Jun 26, 2019 | Census, News Releases, Voting Rights
LOS ANGELES – The U.S. Department of Justice today sent a letter to the U.S. Supreme Court asking the justices to rule on the Equal Protection claim currently before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth District and a district court in Maryland. The Trump...
Jun 25, 2019 | Census, News Releases, Voting Rights
LOS ANGELES – A federal judge in Maryland will determine whether newly discovered evidence indicates unconstitutional discriminatory intent was behind the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 Census after an appellate court granted a request to remand the...
Jun 25, 2019 | Court Cases Immigrants' Rights, News Releases
LOS ANGELES – The Alameda County Superior Court has ruled that a major civil rights lawsuit over inadequate access to health care for 13 million Medi-Cal participants may proceed, despite a two-year fight by the State of California to stop its advancement. The ruling,...
Jun 24, 2019 | Census, News Releases, Voting Rights
LOS ANGELES – A federal court in Maryland today issued its opinion explaining its previously-issued response to a request by MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) to reconsider whether the Trump administration conspired with others to...
Jun 22, 2019 | News Releases, Voting Rights
LOS ANGELES – MALDEF sent a letter to the Board of Directors of the Camarillo Health Care District (HCD) today warning that the district’s at-large system of electing its Board of Directors violates the California Voting Rights Act of 2001 (CVRA). In the letter, sent...
