Preliminary data from exit polls released by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) reveal that approximately 80% of Asian American voters in the battleground states of Nevada and Virginia voted for President Obama and Democratic candidates.
“As the fastest growing minority gr...
Issues, Not Outreach, Account for Vast Majority of Asian Americans Voting Democratic
Asian American voters were considered a swing voting bloc in the weeks leading up to Election Day, but Obama scooped the Asian American vote by a wide margin, with 72% voting for President Obama and 26% for Mitt Ro...
November 6, 2012 – Many Asian American voters, especially new citizens and first-time voters, encountered barriers at polling places, including inadequate language assistance, excessive requests for identification and voter eligibility, and missing names on voter rolls.
The Asian American Legal Def...
November 6, 2012 — Because many New York City neighborhoods, in particular Manhattan’s Chinatown, were ravaged by Hurricane Sandy, the New York City Board of Elections changed the location of numerous poll sites, as recently as Monday evening before the election. On Monday, Nov. 5, Governor Cuomo is...
November 6, 2012 — A new national poll of Asian American voters has revealed their emerging role as politically active citizens in the 2012 elections and some surprising views on key policy issues, such as immigration reform and the budget deficit.
In a telephone survey of 800 Asian American voters...
November 5, 2012 — The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) will dispatch over 800 attorneys, law students, and community volunteers to 14 states to document voter problems on Election Day. AALDEF will also conduct a nonpartisan multilingual exit poll in 13 languages to get a sna...
AALDEF Poll Monitoring Shows Violations of Asian American Voting Rights in NY, NJ, VA, PA, GA, MA
October 31, 2012 — The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) submitted a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice urging the Attorney General to assign attorneys and appoint federa...
This week, the gastropub Spitzer’s Corner and former kitchen employee Edward Kim effectuated settlement of a wage-and-hour action Kim filed earlier this May in Manhattan federal court, Kim v. NYLA Cafe, LLC, Case No. 12 Civ. 3214 (S.D.N.Y.).
AALDEF filed suit on behalf of Kim against the restaurant...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), a 38-year old civil rights organization, released a new report today documenting the many obstacles faced by Asian American voters during the Presidential Primary Elections in early 2012.
Asian Americans are the nation’s fastest growing ...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), a 38-year old national civil rights organization, announced that it will dispatch over 600 attorneys, law students, and community volunteers to 14 states to document voting problems in the November 6th elections. AALDEF will also conduct ...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) and Advocates for Children of New York (AFC) released their report, “Policy Recommendations: Effective Accountability Mechanisms for New York State’s English Language Learners (ELLs),” which provides guidelines for successful accountabilit...
On October 2, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) will join University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin) student associations, We Support UT and the Multicultural Engagement Center, for a night of learning and dialogue around the Fisher v. UT-Austin affirmative action case. The...
In an effort to uncover the depth of the New York Police Department’s (NYPD) extensive surveillance of American Muslims, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) and Muslim Advocates, with the assistance of pro bono counsel Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, filed an Article 78 admini...
September 25, 2012 marks the first annual National Voter Registration Day. The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) will conduct a non-partisan voter registration drive in Manhattan’s Chinatown from 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm in front of the Canal Street JZNQ subway stop, located on Cen...
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued a decision today in Applewhite v. Pennsylvania, vacating the order of the Commonwealth Court which refused to issue an injunction to the state’s new voter identification law, and remanded the case back to the Commonwealth Court.
“The Supreme Court had all of th...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), LatinoJustice PRLDEF, National Institute for Latino Policy (NILP), and the Center for Law and Social Justice (CLSJ) of Medgar Evers College have released the NYC Council Unity Map, a joint proposal for new City Council districts that refl...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) and the Asian Pacific American Bar Association (APABA) of Pennsylvania filed an amicus “friend of the court” brief in the Pennsylvania State Supreme Court challenging the constitutionality of Pennsylvania’s restrictive voter ID requirement...
The Honorable Patrick Leahy
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United States Senate
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The Honorable Chuck Grassley
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Asian American and Latino employees of a Korean restaurant, Kum Gang San, obtained a temporary restraining order yesterday barring the restaurant owner from retaliating against them for asserting their labor rights. The workers sued Kum Gang San for failing to pay minimum wage and overtime and for...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) announced that a Rhode Island federal judge has ordered default against an Emirati colonel in its human trafficking civil suit on behalf of a Filipina immigrant worker, Ms. Ballesteros. In April 2011, Ms. Ballesteros filed a civil action a...
