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Church That Sought to Build Detention Center for Migrant Children Drops Suit

May 29, 2020 | Court Cases Immigrants' Rights, News Releases

SAN 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.

U.S. SUPREME COURT REJECTS APPEAL CHALLENGING CALIFORNIA VOTING RIGHTS ACT

May 26, 2020 | News Releases, Voting Rights

LOS ANGELES – The U.S. Supreme Court today refused to consider a challenge to the California Voting Rights Act (CVRA).

MALDEF AND MARIN HOUSING AUTHORITY REACH CONFIDENTIAL RESOLUTION OF EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION LAWSUIT

May 20, 2020 | Court Cases Employment, News Releases

(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 Marin. The suit alleged that Aguilar experienced discriminatory working conditions and termination.

INDIANA APPELLATE COURT RULES U.S. CITIZENSHIP IS NOT REQUIRED FOR LEGAL NAME CHANGE

May 20, 2020 | Court Cases Immigrants' Rights, News Releases

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 two transgender immigrant clients who had been seeking legal name changes.

MALDEF FILES DACA EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION SUIT AGAINST NEW YORK BANK

May 12, 2020 | Court Cases Employment, Court Cases Immigrants' Rights, DACA, News Releases

NEW 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 SEEKS EN BANC REVIEW OF RULING IN LAWSUIT AGAINST SCHOOL OFFICIAL WHO THREATENED TO CALL ICE ON PARENT

May 12, 2020 | Court Cases Education, News Releases

LOS 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 attorneys.

CIVIL RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS CALL FOR DEFEAT OF CORY WILSON’S NOMINATION TO FIFTH CIRCUIT

May 5, 2020 | News Releases

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – National and state civil rights organizations today announced their vehement opposition to Senate confirmation of Cory Wilson to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Last week, the Senate announced it would move Donald Trump’s judicial nominations although millions of Americans are suffering from coronavirus and its impact.

CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEYS SUE ICE ON BEHALF OF IMMIGRANT AT HIGH RISK FOR COVID-19

Apr 30, 2020 | Court Cases Immigrants' Rights, News Releases

SAN 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 five confirmed cases of COVID-19 among detainees.

Maldef Sues Federal Government Over Denial Of COVID-19 Relief To Mixed-status Married Couples

Apr 28, 2020 | Court Cases Immigrants' Rights, News Releases

GREENBELT, 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 in a Maryland federal court.

MALDEF ASKS JUDGE TO STRIKE IMPROPER NEW MEXICO REQUEST FOR DISMISSAL OF LANDMARK EDUCATION CASE

Apr 27, 2020 | Court Cases Education, News Releases

SANTA 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 education system.

MALDEF STATEMENT CONDEMNING TRUMP’S IMMIGRATION PROCLAMATION

Apr 23, 2020 | News Releases, Public Policy, Public Policy Immigrants' Rights

(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 immigration to the United States, with few exceptions:

FEDERAL JUDGE GRANTS MALDEF REQUEST TO ENTER LAWSUIT OVER CONTROVERSIAL DETENTION CENTER FOR MIGRANT CHILDREN

Apr 18, 2020 | Court Cases Immigrants' Rights, News Releases

SAN 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.

CIVIL RIGHTS GROUPS SUE ICE ON BEHALF OF DETAINED IMMIGRANTS AT HIGH RISK FOR COVID 19

Apr 15, 2020 | Court Cases Immigrants' Rights, News Releases

SAN 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 REQUESTS HUNTINGTON BEACH SCHOOL DISTRICT TO RECONSIDER CLOSING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Apr 15, 2020 | Court Cases Education, News Releases

LOS 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 students in that district.

MALDEF STATEMENT ON THE EXTENSION OF THE 2020 CENSUS DURING COVID-19

Apr 14, 2020 | Census, News Releases

(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 used for apportionment to April 2021.

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