AALDEF criticized a racist segment that appeared on Fox News Channel’s “The O’Reilly Report” on Oct. 4, 2016, featuring interviews of people in New York’s Chinatown by Fox commentator Jesse Watters. AALDEF’s letter to Fox News Channel co-presidents Jack Abernathy and Bill Shine can be downloaded her...
New York City…AALDEF executive director Margaret Fung spoke at a rally and press conference at City Hall on Tuesday, Sept. 6, to support New York Supreme Court Justice Doris Ling-Cohan, who is facing re-election this year. We issued the following statement:
We are disappointed to learn that Doris...
On Thursday, September 1, 2016, the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), CUNY Center for Community and Ethnic Media (CCEM), Asian American Federation (AAF), MinKwon Center for Community Action, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), and the White House Initiative on Asian Americ...
Asian American voters entitled to interpreters of their choice under Voting Rights Act
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) applauded a federal court order blocking the Texas law that limits access to interpreters for limited English proficient voters. The district court r...
Two candidates forums wlll be held in Manhattan and Flushing, where Asian American candidates are running in Assembly District 65 (Manhattan/Lower East Side) and Senate District 16 (Flushing, Elmhurst, Fresh Meadows, Bayside) in the Democratic primary elections on Tuesday, September 13, 2016.
AAL...
On June 21, 2016, Grace Yachueng Hwang–attorney, teacher, community activist, and Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund Board member–died at the Good Shepherd Hospice House in Manhattan, Kansas after a long bout with cancer. She was 60.
AALDEF board president Tommy Shi said: “On behalf ...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), Asian Americans Advancing Justice (Advancing Justice), and the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) applaud the U.S. Supreme Court’s opinion released today in Fisher v. University of Texas. The Court ruled 4-3 in favor...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) joined civil rights and pro-immigrant advocacy groups in criticizing today’s U.S. Supreme Court opinion in United States v. Texas as a setback for immigrants and their families. In a 4-4 vote, the Court let stand a lower court decision uph...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), Williamson County, and the Williamson County Elections Department have settled a federal voting rights lawsuit challenging the Texas state law that requires all interpreters to be registered voters in the county in which they provide lang...
New York, NY — Asian American voters in New York’s Chinatown strongly supported Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in the April 19 presidential primary elections, according to preliminary results of a bilingual exit poll conducted by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF).
In ...
New York, NY — The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), a New York-based national civil rights organization, will dispatch attorneys and volunteers to document voter problems and the availability of language assistance on Election Day, April 19, in New York City.
In addition to...
On Tuesday, April 19, AALDEF will be monitoring the New York Presidential Primary Elections at several polling places in Manhattan’s Chinatown and Lower East Side. Special elections will also be held on April 19 to fill a vacancy in NY’s 65th Assembly District, a seat formerly held by Sheldon Silver...
Civil Rights, Labor, and Immigration Groups File Amicus Brief Asking Supreme Court to Lift Injunction on Expanded DACA and DAPA in United States v. Texas
In a friend-of-the-court brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court today, AALDEF joined 325 groups urging the Court to lift the injunction against ...
The killing of Akai Gurley, a 28-year-old unarmed African American man, was a tragedy that underscores the need for systemic changes in the NYPD and the NYC Housing Authority.
On Nov. 20, 2014, NYPD officer Peter Liang, a Chinese American rookie police officer, and his partner entered a dark stairw...
Board’s decision includes DACA students and opens the door for licensure for a range of professions
The New York State Board of Regents voted this week to begin a process to permit qualified non-citizens to obtain professional licenses. Advocates from CUNY Law, its Center on Latino/a Rights and Equ...
On February 26, 2016, a coalition of 82 civil rights, voting rights, labor, religious, environmental, and education groups, including AALDEF, wrote to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, urging the Senate to hold hearings and consider the president’s nominee to fill the vacancy on ...
New York, NY…On Tuesday, February 16, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) will present its 2016 Justice in Action Awards to Eric H. Holder, Jr., partner at Covington & Burling LLP and former U.S. Attorney General, Heidi C. Chen, Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and...
AALDEF has filed a new wage and hour case in Manhattan federal court on behalf of two Chinese American delivery workers who were employed by Hamachi Sushi restaurant in Lower Manhattan. The workers combined were employed for five years at the restaurant, where they were grossly underpaid and subject...
MEDIA ADVISORY
What: Workers, Tenants, Small Businesses, Students and Groups from across NYC voice opposition to Mayor de Blasio’s Citywide Rezoning
When: December 16, 2015, 4pm – 6pm
Where: Gracie Mansion, 88th Street at East End Avenue, Manhattan
Details:
Workers, tenants, home owners, small ...
A Texas federal court has ruled that AALDEF’s lawsuit on behalf of Asian American voters seeking language assistance under the Voting Rights Act may proceed.
The case, OCA – Greater Houston v. State of Texas, challenges a provision of the Texas Election Code that requires interpreters to be registe...
