Jun 11, 2014 | Court Cases Education, News Releases
COLUMBIA, SC – Today, MALDEF filed Rocha Herrera v. Finan in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina Spartanburg Division, against the board members of the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education, asserting that they violate the...
Jun 11, 2014 | Court Cases Education, News Releases
SAN ANTONIO, TX – Today, MALDEF and the Multicultural Education, Training and Advocacy, Inc. (META), filed federal court papers on behalf of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), seeking to require that the Texas Education Agency (TEA) and two...
Jun 5, 2014 | News Releases, Voting Rights
LOS ANGELES, CA – Judge James Rigali of the California Superior Court for the County of Santa Barbara has scheduled a June 17, 2014 hearing in Putney v. Garietz. Putney is a case in which MALDEF seeks to compel the Clerk of City of Santa Maria to accept a...
May 21, 2014 | News Releases, Voting Rights
DENVER, CO – The United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has granted MALDEF's request for a stay of a recent court order that disrupts the national system of registering voters in federal elections. In March, a federal district court in Kansas...
May 7, 2014 | News Releases, Public Policy, Public Policy Immigrants' Rights
LOS ANGELES, CA – MALDEF, together with the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda (NHLA) and the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON), today released a report that assesses the unprecedented deportation rate of the last six-years, the devastating impact...
