General News

• Hate Crime: Gay Puerto Rican Teen George Steven Lopez Mercado Brutally Killed
  
  
• Hotel owner tells Hispanic workers to change names
  
  
• Yoo Tenure Questioned Over Bush Torture Policy
  
  
• First Latino ABA president-elect
  
  
• President Obama nominates University of New Mexico Law School Professor Gloria Valencia-Weber to Board of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation
  
  
• New York State Senator Olga Méndez Dies at 84
  
  
• Puerto Rican Nationalism and Statehood
  
  
• CNN Investigation of Separate and Unequal Hospital Treatment
  
  
• Thomas A. Saenz, Counsel to Los Angeles Mayor, Named MALDEF President and General Counsel
  
  
• US Supreme Court decision involving the education of English Language Learners; MALDEF amicus brief
  
  
• Ask About Latino Politics in New York (NY Times)
  
  
• Federal Lawsuit Filed on Same Sex Marriage (PDF)
  
  
• NY Times letter by Professor Calvo on family reunification
  
  
• Healthcare Firm Accused of Punishing Spanish-Speakers Settles Suit , LA Times; Healthcare firm accused of punishing Spanish-speakers settles suit and agrees to pay up to $450,000 after allegedly enforcing an English-only policy against Latinos at California and Texas facilities.
  
  
• Puerto Rico plans to slash 30,000 government jobs , Reuters
  
  
• Target of Immigrant Raids Shifted by Nina Bernstein, The New York Times, February 4, 2009
  
  
• Latino Justice PRLDEF submits complaint to Department of Justice alleging discrimination by Suffolk County in New York.
  View the complaint (PDF) »