Jose Aspera's Blog Archive
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Mar 23, 2012
The 7th Circuit adopts the arguments made by a member firm in an amicus brief filed on behalf of five Spanish-speaking organizations. The court agreed that the Chicago Board of Elections must provi...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Mar 23, 2012
Three years after the Committee brought suit alleging racial and ethnic employment discrimination by the Chicago Police Department, Judge Prentice Marshall finds intentional discrimination, permane...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Jan 28, 2007
Attendees at this workshop will gain in-depth knowledge about the legal requirements for creating a nonprofit tax exempt organization and opportunities for pro bono legal assistance.
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Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 12, 2006
On December 12, 2006 we finished submitting damages evidence in the case.
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Nov 27, 2006
CHICAGO, IL — On November 6, 2006, by a General Order of the Court, Chief Judge James F. Holderman approved a new court-wide program that will allow pro se litigants to have the benefit of an...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Nov 23, 2006
The Chicago Human Rhythm Project (CHRP) will present SHEKETAK, a brilliant contemporary percussive dance company - at the Harris Theater Thanksgiving weekend, November 24 and 25, 2006. In conjuncti...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Nov 16, 2006
On Thursday, November 16th, 2006, from 5:30pm until 8pm, please join the Community Economic Development Law Project for an evening of food, drink, and holiday shopping. Sawbridge is donating 15% of...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Nov 1, 2006
VIDEOCONFERENCE: Key Issues In Employment Law For The Not-For- Profit Agency: Navigating The Rough Road Ahead
Thursday, November 2, 2006
Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP
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Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Oct 31, 2006
In October 2006 the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois approved a new Chicago Lawyers' Committee pro bono program which will provide free legal assistance to pro...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Sep 11, 2006
On September 11 at 1:00 the Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights (along with the EEOC) will conduct a one hour training session for lawyers who wish to represent Charging Parties in EEOC...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Aug 21, 2006
Contacts: Shanna Smith, President and CEO
(202) 898-1661
Deidre Swesnik, Director of Communications
(202) 277-4437
deidre@nationalfairhousing.org
Undercover Inv...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Jul 13, 2006
Don’t let others close the door on you! Housing discrimination is against the law.
Learn more.
Latinos United and the General Mexican Consulate invite you to the forum:
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Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Jun 1, 2006
On June 1, 2006 our trial court judge, Judge Gottschall, ruled on our request that she order immediate remedial hiring. The judge declined to order immediate remedial hiring, and instead ordered th...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on May 30, 2006
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on May 24, 2006
Strategic Legal Thinking for Not-for-Profit Executives
Sponsored by Pfizer
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP
71 S. Wacker Drive - Chicago, Illinois...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on May 2, 2006
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 2, 2006
Federal Jury Awards $230,000 in Fox Lake Skinhead Attack
A jury in federal court on May 2 ordered three alleged skinheads to pay ...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on May 1, 2006
New Program Will Provide Free Legal Representation to Civil Litigants in Federal Court
For immediate release:
For further information contact Laurie Wardell at Chicago Lawyers&rs...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Apr 27, 2006
On April 27, 2006 we asked our trial judge to immediately order the City to begin remedial hiring of class members. We also asked the judge to prohibit the City from taking down the eligibility lis...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Apr 12, 2006
HISPANIC WORKERS CALLED "SPICS" AND "WETBACKS" SUE LOCAL MASONRY FIRM FOR HARASSMENT
For immediate release.
For further information contact:
Laurie Wardel...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Apr 9, 2006
Community Economic Development Law Project
and
CPAs for the Public Interest
present...
