Tuesday, October 22, 2024 | news
Today, representatives from the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), DeKalb Water Watch, South River Watershed Alliance, and New Disabled South joined residents of DeKalb County, Georgia to urge County officials to implement water affordability and shutoff protections for residents ahead of a proposed rate hike to already-inflated and inaccurate water bills. For years, DeKalb County residents […]
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 | case-update
On September 28, 2010, Jin Hee Lee, Assistant Counsel for LDF’s Criminal Justice Project, joined William Gibney of the Legal Aid Society in testifying before the New York City Council’s Committees on Civil Rights, Public Safety, and Public Housing. LDF and the Legal Aid Society are co-counsel in Davis v. City of New York, a […]
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 | news
Read a full PDF of our statement here. The Legal Aid Society and the Legal Defense Fund today condemned the New York City Police Department (NYPD) for their continued use of problematic Neighborhood Safety Teams (NST) and Public Safety Teams (PST), whose units deploy hundreds of officers across NYC’s boroughs to patrol neighborhoods and conduct […]
Tuesday, March 10, 2020 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and the Leadership Conference sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr requesting information about what steps the DOJ has taken undertaken, or intends to take, to address the Russian government’s ongoing efforts to to influence the 2020 presidential election by inciting violence and spreading […]
Tuesday, April 15, 2025 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and Lambda Legal sent a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Superintendent Yvette M. Davids urging the U.S. Naval Academy to reverse its decision to remove 381 books discussing race, gender, and sexuality from its Nimitz Library collection. In the letter, LDF Director of Strategic Initiatives Jin Hee […]
Friday, March 7, 2025 | news
On Monday, March 3, 2025, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama approved and entered a historic Consent Decree in Stout v. Jefferson County Board of Education, a sixty-year-old school desegregation case aimed at ensuring that every student has access to high-quality, inclusive education. The agreement will bring critical reforms to […]
Monday, October 2, 2017 | news
Issues surrounding mandatory individual arbitration may not capture the nation’s attention like healthcare or the NFL, but they are at the center of debate in all three branches of government. Our commitment to equal justice is being tested, and the rights of consumers and employees hang in the balance. Supreme Court decisions dating back to […]
Monday, October 26, 2020 | news
On Friday, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence sent a letter to Texas Attorney General Ken Patton, urging him to join the many attorneys general who have made public statements reminding residents in their states that voter intimidation is a crime. The letter asks […]
Monday, September 21, 2020 | news
Dear Mr. Carey and Mr. Volek: On behalf of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”) and the Ferguson Collaborative (“FC”), we appreciate the opportunity to review and comment on the Ferguson Police Department’s (“FPD”) draft General Orders: Response to First Amendment Protected Activity—Right to Observe, Photograph and Audio or Video Record Police […]
Wednesday, November 12, 2008 | case-update
(November 12, 2008) Today the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund as part of a coalition of Civil Rights and Fair Housing groups filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development and the Louisiana Recovery Authority. The suit alleges that the Road Home, Louisiana’s Hurricane Katrina recovery program, discriminates against African-American homeowners […]
