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 […]
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 […]
