Sep 8, 2021 | News Releases, Public Policy, Public Policy Access to Justice
LOS ANGELES – Today, President Joseph R. Biden announced a seventh slate of federal judicial nominees. Included in the nominations were three Latinos: Justice Gabriel P. Sanchez, nominated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; David Herrera...
Sep 7, 2021 | News Releases
LOS ANGELES – MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) announced the appointment today of Leticia Marie Saucedo as a National Senior Counsel. Saucedo has spent more than a decade as a professor of law at the University of California, Davis Law...
Sep 3, 2021 | Court Cases Immigrants' Rights, News Releases
CHICAGO – A Latino civil rights organization is suing a Cook County couple who reported a tenant to immigration officials after a rent dispute because he requested a repair in his apartment, according to a lawsuit filed in state court today. MALDEF (Mexican American...
Sep 3, 2021 | News Releases, Voting Rights
SAN ANTONIO – A voting bill that will make it harder for Texans, particularly voters of color, to cast their ballots is unconstitutional and violates federal voting rights law because it diminishes access to the ballot box, according to a lawsuit filed today in...
Aug 25, 2021 | News Releases, PP Voting Rights, Public Policy
WASHINGTON, D.C.– Andrea Senteno, Washington D.C. regional counsel at MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund), issued the following statement in response to yesterday’s vote by the U.S. House of Representatives to pass the John R. Lewis Voting...
