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our financial foundation is strong
champions an equitable
society. Using the power of the law together
with advocacy and education, LatinoJustice
PRLDEF protects opportunities for all Latinos to
succeed in school and work, fulfill their dreams,
and sustain their families and communities.
LatinoJustice PRLDEF
STATEMENTS OF ACTIVITIES
For the Year Ended June 30,
20122011
UnrestrictedTemporarilyTotalTotal
Restricted
support and revenue
contributions
$ 833,088 event revenue, net of direct donor
benefits of $93,406 in 2012 and
&81,051 in 2011
409,045 legal fees recovered, net
—
education fees
84,105 rental revenue
81,456 investment revenue 375 other
541 net assets released from restriction 1,490,418 Total Support and Revenue
$1,207,863 $2,040,951 $2,120,344
—
—
—
—
—
—
(1,490,418)
409,045 —
84,105 81,456 375 541 —
405,262
180,333
95,123
81,448
1,985
400
—
$2,899,028 $ (282,555) $2,616,473 $2,884,895
expenses:
Program Services
litigation
education communications
Total Program Services
Support Services
administrative and general
development
Total Support Services
EDUCATION FEES 3%
OTHER 3%
1,347,857 370,281 352,780 2,070,918 —
—
—
—
1,347,857 370,281 352,780 2,070,918 1,475,624
389,163
274,453
2,139,240
439,730 254,280 694,010 —
—
—
439,730 254,280 694,010 494,515
135,311
629,286
$2,764,928 $
—
$2,764,928 $2,769,066
increase (decrease) in Net Assets$ 134,100 $ (282,555) $ (148,455) Net Assets, Beginning of Year
$ 234,523 $1,561,686 $1,796,209 Net Assets, End of Year
$ 368,623 $1,279,131 $1,647,754 $ 115,829
$1,680,380
$1,796,209
Total Expenses
STATEMENTS
OF FINANCIAL
POSITION
CONTRIBUTIONS 78%
EVENT REVENUE 16%
For the Year Ended June 30,
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cash & cash equivalents
unrestricted
$ 333,279 cash & cash equivalents
debt service reserve
87,681 investments at fair value
604,561 contributions and accounts receivable 825,366
prepaid expenses and other
37,551
net fixed assets
933,129
litigation 49%
$ 446,359
87,339
516,425
1,054,956
36,658
1,038,057
education 13%
communications and
civic engagement 13%
management
& general 16%
fundraising 9%
program services
support services
$2,821,567$3,179,794
Net Assets
unrestricted:
temporarily restricted
Total Net Assets
$ 222,355
12,400
939,058
$ 1,173,813
Total Liabilities & Net Assets$2,821,567 $3,179,794
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Our work these past 40
years could not have been
accomplished were it not for
the steadfast support received
from our staff, our board,
community, and institutional
and private sector partners
that have so generously
donated to our cause.
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Portrait of
our work
$ 288,191
11,450
1,083,944 $1,383,585
368,623234,523
1,279,131
1,561,686
$1,647,754 $1,796,209
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Highlights
from 2013
Los últimos 40 años de
nuestro trabajo no se podrían
haber logrado si no fuera por el
constante apoyo recibido de
nuestro personal, la comunidad y
los socios institucionales y del
sector privado que tan
generosamente han donado a
nuestra causa.
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Donors AND
PARTNERS
BACK COVER
Board
and staff
legal, legal
our donors support
a diverse and
education and
and fund our work committed group
advocacy work
dominate the year
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accounts payable and
accrued expenses unearned revenue
mortgage payable
Total Liabilities
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adriana roxanna
it takes courage, dedication and support
juan
MORE THAN FOUR DECADES of civil rights litigation and
advocacy has left a successful legacy of landmark decisions
in education, language, voting, and workers’ rights as well as
immigration issues that have impacted millions of Latinos lives.
Almost 10,000 pre-law students have come through the doors
of Latinojustice PRLDEF to take preparatory courses, receive
mentoring, counseling and support. Our growing list of
prominent alumni includes Latino judges, attorneys, deputy
mayors, business leaders, elected officials and union leaders.
The foundation of LatinoJustice PRLDEF was
built by the people who had the courage to fight for
justice, the staff members who dedicated their lives for
fairness and especially the friends and supporters who
supported our mission, our community and our work.
These portraits in Justice and Leadership seek
to highlight that it takes all kinds to ensure that justice
and fairness will make life better for Latinos.
These last 40 years of our work could not have
been accomplished were it not for the steadfast support
received from our staff, our board, community, and
institutional and private sector partners that have so
generously donated to our cause. Chief among these
donors is the Ford Foundation which enabled us to get
started in 1972 and supports us unwaveringly through
today.
Our work in places like Florida, Puerto
Rico, Philadelphia, New Jersey, Alabama, South
Carolina, Arizona and our base in New York would
not have been possible without the support and donations of thousands of regular folks who see our work as
critical to their pursuit of justice, fairness and the
American Dream.
More than 40 years after our founding,
LatinoJustice PRLDEF continues to be an
aggressive advocate for Latino rights throughout the
Northeast and beyond. We have joined the team of
attorneys directly challenging the constitutionality of
state anti-immigrant ordinances in Alabama (HICA v.
