Courthouse News Service - Trial begins Monday in a federal class action accusing Signal International of human trafficking and labor abuses in the massive construction work needed after Hurricane Katrina. Roughly 500 workers, mostly from India…
Gulf Live - A federal labor trafficking case involving Signal International in Pascagoula is set to for trial Monday in New Orleans. The major case involves guest workers from India who say they were lured to the U.S. by false promises…
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Al Jazeera America - Immigration and religion may be incendiary topics, but Christian Bato doesn’t mind playing with a little fire if it stokes the political passions of his fellow Nevadans, particularly among the booming population of Filipino Americans…
Voices of New York - Tim Wu may have lost his bid to become lieutenant governor, but the Taiwanese-American Columbia law professor gained a whole lot during the final weeks of his primary campaign with his fellow lawyer and running mate Zephyr Teachout…
Downtown Express - State government scrutiny of local landlords extended on Aug. 20 to Marold Properties for alleged tenant harassment in Chinatown and the Lower East Side. Governor Andrew Cuomo issued a subpoena to the company that day as part of an ongoing…
NBC Asian America - Among the many buildings seriously damaged in Sunday’s 6.0 earthquake in Napa, California, is the historic Pfeiffer Building, known locally as the Sam Kee Laundry Building. Built in 1875, it is Napa’s first stone building and oldest surviving commercial building…
The Root - As the nation followed the aftermath of the police shooting death of unarmed teenager Michael Brown in suburban Ferguson, Mo.–including the detention of two journalists and the tear-gassing of at least one camera crew, many journalism organizations rushed…
International Business Times - Friday marks two years since President Barack Obama used his executive authority to halt deportations for hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who arrived in the U.S. as children…
China Daily USA – Mei Chou closed her first New York City restaurant in 2008 because of it. Now she is facing the same issue again with her two-year-old Chinatown bistro – skyrocketing rent. “Rent is going to kill the culture and excitement of New York,”….
Times-Ledger - Kum Gang San, a Korean restaurant with locations in Flushing and Manhattan’s Koreatown, has egregiously violated employment law for several years, a lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court by the Asian American Legal Defense Fund…
China Daily USA - Thirteen Chinese garment workers have been awarded $1.2 million in damages for unpaid wages while working at a clothing factory between 2005 and 2010 in New York’s Chinatown.
Federal Judge P. Kevin Castel in Manhattan issued the award on Wednesday in a lawsuit brought in May 2011 ...
White House Blog (op-ed) – Khin Mai Aung is being honored as a Cesar E. Chavez Champion of Change. I began my legal career in the San Francisco Bay Area during the “dot com boom” of the late 1990s…
Fox News Latino – The labor leader and civil rights activist Cesar Chavez, who would have turned 87 on Monday, was remembered by the White House with “Champions of Change,” an event that honors community leaders who embody the spirit…
China Daily USA – John G. Chou, general counsel at AmerisourceBergen Corporation, was honored with the 2014 Justice in Action Awards at the 40th anniversary celebration of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF)…
Above the Law – Last night, I had the privilege and pleasure of attending the 40th anniversary celebration of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF). Forty years is a remarkable milestone, so everyone…
The Hechinger Report – Every school night, Ramon Leon helps his older son, a third grader at a New Orleans charter school, with his homework. Typically, they speed through the math worksheets…
WGBH News – It’s Tuesday morning at the Chinese Progressive Association in Chinatown. Four residents have arrived with a looming problem: They were recently served eviction notices by their landlord…
IndiaWest – Actor and comic Aasif Mandvi (“The Daily Show,” “Million Dollar Arm”) will receive an honor from the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund at its gala 2014 Justice in Action Awards Mar. 25…
Megaphone Magazine – “Ni hao,” says a red painted wall on the southwest corner of Main and Keefer. The enormous particle board inscription is an English phonetic spelling of “hello” in Cantonese, part of an advertisement…
Washington City Paper – Lobbyists have wet dreams about this scenario. You’ve mobilized an entire constituent group, 80,000 potential swing voters in a swing state. It’s a growing immigrant population with a profile coveted by politicians…
