Grants Awarded
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2008 - 2009 Poverty | Environmental Justice | Human & Civil Rights
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, 2008 - June 30, 2009
Total Amount Awarded this Fiscal Year to date $246,250
Environmental
Not Yet Filed
Applicant: WildEarth Guardians
Amount: $7,500
A challenge to discharge from the largest coal fired power plant in Denver.
Concerned Citizens of South Central Los Angeles v. County of Los Angeles
Applicant: The City Project
Amount: $10,000
A challenge of expanding oil drilling in Baldwin Hills, a densely populated urban area.
Alonzo Spencer v. Christopher Korleski
Applicant: Center for Health, Environment and Justice
Amount: $10,000
A challenge of permit of Ohio hazardous waste incinerator with a bad environmental record.
Environmental Law Foundation and AGUA v. Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board
Applicant: Environmental Law Foundation
Amount: $10,000
A challenge of waste discharge permit for dairy’s in California Central Valley, alleging inadequate groundwater protection.
Human & Civil Rights
Halbach & Schield v. Great-West Life Insurance & Annuity Co.
Applicant: Weinhaus & Potashnick
Amount: 10,000
A class action over denial of health insurance benefits to persons with disabilities.
New Jersey Protection & Advocacy, Inc. v. New Jersey Department of Education
Applicant: Education Law Center
Amount: $15,000
An action to challenge the segregated education of students with disabilities.
Giraldo v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
Applicant: Walston Cross, Attorneys
Amount: $15,000
An action on behalf of transgendered inmates repeatedly raped in prison.
Case Not Yet Filed
Applicant: Connecticut Legal Rights Project, Inc.
Amount: $12,000
An “Olmstead” challenge of excessive institutionalization of people with psychiatric disabilities at Connecticut Valley Hospital.
Case Not Yet Filed
Applicant: Southern Center for Human Rights
Amount: $10,000
A challenge of Georgia’s Northern Judicial Circuit denial of criminal defense lawyers in “conflict” cases.
Graves v. Arpaio
Applicant: National Prison Project of the ACLU Foundation
Amount: $8,000
A class action against Maricopa County jail in Arizona charging mental and physical health problems are exacerbated by inhumane conditions.
Disability Law Center v. United States District Court, District of Utah
Applicant: Disability Law Center
Amount: $7,000
An action to investigate possible abuses at youth residential treatment facility.
Razul II v. Bush
Applicant: Reprieve
Amount: $13,000
An action to seek review of incarceration of prisoners held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Williams v. City of Philadelphia
Applicant: Pennsylvania Institutional Law
Amount: $12,000
An action challenging unconstitutional conditions of confinement for prisoners in Philadelphia Prison Systems.
Avita v. Tulare Local Healthcare District
Applicant: Law Offices of Joaquin G. Avila
Amount: $15,000
California Voting Rights action against Tulare Healthcare District.
Case Not Yet Filed
Applicant: Ohio Justice and Policy Center
Amount: $10,000
Proposed action on behalf of mentally ill prisoners discharged from Ohio State Prison with inadequate mental health discharge planning.
Case Not Yet Filed
Applicant: CASA de Maryland, Inc.
Amount: $12,500
Federal litigation challenging misconduct by ICE and local law enforcement during a pre-dawn raid of private homes of employees of a painting company.
Gaitan Fabian v. Dunn
Applicant: Texas RioGrande Legal Aid, Inc.
Amount: $12,500
A suit on behalf of eight unaccompanied immigrant children.
Survey
Applicant: National Jury Project, West
Amount: $16,000
Study of Impact of “death qualified” juries.
Moeller v. Taco Bell
Applicant: Fox & Robertson
Amount: $15,000
Statewide disability access class action case
Poverty
Silvia Rubio Gaxiola v. Williams Seafood of Arapahoe, Inc. and Sherre L. Midyette
Applicant: The North Carolina Justice Center
Amount: $2,250
An action to recover wages for #2b workers.
Melvin LeBlanc v. Dwayne Thomas
Applicant: Louisiana Justice Institute
Amount: $10,000
A challenge of the closure of Avery C. Alexander Charity Hospital in New Orleans.
Wells Fargo v. Triggs
Applicant: The Legal Aid Society of Columbus
Amount: $8,000
Defense against foreclosure based on predatory loan.
Elena del Campo v. American Corrective Counseling Services, Inc.
Applicant: Law Office of Paul Arons
Amount: $20,000
A challenge of “bad check” diversion program that allowed collection agencies to send debt collection letters on official District Attorney letterhead.