Enraquita Lopez, M.D., sued the Medical Board of California for disciplining her for using the “fictitious” name Quita — the name she goes by — instead of her full name, a practice she says is no different from a doctor named Robert calling himself Bob, in Fresno County Court.
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In Joe Biden’s pursuit of the Democratic presidential nomination, he’s run repeatedly into a wall in the West, where Bernie Sanders’ strength among Latinos propelled his campaign even as he struggled with other groups.
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An accent mark of the official seal of the capital city of the nation’s most Hispanic state is in the wrong spot.
Read moreA day out from the critical Super Tuesday contest, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren rallied supporters in Los Angeles around labor and immigrant rights and hailed her campaign as progressive voters’ best chance to take back the White House.
Read moreSix employees sued The Home Depot for harassment and discrimination, claiming they were told repeatedly not to speak Spanish at work, in Monmouth County, N.J. Superior Court.
Read moreA federal court in New York ruled that a Mexican immigrant may pursue his false arrest and Equal Protection claims against police officers who arrested him during a traffic stop. The immigrant was a passenger in the stopped vehicle, and at the time of the arrest, none of the officers had any evidence of the plaintiff’s immigration status, they only knew that he primarily spoke Spanish and “appeared Hispanic.”
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Most Hispanic voters in Nevada are ready to boot President Donald Trump out of the White House and are throwing the bulk of their support behind former Vice President Joe Biden and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, according to a new poll.
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An attorney representing the League of United Latin American Citizens told a panel of three Fifth Circuit judges Thursday the “winner-take-all” electoral voting method used in Texas and 47 other states across the U.S. negates votes cast by minority voters.
Read moreVice President Mike Pence rallied a Florida church full of potential Latino voters on Thursday evening by appealing to their faith and announcing a disaster declaration for Puerto Rico.
Read moreDemocratic presidential candidates descended on Nevada on Saturday in an attempt to build relationships with Latino voters and win the coveted endorsement of the powerful casino workers’ Culinary Union.
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Partisan frustrations over the 2020 census flared Thursday on Capitol Hill as House Democrats consulted experts on how to reach hard-to-count communities when the once-in-a-decade tally gets underway.
Read moreFlanked by her former Democratic rival Julian Castro, Elizabeth Warren rallied supporters in Brooklyn Tuesday with her standard stump speech, calling for an end to financial corruption and a better life for America’s working families.
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Elizabeth Warren’s presidential bid got a boost Monday from one of the top Latinos in the Democratic Party, as Julian Castro threw his weight behind the Massachusetts senator days after ending his own 2020 campaign.
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An Iowa woman who told police she intentionally ran over a teenager because she believed the girl was Mexican has been charged with another hit-and-run crash that hurt a 12-year-old boy.
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Joe Biden’s presidential bid got a boost Monday from one of the leading Latinos in Congress, with the chairman of the Hispanic Caucus’ political arm endorsing the former vice president as Democrats’ best hope to defeat President Donald Trump.
Read moreEdward Espinal, 44, of Wayne, N.J., defrauded Latino investors of at least $5 million through his company, Cash Flow Partners, the SEC claims in federal court.
Read moreA former deputy public defender claims in superior court that his supervisor at the Maricopa County (Ariz.) Public Defender’s Office, et al., fired him after he objected to underrepresentation of Latinos in county jury pools.
Read moreThe Center For Popular Democracy Action and the City of Newburgh, NY sued the Census Bureau and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in federal court, claiming their 2020 Census plans sharply reduce resources for counting black, Latino and other communities that the Census Bureau calls “hard to count.”
Read moreA Latino man’s claims relating to his detention by Customs and Border Protection officers at a bus station may continue, a federal court in Washington ruled. The government may be liable under the state’s anti-discrimination law because the acts of the officers caused the man to be “treated as not welcome, accepted, desired, or solicited” based on his race.
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