Officers and Directors Roles and Responsibilities for Nonprofit Boards
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Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Feb 4, 2006
For immediate release:
For further information contact Laurie Wardell or Elyssa Winslow
Chicago Lawyers’ Committee For Civil Rights Under Law
312-630-9744
lwardell@clccrul.org...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Jan 5, 2006
On January 5, 1976, Judge Prentice Marshall issued the final decision in a series of consolidated cases challenging the employment practices of the Chicago Police Department as discriminatory again...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Jan 1, 2006
EOP persuaded the Illinois Department of Human Rights to redact the names of workers who sue for arrest record discrimination from the IDHR’s published opinions. The IDHR’s publication ...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 2005
In 2003, the Chicago Board of Education and the Department of Justice jointly submitted a proposed modification to the consent decree in the Chicago school desegregation case, U.S. v. Chicago Board...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 2005
The Illinois Attorney General appointed the project director of the Employment Opportunity Project to the position of Special Assistant Attorney General, to lead a team of government lawyers in def...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Aug 30, 2005
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Aug 9, 2005
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, August 9, 2005
For further information, contact:
Clyde Murphy, Chicago Lawyers’ Committee
(312) 630-9744
PROFESSOR AND AU...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Jul 28, 2005
On July 28, 2005, class counsel filed a brief both opposing that request and also urging that the issue of awarding firefighter jobs to class members should be addressed first.
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Jul 21, 2005
On July 21st, 2005, the City filed its own motion, seeking discovery from class members regarding both their earnings and medical history since 1995.
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Jun 21, 2005
On June 21, 2005, class counsel filed a motion requesting that the Court order hiring of class members as the first part of a remedy for the City's violation of class members' rights.
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Mar 22, 2005
On March 22, 2005 Judge Gottschall ruled that the City's use of the 89 cut score on the 1995 test was discriminatory. Specifically, the judge held that the City had not shown that the 1995 test...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Mar 16, 2005
For further information, contact: Betsy Shuman-Moore
Chicago Lawyers' Committee: 312-630-9744, bshuman-moore@clccrul.org
CHICAGO . . . On Thursday, March 17th Abbas Salmi and...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 2004
In three separate hate crime cases, African American plaintiffs are awarded nearly $1.5 million in compensatory and punitive damages for racially motivated attacks that occurred in 2000. Antonio Ra...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 2004
In Ralphs Grocery Co. v. Doris Martinez and the Illinois Department of Human Rights, a nationwide employer with a policy forbidding employees from filing charges of discrimination with state invest...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Oct 26, 2004
POST-9/11 HATE CRIME LAWSUIT FILED
For immediate release: October 26, 2004
For further information, contact: Betsy Shuman-Moore, Chicago Lawyers' Committee
phone: 312-630...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Aug 25, 2004
For further information, contact:
Betsy Shuman-Moore,
Chicago Lawyers' Cmte., 312-630-9744
Brian Pitts, Kirkland & Ellis, 312-861-3115
African-American Family Inj...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Aug 17, 2004
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 17, 2004
CONTACT: Clyde Murphy: (312) 630-9744, cmurphy@clccrul.org
www.clccrul.org
Studs Terkel, And Civil Rights Lawyers, Judd Miner, Matt Pie...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on May 31, 2004
COOK COUNTY JUDGE AND JURIES CONDEMN HATE CRIME IN THREE CASES IN CIVIL COURT IN APRIL AND MAY 2004
In three separate cases this spring, a Cook County judge and juries awarded plaint...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on May 24, 2004
NEWS RELEASE
May 24, 2004
For immediate release:
Contact: Art Menke
Tel 312 923-2638
Fax 312 923-2703
amenke@jenner.com
Damages Awarded ...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 2003
The Chicago Lawyers’ Committee files Wallace, et al., v. Chicago Housing Authority, alleging that the CHA failed to provide adequate relocation assistance and effective social services to fam...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 2003
In 2003, the Chicago Board of Education and the Department of Justice jointly submitted a proposed modification to the consent decree in the Chicago school desegregation case, U.S. v. Chicago Board...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 2003
The Chicago Lawyers' Committee was retained by five client groups composed of minority and women contractors to represent their interests in maintaining the Minority and Women Business Enterpri...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Sep 30, 2003
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Jun 22, 2003
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 6/23/2003
For Further Information,
Contact Clyde E. Murphy
(312) 630-9744
In...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Jul 30, 2002
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 19, 2002
For further information, contact: Clyde Murphy, Chicago Lawyers' Committee
(312) 630-9744
NAACP CHAIRMAN AND CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER, JUL...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Feb 2, 2002
Chicago Lawyers’ Committee Announces that Latino Family Settles Source of Income Discrimination Suit
CONTACT:
Jeff Nowak, McDermott, Will & Emery
(312) 984-6484
jnowak@mwe.com
Sharon K. Legenza, Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc.
