Friday, April 8, 2011 | case-update
This week, LDF joined more than a dozen civil rights organizations in authoring a letter urging Congress to incorporate key accountability provisions as it reauthorizes the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). The letter offers a number of recommendations to ensure that principles of educational equity won in Brown v. The Board of Education are fulfilled in […]
Thursday, August 9, 2018 | news
Along with Carlyle Parish LLC and the Bradley Law Firm, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), today filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to hear a significant case about racial discrimination in jury selection in the death penalty trial of Lisa Jo Chamberlin, a Mississippi woman. In the landmark decision of Batson v. Kentucky (1986), […]
Thursday, October 4, 2018 | news
Along with Carlyle Parish LLC and the Bradley Law Firm, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), today filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to hear a significant case about racial discrimination in jury selection in the death penalty trial of Lisa Jo Chamberlin, a Mississippi woman. In the landmark decision of Batson v. Kentucky (1986), […]
Tuesday, November 29, 2016 | news
Read the PDF version here. Citing Uncertainty of Next Administration’s Commitment to Criminal Justice Reform, Broad Coalition of Criminal Justice Reform Advocates, Former Judges and Prosecutors, Legal Scholars Call On President to Expand Clemency Eligibility A broad coalition of criminal justice reform advocates, former judges and prosecutors, and legal scholars urged President Obama today to […]
Wednesday, October 19, 2011 | case-update
LDF joined a broad coalition of civil rights groups, business associations, statewide education officials, and education advocates in declining to support the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 2011. This bill, proposed by Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Tom Harkin and Ranking Member Richard Enzi, does not contain an accountability framework sufficient to narrow achievement gaps for […]
Tuesday, September 12, 2023 | news
Media Contacts Legal Defense Fund (LDF) – media@naacpldf.org / 212-965-2200 Quinn, Connor, Weaver, Davis, & Rouco LLP – rrouco@qcwdr.com / 205-918-7430 [Newbern, Alabama]—Today, the Legal Defense Fund joined as co-counsel and filed a proposed second amended complaint in Braxton et al., v. Stokes et al., a federal lawsuit challenging racially discriminatory voting and electoral […]
Wednesday, September 22, 2021 | news
This week, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joined an amicus brief filed by the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a major abortion rights and abortion access case the Supreme Court will hear next […]
Monday, October 24, 2016 | news
On October 20, 2016, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) joined the Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality (Korematsu Center), 18 other bar associations and non-profit organizations, and 32 law school professors in filing an amicus brief with the New York Court of Appeals, urging the Court to recognize that excluding an individual […]
Thursday, July 24, 2025 | news
UPDATE: On August 17, 2025, the Legal Defense Fund; Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated; the Barbara Jordan Leadership Institute; the Houston Area Urban League; Black Voters Matter; and Friendship-West Baptist Church submitted additional supplemental public testimony regarding the mid-decade congressional redistricting that is being considered during the special legislative session of the 89th Texas Legislature. […]
Friday, February 27, 2015 | case-update
Today, the House of Representatives will vote on final passage of the Student Success Act, H.R. 5, the Republican bill to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). LDF lends its support to Ranking Member Bobby Scott’s Democratic Substitute Amendment (the “Scott Amendment”). The Scott Amendment addresses many core needs for our nation’s education system, including […]