Bentley) and South Carolina (Low Country Immigration Coalition v. Haley). A second suit in
Alabama (Central Alabama Fair Housing
Center v. Magee) resulted in a finding that the
Alabama State Legislature purposefully targeted Latino
immigrants when it passed its extreme anti-immigrant
law.
We have championed the rights of Latina
immigrant workers through our Latinas at Work
Project, and have added an additional project to
address workers’ rights throughout the New York
metropolitan area. In housing, LatinoJustice
PRLDEF is on the cutting edge of creating case law
that protects immigrants from discrimination in the
denial of their leases based on their status or alienage in
cases like (Recalde v Bae Cleaners). Police practices that result in the racial profiling and/or direct abuse
of expression of civil liberties by Latinos have also that
protects immigrants from discrimination in the denial
of their leases based on their status or alienage in
cases like Recalde v Bae Cleaners. Police
practices that result in the racial profiling and/or direct
abuse of expression of civil liberties by Latinos have
also been challenged in Suffolk County, NY, in New
York City and in Puerto Rico.
LatinoJustice PRLDEF continued to use
the Voting Rights Act to successfully provide the
foundation for increased Latino representation in
legislative bodies as a way to ensure that state and
local legislation would not impede the political
participation of Latino residents. During the last
redistricting cycle, LatinoJustice PRLDEF
developed and shared redistricting tools with communities in Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode
Island. Central Florida, along with Tampa and
Hillsborough County have been areas of focus
because favorable redistricting plans were proposed
and litigation has been contemplated.
Pennsylvania’s Latino communities were
successful, with our efforts, to ensure fair legislative
In April 2011,
Juan Cartagena
became the President
and General Counsel
of LatinoJustice PRLDEF.
Cartagena, a constitutional
law and civil rights
attorney, served as a PRLDEF
intern in the 1970s before
starting his post-graduate
legal career as a staff
attorney fellow at PRLDEF
in the 1980s. Under
Cartagena, the organization
has continued to grow
and evolve, with plans
to expand its work into
the Southeastern United
States, and with a number
of new attorneys and
legal fellows joining
its staff.
local districts in Philadelphia, but litigation on other
levels were filed (Garcia v. 2011 Legislative
Reapportionment Commission). In NY State,
LatinoJustice PRLDEF joined other attorneys in
defending a progressive NY law that would count
prisoners as residents of their home districts, not their
prison towns, for redistricting purposes (Little v.
LATFOR). In New York City, our attorneys obtained
intervention in a statewide redistricting challenge in
federal court in (Favors v. Cuomo).
And our efforts to repair and advance the
pipeline of students who seek to enter the law profession have been enhanced with a comprehensive
makeover in the CAP Leadership Institute and its
incorporation of the Youth Leadership Network and
leadership training efforts that will ensure a cadre of
civil rights leaders for tomorrow.
LatinoJustice PRLDEF has demonstrated
time and time again its relevance to the Latino community and its committed, comprehensive approach
to the use of law as an element of social change in our
country. In the four decades of its existence, the
organization has lived up to the promise of its founders as a leader in the protection of the civil rights of
Latino communities and an agent promoting the
respect of the ideals that make our country stronger.
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an essay by juan cartagena
letter from the president
clients
adriana & roxana
a judicial warrant. They shouted questions at her and
her family, treating them like criminals despite the
fact that every member of the household was either a
citizen or a legal permanent resident. Desperate and
frightened, Aguilar went to a local immigrant rights
activist who told her about LatinoJustice
PRLDEF.
She wasted no time in calling LatinoJustice.
Attorneys visited her and her family, documenting
similar stories from neighbors. Because of Aguilar’s
bravery, LatinoJustice PRLDEF brought a
lawsuit challenging United States Immigration and
Customs Enforcement (ICE) for its warrantless
home raids. Over 20 other Latinos had similar
stories and joined the case.
“My family will never forget that night,” said
Aguilar. “My son, who was just four years old, was
crying in fear of gunmen in his home at four in the
morning. We asked them to show a warrant or any
other authority they had for being inside our home.
They ignored us.”
In 2013, ICE agreed to pay 22 plaintiffs $1
million in total damages and expenses; to reform its
national policy and training memoranda regarding
the manner in which ICE agents conduct home raid
operations; and to provide immigration relief to
several plaintiffs.
In another case, Roxana Orellana Santos was
sitting outside her job by a pond enjoying her lunch
when two Frederick County, Maryland deputy
sheriffs stopped their patrol car to question her
about what she was doing there and request identification (including a passport) — even though she was
only eating a sandwich.
After prolonged questioning, they took her into
custody, held her overnight before turning her over
to federal immigration agents for deportation. For
the month and a half that Santos then spent in
federal detention, she was separated from her then
one-year-old son Cesar Jovany.
Santos, 31, had lived in Frederick County
for six years at the time. Santos, who subsequently
filed for asylum, fled her native El Salvador after a
family dispute, where she was threatened at gunpoint.
“It was a very painful experience,” she says. “I left
because I wanted a better life for me, for my mother
and for my son. But then here I had to face the same
sort of thing with the police. It’s been very difficult.”
