Jun 28, 2007 | Court Cases Education
In a troubling and potentially short-sighted June 2007 decision, the United States Supreme Court held that school systems violated the Equal Protection clause when they considered race in assigning students to public schools to achieve desegregation. At issue in the...
May 16, 2007 | Court Cases Employment
In March 2007, MALDEF joined a class action lawsuit seeking to recover millions of dollars in wages owed to construction workers under California wage and hour laws. The claims for unpaid wages could affect over a thousand workers throughout California who work for...
May 11, 2007 | Court Cases Education, News Releases
TUCSON, AZ – A local federal district court this week denied a petition by the Tucson Unified School District that would have had an adverse effect on ongoing efforts to reduce segregation in the district. On behalf of Latino parents and students in Tucson public...
Mar 23, 2007 | Public Policy, Public Policy Education
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) is among our nation’s most critical federal civil rights measures. NCLB was signed into law on January 8, 2002 and reauthorized a number of federal programs aimed at improving the performance of U.S. primary and secondary...
Mar 13, 2007 | Court Cases Employment, Court Cases Immigrants' Rights
In July 2006, the City of Valley Park, Missouri enacted two anti-immigrant ordinances penalizing businesses and landlords for hiring or renting to undocumented persons. MALDEF and a coalition of attorneys successfully challenged the original ordinances and amended...
