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January 23, 2012

PR: Supreme Court Decision on Texas Case Could Hurt Latino Voters – Hispanic National Bar Association :: Tagged Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA), redistricting, voting rights

January 19, 2012

newstaco: The Latino Voting Rights Saga: It’s Complicated – Victor Landa from newstaco.com :: Tagged Victor Landa, voting rights

January 12, 2012

newstaco: Texas’ Redistricting Case Is About Undoing The Voting Rights Act from newstaco.com :: Tagged redistricting, voting rights

January 10, 2012

opednews: Chairman of Nation’s Largest Latino Legislative Caucus, Lead Counsel Jose Garza Urge SCOTUS to Ensure Minority Voting Rights from opednews.com :: Tagged voting rights

January 9, 2012

blog.latinovations: Gus K. West “Guarding Latino Voting Rights – Rally for Fair Texas Re-Districting” from blog.latinovations.com :: Tagged rally, voting rights

January 6, 2012

caller: Hispanic voting rights advocates support Corpus Christi, Del Mar redistricting maps – Texas from caller.com :: Tagged Corpus Christi, redistricting, voting rights

December 7, 2011

guardian.co.uk: US voting rights: will black and Hispanic voters lose theirs? State by state details – the data from guardian.co.uk :: Tagged hispanic voters, NAACP, racial issues, voting rights

November 23, 2011

Court-Released Map Promises Important MALDEF Victory for Latinos in Texas :: Tagged judge, MALDEF, redistricting, Texas, voter, voters, voting rights

August 31, 2010

The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area (Lawyers’ Committee), along with Reed Smith LLP, filed a lawsuit on behalf of Latino voters against the City of Tulare, charging that the City’s at-large system that governs the selection of its City Council members is plagued by racially polarized voting and violates the California Voting Rights Act (CVRA). from lawprofessors.typepad.com :: Tagged California, lawsuit, voters, voting rights

December 15, 2009

Latinos pledge opposition to proposed voter ID law – California from sbsun.com :: Tagged California, voting rights

December 14, 2009

Never one to wait for change, Manuel Benavidez ready to take on Irving school district in voting rights case – Texas from dallasnews.com :: Tagged Dallas, Irving, Texas, voting rights

October 9, 2009

LULAC Opposes Vitter-Bennett Amendment: Call Your Senator Today! :: Tagged Census, civil rights, LULAC, voting rights

August 13, 2009

The Mexican Legal Defense and Educaiton Fund is denouncing Georgia’s appeal of the Justice Department’s rejection of a voter check plan. from accessnorthga.com :: Tagged Georgia, justice department, MALDEF, voting rights

June 23, 2009

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court let stand a key provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. At stake was Section 5 of the Act, which requires a number of states and many local governments, mostly in the South, to seek federal permission before changing their voting procedures. from news.newamericamedia.org :: Tagged government, voting rights

April 29, 2009

Supreme Court Hears Voting Rights Act Challenge – ACLU Represents Individual Affected By Oversight Provision – outcome of the case will have enormous implications for minority voters :: Tagged ACLU, voting rights

March 10, 2009

By a slim 5-4 decision the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to limit minority voting provisions under the Voting Rights Act. from ourlatinamerica.blogspot.com :: Tagged voting rights

November 5, 2008

A federal court judge has dismissed a voting rights lawsuit against Farmers Branch in which three Hispanic residents sought to force the city to move from at-large voting for the City Council to single-member districts. from dallasnews.com :: Tagged Farmers Branch, judge, Texas, voting rights

July 15, 2008

More Latinos Going To Georgia’s Polls – 60,000 Hispanic voters from 11alive.com :: Tagged Georgia, Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials (GALEO), hispanic voters, voting rights

July 13, 2008

Studies find Irving’s at-large City Council system hurts Hispanic voters – Texas from dallasnews.com :: Tagged hispanic voters, Texas, voting rights

July 9, 2008

A Lesson From the ’04 Election in Ohio: How Latinos Were Disenfranchised from alternet.org :: Tagged Ohio, voting rights

June 9, 2008

Settlement in Latino voting case will set Modesto back $3 million – California from modbee.com :: Tagged attorney, California, modesto, voting rights

May 29, 2008

Clinton: No Vote for Puerto Rican Vets “An Injustice and an Insult” – From The Road from cbsnews.com :: Tagged blog, Hillary Clinton, Puerto Rican, Puerto Rico, voting rights

May 22, 2008

The Texas Democratic Party says its presidential delegate-awarding system is not subject to the federal Voting Rights Act, which protects minority voters. from theeagle.com :: Tagged attorney, latin america, Texas, voting rights

November 20, 2007

Republicans and Race from :: Tagged voting rights

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