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PHOENIX – Attorneys for MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) will be in federal court on Friday, July 19, 2019, in support of a joint motion for preliminary approval of a settlement in a class-action...
Read MoreGREENBELT, Md. – A federal judge in Maryland today issued an order permanently barring the Trump administration from placing a citizenship question on the 2020 Census in any form. U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel’s order...
Read MoreLOS ANGELES – Donald J. Trump conceded today that his administration will no longer pursue a legal fight to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census. The president’s statement comes in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s...
Read MoreLOS ANGELES – Donald J. Trump announced this morning on Twitter that he will be making a statement about the administration’s continuing attempt to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census. The administration cannot...
Read MoreLOS ANGELES – The Trump administration this week told a federal judge in Maryland that it would continue fighting to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census relying on a new set of government attorneys. The decision...
Read MoreLOS ANGELES – U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel today adopted a scheduling order allowing discovery to begin immediately in the racial intent claims brought by MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) in...
Read MoreLOS ANGELES – A federal judge in Maryland held a telephonic conference today following the president’s tweet that is at odds with the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling and the federal government’s own statement to the court indicating...
Read MoreWASHINGTON D.C. – U.S. District Court Judge George J. Hazel in Maryland asked the U.S. Department of Commerce this evening to confirm that it has given up its fight to include a citizenship question on the 2020 Census. The...
Read MoreLOS ANGELES – The U.S. Supreme Court today required the Trump administration to go back and provide an adequate public justification for adding a citizenship question to Census 2020. The ruling calls into serious doubt whether...
Read MoreLOS ANGELES – The U.S. Department of Justice today sent a letter to the U.S. Supreme Court asking the justices to rule on the Equal Protection claim currently before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth District and a...
Read MoreLOS ANGELES – A federal judge in Maryland will determine whether newly discovered evidence indicates unconstitutional discriminatory intent was behind the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 Census after an appellate...
Read MoreLOS ANGELES – The Alameda County Superior Court has ruled that a major civil rights lawsuitover inadequate access to health care for 13 million Medi-Cal participants may proceed, despite a two-year fight by the State of...
Read MoreLOS ANGELES – A federal court in Maryland today issued its opinion explaining its previously-issued response to a request by MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) to reconsider whether the Trump...
Read MoreLOS ANGELES – MALDEF sent a letter to the Board of Directors of the Camarillo Health Care District (HCD) today warning that the district’s at-large system of electing its Board of Directors violates the California Voting Rights...
Read MoreWASHINGTON, D.C. – MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) issued the statements below in response to today’s ruling by U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel granting a plaintiffs’ motion to reconsider whether...
Read MoreLOS ANGELES – Thomas A. Saenz, president and general counsel of MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) issued the following statement today, marking the seventh anniversary of Deferred Action for Childhood...
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