(3...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Jan 15, 2002
Contact: John Z. Lee, Freeborn & Peters: (312) 360-6738
Sharon K. Legenza, Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc., (312) 630-9744
DISABLED...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 2001
The Committee files a class action on behalf of approximately seventy women who worked at a regional car dealership, when the management unleashed a campaign of sexual harassment on its female work...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Oct 25, 2001
CONTACT:
Clyde Murphy, Betsy Shuman-Moore, 312-630-974
Jack Block, 312-207-6486
JUDGE AWARDS $500,000 TO CLEVAN NICHOLSON,
A VICTIM,WITH LENARD CLARK, OF HATE CRIME
&...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Sep 13, 2001
CHICAGO LAWYERS’ COMMITTEE OFFERS ASSISTANCE TO HATE CRIME VICTIMS
For Immediate Release:&nb...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Sep 11, 2001
The Project to Combat Bias Violence initiates an outreach campaign to the Chicago area Arab and Muslim population in the wake September 11th backlash crimes. The Project presents information hate c...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Jun 2, 2001
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Nina E. Vinik, Fair Housing Project Director, Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc., (312) 630-9744, nvinik@clccrul.org
T...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Apr 1, 2001
Following the US Census in 2000, the Democrats gain the ability to draw the new state district map, but are challenged by the Illinois Republican Party, whose lawsuit alleges that the map is not in...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 2000
The Olympia Fields Board of Trustees rejected an application for approval of a state-licensed day care home as inconsistent with local zoning ordinances concerning the uses of residential property....
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 2000
The Olympia Fields Board of Trustees rejected an application for approval of a state-licensed day care home as inconsistent with local zoning ordinances concerning the uses of residential property....
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 2000
Under a U.S. E.E.O.C. mediation program, charging parties and employers engage in voluntary efforts to settle charges of employment discrimination without litigation. Because defendants frequently ...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 2000
CLC obtains a precedent of national significance: that testers have standing to sue for employment discrimination, even where the testers themselves did not seek employment.
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1999
1,300 African American women who disembarked at O'Hare International Airport and were subject to an invasive search for drugs, including strip-searches and x-rays, file suit against the United ...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1999
A coalition of fair and affordable housing advocates, including the Chicago Lawyers' Committee, came together to examine the use of Tax Increment Financing ("TIF") in Illinois, and th...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1998
In coalition with the Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities and Woodstock Institute the Committee begins to investigate and advocate on behalf of greater access and affordability of ...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1998
In 1998, a Lake County jury awarded the Arroyo family $6 million, the highest amount ever under the Illinois Hate Crime Act. The lawsuit charged that David Killian physically attacked two Latino yo...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1998
The Chicago Lawyers’ Committee filed a lawsuit in 1998 which argued that the Chicago Fire Department's use of a very high cut score on the 1995 firefighter entrance exam discriminated aga...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1997
A Title 1 reform program opens, to enable schools serving poor and minority children to improve the educational opportunities for these children. The reform program succeeds in getting the Chicago ...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1997
A lawsuit filed on behalf of the South Austin Coalition Community Council and a number of home-purchasers alleges that Easy Life Real Estate System, Inc. and Ace Realtors, Inc bought fire-damaged, ...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1996
After a year-long investigation, the Chicago Lawyers' Committee releases a report entitled Environmental Injustice: Community Perspectives on Silver Shovel, which detailed the efforts of reside...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1996
Working as part of the steering committee of the state-wide Coalition for Equal Opportunity, the Committee successfully organizes opposition to proposed legislation to abolish affirmative action in...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1996
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Aug 1, 1996
Jody Adler would eventually become the Director of The Law Project.
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1995
In Ramos v. Kraft, a vicious 10-year campaign of harassment and hate crime ends when a settlement that includes an agreement by the Krafts to sell their house and move is finally reached. The settl...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1995
A Small Business Development Program is established to provide legal assistance to new entrepreneurs setting up businesses in inner-city neighborhoods.
