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The Atlantic features Operation Clean Halls
Operation Clean Halls program targets Latino and black New Yorkers
A three-judge panel has approved a new Congressional redistricting map for New York State that closely mirrors a plan created by a coalition of groups representing minority voters in New York.
The next generation of civil rights and human rights activists was forged on the road from Selma to Montgomery during the march.
The new Senate redistricting plan passed by the New York State Legislature grossly disenfranchises Latinos across the State and the proposed constitutional amendment fails to create any meaningful reform, according to lawyers at LatinoJustice PRLDEF. LatinoJustice PRLDEF is asking Governor Cuomo to veto both pieces of legislation.
Juan Cartagena talks about attending the oral arguments in two important appeals to the latest wave of state anti-immigrant laws.
Attorneys from LatinoJustice PRLDEF, the Southern Poverty Law Center, American Civil Liberties Union, the National Immigration Law Center and other civil rights groups will be at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit Thursday to present arguments against Alabama and Georgia’s anti-immigrant laws.
In a letter sent to Governor Andrew Cuomo late last week, LatinoJustice and the National Institute for Latino Policy called on the Governor to veto the legislative redistricting lines that were expected to come out this week.
This month, LatinoJustice PRLDEF begins a year-long celebration of 40 years of its commitment to Justice and Leadership
LatinoJustice PRLDEF and Outten & Golden LLP today filed papers on behalf of Latina workers against a Long Island commercial laundromat, alleging sexual harassment, discrimination, and retaliation.
Latinos in Pennsylvania have filed a lawsuit to prevent the state from using decades-old lines for redistricting, claiming the lines are unconstitutional, harm Latino voters and cause an inequality in opportunities for Latinos to elect representatives of their choice.
LatinoJustice PRLDEF proposed the "Unity Map," a joint effort with The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, the National Institute for Latino Policy, and the Center for Law and Social Justice at Medgar Evers College. The map redraws district lines to take into account New York City's Asian-American, Latino, and black populations.
During the very first week of the new year of 2012 came news of the loss of Robert Carter and Gordon Hirabayashi, two giants in this country’s civil rights movement and two beacons of light for the Latino community. They died only one day apart.
On January 18th, 2012, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Vartelas v. Holder, a case that raised the question of whether the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, which strips lawful permanent residents of the United States of the right to travel abroad briefly and be guaranteed reentry, can be applied retroactively to a green-card holder who pleaded guilty to an offense before 1996 and traveled abroad thereafter.
In an amicus filed in the case Magner v. Gallagher, LatinoJustice joined the Lawyers’ Committee For Civil Rights Under Law, the Leadership Conference for Civil and Human Rights, Equal Rights Center and several other national civil rights organizations in urging the Supreme Court to find that the Fair Housing Act is properly interpreted to authorize disparate impact claims.
