association of community organizations for reform now

• Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), 866 (2003)

Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) and Sarah A. Stephens and Erin Marie Howley and Gigi Nevils. Cases 16-CA- 21007-1, 16-...

• National Labor Relations Board

• Obama Uses Taxpayer Cash to Back Acorn ; Name Changes Used to Dodge the Law

The Obama administration has showered its allies at ACORN Housing with $729,849 so far this year despite powerful, newly unveiled evidence of corruption and massive accounting irregularities at the longtime affiliate of ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). Watchdog group Cause of Action recently pressured NeighborWorks America, a taxpayer-funded federal nonprofit that funneled more than $26.5 million in federal foreclosure-avoidance money to ACORN Housing, to disclose an internal audit furnished to then-Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd, Connecticut Democrat, late last year.

• The Washington Times
• November 29, 2011

• Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (Acorn), Et Al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. James R. Edgar, in His Official Capacity as Governor of the State of Illinois, Et Al., Defendants-Appellants., 56 F.3d 791 (7th Cir. 1995)

Judson H. Miner, Jeffrey Cummings, Barack H. Obama, Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, Chicago, IL, for Association of Community Organizations for Refo...

• Federal Circuits

• Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Jerry M. Fowler, in His Official Capacity as Commissioner of Elections and Registration, State of Louisiana; Mike Foster, Governor, State of Louisiana, in His Official Capacity as Governor of the State of Louisiana; Richard Stalder, in His Capacity as Secretary of Department of Public Safety and Corrections; Madeline Bagneris, in Her Official Capacity as Secretary of the Department of Social Services; Bobby Jindal, in His Official Capacity as Secretary of the Department of Health and Hospitals, Defendants-Appellees., 178 F.3d 350 (5th Cir. 1999)

Alexandra Erna Mora, Spencer Livingston, Citizens Consulting, New Orleans, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellant. Celia Rhea Cangelosi, Baton Rouge, LA, for Fo...

• Federal Circuits

• Judicial Watch Releases Special Report: 'The Rebranding of Acorn'

Scandal-Ridden Activist Group Lives on in the Form of "Bullet Proof Community-Organizing Frankensteins" Created Across the Country WASHINGTON, Sept. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Judicial Watch, the public interest organization that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today released "The Rebranding of ACORN," a special report on the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) network, following an extensive investigation of the organization's transformation into various "spinoffs" and affiliated organizations.

• U.S. Newswire
• September 28, 2011

• Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (Acorn), Et Al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Illinois State Board of Elections, Et Al., Defendants-Appellants., 75 F.3d 304 (7th Cir. 1996)

Judson H. Miner, Jeffrey I. Cummings, Barack H. Obama, Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, Chicago, IL, for Association of Community Organizations for R...

• Federal Circuits

• Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now Wins $125m Settlement

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now recently won a settlement worth up to $125 million against Household International Inc., a subsidiary of London-based HSBC Holdings. ACORN filed a national class-action suit against the company in 2002, claiming Household's two U.S.-based subsidiaries, Household Finance Corp. and Beneficial Corp., misled borrowers about the loan terms and conditions, charged excessive fees and rates along with other predatory lending tactics.

• New Orleans City Business
• January 05, 2004

• Dallas Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, Et Al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Dallas County Hospital District, Defendant-Appellee., 670 F.2d 629 (5th Cir. 1982)

Roger Albright, Dallas Legal Services Fdn., Inc., Dallas, Tex., for plaintiffs-appellants. Mary F. Keller, American Civil Liberties Foundation of Tex...

• Federal Circuits

• Judge Ends Federal Suit Against Pa. Election Law

With the state attorney general agreeing that Project Vote and other organizations can set voter registration quotas and fire workers who don't meet them, there's no reason to continue a federal lawsuit challenging a Pennsylvania election law, a judge ruled on Wednesday, ending the case. It started in May 2009 when Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala charged six people who worked for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now with violating several laws, including the so-called "quota" law. ACORN filed a federal lawsuit claiming that the law violated its First Amendment right to free speech.

• Tribune - Review / Pittsburgh Tribune - Review
• July 28, 2011

• Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, ('Acorn') Kurt Roscow, Melissa Neumiller, Charles Murawski, and Sally Worland, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Municipality of Golden, Colorado, and Golden Police Department, Defendants-Appellees., 744 F.2d 739 (10th Cir. 1984)

Stephen Bachmann, New Orleans, La. (Philip Green, Denver, Colo., was also on brief), for plaintiffs-appellants. Russell J. Sindt, Golden, Colo., for ...

• Federal Circuits