LatinoJustice PRLDEF, CASA de Maryland,
and Nixon Peabody filed a federal civil rights suit on
behalf of Santos, alleging the police officers who
arrested her had violated her constitutional rights by
illegally detaining her and had exceeded their authority in enforcing federal immigration law.
The lawsuit contended that the sheriffs’
actions were discriminatory and unlawfully
violated Santos’ federal constitutional rights to be
free from discrimination and from unreasonable
search and seizure.
In a groundbreaking 2013 decision, a federal
appeals court found that a state or local law
enforcement officer’s suspicion or knowledge that an
individual has committed a civil immigration
violation without more information does not provide
them with probable cause to suspect that the
individual is engaged in criminal activity. The court
said the officer may not detain or arrest the individual solely based upon a purported civil violation
of federal immigration law.
Aguilar and Santos are just two of our many
courageous clients who, in the face of illegal acts by
government agents breaking the law, have stood up
and used the power of the law to reclaim their rights.
2013
ADRIANA
AGUILAR et al.
v. U.S.
IMMIGRATION
AND CUSTOMS
ENFORCEMENT
DIVISION (“ICE”)
In a case filed in
2007 challenging
USCIS’ illegal
pre-dawn para-military style home
raids targeting
Latino residences in
New York, LatinoJustice PRLDEF
obtained a landmark settlement in
Spring 2013 that
drastically reformed USCIS
national policies
and procedures
governing future
home immigration
enforcement
operations. The
plaintiffs also
received $1 million
in total damages
and fees and immigration relief for
Latino residents
subjected to these
illegal home raids.
The settlement set
forth procedures
in which USCIS
agents can now
only enter a home
with the knowing
and voluntary
consent
of the residents
and they must
provide Spanish
language assistance for non-English-speaking
residents.
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My family will never forget
that night. My son, who was
just four years old, was crying
in fear of gunmen in his home
at four in the morning. We
asked them to show a warrant
or any other authority they
had for being inside our home.
They ignored us.
— Adriana Aguilar
LARGE PHOTO: adriana aguilar and her son cesar (COURTESY Randee Daddona) INSET: Roxana Orellana Santos AND FAMILY
Early one morning, Adriana Aguilar— a United States citizen born
in Ecuador—was awakened by banging on the door of her Long
Island home. When a family member answered, immigration agents
swarmed inside and started illegally searching the house without
alumnA
carol
The year was 1982, and Carol Robles-Román, was a sophomore
at Fordham University. LatinoJustice, then known as the Puerto
Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, had just launched its
“Legal Career Days,” and had come to Fordham to encourage
Working with the Mayor’s
Office to Combat Domestic
Violence, she began by
mapping domestic violence
statistics, identifying
which could rapidly evaluate high-risk situations and
take immediate action.
and Emilio Robles were entrepreneurs and civil
rights activists.
When they came to the U.S. from Puerto Rico in
the mid-1950s they had $100 between them. But
together they built a successful business and became
pillars of the community. Robles-Román recalls,
“People would come into their business and say,
‘You won’t believe what happened…’ and my
mother would drop what she was doing and go out
and do battle.” Ines Robles taught her children that
if you see something wrong, you stand up and fix it,
and never shy away from speaking truth to power.
Today Robles-Román continues that tradition as
the role model. A working mother with two school
aged children, Robles-Román is served as Deputy
and Counsel to New York City Mayor Michael
Bloomberg. In that capacity, she oversees 13 city
agencies, including the New York City Commission
on Human Rights, the Mayor’s Office to Combat
Domestic Violence and the Mayor’s Office of
Immigrant Affairs.
Her years working alongside Mayor Bloomberg
have been marked by major victories that have
improved life for all New Yorkers. She is particularly
proud to have helped make New York City the first
jurisdiction to develop and implement a language
access policy ensuring that those with limited English
have equal access to government services. The
program has become the model for a recently implemented statewide language access policy.
Despite the advances she and others have made
in made in securing greater rights for immigrants,
Robles-Román believes much work remains, and
LatinoJustice has a critical role to play. “Many civil
rights issues remain at the forefront of the Latino
community’s agenda,” she says. “And civil rights
organizations like LatinoJustice PRLDEF have
to stay vigilant.”
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LEGAL
EDUCATION
PROGRAMS
Since the 1970s
nearly 10,000 aspiring law students
have benefited
from our legal
education programs. Latino
Justice PRLDEF
offers LSAT exam
prep courses, a
pre-law counseling
center for Latin@s
seeking advice
about law school
and several events
that give young
people exposure to
the legal profession. This year, our
annual Law Day
event attracted
more than 300
college students
to meet with law
school admissions
officers. OUR
LAWBOUND PROGRAM
HAS RECRUITED AND
TRAINED OVER 200
COLLEGE STUDENTS.
LatinoJustice
PRLDEF also works
with local bar
associations to
offer mentoring
and networking to
current LatinO
law students. We
offer an annual
orientation
workshop for
newly accepted
law students,
How to Succeed
in Law School.
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Latino undergrads to consider careers as
attorneys. Robles-Román showed up, listened
intently – and she was hooked.
After graduating from Fordham with a double
major in Media Studies/Journalism and Political
Science, Robles-Román reconnected with PRLDEF.
