Monday, April 15, 2019 | news
The U.S. Supreme Court today announced it would not review the case of Charles Rhines despite compelling evidence that at least some of the jurors sentenced him to death in part because he is gay. Last month, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief urging the Court to hear […]
Monday, June 20, 2011 | case-update
(New York, NY) – Too many workers are denied a fair opportunity for promotion and equal pay because of unlawful discrimination. Nothing in today’s Supreme Court decision contests this fact. Nevertheless, today’s decision in Dukes v. Wal-Mart is a significant step backward from the goal of equal employment opportunity for all Americans. Revealing once again how closely divided the […]
Tuesday, June 11, 2024 | page
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Monday, March 12, 2018 | case-issue
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) has always been committed to strong and robust enforcement of the Fair Housing Act of 1968. Toward that end, we have urged Congress to pass the Housing Fairness Act of 2009, H.R. 476. This legislation would broadly expand proven and effective measures for detecting and redressing housing discrimination. Unfortunately, […]
Monday, March 17, 2014 | news
Click here to take action and tell the Senate to confirm Debo Adegbile Click here to read a letter from the National Lawyers Guild and other members of the legal community denouncing the Senate’s rejection of Debo Adegbile as a frontal assault on the right to counsel. Although LDF is deeply disappointed that the United States […]
Friday, May 18, 2018 | page
the moment is now The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) was launched at a time when the nation’s aspirations for equality and due process of law were stifled by widespread state-sponsored racial inequality. Today, as our democracy faces a watershed moment, LDF continues our commitment to equal justice.
Monday, October 8, 2012 | news
To the Editor: The Supreme Court will hear arguments this month in a case with the potential to end the use of race as a factor in college admissions (Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin). Conservatives are eager for a sweeping ruling accomplishing just that. But their zeal betrays longstanding conservative values about states’ […]
Monday, April 9, 2018 | news
Despite fierce and overwhelming public opposition, the Sumter County School District in South Carolina is finalizing plans to close rural schools, attended by predominately Black students, in an attempt to address the School District’s unexplained $6.2 million-dollar deficit. In a letter to the Interim Superintendent of the Sumter School District and the members of the School Board, […]
Thursday, October 4, 2012 | news
The civil rights complaint filed last week against the city’s Department of Education by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund creates an opportunity for long overdue changes in how students are admitted to New York’s best public high schools. But racial disparities aren’t the only reason the admissions process at these elite schools should be dismantled […]
Wednesday, November 2, 2022 | page
“We Won’t Go Back” Why Students are Urging the Supreme Court to Support Race-Conscious Admissions By Keecee DeVenny Digital Strategist On June 29, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling in SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v. University of North Carolina (UNC) and found that Harvard and UNC’s affirmative action programs violate the Equal Protection Clause of […]
