Saturday, December 15, 2018 | news
WASHINGTON, DC—Last week while in border patrol custody, Jakelin Caal, a seven-year old migrant girl from Guatemala died from severe dehydration and septic shock. Civil and human rights groups today expressed their outrage and devastation both at the needless, tragic loss of a young child and policies that violate human and civil rights, our values […]
Wednesday, October 21, 2020 | news
On a press call today, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D. N.Y., Senator Cory Booker, D. N.J., and civil rights leaders urged the Senate Judiciary Committee to reject Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court. The committee is scheduled to take a vote to advance her nomination tomorrow. To hear a recording […]
Thursday, September 16, 2021 | news
Civil rights groups Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC (Advancing Justice – AAJC), NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), and LatinoJustice PRLDEF, together with law firm Arnold & Porter, filed an amicus brief in support of more equitable access to Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJHSST) in the case Coalition for TJ v. […]
Wednesday, July 14, 2021 | news
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Florida, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), and Community Justice Project (CJP), with Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP serving as counsel, filed a motion for preliminary injunction today in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida to block key portions of […]
Tuesday, March 15, 2022 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), ACLU of Louisiana, and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP filed a lawsuit challenging Louisiana’s congressional map. Filed on behalf of the Louisiana State Conference of the NAACP, Power Coalition for Equity and Justice, and individuals Dorothy Nairne, E. […]
Friday, February 23, 2018 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. Civil Rights Groups File Information Request with NYPD for Materials Related to Gang Policing Policies Late yesterday, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request with the New York City Police Department (NYPD) to gather […]
Wednesday, May 13, 2020 | news
FOIA Marks Next Step in Series of Actions to Increase Transparency Around Racial Disparities in North Charleston Policing NORTH CHARLESTON – The American Civil Liberties Union of South Carolina (ACLU SC) and NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) today filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for information relating to the racial […]
Tuesday, October 12, 2021 | news
Civil rights groups filed a federal lawsuit today challenging the South Carolina Legislature’s unnecessary delay in drawing new redistricting maps that respect the constitutional one-person-one-vote principle. The case was brought on behalf of the South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP and individual voters, who are represented by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, […]
Monday, March 14, 2022 | news
CONTACT: Ella Wiley, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, ewiley@naacpldf.org NEW ORLEANS — The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Louisiana, Cozen O’Connor, Ron Wilson, and John Adock filed a federal lawsuit today on behalf of Black Voters Matter Capacity Building Institute, the Louisiana State Conference of the […]
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), ACLU of Florida, and Community Justice Project filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida challenging a recently enacted state law (H.B. 1) designed to chill Floridians’ First Amendment right to free speech and peaceful assembly in the […]
