisdiction for reviewing the actions of federal agencies. Additionally, under the Voting Rights Act, one of its members is required to sit on three-judge panels that decide whether to preclear voting changes by jurisdictions […]
