Greenbelt, MD – Civil rights groups are expanding an ongoing 2019 federal lawsuit to include claims against the Trump administration’s unprecedented attempt to cut short the 2020 Census and to exclude some individuals from the...
Read MoreLOS ANGELES – A federal judge in Maryland has denied the Trump administration’s motion to dismiss a constitutional challenge to a provision of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) that discriminates...
Read MoreMay, 21, 2018: The State of Alabama and Congressman Mo Brooks file a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Commerce, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, the U.S. Census Bureau, and then-acting Census Bureau Director Ron...
Read MoreLOS ANGELES – Thomas A. Saenz, president and general counsel of MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) issued the following statement in response to the Trump administration’s new memo that seeks to...
Read MoreLegal name change is now available to non-citizens and transgender people in Indiana INDIANAPOLIS, IN — A Court of Appeals of Indiana has taken the final step in the process and certified a decision that a state name-change law...
Read MoreREDWOOD CITY, CA – A national bank unlawfully denied student loans and related services to non-citizens and non-permanent residents based solely on their immigration status, according to a lawsuit filed today. MALDEF (Mexican...
Read MoreLOS ANGELES, CA – Thomas A. Saenz, president and general counsel of MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) issued the following statement in response to Donald Trump’s memorandum to the Secretary of...
Read MoreLAFAYETTE, La. – Civil rights attorneys are asking a federal court to release a medically vulnerable immigrant detained at a Louisiana immigration detention where several detainees have tested positive for COVID-19. MALDEF...
Read MoreLOS ANGELES – The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday rejected the Trump administration’s reasons for rescinding Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA), ruling 5-4 in Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University...
Read MoreSAN FRANCISCO – Wells Fargo Bank will pay up to $19.6 million and change its lending policies as part of settling two class-action lawsuits brought by Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients whose applications...
Read MoreLOS ANGELES – This week voters in Iowa’s 4th District chose to oust Steve King as their representative to Congress. King has a long history of embracing racist and nativist views. Please attribute the following statement on...
Read MoreSAN ANTONIO, TX – A church group that sued the City of San Antonio after it was denied a permit that would have allowed it to lease some of its land to a controversial for-profit detention company abruptly ended the lawsuit....
Read MoreIn 2019, VisionQuest, a for-profit private company that operates child detention facilities in several states, applies to open and operate immigrant detention centers for migrant children in Universal City, San Antonio and Waco,...
Read MoreINDIANAPOLIS – Indiana Legal Services, Inc (ILSI), MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund), the Law Office of Barbara J. Baird, and the Transgender Law Center (TLC) won an important victory on behalf of two...
Read MoreSAN ANTONIO, TX – Civil rights attorneys are suing the federal government seeking the release of a medically vulnerable immigrant who was temporarily hospitalized and then returned to a Texas detention center where there are...
Read MoreGREENBELT, Md. – The federal government’s denial of COVID-19 relief payments to U.S. citizens married to immigrants who do not have a social security number is unconstitutional, according to a class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday...
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