She had set her sights on NYU Law School and was
determined to do everything in her power to boost
her chances of getting in.
She laughs, “I took every program PRLDEF had
— twice.” Particularly inspiring was the personal
statement workshop conducted by Luis deGraffe,
then serving as head of the PRLDEF Education
Division. Although she was too shy to approach the
legendary professor, Robles-Román recalls that he
had a significant impact on her.
“I would never have gone up to him afterwards
because he was an important professor. I just sat in
the room and soaked it all in,” she says, adding that
it wasn’t just the information that helped her, but
also “the positive energy, the conviction that ‘you can
do this’.”
As a law student at NYU, Robles-Román was
active in the PRLDEF Network of Latino Students.
Working alongside her then boyfriend/now husband
and U.S. District Court Judge Nelson Román,
Robles-Román helped found and incorporate the
Northeast and National Latino Law Student
organizations.
“When I think about it now, I wonder where we
got the ideas and the energy,” Robles laughs. “But a
lot of that came from PRLDEF [having created] the
positive environment for a group of very smart and
committed law students to work together.”
Robles-Román still embodies those same
characteristics — optimism, energy, determination
and intelligence. She is quick to credit her
parents for having served as role models. Ines
staff members
foster & maritza
Maritza Maldonado is not an attorney. But you’d never guess
that from the enthusiasm she has about the law. She’s been
known to convince a young person or two to change careers. Some
might say she gives them a little push in the right direction.
I was doomed early on
in life—coming from a
Republican background—
to be a troublemaker, I was
always interested in civil
rights. Law was a way
to go to battle.
— FOSTER MAER
Unlike Maldonado, who was born and raised
in New York, Maer comes from a conservative
family in Colorado. He had never met many
Puerto Ricans before he came to the East Coast
for school, and he had not been to Puerto Rico
until he was one of the attorneys working on the
lawsuit suing the U.S. Navy in 2000, alleging
violations of numerous environmental and civil
rights laws on behalf of Vieques residents.
So how did he end up at an organization
called the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and
Education Fund?
“I was doomed early on in life — coming
from a Republican background — to be a
troublemaker,” he jokes. He clarifies this, “I was
always interested in civil rights. Law was a way
to go to battle.”
After law school, Maer started at the Legal Aid
Society of New York in 1981, doing impact civil
rights litigation. From there he moved on to
Brooklyn Legal Services in Williamsburg.
“My job was representing community groups
in different battles. The first case I did was a
housing discrimination case that was started in the
1970s.” That lawsuit, Williamsburg Fair Housing
Committee v. New York City Housing Authority,
fought a practice that promoted priority
admissions for non-minority families in the
housing developments. The lawsuit had been
initiated by the Puerto Rican Legal Defense
and Education Fund.
Maer and Maldonado represent the wide
diversity of the committed staff that has always
been part of LatinoJustice PRLDEF.
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A DIVERSE
AND COMMITTED
BOARD AND STAFF
The board and staff
at LatinoJustice is
as diverse as it
committed. For
more than 40 years,
the dedicated
people who serve
LatinoJustice have
fought for
the rights of
Latinos, been at the
forefront of
protests and
marches for
justice and have
infused the cause
of fairness with
legal expertise.
Many lawyers who
have come through
LatinoJustice
started as interns
invigorated with a
passion for the law
by our mission and
our successes.
Many former
interns are now
lawyers and many
former lawyers
are now judges.
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foster maer
“We need more Latino lawyers, especially
women, to fight for our causes,” she says.”
If I see it in the person and they have that love for
the law, I do push them to go to law school,” she
admits, laughing.
Maldonado is the Education Associate at
LatinoJustice PRLDEF. She has worked at
the organization for over 25 years. She came to
Latino Justice in 1987. She started as a receptionist,
and then moved on to work in the Education
division in the 1990s. She gets to know every
single person who comes through the education
programs — whether they are enrolling for an
LSAT course, applying to be a Lawbound
scholar, registering for a prelaw workshop,
or learning about law school at Law Day.
And she loves it.
“I love interacting with my students and I like
to help them. It’s one of the reasons I stayed for
so long,” she says. “Sometimes I’ll be talking to a
student and you pass by my desk and think I’m
talking to one of my family members.”
Maldonado also makes her fellow staff
members feel like family. “That’s one of the
things that has kept me here for so long.
Everyone who has come through here has felt
part of that family.”
Senior Litigation Counsel Foster Maer is
another member of that family. He came to
LatinoJustice about ten years later, in 1996.
Both he and Maldonado were here in the early
2000s, when the organization was on the brink of
closure. Foster says that the dedication of the staff
is one of the reasons LatinoJustice PRLDEF
survived.
BOARD MEMBER
cid
Cid Wilson knew all about the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and
Education Fund, now LatinoJustice PRLDEF, since he was a
youngster growing up in Washington Heights. PRLDEF founder
Cesar Perales knew Wilson’s father, Dr. James Wilson, who was
organization and most importantly, helps drive
fund raising and financial support. While the board
still mostly consists of lawyers, there are several
non-lawyers on the board, most of which are in the
financial and accounting world. Being on the board
of an active organization like LatinoJustice
PRLDEF is an important commitment.
