Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue
Mariano Rosales spent more than 23 years on Texas’s death row after being convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death by a Harris County (Houston) jury from which African Americans and Latinos were excluded because of their race. Between 1985 and 2008, Mr. Rosales consistently appealed his conviction and sentence, asserting that his his […]
Thursday, July 30, 2020 | board-of-directors
Monday, March 25, 2024 | board-of-directors
Thursday, April 25, 2013 | news
LDF Co-Chair David Mills has fought to secure justice for people sentenced to life in prison for non-violent, non-serious crimes under California’s “Three Strikes” law. First through the work of the Stanford Law School Three Strikes Project, which he founded, Mills obtained representation for individuals challenging their life sentences. Then Mills led the successful effort […]
Thursday, January 24, 2013 | news
Sherrilyn Ifill was named the President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP’s Legal Defense and Education Fund back in November. Today she joined Roland Martin on the TJMS to discuss the importance of the organization and outline some initiatives that are currently happening. Listen to the interview.
Tuesday, March 26, 2024 | news
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund announced the appointment of Legal Defense Fund (LDF) President and Director-Counsel Janai Nelson to its board of trustees. The Rockefeller Brothers Fund is a private family foundation with a mission to advance social change that contributes to a more just, sustainable, and peaceful world. Ms. Nelson made the following statement following her appointment. “The Rockefeller Brothers Fund is one […]
Friday, March 30, 2018 | board-of-directors
Tuesday, May 10, 2022 | case-issue
Case: Political Participation, Redistricting Robinson v. Landry* Challenging Louisiana’s Congressional Map Filed: March 2022 Resolved: January 2024 *Robinson v. Landry was previously known as Robinson v. Ardoin.The name was changed after Landry was elected as Louisiana Governor. In March 2022, LDF filed a lawsuit challenging discriminatory congressional redistricting maps passed by the Louisiana legislature as […]
Friday, May 4, 2018 | scholarship-rec
Robert G. Anderson Jr., a native of Greenville, South Carolina, began his college career at Clark College in Atlanta.On Sept. 11, 1963, Mr. Anderson joined Monteith Treadwell and James L. Solomon Jr., in taking heroic steps on the University of South Carolina’s campus to enroll as students.In an article written after Anderson’s death in 2009, […]
Wednesday, November 17, 2010 | case-update
Yesterday, Plaintiffs filed a brief in Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center v. HUD, a case alleging discrimination in the “Road home” program – the single largest housing recovery program in U.S. history. The brief addresses two appeals pending in the DC Circuit and raises two key arguments: First, we ask the court of appeals to keep […]
