1985 January 29 A dispute between the NAACP and the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund may not be at an end even though a three-judge panel from the appellate court decided that the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund could continue to use the initials NAACP in it's name. Ruling that the length of time that the parent organization had allowed the fund to use it's name, negated the claim that the parent group had exclusive rights. Wrote Judge David Bazelon, "these two great organizations, like brilliant but quarreling family members must continue to share the NAACP initials with which they were born. " The NAACP intends to take the decision to the Supreme Court. The fund was at one time the legal arm of its parent and had fought and won many landmark civil rights cases.