Tuesday, May 7, 2019 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc (LDF) filed an amicus brief in the Ohio Supreme Court today arguing that courts must assess a defendant’s ability to pay when considering whether to suspend, waive, or modify court costs imposed at sentencing. “When a state insists on pursuing court costs despite a person’s inability to […]
Tuesday, May 7, 2024 | news
LDF filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Alliance for Fair Board Recruitment (“AFBR”) v. Securities and Exchange Commission in support of Nasdaq’s Board Diversity Rule, which requires Nasdaq-listed companies to disclose information about corporate board diversity to the public. Although it is well established that the […]
Tuesday, July 9, 2024 | news
Yesterday, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed an amicus brief in NYCLU v. Rochester, a case currently before the New York Court of Appeals pertaining to the disclosure of police disciplinary records. Following the New York State Legislature’s repeal of Civil Rights Law Section 50-a, a law that shielded police misconduct records from the public, […]
Wednesday, March 10, 2021 | news
Earlier this week, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), Bronx Defenders, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the Legal Aid Society, and New York Civil Liberties Union filed an amicus brief in the case United States v. Calvin Weaver. Mr. Weaver was a passenger in a car that was pulled over for a […]
Monday, April 19, 2021 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and co-counsel Mark C. McLawhorn submitted an amicus brief in support of Richard Moore, a Black man currently on death row in South Carolina, who challenges his death sentence as unconstitutional under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. The South Carolina […]
Monday, September 15, 2025 | news
Today, nonprofit, nonpartisan civil rights and racial justice organizations, led by the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), filed an amicus brief in support of the plaintiffs’ motions for preliminary injunction in League of United Latin American Citizens, et al., v. State of Texas, et al. LDF’s amicus curiae or “friend of the court” brief argues that […]
Wednesday, July 7, 2021 | news
Yesterday, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and counsel Squire Patton Boggs filed an amicus brief in support of David Hansard, a Black man who was stopped and arrested in Ohio. The officer stopped Mr. Hansard, allegedly based on a minor traffic violation and, after searching Mr. Hansard, found a small amount of […]
Tuesday, February 13, 2018 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. LDF Files Amicus Brief in Ohio Death Penalty Case Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court of Ohio in support of Glen E. Bates, arguing that defense counsel failed to protect Mr. Bates’s constitutional right to an impartial jury by […]
Tuesday, July 3, 2018 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief urging the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to find unconstitutional the U.S. government’s ban on transgender Americans serving in the military. The brief explains that the justifications the government is relying on to discriminate against transgender people are almost identical to the explanations […]
Wednesday, September 22, 2021 | news
This week, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and the National Urban League filed an amicus brief in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, which asks whether a New York gun safety law that requires a person to show “proper cause,” or a special need for self-protection, to carry a concealed […]
