Raymond Audain

Senior Counsel, The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF)

Raymond Audain serves as Senior Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) in New York.  Raymond is currently lead counsel in NAACP v. DHS, a federal lawsuit that seeks to enjoin the Department of Homeland Security’s November 2017 decision to rescind Temporary Protected Status for Haitians in the United States.  Raymond is also lead counsel in A.R. v. City of N.Y., a federal class action on behalf of individuals who were strip-searched while visiting New York City jails; and Ayers v. Western Line Consolidated School District, a school desegregation case seeking to compel the integration of public schools in Washington County, Mississippi.  Raymond also helped to argue Buck v. Davis in the United States Supreme Court in October 2016, on behalf of an individual sentenced to death following expert testimony that he was prone to violence because he is Black.  Raymond also serves as counsel in Davis v. City of N.Y., a federal class action lawsuit challenging the NYPD’s unlawful practice of stopping and arresting New York City public housing residents and their guests for purportedly trespassing in public housing residences.  Prior to joining LDF, Raymond served as a law clerk to the Hon. Ronald L. Ellis in the Southern District of New York, and to the Hon. Robert L. Carter in the Southern District of New York.  Raymond is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at NYU Law School.