Grants Awarded

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Grants Awarded: July 1, 2006 - June 30, 2007

Total Amount Awarded this Fiscal Year $207,000

Poverty – Total given $34,500

Situ v. Leavitt
Applicant: National Senior Citizens Law Center
Amount: $10,000
Class action challenging flawed implementation of Medicare Part D drug benefit program for Medicare beneficiaries on Medicaid

Case Not Yet Filed
Applicant: The Project on Economic, Social and Culture Rights
Amount: $7,500
Proposed action against Wal-Mart's Mexican operation for failing to pay child laborers

Bzdawka Milwaukee Co.
Applicant: Pledl Law Office
Amount: $10,000
Challenge to low reimbursement rates for in-home providers for severely disabled Medicaid recipients

Mary Carr v. Patricia Wilson-Coker, Commissioner of the State of Connecticut Dept. of Social Services
Applicant: Connecticut Legal Services, Inc.
Amount: $7,000
Action against Connecticut for its failure to provide dental services to medical beneficiaries

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Environmental Justice – Total given $60,000

Dine CARE v. Arizona Public Service
Applicant: Dine CARE
Amount: $10,000
Action against operators of a coal-burning plant in the Navajo homeland

Tewa Women United v. Department of Energy
Applicant: Western Environmental Law Center
Amount: $10,000
Potential case against Los Alamos Natural Laboratory for releasing contaminants into the Rio Grande and ground water

Colonias Development Council v. Rhino Environmental Services, Inc.
Applicant: Colonias Development Council
Amount: $10,000
A challenge to a waste disposal permit in Chaparral, New Mexico, a mostly poor and Latino area

The Community of Cleveland, NM v. Sangre de Cristo Gravel Products
Applicant: The Community of Cleveland, NM
Amount: $2,500
A challenge to the attempt to open a gravel plant in a poor, Hispanic area

CARD v. Washington TRU Solutions, Inc.; DOE; and NMED
Applicant: Citizens for Alternatives to Radioactive Dumping
Environmental justice challenge to disposal of radioactive waste

In Re: International Uranium Corp.: Revised 11(e)(2) Materials License Amendment #2
Applicant: Energy Minerals Law Center
Amount: $10,000
Challenge to license to allow processing and disposal of 32,000 tons of radioactive waste near White Mesa, Utah

Environmental Law Foundation, Our Children’s Earth Foundation, Communities for a Better Environment v. Laidlaw Transit
Applicant: Communities for a Better Environment
Amount: $10,000
Suit against school bus operators for diesel emissions in violation of Proposition 65 which requires notice of toxic exposure

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Human & Civil Rights – Total given $112,500

Heckman v. Williamson County
Applicant: Texas Fair Defense Project
Amount: $5,000
Class action on behalf of indigent criminal defendants systematically denied counsel in jailable misdemeanor case

Estate of Rodriguez v. Drummond Co., 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 Colombia

Medina v. Station Casinos, Inc.
Applicant: Equal Rights Advocates
Amount: $10,000
Suit to protect female employees of the Thunder Valley Casino in rural Placer County, California from sexual harassment, discrimination and violations of wage and hour laws. While the Casino is Native owned, it is managed by a non-Native Las Vegas corporation

Clark K. v. Willden
Applicant: National Center for Youth Law
Class action against Nevada officials for failing to protect the health and safety of foster care children in its child welfare system

Lozano v. City of Hazleton
Applicant: Puerto Rican Legal Defense & Education Fund
Amount: $5,000
Action against Hazelton's extreme anti-immigration law

Nicolasa Ramos v. Alberto Gonzalez
Applicant: Centro Legal, Inc.(link to http://www.centro-legal.org/)
Amount: $5,000
Proposed litigation against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (link to I.C.E.) for raids of Swift & Co. meat plant that resulted in unconstitutional searches, seizures and due process violation of worker's rights

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Al-haramain Islamic Foundation, Inc. v. Bush
Applicant: Steven Goldberg
Amount: $15,000
Challenge to Bush Administration's warrantless electronic surveillance program

Jeff D. v. Kempthorne
Applicant: Belodoff Law Office
Amount: $3,000
Action to enforce a class settlement that improves community-based services to children with severe emotional disturbances

Roubideaux v. Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
Applicant: Brancart & Brancart
Amount: $15,000
Class action on behalf of female inmates in the custody of the North Dakota Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation alleging discrimination against female inmates in the provision of facilities and services on the basis of gender

Tapia v. Dugger
Applicant: Oficina Legal del Pueblo Unido d.b.a Texas Civil Rights Project
Amount: $7,000
Suit against “for-profit” prison officials and US Marshals Service in western Texas, whose female inmate was raped and committed suicide

Bowers v. City of Philadelphia
Applicant: Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project
Amount: $10,000
Class Action to challenge intake procedures for persons arrested in Philadelphia, which lead to overcrowded and inadequate jail facilities

Potential Case to Enforce ADA
Applicant: Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago
Amount: $10,000
Action against State officials on behalf of Cook County nursing home residents denied community placements

Orantes-Hernandez v. Smith
Applicant: National Immigration Law Center
Amount: $5,000
Defense of injunction in Orantes case which protects rights to counsel, legal materials and communication of detained assylees

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Grants Awarded

Grants Awarded: July 1, 2006 - June 30, 2007

Poverty – Total given $34,500

Environmental Justice – Total given $60,000

Human & Civil Rights – Total given $112,500