LITIGATION
Centro Legal de la Raza’s Litigation team works with all our legal programs to represent low-income and immigrant workers, tenants, and other clients and communities in affirmative and impact lawsuits to protect their rights and improve conditions more broadly. Often, litigation in state and federal courts is the only way our clients can protect their rights and communities. Centro Legal also co-counsels these cases with other highly respected nonprofit organizations, local government, and law firm partners.
These cases include national class action lawsuits in federal district court and before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on behalf of immigrant detainees, facing unlawful detention and oppressive bond practices. We also represent thousands of tenants and workers in state and federal lawsuits and class actions against unethical employers and landlords for:
Wage theft
Unethical employers and landlords
Harassment
Substandard conditions
Discrimination
Retaliation
Illegal lockouts
Other violations of worker and tenants rights
Since 2016, Centro Legal’s cases have ranged from the successful representation of undocumented, single-mother janitorial workers sexually assaulted by their supervisor, to a multi-million dollar settlement for over 115 tenants and their children facing mold-induced asthma, lead poisoning, bedbug and rodent bites, and other tragic consequences of substandard conditions at their apartment complex.
If you are interested in learning more about or supporting our litigation work, please contact Litigation Director Jesse Newmark at jessenewmark@centrolegal.org. If you are a client in need of assistance on a legal matter, please contact our Immigrants’, Tenants’ Rights, or Workers’ Rights Programs directly.
SINCE 2015
These significant recoveries have a far broader impact as our clients reinvest in their families and communities. They also serve as compelling reminders to employers, landlords, and government agencies of the consequences of failing to treat immigrants, workers and tenants fairly and comply with the law.