MALDEF works to ensure that the Latino community enjoys ready access to a judicial system that provides meaningful redress to the denial of rights with respect to all basic human needs and services.
MALDEF works to ensure that the Latino community enjoys ready access to a judicial system that provides meaningful redress to the denial of rights with respect to all basic human needs and services.
Through legal action, MALDEF works to help enact laws and policies to ensure that the Latino community has equal access to the same rights and benefits available to everyone else in this society.
MALDEF is committed to seeing that the days of separate and unequal access are relegated to the past.
Voters around the nation face a critical mid-term election on November 6, 2018. There are numerous gubernatorial, senatorial, congressional, legislative, and local races for elected representatives on the ballot this fall....
Los Angeles, CA – Civil rights attorneys are asking state officials to investigate Kern County prosecutors in connection with the recent filing of misdemeanor charges against a county supervisor. MALDEF (Mexican American...
San Antonio, TX – A federal court has granted a request by MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) and TCRP (Texas Civil Rights Project) to temporarily block a 2018 rule adopted by the Commissioners...
San Antonio, TX – Two civil rights groups asked a federal judge today to block an order adopted last month by Starr County, Texas banning political advocacy on county-owned property. MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense...
Separate and unequal access to medical care under Medi-Cal, the health insurance program for low-income Californians, violates the civil rights of 13.5 million enrollees, a majority of whom are Latino.
Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund