Monday, November 28, 2016 | news
Over the nearly 15 years since the Stone’s Throw Landfill opened in Tallassee (in Tallapoosa County), Alabama, Ashurst Bar/Smith residents—many of whom can trace their family land ownership back to the early 1800s—have complained that their lives have been ravaged by the Landfill’s multiple and cumulative impacts. These impacts include Black land loss, health issues, […]
Friday, November 18, 2016 | news
LDF, alongside Earthjustice represents the Ashurst Bar/Smith Community Organization (ABSCO) in its Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 administrative complaint against the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM). The Title VI complaint was filed in 2003 with the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Civil Rights (OCR). [view:media_galleries=page_34] ABSCO’s Title VI complaint […]
Thursday, August 27, 2015 | news
Closing the Pipeline A coalition of local and national organizations is calling for Virginia to place a moratorium on out-of-school suspensions, which disproportionately affect African-American students. The Dignity in Schools Campaign launched its “Solutions not Suspensions” initiative at a Thursday afternoon press conference held at the state NAACP headquarters in Richmond. The national campaign, started […]
Wednesday, March 9, 2016 | news
The North Charleston Branch of the NAACP, the ACLU of South Carolina, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), and other community organizations will host “Policing in North Charleston, SC: The Community’s Town Hall Meeting” on March 10, 6:30 p.m.- 8 p.m., at the Alfred Williams Community Life Center, located in North Charleston, […]
Thursday, February 3, 2022 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., the South Carolina NAACP, and the ACLU of South Carolina sent a letter to the Georgetown County Council regarding its redistricting plans. The letter addresses several concerns raised by the coalition’s preliminary analysis of the County’s plans and maps. Additionally, the letter details the Council’s obligations […]
Tuesday, November 2, 2021 | news
On November 2, 2021, the New York Voting Rights Consortium—a group of leading local and national voting-rights advocates, including the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, the Center for Law and Social Justice at Medgar Evers College, LatinoJustice PRLDEF, and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.—sent a letter to urge all members […]
Monday, March 20, 2023 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), the Abolitionist Law Center, and the law firm of Kairys, Rudovsky, Messing, Feinberg & Lin LLP announced an unprecedented settlement with the City of Philadelphia for the Philadelphia Police Department’s (PPD) excessive, militaristic use of force during peaceful protests in 2020. LDF and co-counsel’s case is one of four cases arising out […]
Tuesday, July 23, 2024 | news
On June 18, 2024, the Legal Defense Fund and its co-counsel Quinn, Connor, Weaver, Davis, & Rouco LLP, on behalf of their clients Newbern Mayor Patrick Braxton and residents James Ballard, Barbara Patrick, Wanda Scott, Janice Quarles and Dorothy Holley reached a settlement in Braxton et al. v. Stokes et al., a federal lawsuit challenging […]
Monday, November 2, 2020 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), co-counsel Covington & Burling, LLP and veteran civil rights lawyer, Geraldine Sumter of Ferguson Chambers & Sumter, P.A., filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of marchers and prospective voters in Alamance County who encountered police violence, including pepper spray, on a march to the polls […]
Tuesday, July 14, 2020 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the Abolitionist Law Center, and the law firm of Kairys, Rudovsky, Messing, Feinberg & Lin LLP filed a lawsuit on behalf of residents in a predominantly Black neighborhood in West Philadelphia, challenging the Philadelphia Police Department’s (PPD) excessive and unwarranted use of militaristic force during […]
