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 […]
Wednesday, November 23, 2022 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed an amicus brief in Cerisier v. City of New York, in which New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer Saurabh Shah stopped and held motorist James Cerisier at gunpoint for a minor traffic infraction. Officer Shah acknowledged that Mr. Cerisier did nothing to behave more dangerously than any of […]
Tuesday, June 19, 2018 | news
LDF Files Amicus Brief in California Supreme Court Criticizing Race-Based Jury Selection Brief Challenges Legitimacy of “O.J. Simpson Question” Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief urging the California Supreme Court to grant a new trial to Johnny Duane Miles, a Black man sentenced to death in 1999. The brief […]
Thursday, December 11, 2025 | news
Read a full PDF of our statement here. This week, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed an amicus brief, or friend of the court brief, in Tangipa v. Newsom. The amicus brief explained that, based on LDF’s extensive expertise litigating voting cases, there are numerous reasons a legislature may enact a redistricting plan that contains additional […]