“This is an organization that means business,”
Wilson says. “We do important work and it takes a
lot of hard work on the part of the staff and the board
to make us successful.”
Like most LatinoJustice PRLDEF board
members, Wilson is involved in many other organizations. In 2009, President Barack Obama appointed
Wilson to serve on the National Museum of the
American Latino Study Commission. In 2012, he
was named Board Chairman of the Friends of the
National Museum of the American Latino. He is the
former National President of the Dominican
American National Roundtable (DANR) and has
served on the boards of Dominicans On Wall Street
(DOWS) and the National Council of La Raza
(NCLR). He serves as Vice Chairman of the Bergen
Community College Board of Trustees in New
Jersey.
While he appreciates all the organizations
he strongly supports, it was the call from PRLDEF
that he describes as one of the highlights of his life.
“When a civil rights icon like PRLDEF founder
Cesar Perales calls and asks you to join him in
something important, you don’t say no,” Wilson said.
“No matter what part of the country I’m in, people
want to talk about LatinoJustice and the work we do.
They want to talk about our cases or they want me to
hear their ideas on how we can help the community.
LatinoJustice PRLDEF is central to our community and I am honored to be a small part of it.”
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successful,
passionate &
committed
professionals
former board
members have
included: CONGRESSMAN Herman
Badillo, Haywood
Burns, Dean, City
University of New
York Law School;
Willard Butcher,
C.E.O., Chase Manhattan Bank; Jose
Cabranes, US Court
of Appeals Judge
for the Second
Circuit; Hugh Carey,
Governor, New
York; Jacob K.
Javits, US Senator,
New York; Nicholas
deB. Katzenbach,
United States
Attorney General;
Victor Marrero, US
District Judge for
the Southern
District of New
York; Robert M.
Morgenthau,
Manhattan District
Attorney; Sonia
Sotomayor, Associate Justice of the
United States
Supreme Court and
William J. vanden
Heuvel, US Ambassador to the United
Nations
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When a civil rights icon like
PRLDEF founder Cesar Perales
calls and asks you to join him
in something important,
something that helps your
community, you don’t say
no.
one of the first Dominican doctors to open up a
clinic in Washington Heights.
The talk about organizations that helped the
Latino community and the need to have passion
about people and their needs was common talk
around the dining room table. Many years later,
Wilson is excited and honored to be one of
the most active and committed members on
LatinoJustice PRLDEF’s board of directors.
“I knew about PRLDEF since high school and
I’ve always shared their values,” said Wilson, a
national voice in the Dominican community.
“Everyone I knew had huge admiration for PRLDEF
and its work. It’s an organization that has a broad
mandate to help the Latino community protect its
rights. One of the highlights of my career was getting
a call to join the board.”
Since its inception in 1972, LatinoJustice
PRLDEF’s board has been blessed with an array of
successful, passionate board members, including a
present Associate Supreme Court Justice (Sonia
Sotomayor), a New York City Deputy Mayor (Carol
Robles-Roman), many federal, state and city judges,
hundreds of law firm partners, accomplished
diplomats, U.S. Senators and many others. Historically, the vast majority of the board members have
been lawyers. Wilson is a financial analyst, who was
ranked #1 in his field in the nation by Forbes in
2006.
“Being on the board was a little intimidating at first
because I wasn’t a lawyer,” Wilson said. “But you can
contribute in many ways. Right from my first meeting
in 2005 I saw that being from the financial sector was
going to be a positive thing for the organization.”
LatinoJustice PRLDEF’s board members
help provide mission and drive to the organization.
The board hires the president and general counsel,
participates in defining the direction of the
supporters
duane & salome
Growing up in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, Salome Galib had never heard of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund,
now known as LatinoJustice PRLDEF. At the time, the
organization was based in New York City and litigated in
—
salome galib
impact the community,” McLaughlin said. “Their
work makes a direct tangible impact and those are
the types of organizations we like to support. It’s
important to help any way you can.”
LatinoJustice PRLDEF receives support from
a variety of sources and in a variety of ways. Thousands of individuals have supported the organization
since its inception in 1972. Major foundations such
as The Ford Foundation have been longtime
benefactors of LatinoJustice PRLDEF’s work over
the years. Many of the country’s top law firms have
provided not only financial support, but also pro
bono support for the organization’s legal work and
for its individual clients.
It is this intersection of corporate and
individual support that sustains the non-profit.
McLaughlin’s law firm, Cleary Gottlieb Steen
& Hamilton LLP, is is also a contributor to
LatinoJustice PRLDEF. The international law
firm has supported the organization’s National
Awards Gala and the Latina Trailblazers event that
honors women achievers.
The firm has especially been supportive of
LatinoJustice’s Legal Education division. For several
years the law firm has hosted scholars attending the
organization’s signature LawBound Academy. The
youngsters visit the firm to learn about life in a law
firm and to interact with many of the firm’s partners
and associates. The advantages of having a legal
education are particularly important to Galib
and McLaughlin.
“LatinoJustice can help so many kids on the high
school and college level move up in their careers by
helping them enter and navigate law school,” Galib
said. “The organization brings kids through law
school, supports or hires them, then they fight for
social justice. That sounds like people who know
how to close the loop and we want to support that.”
