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	NAACP Legal Defense Fund President Urges Further Investigation of Texas Execution
		A recent op-ed by Theodore Shaw, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, urged a full and fair investigation into the case of Ruben Cantu, a Texas man who may have been innocent of the murder for which he was executed in 1993.
		Shaw stated that the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund hopes that their efforts to publicly post materials that first interested the group in Cantu's case will spark a further inquiry by the state.
		After the Tulia cases, the Legal Defense Fund undertook an investigation into the possibility that Ruben Cantu, who was sentenced to death in San Antonio in 1984, was innocent of the murder for which he was executed in 1993.
	deathpenaltyinfo.org /article.php?did=1776 (990 words)

	NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund - Member Organizations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Ted Shaw - The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), is America's oldest civil rights organization devoted to securing equal justice for all.
		The Legal Defense Fund has won many other historically significant civil rights cases including the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v.
		Board of Education - the school desegregation case that ended the "separate but equal" doctrine of government discrimination.
	www.blackleadershipforum.org /officers/ldf.html (105 words)

	Cornelius v. NAACP Legal Defense & Educ. Fund
		In the second proceeding, the Legal Defense Funds challenged the decision of the Director of OPM to authorize local federal coordinating groups to determine what share, if any, [p794] of the undesignated funds to allocate to organizations classified as national service associations.
		In Perry Education Assn., supra, at 52, we noted that "exclusion of the rival union may reasonably be considered a means of insuring labor peace within the schools." Similarly, the exclusion of respondents may reasonably be considered a means of "insuring peace" in the federal workplace.
		Such services must consist of care, research or education in the fields of human health or social adjustment and rehabilitation; relief of victims of natural disasters and other emergencies; or assistance to those who are impoverished and therefore in need of food, shelter, clothing, education, and basic human welfare services.
	www2.law.cornell.edu /supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0473_0788_ZO.html (6744 words)

	NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF)
		The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) is America's oldest civil rights organization devoted to securing equal justice for all.
		The Legal Defense Fund, under Thurgood Marshall's leadership, argued and won the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v.
		Board of Education, Princeton integrated its elementary schools by means of what has come to be called the Princeton Plan, and at its 1998 reception, held at the Institute for Advanced Study, the Princeton Committee commemorated this fiftieth anniversary.
	www.princetonol.com /groups/naacp (374 words)

	Cornelius v NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund
		Respondents in this case are the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, the Federally Employed Women Legal Defense and Education Fund, the Indian Law Resource Center, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights under Law, and the Natural Resources Defense Council.
		Moreover, an employee's contribution in response to a request for funds functions as a general expression of support for the recipient and its views.
		We will not find that a public forum has been created in the face of clear evidence of a contrary intent, nor will we infer that the government intended to create a public forum when the nature of the property is inconsistent with expressive [***29] activity.
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/cornelius.html (4003 words)

	NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (NAACP LDF or simply LDF) is a leading United States civil rights organization based in New York City.
		Holmes County Board of Education ruled that a Mississippi school district's foot-dragging with respect to desegregation violated the "all deliberate speed" mandate of Brown v.
		Hunt said that it is legal to create, for partisan political reasons, a district with a high concentration of minority voters; hence the North Carolina district from which Mel Watt was elected to the House of Representatives was ruled not to be an illegal gerrymander.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/NAACP_Legal_Defense_and_Educational_Fund (2061 words)

	McKinney & Associates case study: NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund
		The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. was founded in 1940 under the leadership of Thurgood Marshall, the late civil rights legal legend and first African-American U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
		Defense of the University of Michigan's undergraduate admissions policy, which was decided by the Supreme Court; and
		The case of Kemba Smith, a young woman whose harsh mandatory sentence was commuted by President Clinton in 2000 due in large part to LDF's legal advocacy and public education on her behalf.
	www.mckpr.com /clients/ldf.htm (388 words)

	U.S. v. Armstrong, NAACP Brief
		The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., is a non-profit corporation formed to assist African Americans to secure their rights by the prosecution of lawsuits.
		The proper resolution of this case is, therefore, of critical importance to the Fund, and to the ACLU and its members.
		Second, defense counsel O'Connor submitted an affidavit stating that she had spoken to Chris Fernandez, the intake coordinator at Impact House in Pasadena, California, who stated that in his experience dealing with the treatment of cocaine base addiction, there are equal numbers of minority and caucasian users and dealers of crack.
	www.soc.umn.edu /~samaha/cases/us_v_armstrong_naacp_brief.htm (10211 words)

