Monday, September 8, 2014 | news
LDF today announced that John Paul Schnapper-Casteras has joined the organization as Special Counsel for Appellate and Supreme Court Advocacy. In this newly created role, Schnapper-Casteras, known as JP, will work with LDF attorneys on all aspects of civil rights litigation, particularly strategic development and preparation of appellate and Supreme Court briefs. “We are delighted […]
Tuesday, March 26, 2013 | case-update
This week, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in two landmark cases seeking marriage equality for gay and lesbian people. LDF has submitted a brief in each case asking the Court to overturn laws that discriminate against gays and lesbians. LDF’s friend-of-the-court brief in United States v. Windsor urged the Court to strike the Defense of Marriage Act […]
Friday, April 10, 2020 | ldf-perspectives
When Power Is Divorced From Rule Of Law The U.S. Supreme Court’s Wisconsin Election Decision Should Serve as A Warning to Us All By Sam Spital LDF Director of Litigation As LDF’s President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill stated in this powerful piece: “We must never forget the images we saw in Wisconsin this week.” Those images showed […]
Friday, April 24, 2020 | news
It’s Time to for the Federal Government to Get Serious About Addressing COVID-19 April 24, 2020 America’s ability to limit the death and economic destruction caused by COVID-19 depends on dramatically ramping up testing for the coronavirus – a reality that the President and United States Congress acknowledge with the passage and signing of the […]
Friday, July 26, 2013 | news
Jin Hee Lee, Senior Counsel in LDF’s Criminal Justice Project, writes in a blog for the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty about how the Trayvon Martin tragedy is related to the racial discrimination in our capital punishment system.
Monday, December 7, 2015 | news
Jin Hee Lee, LDF’s Deputy Director of Litigation, authored an opinion for CNN.com on the Fisher case before the Supreme Court of the United States this week. “Race matters. That is as true today as ever before, especially when it comes to higher education. … Because ‘race matters,’ racial diversity must be an integral part of higher […]
Thursday, October 17, 2019 | news
Securing, advancing, and protecting the rights of Black voters and other communities of color has been a cornerstone of LDF’s work since it was founded in 1940 by Thurgood Marshall. LDF secured its first voting rights victory at the Supreme Court in 1944 in Smith v. Allwright, when it successfully challenged a Texas state law […]
Wednesday, September 15, 2010 | case-update
LDF attorneys Debo Adegbile, Associate Director-Counsel and Director of Litigation, and Joshua Civin, Assistant Counsel for the Economic Justice and Education Practice Groups, coauthored an issue brief for the American Constitution Society examining the effect of the recent Supreme Court decisions in Iqbal and Twombly on civil rights cases. The issue brief draws upon the testimony given last year by LDF President and […]
Thursday, June 23, 2011 | case-update
A coalition of community and advocacy organizations hosts a press conference at the School Discipline Code Hearing this week. Rachel Kleinman, Leticia Smith-Evans, and Matthew Cregor, attorneys from the Education Practice Group, will be testifying before government officials on some of the most critical issues in elementary, secondary and higher education.
Thursday, April 4, 2013 | case-update
On April 1, 2013, LDF Assistant Counsel, Leah Aden, submitted testimony to the Connecticut Legislature’s Joint Committee on Judiciary in support of HB 6679, which would end prison-based gerrymandering in the state and bring Connecticut’s redistricting process in line with basic principles of democracy. Specifically, HB 6679 calls for incarcerated people to be counted at their home addresses for redistricting […]
