Mar 6, 2025 | News Releases, Public Policy Education
LOS ANGELES – MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) is proud to announce the recipients in its 2023-2024 Law School Scholarship Program. Since its founding in 1968, MALDEF has awarded scholarships to law students committed to furthering our...
Mar 3, 2025 | Court Cases Immigrants' Rights, News Releases
CHICAGO – An Illinois circuit court judge awarded more than $80,000 in a case brought by a Chicago couple who sued their landlords under the state’s Immigrant Tenant Protection Act (ITPA). The case, filed by MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund)...
Mar 3, 2025 | News Releases, Voting Rights
Case Returns to District Court for Further Proceedings on Intent Claim SAN FRANCISCO –The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday held that a lower court incorrectly decided that an Arizona voter purge law was not intentionally discriminatory and sent...
Mar 1, 2025 | Court Cases Freedom from Open and Obvious Bias and Racism, News Releases
LOS ANGELES – A former public school teacher who launched a racist and anti-immigrant tirade against a Santa Clarita street vendor was ordered by a judge to pay over $49,000 for his harmful actions. MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) filed...
Feb 26, 2025 | Court Cases Immigrants' Rights, DACA, News Releases
LOS ANGELES – A Latino civil rights organization filed a class-action lawsuit against a Texas credit union for unlawfully refusing to consider loans and financial services to certain immigrants because of their immigration status rather than their credit-worthiness....
