Latino Justice Prldef
Latino Justice Prldef
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About this organization
Mission
LatinoJustice works to create a more just society by using and challenging the rule of law to secure transformative, equitable and accessible justice, by empowering our community and by fostering leadership through advocacy and education. LatinoJustice PRLDEF engages in impact litigation, legal advocacy, community engagement, and legal pipeline education programs. Our work is currently focused on five pillars: criminal justice reform; economic justice; immigrants' rights; voting rights; and leadership development.
About
Our legal department engages in impact law reform litigation and advocacy to address systemic discriminatory policies and practices by government - on the federal, state and local level, and/or private companies or entities, that are adversely impacting the greater Pan-Latinx community at large. FY18 began with filing four major new law reform lawsuits in several of our core pillars of practice, in criminal justice reform-immigrants' rights and voting rights. Under our economic justice pillar, we also filed several workers' rights labor-related administrative complaints with the U.S. EEOC, NYS DOL, and the NLRB concerning racial & gender discrimination charges, retaliation, and unpaid wages including overtime. We negotiated a settlement at a NYS DOL mediation for a fired Bronx apartment building porter and participated in a mediation session in another pending workers' rights class action which resulted in a favorable settlement. In addition, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals issued a favorable decision affirming the EDNY District Court's 2015 decision granting plaintiffs' summary judgment and permanently enjoining this Long Island town's anti-solicitation ordinance that had been enacted to bar Latino day laborers from soliciting employment in public thoroughfares. The First Amendment decision drew national attention and was also reported in the NYLJ. We filed several major new lawsuits in response to the federal government's increasing targeting of Latinx immigrant rights and voting rights. We joined the NAACP and the MALDEF in filing an action in the SDNY challenging the President's new Election Integrity Commission as unconstitutionally created for the sole purpose to suppress and deter voters of color - President Trump in January 2018 issued an executive order terminating his Advisory Commission on Election Integrity; we partnered with the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Dechert LLP and sued the NYS BOE over their illegal voter purge practices in violation of the NVRA; and with Winston & Strawn LLP, we sued Suffolk County and the Suffolk County Sheriff over their practice of illegally detaining individuals beyond their scheduled release date based upon administrative ICE detainer requests by ICE; and successfully challenged the South Central Country School District suspension of Latino unaccompanied minor student on suspicion of purported gang affiliation for a dated Facebook posting of cartoon characters and a photograph posing with the El Salvador flag. After Hurricanes Irma & Maria devasted Puerto Rico, joining with the Access to Justice Working Group in Puerto Rico to create Ayuda Legal Huracn Mara (ALHM). In partnership with Probono.net and the NYCBA among other groups, LatinoJustice sponsored ALHM in opening an office in Puerto Rico and through its network of attorney and law student volunteers who conducted legal clinics throughout the island and on the mainland for the greater Puerto Rican diaspora who had migrated to the U.S., providing legal advice and representation on issues such as federal disaster relief assistance applications, evictions, foreclosures and other disaster assistance relief work. LJP/ALHM working with Democracy Forward and the Center for Investigative Journalism (Centro de Periodismo Investigativo) in Puerto Rico filed several Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) seeking detailed information concerning the agency's inadequate, and often incomprehensible, efforts to provide emergency relief after Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico last September. We negotiated a settlement in Common Cause v. the NYC Board of Elections which had been filed in the EDNY on the eve of the November 2016 elections, challenging NYC improper and illegal purging of purported inactive voters in an attempt to clear the voter rolls without undertaking the requisite notification steps required by federal voting rights law. We and our co-counsel at the Lawyers' Committee and Dechert LLP had obtained a preliminary restraining order requiring the city to permit any voter not on the voting rolls to vote by affidavit ballot. The U.S. Department of Justice and the NY Attorney General's Office both subsequently intervened in the action, which settled with a consent decree requiring continuing monitoring of changes to the BOE. In Kim v. Yoo, we joined with the AALDEF and Shearman & Sterling in filing a new-related 'claw back' lawsuit in the SDNY on behalf of a group of former Korean & Latino restaurant staff against the Kung Gang Sum Restaurant owner and his family seeking the reversion of several fraudulent transfers made by the owner to his wife and adult children for nominal consideration