Thursday, January 13, 2011 | news
BATON ROUGE — Louisiana departments aren’t complying with a federal law that requires public assistance agencies that serve low-income residents to offer them voter registration, a civil rights group said Wednesday. Lawyers representing the Louisiana State Conference of the NAACP sent a complaint letter to Secretary of State Tom Schedler, the Department of Children and […]
Monday, July 24, 2023 | staff
Anuja Thatte is a Senior Counsel in LDF’s DC office. Anuja is lead counsel in a litigation challenging an Alabama law that restricts the right of disabled, blind, and low literacy voters from receiving requested assistance with the absentee voting process. Among other representative matters, she has litigated incursions on the right to protest, the […]
Monday, November 1, 2021 | staff
Antonio L. Ingram II (@antonioingram) serves as Senior Counsel at the Legal Defense Fund, where he works on cases and matters that advance racial justice in educational equity and political participation. Mr. Ingram serves as lead counsel in Simon et al v. Ivey et al., challenging Alabama’s SB 129, prohibiting Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in […]
Tuesday, September 23, 2025 | page
Anticipating Threats to Good Cause Eviction State preemption is fueling a racialized housing crisis, and Good Cause laws are at risk By Dr. Sandhya Kajeepeta SENIOR RESEARCHER and Statistician, THURGOOD MARSHALL INSTITUTE This publication was produced in partnership with the Local Solutions Support Center (LSSC). Protesters in Malden, MA demand an end to evictions on […]
Friday, March 30, 2018 | board-of-directors
Wednesday, September 22, 2010 | case-update
Today, LDF won an injunction preventing the remainder of Road Home funds from being spent pending LDF’s appeal, which argues that the formula used to calculate grants was discriminatory. The State of Louisiana was ordered to freeze the funds until the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia decides whether the lower court […]
Monday, March 18, 2013 | news
Today, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Arizona v. The Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, another important voting case, in addition to Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, before the Court this term. This case involves whether Arizona’s Proposition 200, which requires new voter registrants to produce documentary evidence of United States citizenship, must yield […]
Tuesday, December 31, 2019 | fiscal-res
Tuesday, August 7, 2018 | fiscal-res
Monday, May 23, 2022 | fiscal-res
