Aug 16, 2024 | Court Cases Access to Justice, Court Cases Immigrants' Rights, Media, News Releases
HOUSTON – A Latino civil rights organization is asking a state court to reject Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s request to shut down a Houston nonprofit while his office pursues a legal challenge to the group’s charter. MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and...
Apr 22, 2022 | MALDEF in History
CIVIL RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS CHALLENGED ABERCROMBIE & FITCH’S UNLAWFUL HIRING TACTICS ON BEHALF OF LATINO, BLACK AND ASIAN AMERICAN YOUTH In the 1990s and the early 2000s, retailer Abercrombie & Fitch, was the hottest place for young people to shop and work....
Dec 13, 2021 | MALDEF in History
MALDEF’s Thomas A. Saenz accompanies a group of day laborers during the height of the challenge to anti-solicitation ordinances enacted by cities in California. The Legal Fight to Protect The First Amendment Right of Day Laborers Workers who are hired by the day have...
Dec 22, 2017 | News Releases, Voting Rights
(Los Angeles, CA) – Trial in a lawsuit filed by MALDEF alleging that Kern County, California has violated the federal Voting Rights Act concluded in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California this week. It was the first federal Voting Rights Act...
Dec 12, 2017 | News Releases, Voting Rights
(Los Angeles, CA) – Thomas A. Saenz, president and general counsel of MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund), released the following statement today following a vote by the Lodi City Council to adopt a resolution of intent to move from an...
