Wednesday, March 27, 2024 | news
(New York, NY – March 27) Sixteen civil rights organizations sent a letter to every school superintendent in Texas clarifying misconceptions about hair discrimination in the wake of a state court ruling about the Texas Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair Act (“Texas CROWN Act”). The Texas CROWN Act strengthened pre-existing constitutional […]
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 | news
Voters and Community Groups Intervening in Suit to Ensure that All New Yorkers Are Equally Represented in State and Local Legislatures Albany, NY – Today, top civil rights organizations filed a motion in New York Supreme Court asking to intervene to help defend New York’s new law allocating people in prison to their home communities […]
Thursday, September 12, 2024 | news
Media: Legal Defense Fund (LDF): media@naacpldf.org ACLU-MS: comms@aclu-ms.org Harvard Election Law Clinic: elc@law.harvard.edu Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi (ACLU-MS) and Harvard Election Law Clinic filed a lawsuit on behalf of two individual voters as well as the DeSoto County NAACP and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. challenging a […]
Thursday, January 4, 2018 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. Civil Rights Organizations File FOIA Requests with Justice Department for Materials Related to Policing Reform Efforts Three civil rights organizations today filed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with the U.S. Department of Justice for records relating to the enforcement of laws that protect individuals and communities from unconstitutional […]
Monday, November 20, 2023 | news
On Nov. 13, 2023, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), ACLU of Maryland, and the law firm BakerHostetler filed an appellate brief in Bradford v. Maryland Board of Education on behalf of Baltimore City Public Schools (BCPSS) families, urging the state appeals court to reverse an earlier decision and remand the case for further proceedings. The […]
Tuesday, December 1, 2015 | news
On November 24, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), Public Citizen, and the Leadership Conference for Civil and Human Rights, along with 25 other organizations, filed a “friend of the court” brief in Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities (APSCU) v. Duncan, in support of a U.S. Department of Education rule—the […]
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 | news
NEW YORK, NY and WASHINGTON, DC – A group of civil and workers’ rights organizations have filed an amicus brief in Minnesota Telecom Alliance v. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), a case currently before the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals pertaining to a recent FCC rule aimed at ensuring equitable access to broadband services. In the […]
Friday, November 20, 2015 | news
On Thursday, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the New York Law School Racial Justice Project (“the Racial Justice Project”) and two Detroit-based organizations—the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights at Wayne State University Law School (“the Keith Center”) and the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization (MWRO)—filed a “friend of the court” […]
Monday, March 24, 2025 | news
Philadelphia, PA – Today, a group of civil rights organizations filed an amicus (friend of the court) brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Sargent v. School District of Philadelphia. The brief defends the legality of changes to the admissions policies of Philadelphia’s criteria-based high schools that were designed to […]
Monday, June 10, 2024 | news
Last Thursday, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and Southern Legal Counsel (SLC) filed an appeal on behalf of nonprofit civil rights organization the Council on American-Islamic Relations-Florida (CAIR-FL), which initiated several public records requests seeking information about Pasco County Sheriff’s Office’s predictive policing program that, without any notice to […]
