Grants Awarded
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2007- 2008 Poverty | Environmental Justice | Human & Civil Rights
2006- 2007 Poverty | Environmental Justice | Human & Civil Rights
2005- 2006 Poverty | Environmental Justice | Human & Civil Rights
2004- 2005 Poverty | Environmental Justice | Human & Civil Rights
2003- 2004 Poverty | Environmental Justice | Human & Civil Rights
2002- 2003 Poverty | Environmental Justice | Human & Civil Rights | Evelyn Frank Fund
2001- 2002 Poverty | Environmental Justice | Human & Civil Rights
Grants Awarded: July 1, 2007 - June 30, 2008
Total Amount Awarded this Fiscal Year to date $252,500
Poverty– Total given to-date $28,500
In Re Application of Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC for Approval of Save-A-Watt
Applicant: North Carolina Justice Center
Amount: $3,500
Challenge to proposed “energy efficiency” program that would disproportionably affect poor customers
Morales-Arcadio v. Shannon Product Farm, Inc.
Applicant: Georgia Legal Services Program, Inc.
Amount: $10,000
Wage claim on behalf of 80 farmworkers under H-2A guest worker program
Darensburg v. Metropolitan Transportation Commission
Applicant: Public Advocates
Amount: $4,000
Challenge of funding of transportation system that favors whites, suburban transit users v. poor transit users of color
JK v. Gerard
Applicant: Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest
Amount: $6,000
Action to enforce settlement to improve medicaid services to children
Environmental Justice – Total given to date $90,000
In Re CBR North Trend Expansion
Applicant: Aligning for Responsible Mining
Amount: $10,000
Challenge of exposure of uranium mine near Pine Ridge Reservation
Hinton v. City of Ft. Lauderdale
Applicant: Legal Aid Service of Broward
Mass tort action against city for toxic exposure from waste dump and incinerator
Dine CARE v. Klein
Applicant: Energy Minerals Law Center
Amount: $10,000
Challenge to mine permit by Office of Surface Mining Enforcement and Reclamation for open pit mine on Navajo Nation tribal lands
Native Village of Elim v. US Bureau of Land Management
Applicant: The Center of Water Advocacy
Amount: $10,000
Action to stop uranium mining exploration near traditional native village in Alaska
Chase v. Warmerdam
Applicant: California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc.
Amount: $12,000
Local grower planning to apply ultra toxic fumigant pesticides 100 feet from homes
Human & Civil Rights – Total given to date $99,000
C.G. v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Education and Geral Zahorchak
Applicant: Community Justice Project
Amount: $ 10,000
Challenge to state’s special education funding formula, which results in less funding in poor urban districts
Ammons v. La-Z-Boy
Applicant: Strindberg & Scholnick, LLC
Amount: $5,000
Class action suit by employees discriminated against for filing worker’s compensation claims
Arias v. United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Applicant: Centro Legal, Inc.
Amount: $12,000
Challenge to home based raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency
Nunn v. State of California
Applicant: Critical Resistance
Amount: $5,000
Tax payer action to block usage of $7.4 billion lease revenue bonds to fund construction of 53,000 new prison beds
Video Project
Applicant: Ginzberg Video Productions
Amount: $5,000
Special project detailing the life of Justice Cruz Reynoso
Case Not Yet Filed
Applicant: Texas RioGrande Legal Aid
Amount: $10,000
Action on behalf of unaccompanied minors from Central America held under abusive conditions in detention facilities administered by a private company
Survey
Applicant: National Jury Project
Amount: $5,000
Funding of survey regarding impact of California's “death qualified” jury requirement in capital cases
Jamie S. v. Milwaukee Board of School Directors
Applicant: Disability Rights of Wisconsin
Amount: $10,000
Remedy stage trial in special education class action charging violation of “Child Find” provisions of special education law
Saleh v. Titan
Applicant: Burke O'Neil LLC
Amount: $15,000
Class action against U.S. corporations involved in interrogation of prisoners at Iraq 's Abu Ghraib prison
Blunt v. Lower Merion School District
Applicant: The Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia
Amount: $15,000
Lower Merion School District routinely segregates African American students into below grade level or modified classes that provide them with a substandard education
Disability Law Center v. Massachusetts Department of Correction
Applicant: Massachusetts Correctional Legal Service
Amount: $15,000
Lawsuit seeks to prohibit the State Department of Correction from confining prisoners with serious mental disorders in segregation units.