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, 2001 - June 30, 2002
Poverty
HZA/North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation Litigation
Applicant: Oregon Law Center, Ontario, OR
Amount: $2,500
Litigation to support agricultural migrant labor rights
Beltran Benitez v. Sea Safari, Ltd.
Applicant: North Carolina Justice and Community Development Center, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Amount: $6,070
An action by immigrant "guest workers" in North Carolina crab processing industry for unpaid wages
Jean Matthews & Philomenia Johnson v. City of New Orleans
Applicant: New Orleans Legal Assistance Corporation, New Orleans, LA
Amount $3,500
A defense of referendum establishing New Orleans minimum wage $1 above the federal level
Environmental Justice
Picuris Pueblo Land Claim Project
Applicant: Western Environmental Law Center, Taos, NM
Amount: $7,000
Aboriginal land claim on behalf of Picuris Pueblo of New Mexico to protect ancestral clay gathering sites from an industrial mica mine
Lucero v. Detroit Public Schools
Applicant: Maurice and Jane Sugar Law Center for Economic and Social Justice, Detroit, NM
Amount: $15,000
Environmental justice action on behalf of Detroit school children, challenging the siting of an elementary school on toxic land fill
Santa Clara Center for Occupational Safety and Health v. American Xtal Technology
Applicant: Santa Clara Center for Occupational Safety and Health, San Jose, CA
Amount: $7,500
An action on behalf of non-English speaking employees of Xtal claiming the company knowingly exposes its workers to dangerous compounds, and fails to translate warnings and hazard communications
South Camden Citizens in Action v. New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (supplemental grant)
Applicant: Camden Regional Legal Services, Camden, NJ
Amount $15,000
An environmental justice challenge to the placement of a cement slag grinding facility in the poor, environmentally devastated community of Camden, New Jersey
In re: Hydro Resources, Inc. (supplemental grant)
Applicant: New Mexico Environmental Law Center, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Amount: $12,500
Action to stop uranium mining from an aquifer relied upon by the Navajo community
In re: Hydro Resources, Inc. (supplemental grant)
Applicant: New Mexico Environmental Law Center, Santa Fe, NM
Amount: $7,500
An action to stop uranium mining from an aquifer relied upon by the Navajo community
Native Village of Eklunta v. Alaska Railroad Corporation
Applicant: Native Village of Eklunta, Chugiak, Alaska
Amount $2,500
A native village challenge to the Alaska Railroad Corporation's mining of a sacred site
Keith Dotson v. Circle Four Farms
Applicant: Bruce Plenk, Lawrence, KS
Amount: $15,000
A challenge to a massive hog producer for environmental degradation of the surrounding area
Human and Civil Rights
Raygor v. Board of Regents of the University of Minnesota
Applicant: Borkon, Ramstead, Mariani, Fishman & Carp, Ltd., Minneapolis, MN
Amount $6,500
An appeal in the United States Supreme Court of Minnesota ruling holding states immune from federal law that tolls state statues of limitation during pendency of federal lawsuit
Morgan v. National Railroad Passenger Corporation
Applicant: Price & Associates, Oakland, CA
Amount: $2,044.50
Supreme Court appeal defining scope of "continuing violation" doctrine in a race discrimination case
Marybeth Inch v. Indiana Family and Social Services Administration
Applicant: Stephen Gold, Philadelphia, PA
Amount: $13,365
A class challenge to state failure to allocate resources to in-home and community-based care on the same basis as to institutionalization of Medicaid recipients
Sanchez v. Johnson
Applicant: Autism Society of Greater Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Amount: $10,000
A challenge on behalf of persons with disabilities to discriminatory low wages paid to community-based nurses, as opposed to those in institutional programs
State of Washington v. Johnny Varner
Applicant: Seattle/King County Public Defender Association/Racial Disparity Project, Seattle WA
Amount: $15,000
A challenge to discriminatory practices and selective enforcement arrests by undercover Seattle police
Radio Canyon Lake v. John Ashcroft
Applicant: NLG Center for Democratic Communications, San Francisco, CA
Amount: $2,500
A constitutional challenge to the law restricting licenses for low-power FM radio stations
Colindres v. Quietflex Manufacturing and Goodman Manufacturing
Applicant: Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Houston, TX
Amount $8,000
An employment discrimination class action brought by Latino workers in segregated job classifications
Larry Bowoto v. Chevron Corporation (supplemental grant)
Applicant: Human, Economic & Environmental Defense (link to HEED), Los Angeles, CA
Amount $12,500
Aliens Tort Claims Act challenge charging Chevron with complicity in human rights violations in Nigeria
International Action Center v. United States of America
Applicant: Partnership for Civil Justice, Washington, DC
Amount: $10,000
A challenge to the paramilitary police tactics used to break up peaceful demonstrations
Clark v. Johnson
Applicant: University of California Death Penalty Clinic, Berkeley, CA
Amount: $12,000
A petition to the United States Supreme Court to establish the right to counsel in clemency and competency proceedings in capital cases
In re: Massachusetts Students
Applicant: Multicultural Education, Training & Advocacy, Somerville, MA
Amount: $8,781
A challenge on behalf of limited-English and minority students to Massachusetts high school graduation test
Newberry v. Neel
Applicant: Tennessee Justice Center, Nashville, TN
Amount $20,000
A challenge to Tennessee Medicaid program and HMO practice of steering disabled patients into nursing homes
Frederick L. v. Department of Public Welfare
Applicant: Disabilities Law Project, Pittsburgh, PA
Amount: $7,500
A class action by state hospital residents challenging the failure of the state to develop community-based alternatives to hospitalization
Lopez v. San Francisco Unified School District
Applicant: Education Law Center/Legal Society of San Francisco
Amount $5,000
A class action on behalf of mobility and visually impaired students denied access to San Francisco public schools
John Doe I v. Unocal Corporation
Applicant: EarthRights International, Washington, D.C.
Amount: $20,000 Alien Tort Claims Act challenge to Unocal's complicity in human rights violations in Burma
Kantaras v. Kantaras
Applicant: National Center for Lesbian Rights, San Francisco, CA
Amount $10,000
An action to preserve the parental rights of a female-to-male transsexual, and to establish his right to be legally recognized as male
M.A. v. Newark Public Schools
Applicant: Education Law Center, Newark, NJ
Amount $5,000
A suit by thousands of students in Newark public schools and the State of New Jersey challenging the failure to implement a viable system for delivery of special education programs
Joe Doe I v. Exxon Mobil Corporation
Applicant: Terry Collingsworth
Amount: $12,500 (contingent upon denial of Exxon Mobil's motion to dismiss)
Challenge to Human Rights abuses in Indonesia on behalf of 11 villagers in Aceh