Jan 27, 2020 | News Releases
(LOS ANGELES) – Former Columbia University President Michael I. Sovern died this week. A legal scholar and civil rights champion, he helped establish the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) and served on its board from 1969 to 1975. Please...
Jan 17, 2020 | Court Cases Immigrants' Rights, News Releases
LAS VEGAS – Las Vegas city authorities’ policy of holding immigrants in jail after they have completed their sentences is unconstitutional, a lawsuit filed today charged. MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) and F. Travis Buchanan of The...
Jan 4, 2020 | DACA, News Releases, Public Policy, Public Policy Immigrants' Rights
LOS ANGELES – The Washington Post today reported that Trump administration officials threatened to shut down the federal government last month over a dispute about a provision in a year-end spending bill that would have allowed immigrants who are authorized to work...
Dec 17, 2019 | Court Cases Immigrants' Rights, News Releases
SAN ANTONIO, TX — MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) moved to amend its lawsuit challenging Texas Senate Bill 4 (SB4) to expand the legal claims and add new parties, according to papers filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the...
Dec 4, 2019 | News Releases, Voting Rights
PASADENA, CA – A federal court of appeals today rejected a challenge to the California Voting Rights Act (CVRA) brought by a former mayor of the City of Poway. The three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld a district court's ruling...
