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8 Sep 2022, 7:27 am by Rick Hasen
I’m thrilled to welcome two new Advisory Board members to the Safeguarding Democracy Project at UCLA Law: Nina Perales is Vice President of Litigation at MALDEF Andrew Appel is Eugene Higgins Professor of Computer Science at Princeton. [read post]
10 Apr 2014, 9:47 am by Matthew L.M. Fletcher
Laughlin McDonald, Nina Perales, James Tucker, Martin Aguilar [read post]
17 Mar 2011, 2:27 pm by Susan I. Nelson
You can download the Power Point presentation I made to the Waco League of Women Voters on March 15, 2011: Download Immigration_Waco LWV 2011 Fact and Fiction Thanks to Nina Perales for her outline. [read post]
11 Dec 2011, 7:37 pm by Rick Hasen
  No wonder Nina Perales finds the order of a stay and a hearing “very disturbing.” [read post]
28 Nov 2020, 10:53 am by Nina Perales
Nina Perales is vice president of litigation for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and counsel in La Union del Pueblo Entero v. [read post]
19 Jun 2007, 5:53 pm
"Around the nation, every judge who has reviewed these local anti-immigrant ordinances has put a stop to them," said Nina Perales, the regional counsel for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund who argued for the preliminary injunction. [read post]
27 Jan 2012, 11:43 am by Susan I. Nelson
   Professor Barbara Hines, co-director of the Law School’s Immigration Clinic, will moderate discussion by two nationally known attorneys who are involved in current challenges to state anti-immigrant statutes, Nina Perales, Director of Litigation at MALDEF, and Sam Brooke, staff attorney with the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Immigrant Justice Project. [read post]
Similarly, Attorney Nina Perales representing DACA recipients, argued that the executive has broad authority to execute and decide immigration laws. [read post]
23 Mar 2012, 8:08 am by Susan I. Nelson
Nina Perales, the vice president of litigation for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, who argued the case before the 5th Circuit in October, didn’t downplay the significance of the ruling, which she said came from one of the most conservative appellate courts in the country. [read post]
29 Aug 2012, 10:37 am by jleaming@acslaw.org
Nina Perales, vice president of litigation at the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund (MALDEF), told Ross, “For other states thinking of doing anything to dilute the [power] of their minority voters or their fast-growing minority populations, this not just a warning. [read post]
30 Jul 2012, 7:45 am by Rick Hasen
Nina Perales, Vice President of Litigation, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund Ms. [read post]
25 Apr 2011, 1:03 pm by Ezra Rosser
The highlight of this year’s symposium included a debate centered on S.B. 1070, Arizona’s controversial immigration law, between Nina Perales, the national director of litigation for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), and Heather MacDonald from the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. [read post]
23 Jul 2010, 7:54 am by Annie Lai, ACLU of Arizona
MALDEF attorney Nina Perales started off by refuting the government’s assertion that the plaintiffs did not have a right to sue by describing the particular harm that the new law would have on the diverse coalition of 14 organizations and 10 individuals in the case. [read post]
28 Jun 2022, 6:24 am by Rick Hasen
This was a great discussion where we talked a lot about Jan 6 and the risk of election subversion, along with questions about voting rights and redistricting. [read post]
5 Oct 2022, 4:30 am by Eric Segall
Lithwick writes the following about the march:Years later, when I told people that I felt bad for personally failing to take to the streets to protect the anti-racist counter protesters who stood up to white supremacists on August 12, I included the story about frantic calls to my big brother while I sobbed that there were Nazis parked on my sleepy residential street, and how I should have been out there slashing tires and punching fascists.The rest of the book tells the stories of remarkable women… [read post]
8 Dec 2015, 2:10 pm by Joseph Fishkin
 Writing for himself at the fulcrum of a divided court, aided by some expert lawyering by Nina Perales of MALDEF, Justice Kennedy saw that it was wrong—and held that it was a violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act—to deliberately pair the white areas of the district that had relatively high numbers of actual voters with a distant Latino area that had relatively low numbers of actual voters. [read post]