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...
Voters can report Election Day problems by e-mail to votingcomplaints@aaldef.org.
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), a national 33-year-old civil rights organization, will be monitoring polling places on Election Day, Tuesday, November 6, 2007, to ensure that eligible Asi...
Manhattan Federal Jury Awards Back Wages and Reinstatement
New York, NY—After a four-day trial, a federal jury has awarded $182,000 in back wages, overtime pay and damages to Susan Kim, a Korean immigrant nail salon worker who worked for seventeen years at 167 Nail Salon Plaza and was fired in Marc...
Volume 20 Issue 20 | Sept. 28 – Oct. 04, 2007
By Skye H. McFarlane
Environmental advocates and local officials agree that the road to comprehensive 9/11 healthcare runs straight through Washington, D.C. Nevertheless, the city is driving forward on its own, expanding free treatment for residents, w...
By NEHA SINGH and KHIN MAI AUNG
A SHY high school freshman, Harpal Singh Vacher, ended the school year last spring as the latest collateral damage in a citywide political tussle. What began as a childish argument with fellow students on May 24 ended with Harpal crouched on a bathroom floor at Newto...
By Cara Buckley
It was the evening rush one recent night in lower Chinatown, and chaos was unfolding in its usual way.
Cars slowed to a crawl around Chatham Square, an asterisk of an intersection where seven streets converge. Traffic safety officers frantically waved their white-gloved hands, tryi...
By Anthony Faiola
NEW YORK — The deliverymen of Saigon Grill labored for years at the bottom of Manhattan’s food chain. Biking swiftly down the avenues in biting cold and searing heat, they schlepped up high-rises and walk-ups with bags of steaming noodles and shrimp fried rice.
Then they surprise...
By Steven Greenhouse
Happy Lee can hardly believe that the nail salon across the street from hers charges just $7 for a manicure.
I dont know how they can make it, said Ms. Lee, the owner of Happy Beauty Salon in Carle Place, Long Island, which employs nine manicurists.
Ms. Lee said her industry ...
Entire front of the house staff join as plaintiffs in action for unpaid wages against Manhattan fine dining restaurant
New York, NY—Today, 11 Bangladeshi, Latino and Eastern European immigrant workers at Devi, an upscale Indian restaurant in Manhattan, joined four other plaintiffs in a federal laws...
For Immediate Release
August 3, 2007
New York City–Two days before today’s New York State Supreme Court hearing on the long overdue Park Row environmental impact statement (EIS), Police Headquarters finally released the One Police Plaza Security Plan, Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) – n...
For more information, contact:
Tushar J. Sheth
AALDEF Staff Attorney
212.966.5932 x220
tsheth@aaldef.org
Prof. Sameer Ashar
CUNY School of Law
718.340.4180
ashar@mail.law.cuny.edu
Vera M. Scanlon, Esq.
Beldock Levine & Hoffman LLP
212.277.5897
vscanlon@blhny.com
Restaurant Opportunities Center of...
On July 25, a three-judge federal panel heard oral arguments in United States v. City of Boston regarding the transliteration of candidate names in Chinese on ballots, so that limited English proficient Chinese American voters can vote for their candidates of choice. AALDEF, Greater Boston Legal Ser...
Newark, NJ - Mr. Ahn,” a Korean immigrant and Bergen County resident, filed suit today against C. Y. Kim, owner of Rodeo Plaza mall in Palisades Park, to recover tens of thousands of dollars in minimum wage and overtime pay. The AALDEF New Jersey Asian American Legal Project (NJ-AALP), which represe...
Newark, NJ - More than 600,000 Asian Americans live in New Jersey, but few resources exist that are culturally and linguistically appropriate to meet the needs of the nations fifth-largest Asian American population. Today, AALDEF celebrated the opening of a second office on 89 Market Street, 8th flo...
Tuesday, July 31: AALDEF hosts a reading of the novel Chambermaid with author Saira Rao. Ms. Raos witty and humorous debut novel follows a young attorneys eventful year clerking for a federal judge. The book will be available for sale at the event, which includes a discussion and book signing.
Loca...
Wednesday, July 25: AALDEF co-sponsors a screening of the award-winning documentary New Year Baby at the 30th Asian American International Film Festival. Director Socheata Poeuv journeys to Cambodia to trace her family’s experiences under the Khmer Rouge. Variety describes the film as “a disarming p...
NJ-AALP Opens Its Doors to Asian American Residents with Employment and Immigration Questions
Newark, NJ - More than 600,000 Asian Americans live in New Jersey, but few resources exist that are culturally and linguistically appropriate to meet the complex needs of the Asian American community in Ne...
By Elizabeth Llorente
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, founded in 1974, says it’s setting up an office to address “the unmet legal needs of Asian-Americans in New Jersey.”
The New Jersey-Asian American Legal Project — which is part of the national group — will run the office.
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July 2, 2007, San Francisco Chronicle
By Khin Mai Aung and Christina Wong
When the U.S. Supreme Court’s decisions on Seattle’s and Louisville’s school integration cases came down, our offices received a flurry of calls inquiring how the rulings impact Asian Pacific Americans. Without a doubt, the ...