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1994
On behalf of a group of Latino individuals and housing organizations, the Committee has brought a major class action housing discrimination suit against HUD and CHA, alleging the severe underrepres...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1994
In a statewide class action, Marie O. v. State Board of Education, plaintiffs allege that Illinois has failed to meet its obligations to provide early childhood intervention for children with disab...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on May 1, 1994
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1993
On behalf of various women's low cost health services providers, the Committee files an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in NOW v. Scheidler, arguing that the protesters' criminal attemp...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1993
A group of four fair housing organizations join forces to end the illegal use of only white people as models in housing advertising, and convince numerous developers to integrate their ads.
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1992
The Committee returns its attention to Juvenile Court with the establishment of the Children's Advocacy Project. One of the Project's major focuses is the overrepresentation of poor African...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1992
Filed in 1973, this race, national origin, and sex employment discrimination case, brought against the Chicago Police Department, is finally resolved as hundreds of officers receive their long over...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1991
Chicago Urban League v. State Board of Elections leads to the creation of the first majority Latino congressional districts in Illinois, while preserving three minority African-American districts. ...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1991
The Committee sues the Immigration and Naturalization Service, challenging the INS detention system, under which alien detainees are rotated daily among several unsanitary, inaccessible facilities ...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1990
Elizabeth "Betsy" Shuman-Moore will eventually become the Director of the Hate Crimes Project, and then the Fair Housing Project.
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1990
Childhood lead poisoning, a preventable epidemic that overwhelmingly affects poor African American and Latino children, is the subject of a precedent setting case filed on behalf of an African Amer...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1990
In Rochon v. FBI, the Committee joins in the suit against the FBI, the Department of Justice, and individual FBI agents for extreme, prolonged racial harassment, including death threats. Counsel se...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1989
The Committee establishes the Project to Combat Bias Violence which provides assistance in civil and criminal court to victims of hate crime.
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1989
In the Project's first case, an all white jury awards $475,000 in damages to an African American man who was the victim of a hate crime in Bridgeport. This is the first civil action in which da...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1989
The Lawyers' School Reform Advisory Project begins to refer lawyers to Chicago's local school councils and school reform organizations. The Project allows the private bar to support the Chi...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1988
The Committee brings the first federal "anti-patient dumping" case filed in the nation against a hospital for refusing emergency care to uninsured or underinsured patients who have a life...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1988
Two member firms conduct a ten-week trial in Jones v. CTA, a case of first impression, in which the Illinois Human Rights Commission rules that as a public accommodation, the CTA must provide acces...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1987
Efforts to assist the homeless intensify, and include providing counsel to several shelters, giving advice to homeless people seeking to use vacant CHA units during cold weather, and defending seve...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1987
The Committee negotiates substantial settlements in seven separate cases against suburban Cook County building owners, management companies, and realtors who deny rentals to families with children....
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1986
A consent decree in Kissane v. Brown prescribes procedures governing virtually every aspect of the administration of the Lake County Jail, including disciplinary and grievance procedures, inmate cl...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1986
The Committee brings an action against a group of private developers and government officials, alleging that federal laws governing the use of rehabilitation funds require the developers to fulfill...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1985
Committee attorneys successfully meet with state officials and achieve a greatly expanded Women, Infants and Children food supplement program, particularly for Chicago.
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1985
The Community Economic Development Law Project, a joint effort of the Committee, LAFC, and the Young Lawyers Section of the CBA, begins providing tax, corporate, and real estate counsel to communit...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1984
Minority voters win an important victory in Ketchum v. Chicago City Council, when the 7th Circuit holds that an aldermanic redistricting plan had been designed to dilute minority voting strength.
