Court Cases
Education
MALDEF APPEALS RULING ENDING REGULAR TUITION FOR UNDOCUMENTED KANSAS STUDENTS
MALDEF, THEDREAM.US, AND PRESIDENTS’ ALLIANCE REACT TO LATEST FOUR DOJ LAWSUITS AGAINST STATE TUITION EQUITY POLICIES
Washington, DC – Yesterday afternoon, the U.S. Department of Justice announced its latest lawsuits against states’ tuition equity policies for Dreamers, with new complaints against Arkansas, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, and Utah bringing the total to 25 such lawsuits filed in the past two years.
Employment
Immigrants’ Rights
MALDEF SUES HARBOR-UCLA MEDICAL CENTER AND LOS ANGELES COUNTY FOR DISCRIMINATORY TREATMENT AND PRIVACY VIOLATIONS OF IMMIGRANT PATIENT
LOS ANGELES — A Latino civil rights organization filed a lawsuit against Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles County, and the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services for violating the rights of an immigrant patient who was unlawfully detained by Harbor in cooperation with federal immigration agents after he was hospitalized with serious injuries.
SETTLEMENT REACHED WITH GEORGIA CREDIT UNION
Voting Rights
MALDEF CHALLENGES REDISTRICTING MAP IN CITY OF GREELEY, CO
SAN ANTONIO—A Latino civil rights organization is suing the City of Greeley, Colorado, and its officials over the City Council redistricting map because it violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and dilutes the representation of Latino residents, according to a lawsuit filed Monday in federal court.
MALDEF STATEMENT ON SUPREME COURT DECISION IN LOUISIANA V. CALLAIS
LOS ANGELES – The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled that Louisiana’s creation of a second majority-Black district to remedy discrimination in the state’s congressional map violates the U.S. Constitution in Louisiana v. Callais, a landmark case that dismantled long-standing protections for minority voters in redistricting.
Access to Justice
EIGHTEEN CHICAGO RESIDENTS BRUTALIZED BY FEDERAL AGENTS DURING A MILITARY-STYLE IMMIGRATION RAID FILE LEGAL CLAIMS SEEKING ACCOUNTABILITY AND JUSTICE
CHICAGO, IL – On Tuesday, a coalition of civil rights organizations submitted administrative complaints under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) on behalf of eighteen people who were unlawfully arrested and brutalized by federal agents during a military-style raid on their apartment building last fall during Operation Midway Blitz.
MALDEF TAKES STEP TOWARD CIVIL RIGHTS LAWSUIT ON BEHALF OF THREE U.S. CITIZEN SIBLINGS DETAINED BY ICE
BROWNSVILLE, TX — A Latino civil rights organization is taking a first step toward a civil lawsuit and asking the federal government to pay damages of $2.5 million each to three United States citizens who were allegedly assaulted, unlawfully arrested, and detained by...
Freedom from open and obvious bias and racism
MALDEF SUES HARBOR-UCLA MEDICAL CENTER AND LOS ANGELES COUNTY FOR DISCRIMINATORY TREATMENT AND PRIVACY VIOLATIONS OF IMMIGRANT PATIENT
LOS ANGELES — A Latino civil rights organization filed a lawsuit against Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles County, and the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services for violating the rights of an immigrant patient who was unlawfully detained by Harbor in cooperation with federal immigration agents after he was hospitalized with serious injuries.
EIGHTEEN CHICAGO RESIDENTS BRUTALIZED BY FEDERAL AGENTS DURING A MILITARY-STYLE IMMIGRATION RAID FILE LEGAL CLAIMS SEEKING ACCOUNTABILITY AND JUSTICE
CHICAGO, IL – On Tuesday, a coalition of civil rights organizations submitted administrative complaints under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) on behalf of eighteen people who were unlawfully arrested and brutalized by federal agents during a military-style raid on their apartment building last fall during Operation Midway Blitz.