	FindLaw for Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal and State Resources, Forms, and Code
		The Court found that "charitable appeals for funds, on the street or door to door, involve a variety of speech interests - communication of information, the dissemination and propagation of views and ideas, and the advocacy of causes - that are within the protection of the First Amendment." 444 U.S., at 632.
		Such services must consist of care, research or education in the fields of human health or social adjustment and rehabilitation; relief of victims of natural disasters and other emergencies; or assistance to those who are impoverished and therefore in need of food, shelter, clothing, education, and basic human welfare services." Exec.
		It is true that unions organized boycotts of the CFC in some areas because of their opposition to the participation in the CFC of the National Right to Work Legal Defense and Education Fund, and that, in those areas, contributions sometimes declined.
	caselaw.lp.findlaw.com /scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=473&invol=788 (13498 words)

	NAACP Legal Defense Fund -- News
		While many of his available records are from his early legal career, his views in opposition to civil rights laws were strongly held over a long period, and we have no evidence that he has changed his views.
		Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, sanctioning the use of busing as a remedy would have been overruled and school desegregation would have been virtually impossible.
		The rule that prohibits colleges, universities and other institutions that receive federal funding from discriminating on the basis of race, national origin, gender, or handicap would have been narrowed to apply only to the departments or units that receive the aid.
	www.naacpldf.org /content.aspx?article=670 (672 words)

	Guarding the civil rights dream - NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Ebony - Find Articles
		WITH the golden anniversary of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund rapidly approaching, the brain trust of this much-revered legal arm of the civil rights struggle is in perpetual motion.
		In essence, it is business as usual at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund where, for the past half century, some of the country's brightest legal minds have challenged discrimination in courtrooms across the country, up to and including the Supreme Court.
		Board of Education case, in which the Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1077/is_n1_v45/ai_8029463 (873 words)

	civilrights.org -- Career Center
		IN WASHINGTON, D.C. The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. ("LDF") is seeking applicants for summer legal internships in Washington, DC.
		LDF is seeking legal intern applicants for the Summer of 2002.
		Applicants therefore must be willing to seek funding from alternative sources, such as institution-funded or student-funded programs offered at your law school.
	www.civilrights.org /career_center/naacpinter.html (333 words)

	Who We Are - Advancement Project, Multi-racial Democracy, Voting Registration, Attorney, Specialist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In her former role as assistant counsel in the Political Participation Group of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), Alaina Beverly advocated for repealing felon disfranchisement policies, lobbied for Voting Rights Act Renewal, and oversaw LDF's 2004 election protection efforts in Michigan and Louisiana.
		As the legal director of the ACLU of Eastern Missouri from 1997-2005, she litigated several significant voting rights cases and supervised voter protection outreach and advocacy efforts.
		Before becoming a staff attorney with the Los Angeles office of LDF in 1994, she was a partner in the law firm of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver and Jacobson, served as president of the Los Angeles chapter of the Federal Bar Association and participated actively in many bar committees and task forces.
	www.advancementproject.org /whoweare.html (4320 words)

	Philadelphia Education Fund Hosts Theodore M. Shaw... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		WHAT: The Philadelphia Education Fund is hosting Theodore M. Shaw, Director-Counsel and President of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, as part of its Distinguished Lecture Series.
		The NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) was founded in 1940 under the leadership of Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice.
		The Philadelphia Education Fund is an independent non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of public education throughout the Philadelphia region.
	releases.usnewswire.com /GetRelease.asp?id=48744 (388 words)

	Cornelius v. NAACP Legal Defense & Educ. Fund
		Undesignated contributions are distributed on a local level to certain participating organizations, and designated funds are paid directly to the specified recipient.
		Respondent legal defense and political advocacy organizations brought an action in Federal District Court challenging their exclusion under the Executive Order on the grounds, inter alia, that the denial of the right to seek designated funds violated their First Amendment right to solicit charitable contributions.
		And without the funds obtained from solicitation in various fora, the soliciting organization's continuing ability to communicate ideas and goals may be jeopardized.
	supct.law.cornell.edu /supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0473_0788_ZS.html (751 words)

