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 3, 2025 | news
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed an amicus brief in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in District of Columbia v. Trump, urging the court to deny the Trump administration’s request to stay the District Court’s preliminary injunction, which had ordered a temporary end to the National Guard deployment in Washington D.C. pending resolution of […]
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 […]
Tuesday, May 12, 2020 | news
On May 7, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals in support of Donahue Francis, a Black rental tenant who suffered extreme racial harassment, including a death threat, at the hands of a white neighbor. Mr. Francis and the local police […]
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), Intercultural Development Research Association (IDRA), Transgender Education Network of Texas (TENT), and Texas Appleseed filed an amicus brief in Little v. Llano County, a case that challenges the censorship of books on race, gender, and sexual identity in the public library system of Llano County, Texas. The amicus brief […]
Monday, September 18, 2017 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. LDF Files Amicus Brief Opposing President’s Travel Ban Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief in the consolidated Muslim travel ban cases, International Refugee Assistance Project v. Trump and Hawaii v. Trump. The brief opposes the Trump Administration’s discriminatory executive order […]