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1983
Damages of more than $500,000 are awarded to the leaders and members of the Afro-American Patrolmen's League to compensate for police harassment during the pendency of their suit charging syste...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1983
Assistance to community groups remains a key part of the Committee's work; this year alone, over 60 organizations received assistance with incorporation, applying for tax-exempt status, and mat...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1983
Assistance to community groups remains a key part of the Committee's work; this year alone, over 60 organizations received assistance with incorporation, applying for tax-exempt status, and mat...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1982
The City settles the nine-year-old N.O.W. v. City of Chicago equal pay case, benefitting hundreds of women janitresses and women clerks through salary upgrades, retroactive pension benefits, and $4...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1982
With funding from the Cook County Legal Assistance Foundation, Pro Bono Advocates is founded to provide services to indigent clients, particularly survivors of domestic violence. In the first year,...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1981
A consent decree settles Chicago Lawyers' Committee v. City of Chicago, filed in 1976 when the Committee discovered that the defendants had engaged in covert activities and data collection, inc...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1981
The Committee begins working on projects to address discrimination against people with disabilities. Projects are developed in the virtually untested areas of housing and public accommodations, as ...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1980
On behalf of several fair housing groups, the Committee successfully files an administrative complaint with HUD, challenging DuPage County's use of Community Development Block Grants, in partic...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Jan 1, 1980
After the court invalidates the at-large system of electing the City Council in a case brought by the Committee, for the first time since 1897, two Black men are elected to Cairo's City Commiss...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1979
The Committee begins the Introduction to Legal Learning Program, a course designed to give minority and returning law students a better understanding of the law and the "case method" as w...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1979
In response to the overwhelming number of requests for assistance with employment discrimination cases, the Committee opens a loan program designed to defray costs and provide technical assistance ...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1978
In Burroughs v. Hill, the Committee represents a group of homeowners and an association seeking to hold HUD responsible for failing to repair and maintain abandoned buildings.
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1978
In conjunction with Northwestern's Center for Urban Affairs, the Committee issues a study on the impact of zoning and other land-use regulations on housing for low- and moderate-income and mino...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1977
The Committee returns to Cairo to establish the Alexander County Defenders Project since no full-time public defender is available for indigent defendants. Because of the presence of an independent...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1977
In P.A.S.E. v. Chicago Board of Education, the Committee challenges the Board's use of discriminatory tests that result in the disproportionate placement of minority children in Educationally M...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1976
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1976
A three-judge court in Tidwell v. Weinberger holds that the Illinois Department of Mental Health's seizure of Social Security disability benefits received by patients in state run facilities vi...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1975
The Committee successfully settles an action against the Mayor of Cairo, Illinois and the Alexander County Board of Commissioners when the County agrees to appoint Blacks to nine public boards in p...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1975
Twenty-two groups, including the Committee, establish the Criminal Defense Consortium of Cook County, which opens six neighborhood defender offices in high crime areas to serve indigent criminal de...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1974
The Organization for the North East, a group seeking to induce local lending institutions to increase community investment through the threat of withdrawal of savings deposits, is being advised on ...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1974
The Committee is representing a class of over 1200 Black South Side homeowners who purchased new homes at inflated prices under land installment contracts, alleging that the developers discriminate...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1973
With the Leadership Council as co-counsel, the Committee files Metropolitan Housing Development Corporation v. Village of Arlington Heights, challenging the municipality's refusal to rezone vac...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1972
As part of its ongoing commitment to continuing legal education, the Committee co-sponsors a conference on the scope and impact of the Jack Spring v. Little decision, which recognized that a lessee...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1972
A member firm represents a large group of south suburban purchasers of defective housing in successful negotiations with the developers to remedy the defects.
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1971
On the basis of a study, two member firms represent four organizations in an Illinois Supreme Court amicus brief, arguing that the procedures for transferring juveniles to adult court are unconstit...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1971
Providing legal counsel to community organizations is a major activity of the Committee, accounting for nearly half of the Committee's projects, including corporate and tax issues, counseling, ...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1970
The Committee successfully advocates with the U.S. Attorney General to convene a special federal Grand Jury to investigate the deaths of Black Panther leaders Mark Clark and Fred Hampton, killed du...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1970
Using data collected by two major universities, the Committee files a federal class action challenging city-wide disparities in the per-pupil instructional expenditures made in Chicago's Black ...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Dec 31, 1970
The Committee facilitates an arrangement with the Public Defender and the Chief Judge of the Juvenile Division, whereby member firms will take appeals in cases that raise constitutional issues. The...
Jose Aspera of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. posted a blog on Jan 1, 1970
Several member firms are representing local organizations whose members live in the path of urban renewal to make certain that the community's interests are considered, and that all who are dis...
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