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PRRAC in the Courts

Most of PRRAC’s advocacy is at the federal and state executive branch level – working to implement civil rights mandates in housing, education, and environmental justice. We have also been occasionally involved in litigation, as amici curiae in a number of key Supreme Court and appellate cases (see here), sometimes convening or working with expert witnesses, and on one occasion participating as a plaintiff (as part of the coalition that brought a challenge to Maryland’s Low Income Housing Tax Credit program). More recently, in response to the unlawful suspension of important civil rights rules that PRRAC worked so hard to secure during the Obama administration, we have joined as co-counsel in two direct litigation challenges to HUD’s authority, Open Communities Alliance et al v. Carson and National Fair Housing Alliance et al v. Carson (see below).

LAN – Proposed Amicus Brief on behalf of The Redress Movement (April 27, 2026)

April 27, 2026 by

Link to the full pdf of the brief BRIEF OF AMICUS CURIAE THE REDRESS MOVEMENT IN SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFFS-APPELLANTS Date Submitted: April 27, 2026 SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY APPELLATE DIVISION Docket No. A-003471-24 CIVIL ACTION On Appeal from an Interlocutory Order of the Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division, Mercer County Trial Court Docket … [Read more...] about LAN – Proposed Amicus Brief on behalf of The Redress Movement (April 27, 2026)

LAN – Proposed Amicus Brief on behalf of PRRAC, NCSD, NHLP, FSHC (April 27, 2026)

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Link to the PDF of the full brief. LATINO ACTION NETWORK; NAACP NEW JERSEY STATE CONFERENCE; LATINO COALITION; URBAN LEAGUE OF ESSEX COUNTY; THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF GREATER NEW JERSEY; MACKENZIE WICKS, A MINOR, BY HER GUARDIAN AD LITEM, COURTNEY WICKS; MALI AYALA RUEL-FEDEE, A MINOR, BY HIS GUARDIAN AD LITEM, RACHEL RUEL; RA’NAYA ALSTON, A MINOR, BY HER GUARDIAN AD … [Read more...] about LAN – Proposed Amicus Brief on behalf of PRRAC, NCSD, NHLP, FSHC (April 27, 2026)

Brief of Amici Curiae PRRAC, NCSD, FSHC, NHLP, and The Redress Movement In Support Of Plaintiffs-Appellants

March 16, 2026 by

Link to the pdf of the Brief SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY APPELLATE DIVISION Docket No. A-003471-24 CIVIL ACTION On Appeal from an Interlocutory Order of the Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division, Mercer County Trial Court Docket No. MER-L-001076-18 Sat Below: Hon. Robert T. Lougy, A.J.S.C. LATINO ACTION NETWORK; NAACP NEW JERSEY STATE … [Read more...] about Brief of Amici Curiae PRRAC, NCSD, FSHC, NHLP, and The Redress Movement In Support Of Plaintiffs-Appellants

Amicus Brief in People v. Commons West, LLC (NHLP, PRRAC, NHLC August 2025)

August 18, 2025 by

Link to the pdf Case No.: CV-23-1255 New York Supreme Court Appellate Division—Third Department PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK by Letitia James, Attorney General of the State of New York, Petitioner-Appellant, – against – COMMONS WEST, LLC, COLLEGETOWN PLAZA, LLC, CITYVIEW, LLC, COLLEGETOWN CENTER, LLC, COLLEGETOWN COURT, LLC, FANE ENTERPRISES, INC. and JASON H … [Read more...] about Amicus Brief in People v. Commons West, LLC (NHLP, PRRAC, NHLC August 2025)

Open Communities Alliance v. HUD (2020)

March 25, 2024 by

Link to this case 10/22/2020 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT OPEN COMMUNITIES ALLIANCE and SOUTHCOAST FAIR HOUSING, Plaintiffs, -against- UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, and BEN CARSON, in his official capacity as United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Defendants. Civil … [Read more...] about Open Communities Alliance v. HUD (2020)

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The Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC) is a civil rights law and policy organization based in Washington, D.C. Our mission is to promote research-based advocacy strategies to address structural inequality and disrupt the systems that disadvantage low-income people of color. PRRAC was founded in 1989, through an initiative of major civil rights, civil liberties, and anti-poverty groups seeking to connect advocates with social scientists working at the intersection of race and poverty…Read More

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