The Foundation has awarded six grants for 2014.

The National Immigrant Justice Center, a 2012 Grantee, received support for a case, Cece v. Holder, in the Seventh Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals. On August 9, 2013, the court adopted the National Immigrant Justice Center’s position on the definition of “particular social group” as applied to gender-based asylum claims and in closer accordance with international refugee law.

The National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty, a 2012 Foundation grantee, recently prevailed in a case it brought against the City of Dallas.

On April 2, 2013, Susan Stern, the Deputy Director of Administration at the National Housing Law Project, wrote Jerry Hartman a note sharing an article featured in the Wall Street Journal. The note and article read as follows…

The Public Justice Center, a 2011 Foundation grant recipient, settled a case very favorably that it brought against the State of Maryland

A team of Drinker Biddle & Reath lawyers from the Washington and Philadelphia offices is partnering with a team of lawyers from the National Center for Law and Economic Justice to represent a class of blind and seriously visually impaired individuals.