PHOENIX, AZ – MALDEF and a coalition of civil rights groups filed a class action lawsuit today in a federal court in Phoenix challenging Arizona’s new law requiring police to demand “papers” from people they stop who they suspect are not authorized to be in the U.S. The extreme law, the coalition charged, invites the racial profiling of people of color, violates the First Amendment and interferes with federal law.
News Releases
MALDEF Files Class Action Suit Against Ottawa County For Refusing Michigan Latino Couple The Fundamental Right To Marry
MALDEF to Arizona: New ‘Fix,’ Amounts to Nothing More Than a Cynical Manipulation of the Legislative Process
MALDEF, ACLU, NILC Announce Future Legal Challenge to Arizona Racial Profiling Law, Seek to Allay Fears in Latino Community
MALDEF Condemns AZ Governor Brewer for Signing Unconstitutional Anti-Immigrant Bill
PHILANTHROPIC INNOVATOR TO LEAD MALDEF’S DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY
MALDEF Calls On AZ Governor To Veto Most Anti-Immigrant Piece of Legislation in the U.S.
MALDEF Questions Timing and Consequences of Federal Raids Today in Arizona
MALDEF Recognizes Justice Stevens’ Contributions; Looks Forward to Successor Who Will Uphold Legacy
MALDEF Selects Prominent Civil Rights Attorney to Lead Its Washington, D.C. Regional Office
MALDEF and ACLU Win Permanent Injunction of Third Farmers Branch Anti-Immigrant Ordinance
Fifth Circuit Remands English Language Learner Case to Determine Cause of “Alarming” Failure Rate of Students
MALDEF Reluctantly But Emphatically Urges Passage of Healthcare Reform Legislation
MALDEF and Voto Latino Build Momentum for 2010 Census
Costa Mesa Halts Enforcement of Anti-Solicitation Ordinance After Civil Rights Groups Sue
LOS ANGELES, CA – The city of Costa Mesa today halted enforcement of its anti-solicitation ordinance in response to a lawsuit brought by MALDEF, The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California and the National Day Laborer Organizing Network. The suit was brought on behalf of day laborers represented by the Asociacion de Jornaleros de Costa Mesa and the Colectivo Tonantzin.