May 10, 2012 | Court Cases Immigrants' Rights, News Releases
SAN ANTONIO, TX – Today, MALDEF lauded a decision by Senior U.S District Judge, Frank Zapata, denying Arizona vigilante Roger Barnett’s latest attempt to avoid paying punitive damages to a group of immigrants he attacked in 2004. The group included an unarmed Latina...
May 3, 2012 | Court Cases Employment, News Releases
Restaurant Wrongfully Terminated Latino District Manager Based on Health Status Virginia Beach, VA – Today, MALDEF filed a lawsuit in federal court against the Burger King Corporation for violating Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) by...
Apr 24, 2012 | News Releases
Sheriff Inexplicably Continues to Conceal Information More than 40 Years After Event LOS ANGELES, CA – Today MALDEF filed a petition for writ of mandate to compel Sheriff Lee Baca to release public records relating to the death of Ruben Salazar. Sheriff Baca has...
Apr 17, 2012 | News Releases, Voting Rights
En banc court rejects Arizona's attempt to force new citizens to register twice and all citizens to show extra paperwork San Antonio, TX – Today, MALDEF welcomed the Ninth Circuit's en banc ruling in Gonzalez v. State of Arizona, striking down critical provisions of...
Apr 11, 2012 | Court Cases Employment, News Releases
Class Action to Recover Wages for Employees Forced to Work “Off-the-Clock” Los Angeles, CA – Today, MALDEF filed suit against one of the largest Central Valley grape growers, Castlerock Farming and Transport, Inc., and many of its farm labor contractors,...
