May 21, 2016 | Court Cases Immigrants' Rights, DACA, News Releases
AUSTIN, TX – A federal judge in Brownsville, Texas has ordered that the federal government provide him the names and addresses of over 100,000 recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) in Texas v. United States, the pivotal case challenging the...
May 20, 2016 | News Releases, Voting Rights
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – Today, MALDEF sent a letter to the Board President and Superintendent of the Sequoia Union High School District (“Sequoia UHSD”), demanding that the system for electing members of the board of trustees be changed to comply with...
May 14, 2016 | Court Cases Education, News Releases
AUSTIN, TX – Today, in a disappointing blow to equal educational opportunity, the Texas Supreme Court reversed a 2014 trial court ruling that declared the current state school finance system constitutionally inadequate, unsuitable, and inequitable for Texas...
Apr 30, 2016 | Court Cases Immigrants' Rights, News Releases
CORPUS CHRISTI, TX – Today, MALDEF filed a lawsuit in a Texas federal court against the Normanna Cemetery Association and its caretaker for maintaining a policy of burying only Anglos in the San Domingo Cemetery, in violation of state and federal prohibitions on...
Apr 23, 2016 | News Releases, Redistricting, Voting Rights
BAKERSFIELD, CA – Today, MALDEF filed suit against the Kern County, California Board of Supervisors, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, for violating Section 2 of the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965. The suit, filed on behalf of...
