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, 2005 - June 30, 2006
Poverty
Dionne v. Commissioner of the New Hampshire Division of Human Services
Applicant: New Hampshire Legal Assistance
Amount: $10,000
Challenge to State's delays in approving applications for aid to poor disabled residents
Community House Inc. v. City of Boise
Applicant: Idaho Legal Aid Services, Inc.
Amount: $10,000
Challenge to transfer to religious ministry of homeless shelter, and subsequent exclusion of women and children from shelter, and the requirement that men participate in religious activities
McWaters v. FEMA
Applicant: Equal Justice Society
Amount: $10,000
Action against FEMA by Katrina victims denied temporary housing assistance
Martinez v. Combs
Applicant: California Rural Legal Assistance
Amount: $2,000
Appeal to define liabilities of labor contraction for unpaid wages to strawberry workers, after employers discharged in bankruptcy
Valdez v. Hyde
Applicant: New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty
Amount: $10,000
Challenge to New Mexico's automated Medicaid system which automatically, and often erroneously, terminates coverage
Cramer Hill Residents
Applicant: South Jersey Legal Services, Inc.
Amount: $12,000
Challenge to redevelopment plan that would remove 12,000 homes, including 506 units of public rental housing
Schutz v. Northeast Mortgage Corporation
Applicant: New Haven Legal Assistance Association, Inc.
Amount: $4,500
Challenge to predatory lending policy that utilizes underwriting ratio that does not take into account ability to pay mortgage and living expenses
Environmental Justice
Association of Irritated Residents v. Fred Schakel Dairy
Applicant: Center on Race Poverty & The Environment
Amount: $10,000
Clean air act suit to require large "factory" dairy to obtain pre-construction permit
Appeal of “Authority to Construct” Air Quality Permit issued to Vulcan Materials
Applicant: New Mexico Environmental Law Center
Amount: $7,000
Challenge to “authority of construct” air quality permit for concrete batch plant to be located across from community center
Citizens for the Responsible Destruction of Chemical Weapons of the Miami Valley v. Perma-Fix of Dayton
Applicant: Advocates for Basic Legal Equality, Inc.
Amount: $10,000
Clean Air Act Challenge to commercial wastewater facility located in poor neighborhood with substantial African American population
Potential case against the State of New Mexico Environmental Department
Applicant: New Mexico Environmental Law Center
Amount: $2,000
Challenge to New Mexico Solid Waste Management regulations
Human and Civil Rights
Potential voting rights litigation in Georgia
Applicant: Molden Holley Fergusson Thompson & Heard, LLC
Amount: $14,500
Voting rights action challenging Georgia’s restriction on multi-jurisdiction voter registration drives
Razul II v. Bush
Applicant: Reprieve
Amount: $10,000
Action to seek review of incarceration of prisoners held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
Gilgor v. Fletcher
Applicant: Kentucky Fairness Alliance
Amount: $6,000
Challenge to appropriation of State funds to Sectarian School of Optometry which refuses to accept gay students
Jonathan M. v. Martinez, CA
Applicant: Disabilities Law Project
Amount: $10,000
Class action to insure children with disabilities get consistent in-home nursing care without frequent interruptions due to inadequate payment
Jeff D. v. Kempthorne
Applicant: Howard Belodoff, Belodoff Law Office
Amount: $15,000
Action to enforce class settlement that improves community-based services to children with severe emotional disturbances
DCEE v. PUSD
Applicant: Eric P. Swenson, Attorney at Law
Amount: $7,000
Challenge to school districts segregation of Navajo students
Estate of Rodriguezv.Drummond Co., Inc.
Applicant: International Labor Rights Fund
Amount: $17,500 Alien tort claim against Alabama based mining company for its complicity in gross human rights abuses in Columbia
Hoke County Board of Educationv.State of North Carolina
Applicant: UNC Center for Civil Rights
Amount: $10,000
Suit to enforce right to sound, basic education in Charlotte/Mecklenburg high-poverty, urban high school
Everybody Counts, Inc. v. Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission
Applicant: Everybody Counts, Inc.
Amount: $7,500
Challenge to transit system lack of disability access
Francoise Sicar, Kerby Sicarv. U.S. Attorney General
Applicant: Florida International University College of Law, Carlos A. Costa Immigration and Human Rights Clinic
Amount: $8,000
Challenge to Board of Immigration appeals decision denying Haitian refugees released on their own recognizance relief under Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act (link to HRFA)
Charles H. Wesley Education Foundation, Inc.v.Cathy Cox
Applicant: Molden Holley Fergusson Thompson & Heard, LLC
Amount: $14,500
Voting rights action challenging Georgia’s restriction on multi-jurisdiction voter registration drives
Aris v. Hamilton
Applicant: Southern Center for Human Rights
Amount: $14,500
Class action on behalf of prisoners denied medical care at Hamilton Aged and Infirm Correctional Facility in Alabama
Lynne Stewart Defense Committee
Applicant: Lynne Stewart Defense Committee
Amount: $5,000
Support for pre-sentencing efforts in case against lawyer Lynne Stewart
Potential litigation in Mississippi
Applicant: Innocence Project New Orleans
Amount: $2,991
Action to establish right to lawyer compensation for post-conviction proceedings
Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma Citizenship Board, Johnsonv.Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma Citizenship Board
Applicant: African Indians of the Five Civilized Tribes Foundation
Amount: $5,000
Action by Black Indians denied enrollment as citizens in Muscogee (link to Creek) Nation
PUREv.Board of Education
Applicant: Parents United for Responsible Education
Amount: $10,000
Challenge to Chicago School practices that dismantle parent’s Local School Councils
Medical Project
Applicant: Prison Legal Services of Michigan, Inc.
Amount: $7,500
Investigation into potential case regarding failure of Michigan prison to provide adequate medical and mental health care to prisoners
Wardv.Albertson’s Inc.
Applicant: Gilbert & Sackman, A Law Corporation
Amount: $10,000
Challenge to Albertson, Lucky and Sav-on stores for failing to pay final pay to 200,000 terminated employees
Battered Women's Habeas Project
Applicant: Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
Amount: $5,000
Project to assist habeas corpus claims of imprisoned “battered women”
Roger Fairley and Richard Gackowskiv.Andrews
Applicant: Gessler, Hughes, Socol, Piers, Resnick & Dym , Ltd.
Amount: $10,000
Whistleblower suit by former corrections officers retaliated against for opposing brutality at Cook County Jail
Larry Bowotov. Chevron Texaco Corporation
Applicant: Traber & Voorhees
Amount: $12,000
Alien Tort Claims Act case charging Chevron with complicity in human rights violations in Nigeria