Legal defense fund
In the United States, a legal defense fund (or LDF) is an account set up to pay for legal expenses, which can include
Legal defense funds often have large membership counts where the members contribute to the fund. The fund sometimes is or operates like a
History
The exact origins of legal defense funds are unclear. In the mid-nineteenth-century United States, a number of minority groups pioneered the practice of amassing funds to cover legal costs associated with their battles for civil rights and civil liberties.[2]
Government
A government legal defense fund is an account set up to pay for the legal expenses encountered by a person holding government office, or by other public officials. While public figures are undergoing legal proceedings, they may incur large legal fees and face conflict of interest laws that restrict how they may pay for such expenses. A legal defense fund allows third parties to donate monies, with an option for anonymity, to pay for such legal costs.
Many American public figures have employed legal defense funds, including
Public interest
Public interest legal defense funds include the Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund (formerly known as the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund),[7] the Animal Legal Defense Fund, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, Life Legal Defense Fund, and the National Association of Social Workers Legal Defense Fund and many others.
Civil rights
Civil rights legal defense funds include the
References
- ^ http://earthjustice.org/about ("Earthjustice is a non-profit public interest law firm"); http://www.celdf.org/about-us Archived 2011-10-16 at the Wayback Machine (“The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund is a non-profit, public interest law firm”)
- ISBN 019937192X.
- ^ Blitzer, Wolf (18 February 1998). "New Clinton Legal Defense Fund Created - February 18, 1998". CNN. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
- ^ "Alaska: Palin Defense Fund Is Called Illegal". New York Times. Associated Press. 24 Jun 2010. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
- ^ "Anderson Cooper 360 Transcript". CNN. 15 November 2010. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
- ^ http://www.aldf.org/section.php?id=3 Archived 2011-10-11 at the Wayback Machine; http://www.celdf.org/about-us Archived 2011-10-16 at the Wayback Machine; Animal Legal Defense Fund v. Quigg, 932 F.2d 920 (Fed. Cir. 1991)
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-11-02. Retrieved 2011-10-21.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Brewington, Kelly (1 September 2005). "NAACP legal fund attacks Roberts as civil rights opponent". Baltimore Sun. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
- ^ Hamilton, Colby (5 October 2011). "Civil rights advocates propose their own redistricting maps". WNYC. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
- ^ "Groups Sue State to Stop Live Bait Dog Training - Indiana News Story - WRTV Indianapolis". Archived from the original on 2011-10-13. Retrieved 2011-10-21.
- ^ http://aaldef.org/programs/; http://www.legalmomentum.org/about/
Bibliography
- Volk, Kyle G. (2014). Moral Minorities and the Making of American Democracy. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 019937192X.