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On June 19, 2013, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York approved the negotiated settlement in Richard C. v. Proud, 12 Civ. 5942, which challenged the State’s failure to advise individuals facing SNAP (Food…
Read More →This article was originally published in The Capitol Pressroom. Read it here. Sept. 1, 2023 – The Hochul administration is being sued by a group of home care workers in New York City that wanted state labor officials…
Read More →Today, in decisions that were as damaging as they were predictable, the United States Supreme Court struck down admission polices at Harvard University and The University of North Carolina that were created to benefit all of their students by…
Read More →We are deeply saddened to learn of the loss of former NCLEJ Board Member Nancy Lieberman. A staunch advocate for people with disabilities, she co-founded New Yorkers to Cure Paralysis, and twice succeeded in reinstating state funds for…
Read More →“The National Center for Law and Economic Justice (NCLEJ) filed a lawsuit in New York State Supreme Court last week against the state Department of Labor for documents the group requested under the state Freedom of Information Law….
Read More →This article was originally published in Buffalo News. Read it here. In retrospect, the request for a federal investigation of the Buffalo Police Department seems inevitable. We don’t know that such an examination – if it occurs –…
Read More →This article was originally published in The Capitol Pressroom. Read it here. Sept. 1, 2023 – The Hochul administration is being sued by a group of home care workers in New York City that wanted state labor officials…
Read More →This article was originally published in NY1. Read it here. About 100 home aid workers gathered outside of the state Department of Labor offices in Lower Manhattan Wednesday to protest what they see as injustice, with many saying…
Read More →This article was originally published in KGOU. Read it here. In 2020, seven police officers in Oklahoma County were involved in the deaths of three individuals – 49-year-old Christopher Poor, 15-year-old Stavian Rodriguez, and 60-year-old Bennie Edwards. Former…
Read More →This article was originally published in Gothamist. Read it here. Home health aides will rally outside the state Department of Labor’s headquarters in Lower Manhattan at 11 a.m. on Wednesday to protest the agency’s decision to stop investigating…
Read More →Attorneys for underpaid caretakers argue that New York abandoned its legal obligation to workers by closing cases. This article was originally published in The City. Read it here. A group of New York City home health aides is…
Read More →“There is no reason why an applicant should be able to trade on their own last name as opposed to their personal achievement,” said Michael Kippins, litigation fellow with the Lawyers for Civil Rights. This article was originally…
Read More →The court voted along ideological lines, with Chief Justice John Roberts writing the majority opinion on behalf of the five other conservative justices. This article was originally published in TheGrio. Read it here. The Supreme Court ruled against…
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