Tuesday, September 24, 2024 | news
Tonight, Marcellus “Khaliifah” Williams is scheduled to be executed by the State of Missouri, unless the U.S. Supreme Court intervenes. There is compelling evidence that Mr. Williams is innocent of the crime of which he was convicted and for which he is facing execution. Moreover, the proceedings in his case were rife with errors that […]
Tuesday, October 2, 2018 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) today filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a case concerning the circumstances under which a juvenile defendant can be sentenced to life in prison without parole. LDF argues that in sentencing a juvenile to life without parole, a Mississippi court ignored clear […]
Friday, February 19, 2021 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), ACLU of Florida, and the R Street Institute filed an amicus brief in support of certiorari in the Supreme Court case Tarahtick Terry v. United States. Mr. Terry sought resentencing for a 2008 crack-cocaine offense under the 2018 First […]
Monday, July 16, 2018 | news
LDF Files Amicus Brief Urging North Carolina Supreme Court to Address Race Discrimination in Death Penalty Cases Brief Calls for Defendants to Receive New Sentences or Have Chance to Challenge Claims of Racial Bias Under North Carolina’s Racial Justice Act Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief urging the North Carolina […]
Thursday, September 4, 2025 | news
Yesterday, the nation’s first and oldest union to represent civil service federal employees — the National Federation of Federal Employees-International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, AFL-CIO (NFFE) — filed an amicus brief, represented by the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) in Rhode Island v. Trump, urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit […]
Wednesday, December 24, 2014 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief arguing that the Supreme Court of the United States should uphold a vital component of our nation’s civil rights laws known as the “disparate impact” standard. The brief, filed in the case of Texas v. Inclusive Communities Project, highlights an often overlooked dimension […]
Wednesday, November 24, 2021 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief in the Eleventh Circuit in support of Drew Adams, a transgender man who sued the St. Johns County School Board when he was a student over its use of a discriminatory bathroom policy that prohibits Adams from using the boys’ bathroom. […]
Thursday, February 20, 2020 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief in Brown v. Preycthe. The brief urges the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold the district court’s ruling that Missouri’s parole procedures for people sentenced to juvenile life without parole (JLWOP) did not comply with United States Supreme Court precedent […]
Monday, November 30, 2020 | news
Last week, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., (LDF) filed an amicus brief supporting rehearing en banc in Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle v. Baltimore Police Department, a lawsuit challenging the department’s aerial surveillance program on constitutional grounds. Several organizations, including Casa de Maryland, Inc., Citizens Policing Project, and Equity Matters, as well […]
Wednesday, October 28, 2020 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), along with LDF cooperating attorney Alice Jennings, filed an amicus brief in the Michigan State Court of Appeals supporting Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel’s recently-issued guidance barring the open carrying of firearms at polling places and other election-related […]
