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Today, Peter Zamora, Washington, DC Regional Counsel for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) and Co-Chair of the Hispanic Education Coalition, testified before the House Education and Labor Committee, Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education Subcommittee on the Impact of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) on English Language Learners (ELLs).
The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) has filed a petition today before the Circuit Court for the County of St. Louis, State of Missouri, challenging a new version of the recently defeated anti-immigrant ordinances in Valley Park, Missouri. MALDEF filed the petition jointly with the American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri, the law firm of Green Jacobson & Butsch, P.C., the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Immigrants’ Rights Project.
The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) strongly supports a state judge’s decision to permanently block two anti-immigration ordinances in Valley Park, Missouri. Last year, a coalition of private lawyers, law schools and civil rights organizations, including MALDEF, filed suit against the City on behalf of a group of residents, business owners, and a fair housing agency claiming that the ordinances violated federal law and fair housing protections.
U.S. District Judge Lee Rosenthal granted final approval today to the settlement of discrimination claims asserted against Quietflex Manufacturing Company, L.P.. Under the terms of the settlement, the Company’s insurer will pay $2.8 million to 78 current and former Latino Company employees.
Today, the city of Farmers Branch filed a joint document in federal court with the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) and American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Texas (ACLU) in which the city agreed to not enforce its current ordinance.
Today, Judge Priddy of the 116th District Court in Dallas prohibited the City of Farmers Branch from enforcing Farmers Branch Ordinance 2892, which would require landlords in Farmers Branch to verify the citizenship or immigration status of every tenant living in a complex with three or more units or face a $500 fine per violation.
Early this morning, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) and the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Texas (ACLU) filed a request for a temporary restraining order blocking implementation of an anti-immigrant ordinance adopted by the Farmers Branch City Council on November 13, 2006. The ordinance is scheduled to go into effect on January 12.
Last night, the Farmers Branch City Council refused to rescind or suspend implementation of the anti-immigrant ordinance it adopted on November 13, 2006 despite the submission of a recall petition signed by Farmers Branch residents and the legal challenge filed by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) and the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Texas (ACLU).
The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) today recognizes the fifth anniversary of The No Child Left Behind Act, which was signed into law on January 8th, 2002.
oday, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Georgia (ACLU/GA), ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project, and attorneys from the law firms of Troutman Sanders LLP and Hernan, Taylor and Lee, LLC held a news conference to announce that they have secured a court order preventing Cherokee County from enforcing a new ordinance that would have penalized landlords who fail to verify the immigration status of new tenants.
In response to action taken last night by the Cherokee County Board of Commissioners to penalize landlords who fail to verify the immigration status of new tenants and to make English the county’s “official” language, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) conferred with local leaders to prepare for the next phase of the debate.
Yesterday, a federal judge ruled that the principal of Preston Hollow Elementary School in Dallas segregated minority students on the basis of their race in violation of the U.S. Constitution and ordered the principal to cease the segregation and pay punitive damages to injured students.
In response to action taken by the Farmers Branch City Council to pass an anti-immigrant housing ordinance aimed at penalizing landlords who fail to verify the immigration status of tenants, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) conferred with local leaders to prepare for the next phase of the debate.
A coalition of civil rights organizations and law firms announced a lawsuit they filed today against the City of Escondido, CA, on the grounds that the City’s anti-immigration ordinance is unconstitutional and illegal under federal and state law.
A coalition of civil rights organizations and law firms has filed an official letter with the City of Escondido demanding that they repeal an unconstitutional anti-immigrant ordinance. The coalition, composed of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Fair Housing Council of San Diego, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), and People For the American Way (PFAW), is taking action against an ordinance passed by the Escondido City Council on October 18 which would ban renting an apartment to, or otherwise “harboring” any person “not lawfully present” in the United States.
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court vacated an injunction ordered by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Gonzalez v. Arizona, the challenge to voting restrictions in Arizona. The Supreme Court's decision means that the November 7, 2006 election will go forward with onerous proof of identity requirements for voters at the polls and also that people who seek to register to vote will have to provide documentary proof of citizenship.
Yesterday, October 11, 2006, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) filed an amicus curiae (friend-of-the-court) brief in the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of 16 national and local Latino organizations.
Ayer, una Juez del Circuito del Condado de St. Louis, la Honorable Sandra Hemphill, concedió un mandato para detener la Ciudad de Valley Park, Missouri en imponer una nueva orden dirigida a inmigrantes del municipio local.
Yesterday, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), petitioned the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to review the denial of a preliminary injunction against the voting restrictions of Arizona’s Proposition 200.
Today, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), announced its strong opposition to the Escondido City Council’s proposed and discussed anti-immigrant ordinance. The proposal would penalize landlords for renting to undocumented immigrants and would make English the city’s official language.
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