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Aden Reports LDF Return to Court to Defend Victory in Fayette County, Georgia Case

In The Root, LDF Assistant Counsel Leah Aden announces LDF’s return to court due to Fayette County’s continued defense of racially biased voting plans in federal court appeal: “Despite this progress, Fayette County continues to defend its racially discriminatory method of election, having appealed the federal court’s ruling and continuing to impose on Fayette taxpayers the costs (so far […]

Aden Argues Against At-Large Voting in Op-Ed

Fair opportunity eludes black voters “Because at-large voting erects a barrier to black voters’ electoral opportunities, plaintiffs to the lawsuit seek a remedial district in which black voters are the majority of the voters in one of the five districts, which will elect one of the five judges for the 32nd JDC. Without this district-based […]

Adebayo Ogunlesi

Adams v. Rankin County Board of Education

Case: Education Adams v. Rankin County School District Ensuring equal access to educational opportunities Filed: 1967 What’s at stake? In 1967, a group of Black parents and their children in Rankin County, Mississippi filed a federal lawsuit against Rankin County School District (RCSD) to integrate the school district, which still maintained a segregated public school […]

Adam Murphy

Adam Murphy is an Assistant Counsel. At LDF, Adam argued recently on behalf of amici before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in Commonwealth v. Dew, __ Mass. __, 210 N.E.3d 904 (Mass. 2023). In that case, the court reversed Mr. Dew’s convictions and became the first court in the country to evaluate defense counsel’s racial […]

Adam Lioz

Adam Lioz is Senior Policy Counsel for political participation at LDF, where he works to build an inclusive, multiracial democracy.  Adam is an attorney and policy advocate with more than 25 years of experience working to promote political equality, economic opportunity, sustainable development, and racial equity through public education, policy design, direct advocacy, litigation, and […]

ACLU of Georgia and Civil Rights Groups: Extend Voter Registration Deadline as State Recovers from Hurricane Helene

Contact: Dorrie Toney, media@acluga.org Ella Wiley, media@aclu.org Troi Barnes, media@naacpldf.org Lacy Crawford, lcrawford@lawyerscommittee.org ATLANTA—The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Georgia, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and the law firm Cooley LLP filed a lawsuit seeking a court order to extend the voter registration deadline, as Georgians deal with […]

ACLU and LDF Call on Flint City Council to Impose Moratorium on Property Liens for Unpaid Water Bills

ACLU of Michigan and NAACP Legal Defense Fund Call on Flint City Council to Impose Moratorium on Property Liens for Unpaid Water Bills The ACLU of Michigan and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc (LDF)  today urged the Flint City Council to suspend local efforts to impose property liens on thousands of Flint […]

Accomplished Advocates Adegbile, Llahmon Named to Civil Rights Commission

Accomplished Advocates Adegbile, Llahmon Named to Civil Rights Commission Statement of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund on Appointments to United States Commission on Civil Rights: We commend President Obama’s appointment of two extremely accomplished and dedicated civil rights advocates to serve on the United States Commission on Civil Rights at this critical time in […]

Access to Courts

Much of our nation’s progress toward the Constitutional aspiration of a “more perfect Union” occurred because ordinary people have had ready access to litigate worthy but often novel or difficult-to-prove cases in our courts.  Recently, however, a pair of Supreme Court decisions has skewed the balance away from access to courts.  In Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly (2007) […]