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LDF joins women’s and worker’s groups to defend equal opportunity requirements for federal contractors

Groups’ Amicus Briefs Defend Forty Years of Established Rules Assuring Opportunity for Everyone (Washington, D.C.) Two amicus briefs were filed today in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Court challenging the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s (UPMC) claim that the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFFCP) does not have authority […]

LDF Joins with Coalition Urging Accountability to End School Pushout

LDF is the federal liaison for the Dignity in Schools Campaign, a coalition of 98 organizations from 25 states dedicated to ending school pushout due to overly punitive school discipline practices that push students out of school and undermine life outcomes (www.dignityinschools.org).  Read the Dignity in Schools Campaign’s letter on the Senate bill to reauthorize […]

LDF Joins the Election Protection Coalition in Open Letter to Political Parties Concerning Voter Intimidation

As part of the Election Protection Coalition, the largest nonpartisan voter protection coalition led by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, LDF sent an open letter to the leadership of the four political parties with presidential candidates in 2016. Along with 75 other civil rights, voting rights and civic engagement groups, we called […]

LDF Joins Social Justice Groups in Calling for CFPB Fair Lending Chief to Resign after Failure to Apologize for Racist Writings

Joining Several Other Civil Rights Groups in Sending a Letter For Failure to Acknowledge and Apologize for Writings That Express Troubling Racial Views The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) today joined several other civil rights and consumer advocacy groups in sending a letter calling on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to […]

LDF Joins Over 3,000 Organizations in Open Letter Condemning Trump Administration’s Attacks on Nonprofits

The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) joined a broad coalition of civil society organizations in signing on to a joint letter condemning the Trump administration’s actions following reports of a Department of Justice criminal investigation into a social justice foundation. Reports of the investigation came after President Donald Trump previously made clear his interest in targeting […]

LDF joins Outten & Golden LLP in suit against NTT Data’s discriminatory hiring policies

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joined Outten & Golden LLP in a federal lawsuit against NTT Data, Inc. for its discriminatory employment policies. According to the complaint, NTT, one of the world’s largest information technology service providers, relies on a background check policy that rejects applicants with criminal records, even when […]

LDF Joins Outpouring of Support for Diversity in Higher Education in Supreme Court Briefs in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin

Washington, D.C.—Yesterday, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”) filed an amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin (“Fisher II”), urging the U.S. Supreme Court to (1) reaffirm the longstanding principle that a diverse student body yields numerous educational, professional, and societal benefits; and (2) […]

LDF Joins Outpouring of Support for Diversity in Higher Education in Supreme Court Briefs in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin

LDF Joins Other Black-led Civil Rights Organizations to Endorse the Freedom to Learn Campaign

The endorsement of the new campaign adds to LDF’s Pro-Truth Initiative and the organization’s broader advocacy efforts in education.   Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) joined with other Black-led legacy civil rights organizations to endorse the Freedom to Learn Campaign (FTLC), a movement created to fight the growing disinformation campaign against the erasure of […]

LDF Joins OCA-Asian Pacific Americans and Other Organizations in Calling on the Justice Department to Address Increasing Racist Attacks Against the Asian American Community

Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joined OCA-Asian Pacific American Advocates and over 180 other organizations in calling on the Justice Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the White House to publicly recognize and denounce the increasing racist attacks and discrimination against Asian Americans in the wake of the […]