Grants Awarded
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2009 - 2010 Poverty | Environmental Justice | Human & Civil Rights
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, 2009 - June 30, 2010
Total Amount Awarded this Fiscal Year to date $272,500
Environmental Justice
Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission v. Salazar
Applicant: Crag Law Center
Amount: $12,000
A challenge against offshore drilling proposals because they threaten the Inupiat peoples’ natural resources.
In the Matter of Powertech, Inc., Before the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Applicant: Western Mining Project
Amount: $10,000
A challenge to uranium mining project in Black Hills, south Dakota that relies upon “generic” EIS.
Administrative Proceedings and Related Litigation to Oppose Colorado Springs Utilities’ Proposed Southern Delivery System Project
Applicant: Santarella & Eckert, LLC
Amount: $10,000
A challenge to Colorado Springs Utilities’ proposed water pipeline project which would release effluent into creek and water basin used by low income people of color.
Frank J. Babbin v. Energy Facilities Siting Board
Applicant: Alternatives for Community & Environment
Amount: $5,000
An effort to stop construction of power plant in Brockton, Massachusetts, in the absence of environmental justice review.
Hinton v. City of Lauderdale
Applicant: Legal Aid Service of Broward County, Inc.
Amount: $10,000
Mass tort action against city for toxic exposure from waste dump and incinerator.
Baugo North Neighborhood Group v. VIM Recycling, Inc.
Applicant: Legal Environment Aid Foundation of Indiana, Inc.
Amount: $15,000
A challenge to recycler’s repeated solid waste violation under federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.
Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League v. Commonwealth of Virginia
Applicant: Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League, Inc.
Amount: $10,000
A challenge to permit for Nuclear Power Plant that violates the Clean Water Act.
Human and Civil Rights
G.R. v. Susan Dreyfuss
Applicant: Disability Rights Washington
Amount: $10,000
A challenge of the bill that grants the Secretary of the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services authority to transfer Not-Guilty By Reason of Insanity patients from the state psychiatric hospitals to prison.
New Hill Community Association v. North Carolina Department of Environment & Natural Resources
Applicant: Southern Coalition for Social Justice
Amount: $10,000
A challenge to stop the building of a sewage treatment plant in a predominantly African-American and low-income neighborhood.
Protection and Advocacy for People with Disabilities v. South Carolina Department of Disabilities and Special Needs
Applicant: Protection and Advocacy for people with Disabilities, Inc.
Amount: $5,000
A challenge that the Department of Disabilities and Special Needs is not compliant with the Administrative Procedures Act.
Not Yet Filed
Applicant: Alexander, Berkey, Williams & Weathers LLP
Amount: $5,000
This case challenges state environmental regulation that prohibits traditional fishing and related activities of Kashia Indian people.
Collins v. Reish
Applicant: Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project
Amount: $10,000
A challenge to conditions in Northumberland County Prison in Pennsylvania.
Potential San Joaquin Valley Voting Rights Case
Applicant: Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area
Amount: $10,000
An investigation of at-large election districts primarily in San Joaquin Valley for potential voting rights cases.
Lobato v. State of Colorado
Applicant: Children’s Voices, Inc.
Amount: $10,000
An action to challenge constitutionalization of Colorado’s school financing system under state constitution.
Guatemala Impunity Project
Applicant: Guatemala Human Rights Project
Amount: $4,000
Landmark challenge to Guatemalan Army Human rights abuses in the Inter-American Court of the organization of American States.
Colbert v. Quinn
Applicant: Access Living of Metropolitan
Amount: $15,000
A proposed action against State officials on behalf of Cook County nursing home residents denied community placements.
Montana Fair Housing, Inc. v. City of Bozeman
Applicant: Montana Fair Housing, Inc.
Amount: $10,000
A case against the City of Bozeman for adopting an ordinance that has a disparate impact on persons with disabilities and families with children.
Griego v. New Mexico’s Compensation Administration
Applicant: New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty
Amount: $12,500
A claim that the statutory exclusion of farm and ranch laborers from the Worker’s Compensation Act violates the equal protection clause of the New Mexico Constitution.
Metropolitan Milwaukee Area Chamber of Commerce v. City of Milwaukee
Applicant: 9to5
Amount: $12,500
Defense of Milwaukee’s recently passed referendum granting paid sick days to workers.
Disability Law Center v. Massachusetts Department of Correction
Applicant: Massachusetts Correctional Legal Services
Amount: $12,500
A lawsuit seeking to prohibit the state Department of Correction from confining prisoners with serious mental disorders in segregation units.
North Carolina Racial Justice Act Study Project
Applicant: Michigan State University College of Law
Amount: $12,500
This project will produce the litigation-ready study that is a prerequisite to the full implementation of the North Carolina Racial Justice Act.
Video Project
Applicant: Ginzberg Video Productions
Amount: $7,500
Lock v. Texas Department of Criminal Justice
Applicant: Texas Civil Rights Project
Amount: $5,000
A class action suit challenging the prison systems lack of interpreter services for all deaf women inmates.
Poverty
Alim v. Cookston
Applicant: Law Office of Peter Goselin
Amount: $7,500
A wage claim against a network of limited liability companies operating Domino’s Pizza franchises.
Unity Service Coordination v. Richard Armstrong and Leslie Clements
Applicant: Herzfeld & Piotrowski, LLP
Amount: $10,000
A case requesting the restoration of cuts to Medicaid reimbursements that are threatening the loss of access.
Lowe v. South Delta Regional Housing Authority and A.J. Jefferson
Applicant: Mississippi Center for Justice
Amount: $7,500
A challenge of the rent increase issued by the South Dakota Regional Housing Authority.
Guillen v. Ochoa
Applicant: Eastern Carolina Immigrants’ Rights Project
Amount: $4,000
A case against Notarios for unfair and deceptive trade practices and negligence based on their unauthorized practice of law.
Ana Pineda v. Ki Seok Cha
Applicant: The Wage Justice Center
Amount: $10,000
An action to collect wages on behalf of janitorial workers who were paid less than minimum wage and denied overtime.
Colibri Workers for Rights and Justice v. Founders Equity
Applicant: Fuerza Laboral
Amount: $10,000
WARN Act case on behalf of workers laid off without notice.