Wednesday, April 22, 2020 | news
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of South Carolina, and NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund filed a federal lawsuit today over South Carolina’s failure to take action to ensure all eligible voters can vote by mail during the COVID-19 pandemic — even for its fast-approaching June 9 statewide primary elections. The groups are challenging a state requirement […]
Tuesday, July 1, 2025 | news
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and ACLU applaud the Connecticut legislature for delivering the state biennial budget to Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont, which he signed into law yesterday. The budget includes full funding for the Connecticut Secretary of State’s Office to implement the Connecticut Voting Rights Act (CTVRA) and robust funding for the Connecticut Secretary […]
Tuesday, July 21, 2015 | news
Op-Ed: Charleston Massacre is Pivotal Point for Profession Those who have vowed to uphold the Constitution must take action to improve the justice system. “Those of us who have taken the oath to uphold the Constitution, and who have devoted ourselves to the rule of law, have a special obligation to lead efforts to end […]
Wednesday, March 10, 2021 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joined a coalition of 11 local organizations and the former mayor of Tarpon Springs, Florida, David O. Archie, in a letter to the Pinellas County School Board, requesting revisions to a proposed agreement between the school district and 13 local law enforcement agencies. LDF previously […]
Thursday, December 4, 2014 | news
The New York Times is monitoring reactions and events as they unfold in the aftermath of the grand jury decision to not indict Staten Island police officer Daniel Pantaleo in the choking death of Eric Garner. LDF is among the reactions: 4:05 P.M. NAACP Legal Fund Calls Decision ‘Horrific’ A top official from the NAACP Legal […]
Thursday, January 19, 2023 | news
On Wednesday, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and the New England Innocence Project filed an amicus brief to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in Commonwealth v. Dew, calling on the Court to reverse the conviction of Anthony Dew, a Black man of Muslim faith, whose court appointed attorney, Richard Doyle, engaged in a pervasive pattern […]
Wednesday, August 28, 2013 | news
LDF alumnus and retired Chief Judge U.W. Clemon of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama received the 2013 John H. Pickering Award of Achievement at the American Bar Association’s annual meeting earlier this month. The award was given by the ABA Senior Lawyers Division. The award honors a lawyer or judge […]
Monday, June 14, 2010 | case-update
(New York, NY) – The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) has moved to intervene in a lawsuit filed by Shelby County, Alabama, which seeks to invalidate the federal preclearance provision of the Voting Rights Act known as Section 5. LDF seeks to intervene on behalf of African-American residents of Shelby County whose […]
Thursday, July 15, 2010 | news
(New York, NY) – The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) has moved to intervene in a lawsuit filed by Shelby County, Alabama, which seeks to invalidate the federal preclearance provision of the Voting Rights Act known as Section 5. LDF seeks to intervene on behalf of African-American residents of Shelby County whose […]
Thursday, June 5, 2025 | news
Today, the Supreme Court released a unanimous opinion in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services, an employment discrimination case centered on the legal application of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Court ruled that the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals made an error when applying a heightened evidentiary burden […]
