Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | news
This week, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed an amicus brief in District of Columbia v. Trump, urging the court to grant the request for a preliminary injunction to enjoin the administration’s deployment of the National Guard in Washington, D.C. The brief explains the harms of militarized policing for Black people in the United States, […]
Tuesday, September 15, 2020 | news
Yesterday, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational and Fund, Inc. (LDF), Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (LCCR), LatinoJustice PRLDEF (LJP), Law For Black Lives (L4BL), and the Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law at NYU Law filed an amicus brief in opposition to police and firefighters unions’ motion for a preliminary injunction […]
Wednesday, February 3, 2021 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in support of Mr. Christopher Swindell, whose workplace discrimination and retaliation claims against two defense contractors, were dismissed by the district court. An accomplished Black veteran, Mr. Swindell alleges that he […]
Monday, February 26, 2024 | news
Today, LDF filed an amicus brief in support of plaintiffs in Petteway v. Galveston County, a case before the en banc Fifth Circuit that concerns the viability of coalition claims under the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA). This case raises critical questions about the nature and scope of Section 2 of the Voting […]
Wednesday, March 7, 2018 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. LDF Files Amicus Brief in the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Georgia Fair Housing Case The City of LaGrange, Georgia is discriminating against African-American housing residents with policies that are cutting off access to essential utilities – such as water, electricity, and gas – in violation of the […]
Thursday, September 23, 2021 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief in Broadnax v. Lumpkin supporting Mr. Broadnax’s request that the U.S. Supreme Court review a Fifth Circuit decision that would prevent federal courts in that circuit presiding over habeas corpus proceedings from considering newly-discovered evidence of racial discrimination against Black jurors […]
Wednesday, November 1, 2017 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. LDF Files Amicus Brief in Texas Death Penalty Case Late yesterday, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief in the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in support of Bobby James Moore’s claim that his intellectual disability bars him from execution. The brief was […]
Tuesday, February 16, 2021 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief in support of certiorari in Supreme Court case Collier v. Dallas County Hospital District. Robert Collier, a Black man, worked as an operating room aide at a hospital in Dallas, Texas, where he experienced repeated incidents of racial discrimination. During his […]
Monday, July 25, 2022 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court of the United States in Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. University of North Carolina (UNC) on behalf of LDF and the NAACP in support of UNC’s race-conscious admissions process. UNC is one of the country’s oldest taxpayer-funded, public universities and, […]
Friday, December 1, 2023 | news
On Nov. 29, 2023, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed an amicus brief in support of defendants in L.M. v. Town of Middleborough, Massachusetts, et. al., a case concerning a middle school’s right to prohibit clothing with discriminatory text that contributes to a hostile environment for transgender and nonbinary students. School officials took this action […]
