Thursday, February 10, 2022 | news
Today, a coalition of civil rights organizations sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar urging the U.S. Department of Justice to reject the “Insular Cases,” a line of overtly racist U.S. Supreme Court cases from the early 20th century about the extent to which constitutional rights apply to residents […]
Tuesday, October 24, 2023 | news
Today, LDF and a coalition of civil rights, civil liberties, and racial justice organizations sent a letter to Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco expressing deep concern about core provisions of the Justice Department’s recently issued Guidance for Federal Law Enforcement Agencies Regarding the Use of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, National Origin, Religion, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, […]
Friday, June 9, 2023 | news
BATON ROUGE, La. — The Legal Defense Fund (LDF), American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Louisiana, law firm Cozen O’ Connor, and Louisiana attorneys Ron Wilson and John Adcock filed a motion today to lift a stay in a federal lawsuit challenging Louisiana’s discriminatorily drawn state House and Senate district maps. The groups filed the […]
Tuesday, February 25, 2020 | news
Contact: Eric Naing, eric@muslimadvocates.org Washington, DC — Today, Muslim Advocates and the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking crucial information about the Trump administration’s recently expanded Muslim Ban. Proclamation 9983, which took effect last Friday, imposes immigration and travel restrictions on six African and […]
Thursday, February 8, 2024 | news
CONTACT: Inga Sarda-Sorensen, ACLU National, isarda-sorensen@aclu.org, 347-514-3984 Lauren Gaines, ACLU of Louisiana, lgaines@laaclu.org Phoebe Plagens, Legal Defense Fund, media@naacpldf.org, 646-979-7382 BATON ROUGE, La. — In a victory for fair maps, a federal court today ruled in favor of Louisiana voters, agreeing that the current state House and Senate district maps violate Section 2 of the […]
Monday, May 22, 2017 | news
Maya and Deanna Cook Have Received Detention and Been Banned from Extracurricular Activities for Violating Discriminatory School Policy The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts (ACLU of MA), and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice (LCCR) have been retained by the family of […]
Monday, May 22, 2017 | news
Civil Rights Groups Retained to Represent African American Teens Punished for Wearing Braids at Massachusetts Charter School Mya and Deanna Cook Have Received Detention and Been Banned from Extracurricular Activities for Violating Discriminatory School Policy The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts (ACLU of MA), and […]
Thursday, February 25, 2021 | news
Today, Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), an organization founded by conservative activist Ed Blum. filed a lawsuit challenging Yale University’s holistic, race-conscious admissions policies, seeking to revive a case that was voluntarily dismissed by the U.S. Department of Justice earlier this month. SFFA was founded by Ed Blum in his campaign to reverse longstanding Supreme […]
Saturday, June 26, 2010 | case-update
(Washington, DC) Today the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) along with other leading civil rights groups released Framework for Providing All Students an Opportunity to Learn through Reauthorization of ESEA, listing the groups’ top educational priorities for the reauthorization of the Act. Read the full Framework.
Monday, October 20, 2025 | news
LOUISVILLE, KY – After five years, the ACLU of Kentucky, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), and law firm Emery Celli Brinckerhoff Abady Ward & Maazel LLP (ECBAWM) reached a settlement in Attica Scott, et. al. v. Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government, et. al. on behalf of plaintiffs who were subjected to excessive force by the Louisville […]
