Jun 14, 2018 | News Releases, Voting Rights
LOS ANGELES – A federal appeals court panel ruled today that civil rights advocates can intervene in a lawsuit that seeks to overturn the City of Poway’s election system and challenges the constitutionality of the California Voting Rights Act of 2001 (CVRA). The...
Jun 8, 2018 | News Releases, Presidents Message
LOS ANGELES – Thomas A. Saenz, president and general counsel of MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund), issued the following statement regarding the 1943 Zoot Suit Riots and contemporary issues related to the demonization of Latino...
Jun 1, 2018 | Census, Court Cases Access to Justice, News Releases, Voting Rights
LOS ANGELES – The Trump administration’s eleventh-hour decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census violates the U.S. Constitution because it is racially discriminatory and could result in a severe undercount of minorities, according to a federal...
Jun 1, 2018 | News Releases, Voting Rights
LOS ANGELES – The City of Placentia, California is failing to comply with an agreement to draw a new council district map that ensures Latinos’ voting rights and risks legal action for breaching the settlement if it does not take immediate action, demand letters...
May 31, 2018 | Court Cases Immigrants' Rights, News Releases
Indianapolis, IN – A transgender man who is challenging an Indiana state law that bars immigrants from obtaining a change of legal name is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a federal trial court’s decision to dismiss his case, according to a petition for...
