Thursday, June 8, 2023 | news
CONTACT: Ella Wiley, LDF, media@naacpldf.org Inga Sarda-Sorensen, ACLU, 347-514-3984, isarda-sorensen@aclu.org WASHINGTON – In a historic win for voting rights, the U.S. Supreme Court today ruled in Allen v. Milligan in favor of Black voters, affirming the district court’s order striking down Alabama’s 2021-enacted congressional map for violating the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) for […]
Monday, August 1, 2022 | news
In a show of historic and overwhelming support for affirmative action, 82 corporations and business groups (see list below) signed three amicus briefs filed in the Supreme Court of the United States in Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. Harvard and SFFA v. University of North Carolina asking the Court to uphold over 40 years […]
Wednesday, May 3, 2017 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. HISTORIC BLACK COMMUNITY CONDEMNS EPA FOR FAILING TO ENFORCE CIVIL RIGHTS After Neglecting Investigation for 14 Years, EPA Closes Civil Rights Complaint Filed Against an Alabama State Agency Earthjustice: Keith Rushing / krushing@earthjustice.org / (202) 667-4500, ext. 5236 LDF: Phoebe Plagens / pplagens@naacpldf.org / (212) 965-2235 Environmental Justice Clinic at Yale Law […]
Tuesday, June 17, 2014 | news
It’s been nearly one year since the Supreme Court declared on June 25, 2013 in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder that states with a history of chronic racial discrimination no longer needed to get Justice Department approval for changes to voting rules under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. As a result of that […]
Monday, September 8, 2014 | news
The second week of testimony begins today in the voter ID trial in United States v. Texas, a federal challenge to Texas’s discriminatory photo ID law, Senate Bill 14. In this case with important national implications, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and its co-counsel law firm Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale and […]
Tuesday, August 14, 2012 | news
On Oct. 10, the justices will hear arguments in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, in which a rejected white applicant to the school challenges the admissions practices, which include race as a factor. It will be the first time since a 2003 case involving the University of Michigan that the high court will […]
Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue
On October 24, 2008, LDF settled a lawsuit filed just two days earlier, and designed to protect the voting rights of foreclosure victims. The suit, Herring v. Marion County Election Board, was filed in Indiana state court to ensure that eligible voters who may have faced the threat of foreclosure could not have their right to […]
Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue
On September 17, 2008, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Williams v. Allen, 542 F.3d 1326 (11th Cir. 2008), vacated the death sentence of LDF client, Herbert Williams, who had spent almost 20 years on Alabama’s death row. LDF litigated the case with co-counsel from Holland & Knight LLP. Former LDF Assistant Counsel, Miriam Gohara, […]
Monday, December 7, 2020 | case-issue
The Legal Defense Fund, the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan (ACLU), the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC), and the Michigan Poverty Law Program filed a federal class action lawsuit against Vision Property Management (Vision). The lawsuit was filed on behalf of financially challenged Detroit- and Flint-area residents to whom Vision promised a path to homeownership but […]
Monday, March 6, 2023 | news
Today, a hearing concluded in a battle that will determine the fate of a longstanding Louisiana Supreme Court seat, anchored in Orleans Parish, that was created as a result of a 1992 consent decree, and amended in 2000 to ensure Black voters in the state have an equal opportunity to elect candidates of their choice. […]
