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In the United States, a legal defense fund (or LDF) is an account set up to pay for legal expenses, which can include attorneys' fees, court filings, litigation costs, legal advice, or other legal fees. The fund can be public or private and is set up for individuals, organizations, or for a particular purpose.
Bexar County’s Immigrant Legal Defense Fund allocated $1 million in 2022 to fund nonprofit American Gateways and RAICES to provide legal services for illegal border crossers living in the county ...
Menendez has set up a legal defense fund that raised $469,500 from the middle of July 2023 through the end of the year, of which he spent $373,223 in that same span, including $294,464 paid to ...
Sen. Bob Menendez raised an additional $195,000 from executives, real estate developers and others for legal defense fund, bringing total to $469,500.
The plaintiffs, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, The Ordinary People Society, and a coalition of civil rights groups alleged that the defendants, President Donald Trump, the Vice President Michael Pence, and Kris Kobach were in violation of the Fifth and Fifteenth Amendments and the Federal Advisory Committee Act by establishing the Presidential ...
From 1969 to 1974 he served as the Lead Counsel in Mississippi for the Legal Defense Fund, the litigation arm of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). After returning to New York, he served as a staff attorney for LDF for several more years. He also practiced business law.
Democratic secretaries of state on Wednesday launched the Democracy Legal Defense Fund, which they said would support “pro-democracy” Secretaries of State in court if they face “bad- faith ...
Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights, Inc., 547 U.S. 47 (2006), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that the federal government, under the Solomon Amendment, could constitutionally withhold funding from universities if they refuse to give military recruiters access to school resources.