Thursday, December 23, 2021 | news
Yesterday, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), in partnership with Justice in Aging and Mobilization for Justice, filed an amicus brief in Dorce v. City of New York, a case before the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York concerning a New York City program, known as the Third Party Transfer (TPT) […]
Thursday, October 31, 2013 | case-update
In Township of Mount Holly v. Mount Holly Gardens Citizens in Action, Inc., the Township of Mount Holly declared Mount Holly Gardens, the Township’s only neighborhood predominantly occupied by African Americans and Latinos, blighted and in need of rehabilitation. The Township developed a plan to demolish all of the homes in the Gardens without providing adequate […]
Friday, February 25, 2022 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., with co-counsel Hogan Lovells and Fred Banks, filed an amicus brief in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi in a redistricting case opposing the state’s recently enacted Congressional redistricting plan. LDF’s brief argues that Mississippi’s drawing of Congressional District 2 – the […]
Friday, August 13, 2021 | news
Yesterday, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and counsel Janey Lanier filed an amicus brief in the Michigan Supreme Court in support of Keyon Harrison and Denishio Johnson, two Black teenagers who, on separate occasions, were stopped, interrogated, searched, photographed, and fingerprinted by the Grand Rapids Police Department even though neither teen committed […]
Friday, November 18, 2016 | news
On November 10, 2016, LDF filed an amicus brief in EEOC v. Catastrophe Management Solutions, in the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. We were joined by the Legal Aid Society – Employment Law Center and Professors D. Wendy Greene and Angela Onwuachi-Willig LDF’s brief argues in support of a petition for rehearing en banc in […]
Monday, November 15, 2021 | news
Last week, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief in the employment discrimination case of EEOC v. International Association of Bridge Structural and Ornamental Ironworkers Local 580, et al. The longstanding case was first filed in 1971, alleging that Local 580 and other unions violated Title VII of the […]
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 | news
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed an amicus brief in Smith v. United States in support of Glenn Smith, a Black man, who was convicted in a case where the prosecutor struck all four Black prospective jurors and two other jurors of color. For three of the Black prospective jurors, the prosecutor justified her strikes […]
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 […]
