SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A federal judge has ruled that a lawsuit filed by two Latino supermarket workers who allege that they were harassed by their supervisors with taunts about then-candidate Donald Trump’s views on immigration...
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 current national crisis sparked by the murder of...
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 MoreLOS ANGELES – The U.S. Supreme Court today refused to consider a challenge to the California Voting Rights Act (CVRA). The High Court’s denial of certiorari brings an end to a federal lawsuit filed by the Project on Fair...
Read More(LOS ANGELES ) – On January 30, 2019, Russell Aguilar, represented by MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) filed an employment discrimination lawsuit against the Housing Authority for the County of...
Read More(INDIANAPOLIS) – 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...
Read MoreNEW YORK – A New York bank unlawfully denied a Harvard graduate who is authorized to work in the United States a job because of her immigration status, according to a federal lawsuit filed today. MALDEF (Mexican American Legal...
Read MoreLOS ANGELES – A split panel of a federal court of appeals erred when it upheld a ruling dismissing a lawsuit filed against a principal who threatened to call immigration officials on a parent, according to civil rights...
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...
Read MoreSANTA FE, NEW MEXICO – Civil rights attorneys are asking a judge to strike a request by New Mexico officials to end a landmark education case that requires the state to address longstanding deficiencies in the K-12 public...
Read More(LOS ANGELES) – Thomas A. Saenz, president and general counsel of MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) issued the following statement in response to Donald J. Trump’s order today imposing severe limits on...
Read MoreSAN ANTONIO, TX– A federal court on Friday allowed two San Antonio residents, who are seeking to block a for-profit company from opening a controversial detention center for migrant children, to intervene in a lawsuit. In...
Read MoreSAN ANTONIO, TX – Civil rights groups are suing the federal government seeking the release of medically vulnerable immigrants held at three Texas detention centers, according to a lawsuit filed today. MALDEF (Mexican American...
Read MoreLOS ANGELES – A national civil rights organization is asking the Huntington Beach City School District to reconsider efforts to shutter a school that serves the highest concentration of Latino and socioeconomically disadvantaged...
Read More(LOS ANGELES) – The U.S. Census Bureau plans to ask Congress to extend crucial 2020 Census deadlines because of the COVID-19 crisis. The bureau would end the collection of responses on October 31 and push the delivery of data...
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