Wednesday, October 2, 2013 | news
In the wake of the federal government shutdown, the Department of Justice has asked a court to press pause on all proceedings in United States, et al. v. Texas, et al., a challenge under the Voting Rights Act to Texas’s discriminatory photo ID law, until the Department’s funding is restored. LDF has joined the case on behalf of […]
Monday, February 14, 2011 | news
February is Black History Month and Tell Me More observes the month with a series of short vignettes. In this installment, regular contributor Arsalan Iftikhar shares his black history hero. I’m Arsalan Iftikhar, a civil rights attorney and frequent contributor to Tell Me More’s Barbershop segment. The black history figure who has always been a […]
Monday, February 24, 2014 | news
In the wake of the disappointing verdict in the Michael Dunn trial, Sherrilyn Ifill and Philip Goff, argue that “[w]ithout an honest effort to engage the realities of race and perception, we will continue to see sanitized prosecutions in cases involving shootings laden with racial implications. And worse, we will see more black and brown children […]
Tuesday, August 17, 2021 | page
Friday, March 30, 2018 | board-of-directors
Tuesday, October 11, 2022 | case-issue
Getzen v. Long Challenging Qualified Immunity Mr. Getzen was sitting on the bathroom floor of the apartment where he was staying, with his hands behind his neck when Deputy Jeff Long and his partner of the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office entered the bathroom with weapons drawn. Long and his partner were responding to a report […]
Friday, March 30, 2018 | board-of-directors
Friday, October 24, 2025 | board-of-directors
Thursday, April 8, 2021 | staff
Georgina Yeomans joined LDF as Assistant Counsel in 2021. Prior to joining LDF, Georgina was an associate at the labor law firm Bredhoff & Kaiser PLLC, where she represented labor unions and their members in litigation and administrative proceedings, focusing her practice on representing public-sector labor unions in litigation stemming from the Supreme Court’s decision […]
Monday, July 18, 2022 | news
Voters and voting rights groups asked the court to halt a portion of Georgia’s anti-voter law that criminalizes Georgians handing food, water, or other relief to those waiting in long voting lines. ATLANTA – TODAY, July 18, 2022, Georgians called for the court to grant immediate relief through a preliminary injunction and block the portion […]
