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, 2004 - June 30, 2005
Poverty
Hawthorne-Bey v. Reinerston
Applicant: Colorado Center on Law & Poverty
Amount: $7,500
Challenge to Colorado's inept computerized system for processing applications and benefits for public programs, which has resulted in delays and an error rate of 37%
Frew v. Hawkins
Applicant: Texas Alliance for Children's Rights, The Woodlands, TX
Amount: $10,000
Class action to enforce rights for indigent children to medical and dental services under the Medicaid program
Salazar v. Edwards
Applicant: Chicago Coalition for the Homeless
Amount: $12,000
Action on behalf of homeless students whose schools are to be closed, to ensure minimal education disruption
Wallace v. Chicago Housing Authority
Applicant: Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law
Amount: $10,000
Action on behalf of Chicago Housing Authority residents forced to move as a result of demolition; however, they were not yet provided relocation assistance
Environmental Justice
In re: Hydro Resources (supplemental grant)
Applicant: New Mexico Environmental Law Center
Amount: $10,500
Action to halt uranium mining from an aquifer relied upon by the Navajo community
Arise for Social Justice v. City of Springfield
Applicant: LCCR Under Law of the Boston Bar Association
Amount: $10,000
Voting rights lawsuit challenging use of 'at large' voting for City Council and School Committee in Springfield, MA
SAGE Council v. Major Martin J. Chavez
Applicant: New Mexico Environmental Law Center
Amount: $10,000
This is an action for injunctive relief for further planning and construction by the defendants of a segment of the Paseo del Norte road in Albuquerque. The proposed extended road would go through an area sacred to Native Americans
Alvarez v. Western Farm Services & Kirschenman Farms
Applicant: Michael Freund, Berkeley, CA
Amount: $10,000
Action to redress massive pesticide exposure of the poor community of Arvin, CA
Neighborhood Legal Services of L.A. County
Applicant: Neighborhood Legal Services of L.A. County
Amount: $10,000
Action to challenge City of Los Angles approval of expansion of solid waste landfill in predominantly poor, Latino community of Sun Valley
John DeCamp v. State of Nebraska
Applicant: Center for Rural Affairs, Fiscal Agent for Friends of the Constitution
Amount: $6,500
Defense of Nebraska law that limits corporate ownership of agricultural assets
Human and Civil Rights
Frank Lopez v. City of El Paso
Applicant: Texas Civil Rights Project
Amount: $11,000
Pattern and practice police misconduct action arising out of beatings, pepper spray at school sanctioned demonstration
Christensen v. Sullivan
Applicant: Legal Aid Society of Milwaukee, Inc.
Amount: $7,500
Class action challenge to overcrowded jail facility and denial of mental health care
Estate of Rodriguez v. Drummond Company, Inc.
Applicant: International Labor Rights Fund
Amount: $12,500
Alien tort claim against Alabama-based mining company for its complicity in gross human rights abuses in Columbia
Duvall v. Ehrlich
Applicant: Public Justice Center, Baltimore, MD
Amount: $10,000
Challenge to conditions of confinement for pre-trial detainees at Baltimore City Detention Center, a pre-trial detention center
TBA v. Harris County
Applicant: Gulf Region Advocacy Center (link to GRACE), Houston, TX
Amount: $10,000
Challenge to Houston's "key man" grand jury system, which excludes minority and female jurors
Local 10, ILWU v. City of Oakland
Applicant: National Lawyers Guild, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter
Amount: $10,000
J.P. v. Robert Taft
Applicant: Children's Law Center, Inc.
Amount: $5,000
Class action that challenges denial of legal counsel and access to courts of juvenile detainees in Ohio Department for Youth Services
Battered Women's Habeas Project
Applicant: Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
Amount: $12,000
Project to assist habeas corpus claims of imprisoned "battered women"
Touchard v. La-Z-Boy
Applicant: Strindberg, Scholnick & Chamness, LLC
Amount: $12,000
Class action suit by employees discriminated against for filing worker's compensation claims
Potential case against Transportation Security Administration
Applicant: Asian Law Caucus
Amount: $5,000
Potential challenge to adverse impact of airport screeners' written test