The Servicemembers Legal Defense Network was founded in 1993 to advocate an end to discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in the U. S. Armed Forces.

Legal action by rival RCA kept commercial use of the system off the air until June 1951, and regular broadcasts only lasted a few months before manufacture of all color television sets was banned by the Office of Defense Mobilization ( ODM ) in October, ostensibly due to the Korean War.

The appeal cited the Kahane Chai Legal Defense Fund, a special fund licensed by the Treasury Department specifically for their legal appeal, and administered by Kach and Kahane Chai counsel Kenneth Klein, in a call for donations for " other legal battles.

* University of California LLNL Retiree Group ( Legal Defense Fund for UC Retirees from LLNL )

In 2010, Judd signed the Animal Legal Defense Fund's petition to urge Governor Steve Beshear to protect Kentucky's homeless animals through tough enforcement of the state's Humane Shelter Law.

Legal defenses like the Gay Panic Defense allow for more lenient punishments for people accused of beating, torturing, or killing homosexuals because of their orientation.

For example, the Heritage Foundation sees it as threatening national control over domestic policy and the Home School Legal Defense Association ( HSLDA ) argues that the CRC threatens homeschooling.

In 2011, DiCaprio joined the Animal Legal Defense Fund's campaign to free Tony, a tiger who has spent the last decade at the Tiger Truck Stop in Grosse Tete, Louisiana.

The Home School Legal Defense Association was cofounded in 1983 by Michael Farris, who would later establish Patrick Henry College, and Michael Smith.

On May 31, 1961, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund filed suit in the U. S. District Court, alleging that the university had rejected Meredith only because of the color of his skin, as he had a highly successful record.

The Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund ( MALDEF ) opposed.

* Moral Majority Legal Defense Fund – the organization ’ s legal instrument, used primarily to challenge the American Civil Liberties Union and secular humanist issues in court.

Chambers and his founding partners, James E. Ferguson, II and Adam Stein, working with lawyers of the Legal Defense Fund, successfully litigated civil rights cases and helped shape the contours of civil rights law by winning landmark United States Supreme Court rulings in such cases as Swann v. Charlotte Mecklenburg Board of Education, 402 U. S. 1 ( 1971 ), the famous school busing decision, and Griggs v. Duke Power Co. 401 U. S. 424, 91 S. Ct.

Tom Linzey of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund ( CELDF ) is Blaine Township's lawyer.

The NAACP Legal Defense Fund brought the Swann case on behalf of six-year-old James Swann and nine other families, with Julius L. Chambers presenting the case.

The Association, represented throughout by Robert L. Carter of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, responded by moving to dissolve the order on the grounds that its activities within the state did not require its qualification under the statute and that the state's suit was intended to violate its rights to freedom of speech and of assembly as guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States.

In 1981, after Ronald Reagan took office, she joined the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund ( LDF ) as an assistant counsel, eventually becoming head of its Voting Rights project.

He has been honored with awards from the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, the Association for Asian Pacific American Artists, the Museum of Chinese in the Americas, the East West Players, the Organization of Chinese Americans, the Media Action Network for Asian Americans, the Center for Migration Studies, the Asian American Resource Workshop, the China Institute, and the New York Foundation for the Arts.

On July 10, 2007, the Alliance Defense Fund Center for Academic Freedom and the Christian Legal Society filed suit ( Beta Upsilon Chi Upsilon Chapter v. Machen, 586 F. 3d 908, 911-912 ( 11th Cir.

* Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund Special Registration Report

* Christie, The Defense of Necessity Considered from the Legal and Moral Points of View, ( 1999 ) Vol.

Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

In 1971, volunteer lawyers who had worked with the Sierra Club established the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund.

Lambda Legal ( Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund ) is an American civil rights organization that focuses on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender ( LGBT ) communities as well as people living with HIV / AIDS ( PWAs ) through impact litigation, education, and public policy work.

Some examples are the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association, Canadian Civil Liberties Association, the Canadian Mental Health Association, the Canadian Labour Congress, the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund ( LEAF ), and REAL Women of Canada.

On his repatriation, Schreyer was employed as a national representative of Habitat for Humanity, an honorary director of the Sierra Legal Defence Fund, and an honorary advisor to the Canadian Foundation for the Preservation of Chinese Cultural and Historical Treasures, as well as becoming a founding member of the Winnipeg Library Foundation.

Legal Defense Fund, Inc. wins them on Page 68.

In 1953 the NAACP Legal Defense Fund asked Commager for advice for their argument before the Supreme Court for the case of Brown vs Board of Education, but at the time he was not persuaded that this litigation would succeed on historical grounds, and so advised the lawyers.

Schlafly founded the Eagle Forum in the 1970s and the Eagle Forum Education & Legal Defense Fund, St. Louis.

Volunteer lawyers from the NAACP Legal Defense Fund Inc (" Ink Fund "), National Lawyers Guild, Lawyer's Constitutional Defense Committee ( LCDC ) an arm of the ACLU, and the Lawyers ' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law ( LCCR ) provided free legal services — handling arrests, freedom of speech, voter registration and other matters.

* John D. Trasviña ( 1983 ), President of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund ( MALDEF )

In September 1975, the Georgia Legal Services Program, on behalf of local NAACP members, filed suit in US District Court, alleging that women and blacks were systematically excluded from grand juries responsible for appointing members to the McIntosh County Board of Education.

* 1950 Charles Hamilton Houston ( Chairman, NAACP Legal Committee )

The judges were Julius Chambers, President, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund ; Maxwell Lillienstein, General Counsel, American Booksellers Association ; and Anthony Podesta, Founding President, People for the American Way.

Under his leadership, the NAACP set up the Legal Defense Fund, which raised numerous legal challenges to segregation and disfranchisement, and achieved many successes.

Following a clerkship with Supreme Court Justice Byron White, Kendall spent five years as an associate counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, focusing on criminal defense practice, handling high-profile death penalty cases including Coker v. Georgia and the death penalty appeals of John Arthur Spenkelink and Gary Gilmore.

Drinan served on the Board of Directors of People for the American Way, the International League for Human Rights, the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, the International Labor Rights Fund, Americans for Democratic Action, and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

In the early 1990s, in Trouillon v. City of Hawthorne, the Legal Defense and Education Fund of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) successfully challenged an urban renewal plan on the basis of race discrimination by bringing suit under the Fair Housing Act.

Marshall — working as special counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund — determined that the first course of action should be a publicity campaign mounted with the aim of gathering public support for the release of the men.

She began practicing law with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc .' s Mississippi office, working on racial justice issues connected with the civil rights movement and representing activists during the Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964.

Bell recruited Wade McCree, an African American then serving as a judge on the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, to serve as United States Solicitor General, and Drew S. Days, III, an African American lawyer for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund he had admired in oral arguments before him, to head the Civil Rights Division.

In the early 1980s he worked in private law, including volunteer counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.

From 1981 to 1986, he was a volunteer counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.

Logo of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. ( NAACP LDF, the Inc. Fund, or simply LDF ) is a leading United States civil rights organization and law firm based in New York City.

* Hooks, Benjamin L. " Birth and Separation of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund ," Crisis 1979 86 ( 6 ): 218-220.

Crafting Law in the Second Reconstruction: Julius Chambers, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and Title VII.

* Tauber, Steven C. " The NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the U. S. Supreme Court's Racial Discrimination Decision Making ," Social Science Quarterly 1999 80 ( 2 ): 325-340.

The Impact of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund on Capital Punishment Decision Making in the U. S. Courts of Appeals ," Political Research Quarterly 1998 51 ( 1 ): 191-219.