A formal grievance letter filed with court officials Thursday takes aim at a lawyer identified in a viral video where a white man threatens New York City restaurant workers with deportation.
Read moreKern County at the southern end of California’s great Central Valley will implement new voting districts and pay plaintiff $3 million in legal fees after disenfranchising Latino voters for nearly a decade.
Read moreA federal judge who blocked the rollback of former President Barack Obama’s signature immigration program chided the government Thursday for what he described as a remarkable attempt to exclude consideration of President Donald Trump’s comments on the case.
Read moreImmigration agents arrested a native-born Latina citizen of the United States though she showed ID proving her citizenship and she was not suspected of committing a crime, then drove her 55 miles across a state line and after jailing her for hours put her on the street at night with no money and no way to get home, she claims in a federal complaint.
Read moreIn a rare challenge of a California voting district, a federal judge sided with residents that Kern County “dilutes” Latino voters’ influence through discriminatory district lines drawn in 2011.
Read moreThere are only two Latinos out of 18 judges on Texas’ highest courts, and a federal trial that started Monday will examine voters’ claims that the state’s electoral system for these courts dilutes the Latino vote.
Read moreA year into the Trump administration, the White House website still has no Spanish-language content, unlike during the two previous administrations and even though nearly 1 in 5 people in the United States speaks Spanish.
Read moreA federal judge called out President Donald Trump’s “recurring, redundant drumbeat of anti-Latino commentary” on Tuesday at a hearing on the immigration program his administration abruptly terminated.
Read moreA federal judge tossed a highly publicized lawsuit against the San Diego Police Department over the shooting death of an unarmed homeless man.
Read moreCalifornia on Tuesday accused two dozen people and several businesses of operating unlicensed rehabilitation clinics that use dangerous methods to treat Spanish-speaking people — and may have contributed to the deaths of as many as 45 of them.
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The Second Circuit was divided 2-1 Tuesday in striking down a municipal ban against roadside job in the small Long Island town of Oyster Bay.
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Medi-Cal recipients and a major union sued California’s top health care officials in a class action Wednesday, accusing them of steadily cutting spending on the state’s health insurance program as the number of Latino Medi-Cal enrollees surged in the past two decades.
Read moreA Cuban-born baseball umpire claims in a federal discrimination lawsuit that Major League Baseball routinely denies promotions to Latino umpires under its chief baseball officer, who is accused of holding a grudge since his days as manager of the Yankees.
Read moreEscalating the immigration-policy debate on Capitol Hill, Trump administration officials called for the Senate’s help Wednesday in fighting a Latin drug gang, the MS-13.
Read moreDisgruntled voters have not done enough to prove that a redistricting plan in California’s Kern County discriminates against Latinos, a federal judge ruled.
Read moreLos Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck said Tuesday that an analysis of emergency call data revealed a decrease in 911 calls from two predominantly Hispanic areas of the city, bolstering concerns that undocumented immigrants are wary of contacting police out of fear of deportation.
Read moreAfter opposing the now-passed multimillion dollar transportation bill, California Assemblyman Rudy Salas has achieved what few Democrats representing rural areas can claim: support from his Republican constituents.
Read moreA Miami father claims in court that the Latin television network Telemundo aired an interview with his runaway daughter in which he was falsely accused of sexually and otherwise abusing her.
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