Tuesday, May 28, 2024 | staff
Brenda Wright joined LDF as Special Counsel for Litigation and Policy in May 2023. She has worked for over two decades to protect and advance the right to vote through litigation, policy development, research, and writing, with a focus on racial justice in voting rights. Her extensive experience in federal court litigation includes two arguments […]
Friday, June 28, 2024 | case-issue
Case: Political Participation, Redistricting Braxton Et Al., V. Stokes Et Al Challenging Racial Discrimination In Newbern, Alabama’s Electoral Practices Filed: November 2022 Settled: June 2024 Braxton et al., v. Stokes et al. was a federal lawsuit in the United States District Court Southern District of Alabama, that challenged racially discriminatory voting and electoral practices in […]
Tuesday, December 22, 2020 | case-issue
Bradford v. Maryland State Board of Education Challenging Chronic, Unconstitutional Underfunding in Baltimore City Schools Legal Defense Fund, ACLU of Maryland, and BakerHostetler represent a group of parents of students attending public schools in Baltimore City in Bradford v. Maryland State Board of Education. Filed in 1994, the lawsuit challenges the Maryland State Board of […]
Wednesday, April 30, 2014 | news
In the days and weeks leading up to last night’s horrifying execution of Clayton Lockett in Oklahoma, there was much debate about the validity of the call for transparency in execution procedures. Some contended that allowing Oklahoma to rely on a new and experimental drug protocol, which relied on drugs whose source the State refused […]
Tuesday, November 25, 2025 | case-issue
Case: Education Boston Parent Coalition for Academic Excellence v. Boston School Committee Defending fairness in admissions policies Motion to Intervene Filed: November 24, 2025 On November 24, 2025, the Legal Defense Fund, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, LatinoJustice PRLDEF, and Asian Americans Advancing Justice-AAJC filed a motion to intervene in Boston Parent […]
Tuesday, December 15, 2020 | case-issue
In July 2019, LDF joined the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and 56 of the nation’s premier civil rights organizations as amici curiae in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia, and two companion cases, to urge the Court to recognize that the workplace anti-discrimination protections in Title […]
Friday, March 30, 2018 | board-of-directors
Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue
For many months after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita struck the City of New Orleans, residents struggled to return home. Displaced residents found themselves navigating a maze of obstacles: securing affordable housing in a safe neighborhood, obtaining gainful employment at a living wage and with reasonable benefits to care for a family. And then they were […]
Monday, November 16, 2015 | news
Boggs Media, LLC, and Paula Boggs Band are thrilled to announce their involvement with My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, which unites leaders across philanthropic, nonprofit, and private sectors to improve life outcomes of boys and men of color; as well as the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the country’s first and foremost civil rights firm. My Brother’s […]
Friday, March 30, 2018 | page
