Posted by
Chris Field on Friday, May 29, 2009 8:48:00 AM
From the
New York Times:
In the 1980s, the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund sued the New York City Police Department, claiming that its promotion exams discriminated against Latinos and African-Americans.
The fund, one of the advocacy groups pressing similar cases across
the country, also helped redraw voting districts in the city that
increased the number of Hispanic elected officials. The defense fund
even sued a former Reagan administration official for defamation after
he claimed that virtually all Puerto Ricans in New York received food
stamps.
All those efforts were backed by the defense fund’s board of
directors, an active and passionate group that included a young lawyer
named Sonia Sotomayor, who this week was chosen by President Obama to join the country’s highest court.
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