1972-2013
WITH THEIR
GENEROUS
SUPPORT
For more than
40 years, with
the support of
foundations,
corporations and
individual donors,
LatinoJustice
PRLDEF has helped
nurture scores of
Latino leaders —
from community
and corporate
leaders
to public and
nonprofit leaders.
LatinoJustice
PRLDEF is a nonprofit which is
supported by
donations and
grants. Thousands
of individual donations from
throughout
the country have
allowed us to
focus on our
mission to defend
the rights of
Latinos and foster
opportunities for
civic engagement
and leadership
development. We
thank the donors
who helped make
our 2013 Fiscal Year
a success.
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Duane and I support
organizations that are effective
and LatinoJustice certainly has
shown over their 40-odd years
that they can get things done and
they can protect people’s civil
rights. That’s important to us.
several of the country’s Northeastern states where
Puerto Ricans lived. But soon after Galib came to
the mainland, where she would be the Washington,
DC correspondent for El Nuevo Dia and eventually
attend Columbia University Law School, she
would find out about the organization and make
an immediate connection.
“I saw very quickly that the organization was
effective, had a lot of credibility and was important to
the Puerto Ricans living in the mainland,” Galib
remembers. She was working with the Puerto Rican
government and came to know the organization’s
lawyers and experts. “I appreciated what they were
doing right from the start. PRLDEF created an
immediate connection for me.”
Galib, along with her husband Duane McLaughlin, a partner at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
LLP, is one of LatinoJustice PRLDEF’s most
passionate and giving donors. In the past, Galib has
served as LatinoJustice’s part-time development
director, has curated an art fundraiser and can always
be counted to help whenever called. A lawyer and
mom of three, Galib fully understands how any
donor’s contribution — no matter how small or large
— can have an impact on people in need of social
justice.
“Duane and I support organizations that are
effective and LatinoJustice certainly has shown over
their 40-odd years that they can get things done and
they can protect people’s civil rights. That’s important to us,” Galib said.
McLaughlin and Galib met on their first day
attending Columbia University Law School. Soon
after graduation, they entered the swirl of PRLDEF
and began helping the organization in various ways.
“I met the people at LatinoJustice PRLDEF
a long time ago and over the years have appreciated
the importance of what they do and how they
highlights
OUR YEAR OF WORK
Continuing to Defend
Latino Civil Rights
LatinoJustice PRLDEF began 2013 with
a major victory when a federal judge issued
a favorable ruling in January in our Ligon
case challenging the NYC Police Department’s stop & frisk practices in residential
apartment buildings. Judge Shira A.
Scheindlin of the SDNY ruled that the NYPD
has a pattern and practice of illegally
stopping innocent people in public areas
outside thousands of private apartment buildings in the Bronx, and must immediately
cease this unconstitutional practice.
In April 2013, LatinoJustice entered
into a landmark settlement with the U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement in
the Aguilar case. Twenty-two Latino victims
in New York of ICE’s unlawful warrantless
home raids obtained $1 million in damages
and expenses. In addition, ICE agreed to
new national policies clarifying procedures
and restricting ICE agent’s conduct during
future warrantless home operations. In
addition, eight men and women who were
arrested during the raids have received
either deferred action or termination of their
immigration cases. LatinoJustice litigated the
case with the Center for Constitutional Rights
and Winston & Strawn.
In June 2013, Eastern District NY Judge
Denis Hurley issued a ruling that day
laborers challenging a Long Island ordinance
barring them from stopping or attempting to
stop vehicles to solicit work can proceed with
their free speech claims. The case involves a
legal challenge to an ordinance passed by
Oyster Bay in 2009 to prohibit the seeking of
employment by waving down cars. The town
contended the law was necessary to control
immigrant day laborers after purported
complaints by residents that the day laborers
were clogging a Locust Valley intersection
every morning while seeking employment.
But two local Latino community-based
organizations that advocate for immigrants
challenged the measure on constitutional
and other grounds. The court in denying
defendants’ motion for summary judgment,
found that the plaintiff organizations have
standing to bring suit in its own right because
the town’s anti-solicitation ordinance imposes
a threat to organizational activities & goals.
The 2012-13 U.S. Supreme Court term
was one of the most significant in recent
history - and LatinoJustice was actively
engaged, filing amicus “Friends of the Court”
briefs in several of the most important cases
impacting the Latino community on issues of
affirmative action and voting rights. In June,
the U.S. Supreme Court issued several
monumental decisions on a number of
closely watched civil right s cases addressing interalia voting rights and affirmative
action: The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 7-2
decision in Inter-Tribal Council v. Arizona,
struck down Arizona’s burdensome restrictions that demanded additional documentary
proof of citizenship beyond the proof already
required by federal law. The Court held that
the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA)
preempts Arizona’s state Proposition 200.
On June 24, 2013, the Court ruled on
Fisher v. University of Texas, a case
concerning the constitutionality of the
University’s admissions policy and the
consideration of racial and ethnic diversity as
a factor. In a 7-1 decision, the Supreme
Court issued an opinion remanding the case
back to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to
reexamine the University’s admissions’ plan
under the standard enunciated in the Grutter
case that recognized diversity as a legitimate
educational objective and a compelling state
interest. LatinoJustice worked with the
Mexican American Legal Defense &
Educational Fund and O’Melveny & Myers
LLP on the brief.
