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(Tucson, AZ) – A federal court of appeals should dismiss a request by Tucson education officials to end a decades-long desegregation case because the district failed to make that request in the lower court, according to a motion...
Read More(Greenbelt, MD) – A federal trial begins today in a lawsuit alleging that Trump administration officials and others intentionally conspired to deprive racial minorities of their constitutional rights by adding a citizenship...
Read MoreGreenbelt, MD – A federal trial will begin Tuesday in a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 Census. The lawsuit, filed by MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and...
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 today’s federal court ruling vacating the...
Read MoreLos Angeles, CA – Please attribute the following statement on Donald Trump’s fear-mongering speech in response to an imaginary “crisis” at the southern border to Thomas A. Saenz, president and general counsel of MALDEF (Mexican...
Read MoreLos Angeles, CA – Please attribute the following statement on the partial shutdown of the federal government resulting from Donald Trump’s petulant demand for an unnecessary wall along the southern border to Thomas A....
Read MoreWashington, D.C. – A federal court today rejected the Trump Administration’s request to dismiss a lawsuit filed by civil rights organizations that challenges the addition of a citizenship question to Census 2020 on the...
Read MoreMontgomery, AL – Latino voters and a grassroots organization will be allowed to intervene as defendants in a lawsuit filed by the State of Alabama that seeks to exclude undocumented immigrants from the 2020 Census count of...
Read MoreWashington, D.C. – MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) announced the appointment today of Andrea Senteno as Regional Counsel for its Washington, D.C. office. In her new role, Senteno will oversee...
Read MoreLos Angeles, CA – MALDEF is pleased to announce the recipients in its 2017-2018 Law School Scholarship Program. Since MALDEF’s founding, the civil rights organization has awarded scholarships to law students who will...
Read MoreLos Angeles, CA – Thomas A. Saenz, president and general counsel of MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund), issued the following statement today in response to a lawsuit filed by the Texas Attorney...
Read MoreAs MALDEF commemorates its 50th anniversary we thank you for your support past and present. Your contribution helps us protect the right to vote; to challenge the addition of a citizenship question to Census 2020; to remind...
Read MoreLos Angeles, CA – On May 3, 2018, MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) filed a lawsuit, on behalf of an individual job applicant work-authorized through DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood...
Read MoreLos Angeles, CA – Antonio Gonzalez, president of the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project (SVREP) and the William C. Velasquez Institute (WCVI), died on November 11 after battling cancer. As the head of both...
Read MoreLos Angeles, CA – MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund), the nation’s leading Latino legal civil rights organization, marked its 50th anniversary last night at its 2018 Los Angeles Gala, which...
Read MoreLos Angeles, CA – Please attribute the following statement on the resignation of U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions to Thomas A. Saenz, president and general counsel of MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and...
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