Tuesday, March 14, 2023 | fiscal-res
Thursday, February 9, 2017 | news
Read the PDF of our statement here. Attorney General Sessions Must Adhere to Promises, Be Accountable to the People Statement of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund on the Confirmation of Jeff Sessions to be Attorney General of the United States Despite deep opposition from Americans from around the country and all walks of life, 52 senators […]
Thursday, January 19, 2017 | news
Statement of NAACP Legal Defense Fund President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill “I have the greatest respect for Attorney General Lynch. She has been a courageous and powerful force for civil rights enforcement. Her first significant action after her swearing in was to travel personally to Baltimore to meet with city officials and community groups after […]
Thursday, July 25, 2013 | case-update
Today, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) will ask a court to “bail in” Texas and require the state to get approval from the federal government for the next ten years before Texas can implement voting changes. This request by the DOJ follows a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in June in Shelby […]
Friday, November 15, 2019 | case-issue
The honor and privilege of jury service is as critical to full participation in our democracy as the right to vote. When prosecutors systematically exclude Black Americans from serving on criminal juries, they not only undermine an accused person’s right to a fair and impartial trial, they also violate the right of all Black Americans […]
Tuesday, October 26, 2010 | news
Civil rights leaders are denouncing an Atlanta appeals court ruling that testimony about a white supervisor calling a black employee "boy" cannot be used as evidence of race discrimination. In a motion filed last week, eleven civil rights pioneers asked the court to reconsider its finding that a plant manager's alleged use of the word […]
Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue
In October 2010, LDF filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in AT&T Mobility, LLC v. Vincent and Liza Concepcion. This case addresses the lawfulness of class-action bans. Corporations are increasingly using this novel type of contractual provision to bar individuals from filing class actions in any legal forum if they want to obtain […]
Friday, November 16, 2018 | ldf-flyers
Tuesday, May 31, 2016 | news
On May 23, 2016, in response to more than a year of advocacy by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the Florissant City Council voted to approve a redistricting plan that will strengthen the ability of the city’s Black residents to elect the representatives of their choice and ensure that Florissant’s voting […]
