In a large-scale win for low-income Georgia families, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) signed off on an agreement brokered by NCLEJ that will provide retroactive food stamps to tens of thousands of families wrongly deprived of…
Read More →NCLEJ helped to secure a $59 million settlement in Sykes v. Mel S. Harris & Associates, a federal class action challenging widespread abusive debt collection practices in the New York State courts. The settlement, announced on November 12,…
Read More →On October 15, 2015, the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals issued an important decision in favor of low-income elderly and disabled New York Medicaid recipients who seek fair hearings to challenge New York State’s termination of their…
Read More →At the invitation of the Atlanta Legal Aid Society, NCLEJ Senior Attorney Greg Bass traveled to Atlanta on October 2nd, where he addressed advocates gathered at an annual conference at the Georgia State Bar offices on using the…
Read More →On August 5, 2015, Judge William S. Duffey, Jr., of the Northern District of Georgia approved the class action settlement in Melanie K. v. Horton. NCLEJ filed the case to challenge Georgia’s system-wide failure to process food stamp…
Read More →On July 23rd, NCLEJ filed an amicus curiae brief in the New York State Court of Appeals on behalf of 13 economic and social justice organizations. The issue on appeal in Carver v. New York is whether New…
Read More →In a major victory for food stamp applicants, represented by the National Center for Law and Economic Justice and Greater Hartford Legal Aid, the U.S Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled on July 6, 2015 that…
Read More →On June 3rd, BNY Mellon Senior Executive Vice President and General Counsel Kevin McCarthy and NLADA Director of Leadership and Racial Equity Camille Holmes were honored at NCLEJ’s 50th Anniversary Awards Dinner at The Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers….
Read More →As a result of a federal class action settlement in Rafferty v. Doar, New York City and State agencies will begin providing information about food stamps and Medicaid in a variety of alternate formats that are accessible to…
Read More →NCLEJ, together with the Legal Aid Society and the Urban Justice Center, released a report on February 25, 2015, showing the difficulties low-wage workers face in collecting their stolen wages. “Empty Judgments: The Wage Collection Crisis in New…
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