May 12, 2020 | Court Cases Employment, Court Cases Immigrants' Rights, DACA, News Releases
NEW YORK – A New York bank unlawfully denied a Harvard graduate who is authorized to work in the United States a job because of her immigration status, according to a federal lawsuit filed today. MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) is...
May 12, 2020 | Court Cases Education, News Releases
LOS ANGELES – A split panel of a federal court of appeals erred when it upheld a ruling dismissing a lawsuit filed against a principal who threatened to call immigration officials on a parent, according to civil rights attorneys. Attorneys with MALDEF (Mexican...
May 5, 2020 | News Releases, Public Policy, Public Policy Access to Justice
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – National and state civil rights organizations today announced their vehement opposition to Senate confirmation of Cory Wilson to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Last week, the Senate announced it would move Donald Trump’s judicial...
Apr 30, 2020 | Court Cases Immigrants' Rights, News Releases
SAN ANTONIO, TX – Civil rights attorneys are suing the federal government seeking the release of a medically vulnerable immigrant who was temporarily hospitalized and then returned to a Texas detention center where there are five confirmed cases of COVID-19 among...
Apr 28, 2020 | Court Cases Immigrants' Rights, News Releases
GREENBELT, Md. – The federal government’s denial of COVID-19 relief payments to U.S. citizens married to immigrants who do not have a social security number is unconstitutional, according to a class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday in a Maryland federal court. MALDEF...
