Dec 12, 2015 | News Releases, Voting Rights
PLACENTIA, CA – Today, MALDEF sent a letter to the City of Placentia, demanding that it convert its at-large elections system to a district-based system that affords Latino voters an equal opportunity to elect candidates of their choice to the Placentia City...
Dec 4, 2015 | News Releases, Voting Rights
LOS ANGELES, CA – MALDEF and the California League of United Latin American Citizens (“CA LULAC”) today sent a letter to Anaheim, California Mayor Tom Tait warning that delaying the election in the only district designed to provide a voting rights...
Nov 24, 2015 | News Releases
LOS ANGELES, CA – Today, MALDEF announced the scholarship recipients in its 2014-2015 Law School Scholarship Program. Since MALDEF's founding, the civil rights organization has awarded scholarships to law students who will further MALDEF's mission of advancing...
Nov 21, 2015 | Court Cases Immigrants' Rights, DACA, News Releases
NEW ORLEANS, LA – Yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued an order allowing MALDEF's clients, three mothers from south Texas who intend to apply for Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA), to participate as parties in the...
Nov 11, 2015 | Court Cases Immigrants' Rights, DACA, News Releases
NEW ORLEANS, La. – Late last night, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit granted MALDEF's clients the right to intervene in Texas v. United States, a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the expansion of the existing Deferred Action...