	Chambers named '96 MLK speaker - MIT News Office
		Julius L. Chambers, a relentless litigator of civil rights cases for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund for nearly two decades and currently chancellor of North Carolina Central University (NCCU), will be the keynote speaker at MIT's 22nd annual celebration of the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
		Chambers was director-counsel of the Legal Defense and Educational Fund from July 1984 until his appointment at NCCU.
		He has been a member of the New Jersey State Board of Higher Education, the Board of Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, the Board of Directors of the Children's Defense Fund and of the Legal Aid Society of New York, and the Board of Editors of the American Bar Association Journal.
	web.mit.edu /newsoffice/1995/chambers-1129.html (662 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: Dreams Deferred by Ryan O’Donnell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		There is a great deal of irony in the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund’s new slogan, “A Rich History.
		Board of Education, the genuine Civil Rights movement’s most important victory, destroyed the “Separate but Equal” doctrine, demanding to be treated on an equal plane with their white counterparts.
		The failure of the current incarnation of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, should hardly come as a surprise.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=8621 (1367 words)

	"To Have Our Own Lawyers Fight Our Own Cases": The Origins of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
		Because his efforts with LULAC were limited by funding and the demand for aid to individuals in localized cases, Tijerina and others realized the need for broad legal precedents to successfully erase widespread discriminatory practices and implement social and economic changes.
		It was patterned after the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF), formed in 1940 by Thurgood Marshall to pursue initiatives in the courts to gain opportunities long denied to African Americans.
		The NAACP Legal Defense Fund had received considerable amounts of money from foundations because of their victory in the Brown v.
	historymatters.gmu.edu /d/6585 (588 words)

	VLS Press Release: Elaine Jones of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund to Speak at Vermont Law School ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Elaine Jones of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund to Speak at Vermont Law School Commencement Ceremony
		South Royalton, Vt. (May 6, 1999) - Elaine R. Jones, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), will be the keynote speaker at Vermont Law School's commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 22.
		The public is invited to attend the ceremony, which is scheduled to begin at 10:30 AM on the South Royalton town green.
	www.vermontlaw.edu /media/emp_medpre_template.cfm?doc_id=243 (543 words)

	Peace Corps Online \| February 1, 2004 - The Skanner: Turkey RPCV Elaine Jones steps doesn as head of NAACP Legal ...
		I am always quick to remind people that while I am proud that Emerge was the first publication to tell Kemba’s story, Elaine R. Jones, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, was the person most responsible for Kemba’s freedom.
		After reading the first cover story, Jones placed the fund’s legal apparatus behind her fellow Virginian, representing Kemba in legal venues and ultimately making the formal request to Clinton for clemency.
		Because of this and many other cases I have covered involving the fund since Jones took over the helm of the association in 1993 — the same year I became editor of Emerge — I was saddened to learn that Jones has decided to step down as head of the fund.
	peacecorpsonline.org /messages/messages/467/2019534.html (903 words)

	American Civil Liberties Union : Letter from the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund on the Religious Liberties ...
		The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. ("LDF"), urges you to oppose final passage of H.R. 1691, The Religious Liberty Protection Act of 1999 ("RLPA").
		RLPA poses a potential threat to this type of litigation as RLPA may be used in a manner to limit African Americans and other minorities' rights to seek protection from discrimination under state and local antidiscrimination laws.
		Of course, if any court were to determine that a particular antidiscrimination statute were not a least restrictive means of furthering a compelling governmental interest, a successful RLPA defense would completely bar a plaintiff from proceeding under that stature.
	www.aclu.org /racialjustice/gen/16000leg19990714.html (443 words)

	NAACP Legal Defense Fund
		The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. is currently accepting internship applications from law students for the Summer of 2007
		Legal Expert to Discuss Case Determining the Showing of Innocence a Death Row Inmate Must Make before a Federal Court May Hear His Defaulted Constitutional Claim or Bar His Execution
		The Status of Indigent Defense in Schuyler Co., NY
	www.naacpldf.org (202 words)

	Welcome to Americans For a Fair Chance - About the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
		Founded in 1940 under the leadership or the late Thurgood Marshall, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) is the nation's oldest organization fighting for equal rights.
		It is based in New York and maintains offices in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles.
		President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) Ms.
	fairchance.civilrights.org /about/naacpldf.html (295 words)

	Division for Public Education: National Asian Pacific American Heritage Month: Bill Lann Lee
		Lee's nomination followed 23 years as a civil rights attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the Center for Law in the Public Interest, and the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund.
		After graduating from law school, he returned to the Legal Defense and Educational Fund and worked there as a civil rights attorney until 1982.
		He then returned to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. to serve as Western Regional Counsel in Los Angeles.
	www.abanet.org /publiced/rbbl.html (965 words)

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