On June 25, 2013, the Supreme Court in
Shelby County v. Holder voted 5-4 to
overturn Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act
that designates which states and jurisdictions
with histories of voting discrimination must
first seek DOJ or federal court preclearance
before implementing any changes to its
voting laws and election procedures. The
ruling eviscerated one of the most effective
sections of the landmark Voting Rights Act
which will roll back the critically important
gains Latinos have gained in Section 5
jurisdictions, potentially diminishing their
rising political power. Section 5 protections
exist in the four largest states with Latino
populations: California, Texas, New York and
Florida.
Section 5 has been an invaluable voting
rights tool for LatinoJustice PRLDEF to
combat voter discrimination. In the 1980’s, it
was used to halt NYC’s primary elections
because of the City’s failure to obtain
preclearance of discriminatory City Council
redistricting plans. In more recent times,
LatinoJustice and Latino voters in Tampa,
Florida used Section 5 to impact voting
changes in Hillsborough County. LatinoJustice worked with our 2013 Pro Bono Publico
honoree Sidley Austin LLP and the Mexican
American Legal Defense & Educational
Fund on the brief.
In August 2013, the Fourth Circuit found
that the Frederick County, Maryland Sheriff
Chuck Jenkins, who is known as the East
Coast version of the notorious Maricopa
County Sheriff Arpaio, had illegally detained
our client Roxana Orellana Santos. Two
Deputies, whom had observed her eating
lunch in a public park space, arrested her
upon discovering she had a civil immigration
warrant. The Court found that this alone did
not give local police probable cause for a
criminal arrest. LatinoJustice is litigating this
case with CASA de Maryland
and Nixon Peabody.
After lengthy court proceedings over the
past several years, Federal District Court
Judge Shira A. Scheindlin in August issued a
decision finding that the NYPD had systematically stopped thousands of Black and
Latino males without lawful basis. Judge
Scheindlin ruled that the Police Department
not only had violated the Fourth Amendment’s guarantee against unreasonable
searches and seizures, but had also violated
the 14th Amendment by resorting to a “policy
of indirect racial profiling” as the number of
police stops soared in minority communities
over the last decade.The NYPD, Judge
Scheindlin found, were routinely stopping
“blacks and Hispanics who would not have
been stopped if they were white.”
She then ordered the installation of an
outside independent lawyer to monitor the
Police Department’s compliance with the
Constitution and directed some officers to
wear cameras in a pilot program to record
their street interactions, and holding
community meetings to solicit public
comments on reforming the department’s
tactics.
In October, the United States Court of
Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a stay
putting an immediate hold on the changes,
and removed Judge Scheindlin from the
case. Both Floyd and Ligon were brought on
behalf of thousands of New Yorkers who are
illegally stopped each year by police officers
as part of this longstanding, controversial
practice. They are at the center of what has
become a nationwide movement to end
racially discriminatory policing and the siege
of black and brown neighborhoods by the
police departments.
On November 22, 2013, an appellate
panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Second Circuit denied the City of New York’s
request to vacate District Judge Shira A.
Scheindlin’s ruling and issued an Order
holding all pending motions in abeyance. LatinoJustice PRLDEF will be actively
involved with the De Blasio administration to
remedy the issue and move forward
collectively through community input.
In November, an Alabama anti-immigrant
law, which was challenged shortly after it
passed in 2011 by LatinoJustice PRLDEF
and a host of civil rights organizations, was
effectively gutted after state officials reached
an agreement to permanently block key
provisions of the law.
The law, House Bill 56 (HB56), was one
of the nation's strictest state laws against
undocumented immigrants. The challenge
resulted in its most harmful provisions being
found to be an unconstitutional intrusion of
the federal government’s right to set the
country’s immigration policies. Informed by
those court decisions, the agreement marks
the latest blow to a series of state immigration policies passed since 2010 that sought
to antagonize and criminalize undocumented
immigrants as part of a deterrence and
deportation strategy.
LatinoJustice PRLDEF has been at the
forefront of stopping such bills, as it did in
Hazleton, Pennsylvania, the first such bill
passed in the country. The dismantling of
Alabama’s immigration law is significant
because the original law went farther than
its inspiration in Arizona, particularly on
having schools check children's citizenship
status. The settlement awaits the approval of
the federal district court that has overseen
the case. In Favors, et. al. v Cuomo, et. al.,
LatinoJustice represents several Latino
voters who intervened in this action to
challenge New York’s 2012 State redistricting
plan passed by the State Legislature and
signed by the Governor. The Ramos
intervenor plaintiffs contend that the State
defendants engaged in impermissible
racially-biased redistricting of the NY’s
Senate district seats in violation of the U.S.
Constitution’s equal protection clause. The
Senate Majority leaders designed and
located a new State Senate district in the
Albany Capital District area rather than
downstate, where the largest decennial
population growth had occurred, primarily in
New York City largely as a result of significant Latino population increases.
