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New York City - Asian Americans, especially new citizens and first-time voters, turned out to vote in record numbers today, but many encountered barriers at polling places, ranging from inadequate language assistance, improper requests for ...
New York City–A Manhattan federal court has awarded over $4.6 million in back wages and damages to 36 Chinese immigrant delivery workers at two Saigon Grill restaurants in Manhattan. In a 79-page decision, federal Magistrate Judge Michael H. Dolinger consistently found that the workers were telling ...
Three tenured public school teachers in Lowell, MA–two Cambodian Americans and one Puerto Rican–won a major victory when the Massachusetts Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that they had been improperly dismissed under procedures that failed to assess accurately their English language fluency.
AALDE...
Chusok Harvest Moon Festival
hosted by the Korean American Association of New Jersey (KAANJ)
Dates: Saturday and Sunday, September 27th and 28th
Hours: Saturday 12pm-10pm; Sunday 12pm-7pm
Location: Overpeck Park, Leonia, New Jersey
AALDEF’s New Jersey Legal Project will be distributing ‘Know Yo...
Denounce 7 years of Bush and Congressional failure to respond to the 9/11 health crisis
Press Conference
Sunday, September 7th, 1 p.m.
Foley Square (Worth St. between Lafayette and Centre St.)
Ground Zero clean-up workers, first responders, volunteers, Lower Manhattan workers and residents, join...
New York, NY — The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) commends Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Chancellor Joel Klein and the New York City Department of Education (DOE) for issuing an historic Chancellor’s Regulation today that defines, tracks, and aims to prevent bias-based harassmen...
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund registers voters at the World Trade Center PATH Station on Voting Rights Act anniversary
New York, NY – In commemoration of the 43rd anniversary of the passage of the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fu...
New York –This Saturday, July 26, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) will be conducting legal rights information outreach in four neighborhoods with large Asian American populations: Bensonhurst and Kensington, Brooklyn; Jackson Heights, Queens; and Jersey City, NJ. AALDEF ...
Central Islip, NY — The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) today filed in federal court a complaint under the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA), on behalf of Samirah and Enung, two Indonesian survivors of labor trafficking, following the federal crimina...
New York, NY — The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) and members of the National Asian American Education Advocates (NAAEA) Network are calling on members of the Terrebonne Parish School Board to rescind a recommendation prohibiting the use of non-English languages during comm...
New York, NY — The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) announced that it has filed a complaint in New York federal court on behalf of a Filipina immigrant worker against a former United Nations ambassador from the Philippines, his family, and his wife’s travel agency, for violat...
Complaint Alleges That Edison Police Reported Him to Federal Immigration Authorities in Retaliation for His Brutality Complaint
Newark, NJ — Rajnikant Parikh, a former resident of Edison, New Jersey, filed a lawsuit today in New Jersey federal court against the Township of Edison, several officers ...
New York, NY — At the first-ever National Asian American Education Advocates Summit held at Columbia University last month, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), a 34-year old civil rights organization, released its new report detailing several provisions of the No Child Left...
Ruling will Impact Large Restaurants and Banquet Halls Throughout New York State
Advocates Hail Ruling’s Impact on Chinatown Banquet Industry
New York – Today the New York State Court of Appeals ruled that service employees of World Yacht, a luxury dining fleet in Manhattan, are entitled to procee...
New York… Asian American voters in New York and New Jersey, two states with the largest Asian American populations in the Northeast, gave overwhelming support to Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and Senator John McCain (R-AZ) in the “Super Tuesday” presidential primary elections.
The Asian American L...
New York, NY–The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) will honor activist Harry Belafonte, Art Chong, Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer of Safeco Corporation, and investigative journalist Seymour Hersh with the 2008 Justice in Action Award at its Annual Lunar New Y...
Newark, NJ–Two Filipina domestic workers have filed lawsuits against a Bergen County couple for years of unpaid minimum wage and overtime pay. The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) New Jersey-Asian American Legal Project (NJ-AALP), with pro bono counsel Troutman Sanders LLP, f...
New York, NY … The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), a 34-year old civil rights organization, today released a new report detailing several obstacles faced by Asian American voters in nine states in the November 2006 Midterm Elections.
AALDEF’s report, Asian American Access ...
Flushing, NY–Federal District Court Judge Eric N. Vitaliano has ruled in favor of three former workers at Uri Hospital, and ordered their former employers – Soryang Kim, Koam Medical Services P.C., Ace Health Management, Inc., Henry Byun, and Jessica Byun – to pay more than $145,000 for unpaid wage ...
AALDEF brief challenges Indiana’s restrictive photo ID requirement for voters
Today, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), a 33-year old national civil rights organization, filed an amicus “friend of the court” brief in the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of twenty-five Asian A...
