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Elections in Louisiana: How to Understand When and Where to Vote

Elections 2022 Elections in Louisiana 2022: How to Understand When and Where to Vote By Victoria Wenger Attorney for the Prepared to Vote and Voting Rights Defender Project This fall, Louisiana voters will cast ballots for a range of federal, state, and local positions — in addition to important state constitutional amendments. While many other […]

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Elaine R. Jones To Receive the American Bar Association Thurgood Marshall Award

The American Bar Association has announced that Elaine R. Jones, former President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF), will receive the organization’s 2011 Thurgood Marshall Award Saturday.  The Award, honoring the late Supreme Court Justice and LDF founder, will be given during a gala dinner of the association’s annual conference […]

Elaine R. Jones Receives Trailblazer Award from Just The Beginning Foundation

LDF is pleased to announce that its former President and Director-Counsel, Elaine R. Jones, received the Trailblazer Award from the Just the Beginning Foundation (JTBF) on September 22, 2012 at its Gala Dinner in Chicago, Illinois.  JBTF is composed primarily of judges and lawyers who develop educational programs designed to interest students of color in […]

Elaine R. Jones

Elaine Jones

From 1993 to 2004, Elaine R. Jones served as the President and Director-Counsel of LDF. When Ms. Jones took the helm of the Legal Defense Fund in 1993, she became the first woman to head the organization. She brought with her vast experience as a litigator and civil rights activist, as well as a passion […]

Effort launched to commute more drug sentence

Vincent Southerland is interviewed in a MSNBC.com article on the DOJ’s welcome announcement this week that it will expand on President Obama’s efforts to commute more drug sentences. The Justice Department said Thursday that it will expand on President Obama’s move last month to commute the sentences of eight people serving long sentences for drug […]

EEOC v. Catastrophe Management Solutions

On November 10, 2016, LDF filed an amicus brief in EEOC v. Catastrophe Management Solutions, in the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. We were joined by the Legal Aid Society – Employment Law Center and Professors D. Wendy Greene and Angela Onwuachi-Willig LDF’s brief argues in support of a petition for rehearing en banc in […]

EEOC Finds Wet Seal Discriminated Against African-American Class Action Plaintiff

Corporate Officials Instructed Managers to Make Employment Decisions Based on Race (New York, NY)  The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has issued a Determination that Wet Seal, Inc., a national women’s clothing retailer, racially discriminated against a former store manager, Nicole Cogdell.  Cogdell is lead plaintiff in a pending national race discrimination class action against […]

EEOC Finds Wet Seal Discriminated Against African-American Class Action Plaintiff

Corporate Officials Instructed Managers to Make Employment Decisions Based on Race (New York, NY)  The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has issued a Determination that Wet Seal, Inc., a national women’s clothing retailer, racially discriminated against a former store manager, Nicole Cogdell.  Cogdell is lead plaintiff in a pending national race discrimination class action against […]