LatinoJustice lawyers appeared before a
three-Judge panel in New York Federal
Court in Brooklyn on November 13th, 2013
requesting the Court deny the Defendant
Senate Majority’s motion for summary
judgment motion inasmuch as discovery has
not yet been concluded, and the underlying
material issues of fact were very much in
dispute. The matter was submitted and we
are currently awaiting a decision. The Favors
case has been ongoing since December
2011 when LatinoJustice initially intervened
to challenge New York’s then failure to
promulgate any congressional district maps.
After expedited court hearings and briefing in
early 2012, LatinoJustice and its Unity
Coalition redistricting partners at the Asian
American Legal Defense Fund and the
Medger Evers Center for Law & Social
Justice prevailed when the Court adopted a
congressional redistricting map that mirrored
the Unity Coalition’s proposed map in the
Favors I litigation.
DEVELOPING NEW LEADERS
Created in 2010, the CAP Leadership
Institute comprises our core educational
and youth civic engagement programs,
newly developed corporate partnerships
and our vast network of Latino professional contacts. The CAP Institute aims to
provide Latino high school, college and
law students, who are interested in using
the power of the law to become community leaders, with professional development and educational programs, tools and
resources to guide them to success.
Since the 1970s more than more than
7,000 aspiring law students have benefited
from our legal education programs.
LatinoJustice PRLDEF offers LSAT exam
prep courses, a pre-law counseling center
for Latin@s seeking advice about law
school and several events that give young
people exposure to the legal profession.
This year, our annual Law Day event
attracted more than 300 college students
to New York City to meet with law school
admissions officers, attend workshops in
financial planning, applying for law school
and careers in law.
LatinoJustice PRLDEF also works
with local bar associations to offer
mentoring and networking to current
Latin@ law students. We offer an annual
orientation workshop for newly accepted
law students, How to Succeed in Law
School.
Another of our signature programs is
the LAWbound® Academy, an innovative,
competitive program that prepares college
students for the law school admission
process, entry into law school, and
exposes them to various lawyering
models. Scholars attend a week-long
intensive, including a mock civil procedure
class, and meet with successful practitioners including corporate lawyers and
judges, as well as the outstanding civil
rights attorneys at LatinoJustice to give
them an experiential understanding of law
school and a legal career.
We continue to develop innovative
programming to engage young people. Five years ago we launched our Youth
Leadership Network. The Youth Leadership Network (YLN) is a yearlong program
that teaches young people to become
effective social justice strategists and 21st
century agents of change. Our youth play
a vital role in organizing on issues such as
immigration reform, Stop-and-Frisk,
DREAM Act, voter protection and more. In 2012 we partnered with Urban Arts
Partnership, an arts-education organization, and had a monumental year for youth
leadership and activism in New York City.
The members of our Youth Leadership
Network sent a clear message to the
NYPD by letting them know that the young
people of NYC are more than a number;
they are artists, students, siblings, but
more importantly leaders. Our youth,
packed the courts, held press conferences
with city council members and led
marches to combat the unjust and corrupt
policies of “Stop and Frisk” in New York
City.
They utilized the power of advocacy,
grassroots training and online activism to
become 21st century movement entrepreneurs using the platforms they already use
and master on an everyday basis. They
designed their own social media campaign
on “Stop and Frisk” called “More Than A
Quota” and went around the city collecting
stories on the impact of “Stop and Frisk”
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through lawsuits, leadership development and community engagement. Now more
than ever, LatinoJustice has to be strong and continue to intervene on behalf of
people who have faced injustice across the country.
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Jeffrey A. Maldonado, Esq.
Claudia Marmolejo, Esq.
Oscar Márquez
María D. Meléndez, Esq.
Steven Mendez, CPA Mauricio F. Paez, Esq
Eridania Perez, Esq.
Pablo Quinones, Esq.
Lida Rodriguez-Taseff, Esq.
Ronald J. Tabak, Esq.
Debra M. Torres, Esq.
Juan Manuel Trujillo, Esq.
Cid D. Wilson
Mauro M. Wolfe, Esq.
STAFF
Juan Cartagena
President & General Counsel
Lissette Amador
Fund Accounting System
Administrator
Jazmin Chavez
Coordinator of Communications
& Digital Strategy
Jackson Chin
Senior Counsel
Roberto Concepcion
Associate Counsel
Diana DeJesus-Medina
Director of Development
Lydiette Diaz
Executive Assistant
to the President
Rodrigo Diaz
NYU Public Interest Legal Fellow
Sagiv Edelman
Milbank Pro Bono Legal Fellow
John Garcia
Director of Communications &
Community Engagement
Laura Huizar
Equal Justice Works Fellow
Sponsored by
Kramer Levin Naftalis
Frankel LLP
Elizabeth Joynes
Associate Counsel
Marisabel Kanioros
Senior Legal Assistant
Alan Levine
Special Counsel
Foster Maer
Senior Litigation Counsel
Maritza Maldonado
Education Associate
David Mehr
Development Consultant
Silvia Orna
Director of Human Resources
and Operations
Sonji Patrick
Director of Education Programs
Jose Perez
Deputy General Counsel
Christine Rickoff-Tirado
Development Manager
Rhadaisis Rodriguez
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Rosanna Rosado
Chief Financial Officer
Nancy Trasande
Senior Counsel
Kyle Valenti
Bickel & Brewer
NYU Civil Rights Fellow
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