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LDF Highlighted in Brown Media Coverage

An Associated Press story titled “Segregation gains ground 60 years after Brown” quotes Sherrilyn Ifill. Housing discrimination — stopping or discouraging minorities from moving to majority-white areas — also plays a role in school segregation and “that’s been a harder nut to crack,” said Sherrilyn Ifill, president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, which argued the […]

LDF Helps Advance Water Affordability Program in DeKalb County, Highlights Need for Increased Accountability

Last week, elected officials in DeKalb County, Georgia, passed a resolution to begin implementing an income-based water debt forgiveness program which would help give full debt forgiveness for low-income Dekalb residents with past water and sewer billing debt. It is set to be fully implemented by early September. Dekalb County has become the first jurisdiction […]

LDF Forcefully Condemns Boulder Attack

Legal Defense Fund (LDF) Associate Director-Counsel Todd A. Cox issued the following statement in response to the terror attack yesterday in Boulder targeted against members of the Jewish community. “We are heartbroken, outraged, and shaken by yesterday’s horrific attack in Boulder, where eight people – including a Holocaust survivor – were injured during a peaceful […]

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LDF Firmly Denounces Confirmation of Craig Trainor for the HUD Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity

The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) vigorously denounces the Senate’s confirmation of Craig Trainor to serve as the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity. The Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity is responsible for enforcing federal civil rights laws, including laws that prohibit housing discrimination based […]

LDF Finds Disturbing Racial Disparities in North Charleston Police Department’s Complaint Process

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) today issued the findings of a comprehensive review of citizen complaint reports released by the North Charleston, South Carolina, Police Department (NCPD).  After analyzing hundreds of pages of documents filed with the NCPD from 2006 through 2016, LDF found both that African Americans were more likely […]

LDF Files United States Supreme Court Cert Petition to Consider Jury Discrimination Issue in Death Penalty Case

Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), along with co-counsel Cliff Gardner, filed a cert petition on behalf of Johnny Duane Miles in the United States Supreme Court. The petition requests that a writ of certiorari be granted to review the California Supreme Court’s judgement in People v. Miles, which rejected Miles’ jury […]

LDF Files U.S. Supreme Court Amicus Brief Urging Review of Capital Case Involving Evidence of Egregious Anti-Gay Bias

Late yesterday, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review Charles Rhines’ case because there is compelling evidence that at least some of the jurors sentenced him to death in part because he is gay. The brief argues that sexual orientation discrimination must […]

LDF Files U.S. Supreme Court Amicus Brief Urging Consideration of Racially-Biased Death Sentence

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) today filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal’s decision to deny Keith Tharpe the ability to appeal his racially-biased death sentence. The brief argues that the taint of racial discrimination in Tharpe’s death sentence is undeniable, and […]

LDF Files U.S. Supreme Court Amicus Brief Supporting Same-Sex Couple Denied Public Accommodations in Masterpiece Cakeshop Case

Read a PDF of our statement here.  LDF Files U.S. Supreme Court Amicus Brief Supporting Same-Sex Couple Denied Public Accommodations in Masterpiece Cakeshop Case  Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief opposing LGBTQ discrimination in public accommodations. In Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, the U.S. Supreme […]