Henry Freedman has devoted his career to fighting for fairness and dignity for low-income people dealing with government agencies. To make sure this work can continues after he retires, he has established the Freedman Fund for Due Process…
Read More →After more than four decades of extraordinary leadership as Executive Director of the National Center for Law and Economic Justice, Henry Freedman has announced that he will retire this summer. