Monday, September 16, 2019 | news
Federal lawsuit filed immediately after governor signed bill into law The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Florida, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law filed a federal lawsuit today challenging a new state law that creates wealth-based hurdles to voting and undermines Floridians’ overwhelming support for Amendment 4. Floridians voted […]
Monday, November 15, 2021 | news
CONTACT: Ella Wiley, LDF,925-819-0555, ewiley@naacpldf.org Rebecca Seung-Bickley, ACLU of Alabama, 334-561-3829, rseungbickley@aclualabama.org Inga Sarda-Sorensen, ACLU National, 347-514-3984, isarda-sorensen@aclu.org Graeme Crews, SPLC, 334-224-0002, graeme.crews@splcenter.org BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Individual voters joined with civil rights and faith groups today to file a pair of lawsuits in federal court challenging Alabama’s newly drawn political maps for state legislative and congressional districts. The lawsuits […]
Friday, June 27, 2025 | news
Read a full PDF of the statement here. Immigrants rights’ advocates today filed a new nationwide class-action lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship. The lawsuit is in response to today’s Supreme Court ruling that potentially opens the door for partial enforcement of the executive order. This new case was filed […]
Saturday, August 3, 2019 | news
An analysis of 48 Florida counties shows fewer than one in five Floridians with past felony convictions would be eligible to vote under the new law The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Florida, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law filed a motion for preliminary injunction to […]
Wednesday, October 30, 2019 | case-update
Click here to read the document: Stipulation of Settlement and Order
Monday, October 21, 2019 | case-update
Click here to view the document: Order Concerning Preliminary Approval of the Class Action Settlement
Sunday, November 1, 2015 | case-issue
BACKGROUND Rikers Island is the nation’s second largest jail network. On most days it houses approximately 8,000 arrestees and receives more than 800 visitors. Since 2002, hundreds of those visitors have reported that they were randomly strip searched or cavity searched by New York City Department of Correction (DOC) officers. These random invasive searches violate […]
Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue
Case: Economic Justice Griggs v. Duke Power, Co. Filed: 1970 In 1971, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous ruling in Griggs v. Duke Power, which transformed our nation’s work places. As a result of LDF’s advocacy, the Supreme Court embraced a powerful legal tool – now known as the “disparate impact” framework – that has proved […]
Friday, March 30, 2018 | board-of-directors
Friday, March 30, 2018 | staff