to avoid satisfying a judgment for back wages. A bench trial in front of SDNY in January 2018 resulted in a favorable decision for the plaintiffs. We continue to litigate a major civil rights action in the EDNY on behalf of 21 Latino John/Jane Doe motorists challenging the SCPD discriminatory policing practices in racially profiling Latinx motorists. A uniformed Suffolk police sergeant had been arrested while on duty for 'stopping & robbing' Latino motorists. As a result of the related criminal investigation by the Suffolk County DA's Office, the DA's Office signed U-Visa certifications for many of our clients who had co-operated and testified in their criminal prosecution. Eight law firms are providing pro bono U-Visa immigration for over a dozen clients. In yet another precedential case, we and our co-counsel at Nixon Peabody successfully petitioned the federal court in Maryland to issue an order finding our client eligible for a U-Visa certification given her successful lawsuit in which the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals had previously determined she was illegally detained and arrested by the Fredrick County Sheriff's Office. We also continue to accompany the client to her immigration check-ins amid public reports of ICE now detaining and deporting previously paroled immigrants. In January 2018, our Latinas at Work (LAW) project filed a Title VII gender discrimination action in the SDNY v. an Upper Hudson Valley employer that had laid off 200+ immigrant Latino workers without the requisite prior notice. As a result of a mediation session in August 2017, we were able in 2018 to finalize settlement of the WARN Act class action also filed in the SDNY on behalf of the fired workers. We received a grant from the NYS Judiciary Civil Legal Services Fund to provide expanded workers' rights legal assistance in Long Island focusing on low-wage immigrant workers in Nassau County. Our Long Island Latina/os at Work (LAW) Workplace Justice Project is based out of our Long Island satellite office housed at Touro Law School's Public Advocacy Center (PAC) in Central Islip. In partnership with the Workplace Project and NYCOSH, we conduct monthly Spanish language Know Your Rights legal clinics in Hempstead. The Law Project has filed several new employment complaints alleging racial and gender discrimination, sexual harassment, unpaid wages, and retaliatory firings. We were 1 of 4 Florida legal services organizations selected to host an Equal Justice Works Florida Immigration and Community Economic Development Fellowship Project in 2017-19 funded by the Florida Bar Foundation! Our new Central Florida Workplace Justice Project has expanded the legal capacity of our Southeastern Regional Office in Orlando to provide legal advocacy and representation for low-wage Latina/o workers who are encountering wage theft, discrimination, sexual harassment & other employment issues. The Florida Bar Foundation also awarded us additional grant funding to provide Puerto Rico disaster legal assistance & economic justice work. In February 2018, the SEO successfully sued USCIS and the US Department of Defense in SD Florida Federal Court for belated administrative changes implemented by the Trump administration to the Military Accessions Vital to the Nation Interest (MAVNI) program which permitted DACA recipients to enlist in the Armed Services and secure a fast-track to legal status in exchange for their service. We also continued to file amicus briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court and other federal and state courts across the country addressing voting rights, redistricting, employment, criminal justice and other critically important civil rights issues while presenting our nuanced perspective as a Latino legal defense fund.
Interesting data from their 2019 990 filing
The purpose of the non-profit is outlined in the filing as “Latinojustice prldef champions an equitable society, using the power of the law together with advocacy and education. the organization impacts litigation to defend the civil and human rights of latinos living and working in the united states; institute programs that provide latino students with the access and resources to pursue a law degree and establish community engagement initiatives that ensure that latinos participate in daily civic life and become active members and leaders of their communities.”.
When discussing its operations, they were defined as: “Latinojustice prldef protects opportunities for all latinos to succeed in school and work, fulfill their dreams and sustain their families and communities.”.
- The state where the non-profit operates has been legally reported as NY.
- The filing indicates that the non-profit's address in 2019 is located at 475 RIVERSIDE DRIVE NO 1901, NEW YORK, NY, 10115.
- The non-profit has reported 24 employees on their form as of 2019.
- Is not a private foundation.
- Expenses are greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue is greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue less expenses is $9,754,228.
- The organization has 24 independent voting members.
- The organization was formed in 1972.
- The organization pays $2,469,956 in salary, compensation, and benefits to its employees.
- The organization pays $186,723 in fundraising expenses.
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