Thursday, November 19, 2020 | news
On November 3, 2020, 15 year-old Quawan “Bobby” Charles was found dead in a sugarcane field in Iberia Parish, Louisiana, four days after his family reported him missing. According to Quawan’s family and other local accounts, police never issued a Level II Endangered/Missing Child Advisory, which would have notified media statewide of Quawan’s disappearance, and […]
Wednesday, September 16, 2020 | news
Today, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit heard oral arguments in the Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. Harvard. Jin Hee Lee, Senior Deputy Director of Litigation at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) delivered the oral argument on behalf of the 26 Harvard student and alumni organizations […]
Tuesday, February 19, 2019 | news
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) Senior Counsel Alexis Hoag argued today before the Ohio Supreme Court that Glen Bates’ trial counsel failed to protect his constitutional right to an impartial jury by allowing an individual who expressed unequivocal racial bias against Black people to serve on the jury that convicted and sentenced […]
Thursday, April 30, 2009 | case-update
(New York, NY) – On April 29th, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) defended the Voting Rights Act before the Supreme Court.
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational, Inc. (LDF) defends before the federal Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals its trial court win against SB 14, Texas’s intentionally discriminatory voter ID law and the strictest voter ID law in the nation. This week’s oral argument in the appellate court in Veasey v. Perry follows LDF’s October […]
Wednesday, February 27, 2013 | case-update
(Washington, D.C.) The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument today in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, et al. LDF Special Counsel Debo Adegbile argued on behalf of Respondent-Intervenors in defense of the Voting Rights Act. LDF represents six African-American residents of Shelby County who seek to defend the constitutionality of the core provisions of the Act. Photo credit: Jocelyn […]
Wednesday, November 8, 2017 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. LDF Defends Intentional Discrimination Ruling Against Texas Photo ID Law on Appeal and Fights for Full Relief for Black and Latino Voters Yesterday, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and its co-counsel filed an appellate brief before a three-judge court of the Fifth Circuit Court of […]
Saturday, December 13, 2014 | case-update
Atlanta, Georgia–This week, LDF Assistant Counsel Leah Aden presented oral argument before a three-judge panel of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in defense of a successful Voting Rights Act lawsuit that required Fayette County, Georgia to conduct its elections for County Commission and School Board under a district-based plan. That win paved the way for Fayette County voters in the November 2014 elections to both lead the state of Georgia in voter turnout, […]
Wednesday, July 22, 2020 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) defended a Black high school student at a virtual preliminary injunction hearing to determine whether the Barbers Hill Independent School District (BHISD), located in Mont Belvieu near Houston, Texas, will be enjoined from excluding him from class in the 2020-21 school year because he refuses […]
Wednesday, August 9, 2023 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court along with eight other organizations in Acheson Hotels, LLC vs Laufer. The case focuses on whether “testers” whose rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) are violated by virtue of a hotel’s failure to provide disability accessibility information have […]
