Aug 6, 2020 | Court Cases Access to Justice, Court Cases Immigrants' Rights, News Releases
LOS ANGELES – A federal judge in Maryland has denied the Trump administration’s motion to dismiss a constitutional challenge to a provision of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) that discriminates against mixed-status married couples....
Aug 5, 2020 | Court Cases Immigrants' Rights
May, 21, 2018: The State of Alabama and Congressman Mo Brooks file a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Commerce, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, the U.S. Census Bureau, and then-acting Census Bureau Director Ron Jarmin seeking to require the federal...
Jul 30, 2020 | News Releases, PP Voting Rights, Public Policy
LOS ANGELES – Thomas A. Saenz, president and general counsel of MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) issued the following statement in response to Donald Trump’s ill-informed statement suggesting the possibility of an unlawful delay to the...
Jul 29, 2020 | Court Cases Immigrants' Rights, DACA, News Releases
LOS ANGELES – Thomas A. Saenz, president and general counsel of MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) issued the following statement in response to the Trump administration’s new memo that seeks to eliminate new applications of Deferred Action...
Jul 23, 2020 | Court Cases Immigrants' Rights, News Releases
Legal name change is now available to non-citizens and transgender people in Indiana INDIANAPOLIS, IN — A Court of Appeals of Indiana has taken the final step in the process and certified a decision that a state name-change law does not require a petitioner to be a...
