Tuesday, September 17, 2024 | staff
Arielle serves as Assistant Counsel and Manager of Professional Development at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Since joining LDF in 2021, Arielle has litigated across all four pillars. She has led litigation to desegregate public schools in Alabama and to address the chronic underfunding of Baltimore City public schools. Arielle has also worked […]
Tuesday, January 7, 2025 | news
CONTACT: Ella Wiley, ACLU, ewiley@aclu.org Ali DeFazio, ACLU of Louisiana, media@laaclu.org Troi Barnes, LDF, 929-736-1528, tbarnes@naacpldf.org New Orleans, La. – Oral argument concluded today at the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in a case that will determine the future of Louisiana’s state legislative maps, Nairne v. Landry. Last year, a group of Black voters […]
Monday, February 8, 2016 | news
On February 8, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), along with Perkins Coie LLP, filed a “friend of the court” brief in State v. Arlene’s Flowers, Inc., a case that challenges a Washington State florist’s religious-based refusal to provide floral arrangements for the wedding of a same-sex couple. LDF’s brief explains why […]
Friday, March 26, 2021 | ldf-perspectives
Chicago’s Vaccine Administration Decreases Racial Inequities but Continues to Exclude the Black Neighborhoods Most Vulnerable to COVID-19 March 26, 2021 The city of Chicago, IL, used an equity lens to plan its vaccine distribution strategy early in the vaccine administration process. Observations of the city’s successes and challenges reveal significant insights into the dynamics of […]
Friday, March 25, 2011 | news
(New York, New York) – On Tuesday March 29th oral argument will be presented before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Lewis v. Chicago, the ongoing litigation to secure justice for over 6,000 African-American firefighter applicants unfairly denied jobs with the Chicago Fire Department. The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, […]
Tuesday, June 28, 2011 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund celebrated its 70th anniversary at a National Archives event June 21, with President and Director-Counsel John Payton calling the fund the nation’s “first civil rights firm.” Payton became the fund’s sixth director-counsel in 2008, following in the footsteps of Thurgood Marshall, Jack Greenberg and Elaine Jones among others. […]
Wednesday, October 27, 2010 | news
Schnapper began his legal career, not in employment law but in civil rights. The first appellate brief he worked on was for Bobby Seale, one of the "Chicago 7" defendants accused of inciting riots at the Chicago Democratic convention in 1968. Schnapper was a lawyer for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund from 1969 […]
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 | news
(New York, NY) – Yesterday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered rehearing in a case challenging Washington State’s racially discriminatory law that denies the vote to people with felony convictions. A panel of eleven judges will reconsider this important civil rights case. In the earlier ruling in Farrakhan v. Gregoire, a three-judge panel […]
Thursday, April 29, 2010 | case-update
(New York, NY) – Yesterday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered rehearing in a case challenging Washington State’s racially discriminatory law that denies the vote to people with felony convictions. A panel of eleven judges will reconsider this important civil rights case. In the earlier ruling in Farrakhan v. Gregoire, a three-judge panel of the […]
Friday, October 29, 2010 | case-update
Yesterday the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals agreed to consider LDF’s Amicus brief regading the significance of the term “boy” in the workplace, in the case Hithon v Tyson Foods, Inc.
