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, 2003 - June 30, 2004
Poverty
Cabrini-Green Public Housing Development
Applicant: Legal Assistance Foundation of
Amount:: $5,000
Attempt to halt involuntary relocation program for public housing residents in absence of any redevelopment plan
In re: Detroit Water and Sewerage Department
Applicant: Michigan Poverty Law Program and MPLP Support
Amount: $3,000
Challenge to termination of water to low-income households in Detroit
Cabrini-Green Public Housing Development
Applicant: Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago, IL Amount:: $5,000
Attempt to halt involuntary relocation program for public housing residents in absence of any redevelopment plan
Horn v. International Hotelier Management Corporation
Applicant: East Bay Community Law Center, Berkeley, CA
Amount: $5,000
Action to protect Asian tenants in 50 affordable housing units from eviction by landlord who had overcharged tenants and failed to re-pay a city of Oakland loan
Tyson v. A-USA Mortgage Corporation
Applicant: Memphis Area Legal Services, Inc., Memphis, TN
Amount: $10,000
RICO action against 30 defendants alleged to have engaged in criminal conspiracy to ensnare African American homeowners into predatory mortgages
Welfare Rights Organizing Coalition v. Tommy Thompson and Dennis Braddock
Applicant: Northwest Health Law Advocates, Seattle, WA
Amount: $7,000
Class action challenging State of Washington's attempt to charge premium payments to low-income children as a condition to receive Medicaid
Environmental Justice
Dotson v. Circle Four Farms
Applicant: Bruce Plenk, Lawrence, KS
Amount: $5,000
Challenge to massive hog producer for environmental degradation in the surrounding area
Reducing Farmworkers' Exposure to Toxic Pesticides
Applicant: Farmworker Justice Fund, Inc., Washington DC
Amount: $10,000
Challenge to EPA decision to permit continued use of toxic insecticides despite high risk to farmworkers
Clients Responsible Destruction of Chemical Weapons of the Miami Valley v. the U.S. Army
Applicant: Advocates for Basic Legal Equality, Inc. (link to ABLE), Toledo, OH
Amount: $10,000
Attempt to block nerve gas incinerator in poor community with substantial African American population
Kivalina Relocation Planning Committee v. Teck Cominco Alaska, Inc.
Applicant: Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment, San Francisco, CA
Amount: $9,000
Clean Water Act case against the world's largest zinc mine b the Inupiat village in rural Alaska
Human and Civil Rights
Lori Raymond v. Governor John Rowland
Applicant: Connecticut Legal Services, Inc., Willimantic, CT
Amount: $15,000
Action to challenge Connecticut's failure to systematically identify and accommodate disabled applicants for subsistence benefits
Mendez v. Brown
Applicant: Western Massachusetts Legal Services, Inc., Springfield, MA
Amount: $7,500
Challenge to Massachusetts' refusal to provide Medicaid coverage for reduction mammoplasty to women who are obese
Labor Community Strategy v. the Los Angeles MTA
Applicant: Labor/Community Strategy Center, Los Angeles, CA
Amount: $8,000
Enforcement of historic "Bus Rider" Consent Decree, which has put thousands of natural gas buses in place, kept fees from rising for 9 years and reduced overcrowding
Waivers of Rights in the San Antonio District of USICE
Applicant: LCCR Under Law of Texas
Amount: $11,000
Challenge to Department of Homeland Security's practice of seeking deportations from un-represented immigrants
Razul II v. Bush
Applicant: Justice in Exile, New Orleans, LA
Amount: $20,000
Action to seek review of incarceration of prisoners held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
In re: Colorado General Assembly House Bill 03-1256
Applicant: Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition, Colorado Springs, CO
Amount: $10,000
Challenge to financing of high security prison
Wiwa v. Royal Dutch/Shell
Applicant: Center for Constitutional Rights, New York, NY
Amount: $10,000
Alien tort claims act case charging Royal Dutch/Shell with complicity in summary execution of Nigerian activists
Estate of Rodriguez v. Drummond Company, Inc.
Applicant: International Labor Rights Fund, Washington D.C.
Amount: $11,000
Alien tort claim against Alabama-based mining company for its complicity in gross human rights abuses in Columbia
Marbet v. City of Portland
Applicant: Northwest Constitutional Rights Center, Portland, OR
Amount:$4,000
Challenge to Portland Police use of pepper spray and rubber bullets to disperse peaceful demonstration against President Bush
Eric Berg v. City of Los Angeles
Applicant: Cynthia Anderson-Barker, Los Angeles, CA
Amount: $9,000
Class action suit challenging Los Angeles Police use of force to break up a demonstration at the Democratic National Convention
Florida Civil Commitment Case
Applicant: Florida Institutional Legal Services, Inc., Gainesville, FL
Amount:$9,000
Challenge to State's failure to provide treatment to involuntarily committed inmates after serving criminal sentences
W.R. v. Department of Children and Families
Applicant: Connecticut Legal Services, Inc., Willimantec, CT
Amount: $9,000
Challenge to Connecticut's failure to make residential placements for children dependent on state child care agency
Wal-Mart Inglewood Litigation
Applicant: Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, Los Angeles, CA
Amount: $3,000
Challenge to local initiative that will allow building Wal-Mart supercenter in Inglewood, CA, without land use or environmental review