MALDEF Files Lawsuit On Behalf Of Latino Car Wash Workers

PRESS RELEASE Los Angeles, CA – Today, on behalf of Latino car wash workers, MALDEF filed suit against the owners of three Santa Monica area car wash facilities—Santa Monica Car Wash […]

(Editor’s note: the following is a MALDEF Press Release) Today (4/23/12) MALDEF filed a petition for writ of mandate to compel Sheriff Lee Baca to release public records relating to […]

Today, MALDEF welcomed the Ninth Circuit’s en banc ruling in Gonzalez v. State of Arizona, striking down critical provisions of an Arizona law that restricted voter access. MALDEF had challenged the […]

The Mexican American Legal Dense and Education Fund has gone to the defense of a Latina who was fired for calling-out discriminatory practices at the New Mexico driver’s license bureau.  […]

What does it cost to teach English to an immigrant child in the United States? A state district court in Colorado may not have an exact amount, but it knows […]

All of the arguments in the federal law suit against the State of Texas’ redistricting scheme have been made. The Plaintiffs – The Mexican American Legislative Caucus (MALC); LULAC; MALDEF – have […]

Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis was in San Antonio recently and as a part of her visit she held a town hall-type conversation sponsored by the Mexican American Legal Defense […]

This is the week of the big showdown in a Texas courtroom. I don’t mean to breech the fuzzy limits of melodrama, but what happens in that federal courtroom could change the politics of […]

Some claim that the issue was used as a ploy to attract votes. The problem with this idea is that the accusation fits both sides of our tired political divide. It fits for Republicans accusing Democrats and vice-versa.