Letter to Professor Amsterdam from Sherrilyn Ifill

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Matter
- Chishom v. Edwards (Chisom v. Roemer) (Perschall v. State of Louisiana)
Case
- Chisom v. Roemer
U.S. state
- Louisiana
- Georgia
Collection
- Case Files
Taxonomy
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- 0d60ab3b-f311-ef11-9f89-6045bda844fd

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Case Files, Chisom Hardbacks. Letter to Professor Amsterdam from Sherrilyn Ifill, 1991. 0d60ab3b-f311-ef11-9f89-6045bda844fd. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/a64f0ada-888f-4a6b-b490-c3de57399b32/letter-to-professor-amsterdam-from-sherrilyn-ifill. Accessed December 04, 2025.

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Contributions are 
deductibk for U.S. 
income tax purposes. 

NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE 
AND EDUCATIONAL FUND, INC. 

Professor Anthony Amsterdam 
New York University 

School of Law 
40 Washington Square South 
New York, N.Y. 10012 

Dear Tony: 

National Office 

Suite 1600 
99 Hudson Street 
New York, N.Y. 10013 (212) 219-1900 Fax: (212) 226-7592 

March 20, (1991 

I've enclosed for your review the briefs we filed in Chisom -

v. Roemer and HLA V. Attorney General of Texas. I've also enClosed 
a copy of the brief filed by United States ostensibly on our 
behalf. (You'll understand why I say "ostensibly" when you read 
it.) 

We plan to hold moot courts for these cases on April 8th at 
NYU, and April 17th at Howard Law School in D.C. I hope that you 
will be at the NYU moot. 

Julius Chambers will be arguing the HLA case. 
has been set for April 22nd in both cases. 

I will, of course, send you the defendants' 
receive them. Take care. 

SAI/gj 
Encs. 

The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) is not part 
of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 
(NAACP) although LDF was founded by the NAACP and shares its 
commitment to equal rights. LDF has had for. over 30 years a separate 
Board, program, staff, office and budget. 

Sincerely, 

Oral argument 

briefs when we 

A. Ifill 

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