Thursday, November 18, 2021 | news
On November 18, 2021, LDF filed an amicus brief in Contreras et al v. Illinois State Board of Elections et al. This case, originally filed by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), seeks a declaratory judgment that Illinois’s legislative redistricting plans passed by the Illinois General Assembly on August 31, 2021, and […]
Tuesday, September 5, 2017 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. LDF Files Amicus Brief in Gill v. Whitford Challenging Wisconsin Partisan Gerrymandering Scheme On Friday, September 1, 2017, LDF filed an amicus curiae brief in Gill v. Whitford. The Supreme Court’s decision on Whitford could impact redistricting efforts nationwide, including the redistricting that will be done at all […]
Monday, October 27, 2025 | news
On Friday, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed an amicus brief in Diemert v. City of Seattle, an employment discrimination case centering on the correct application of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In the lawsuit, a Seattle employee alleged that Seattle’s Race and Social Justice Initiative, which, among other things, includes […]
Thursday, February 28, 2019 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief urging the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit to uphold a lower court decision that found a school policy banning transgender student Drew Adams from using the boy’s restroom both discriminatory and unconstitutional. LDF’s brief demonstrates how the bathroom policy […]
Thursday, January 21, 2021 | news
Yesterday, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee (DNC), the lead in consolidated cases before the United States Supreme Court. The case concerns the scope of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) and the VRA’s ability to address present-day vote denial […]
Thursday, October 27, 2022 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed an amicus brief in Moore v. Harper, the North Carolina redistricting case regarding the so-called “independent state legislature” theory that will be argued before the United States Supreme Court on December 7. The theory is based on the dangerous view that the Elections Clause of the federal Constitution […]
Friday, September 22, 2023 | news
Yesterday, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed an amicus brief in Baker v. City of Atlanta, challenging Atlanta Municipal Code Sec. 66-37(b)’s ban on non-Atlanta residents collecting referendum petition signatures. This provision restricted residents of neighboring DeKalb County from collecting and attesting to petitions regarding a referendum that seeks to place the construction of the […]
Wednesday, June 14, 2017 | news
LDF Files Amicus Brief in Circuit Court Defending Voting Rights Act This week, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and the Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed an amicus brief in the Eleventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. In the case, Lewis v. Alabama, the district court held that that the doctrine of “state sovereign immunity” […]
Wednesday, April 12, 2023 | news
On Tuesday, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed an amicus brief in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA, a case regarding the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of mifepristone. Last Friday, a federal judge in Texas issued an unprecedented opinion that could […]
Monday, January 22, 2024 | news
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed an amicus brief in André et al. v. Clayton County, Georgia on behalf of internationally recognized Black comedians Eric André and Clayton English, who, on their way to board their flights out of the Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, were racially profiled, unlawfully detained in a narrow jet bridge, and […]
