Dec 6, 2007 | Court Cases Education, News Releases
Transfer provisions aimed at enforcing desegregation are in danger of being dismissed AUSTIN, TX – Today, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), the nation’s leading Latino legal organization, presented its argument on behalf of LULAC and...
Dec 4, 2007 | Court Cases Education, News Releases
Transfer provisions aimed at enforcing desegregation are in danger of being dismissed AUSTIN, TX – The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), the nation’s leading Latino legal organization, will intervene on behalf of LULAC and the GI Forum to...
Nov 15, 2007 | Court Cases Immigrants' Rights, News Releases
Deputies may be violating civil rights of Cobb County residents ATLANTA, GA – Today, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), the nation’s leading Latino civil rights organization, wrote to Col. Don Barlett of the Cobb County Sheriff’s Office...
Oct 19, 2007 | Court Cases Education, News Releases
SAN ANTONIO, TX – Today, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), expanded its lawsuit challenging the exclusion of certain military veterans from the Texas Hazlewood Act, which provides a waiver of tuition and fees at Texas public colleges...
Oct 18, 2007 | Court Cases Immigrants' Rights, News Releases
Civil rights groups say sheriffs ‘broke trust' with community LAS CRUCES, NM—Civil rights groups sued the Otero County Sheriff’s Department today for civil rights violations committed during immigration sweeps last September in the southern New Mexico town of...
