Aug 27, 2014 | Court Cases Education, News Releases
SACRAMENTO, CA – A group of civil rights advocates including California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc., Equal Justice Society, Greater Bakersfield Legal Assistance, Inc., and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) today filed an...
Aug 23, 2014 | News Releases, Public Policy, Public Policy Immigrants' Rights
WASHINGTON, D.C. – MALDEF and twelve other LGBTQ, Latino, and Asian American advocacy and civil rights organizations yesterday sent a letter to President Obama, urging him to ensure that any affirmative relief for undocumented immigrants does not unfairly...
Aug 14, 2014 | Court Cases Access to Justice, Court Cases Immigrants' Rights, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California rejected a request for a new trial in the Flores v. City of Westminster case earlier this week. The Court's decision upholds the jury's verdict finding that Westminster...
Jul 23, 2014 | Court Cases Immigrants' Rights, News Releases
AUSTIN, TX – A complaint filed today with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development challenges a resolution passed by League City, Texas, that denies housing to child refugees in their city. The complaint is the first action of its kind since...
Jul 16, 2014 | Court Cases Education, News Releases
AUSTIN, TX – Today, in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, the federal Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the University of Texas at Austin's holistic admissions plan, affirming the university's ability to consider the race of an applicant as one of many...
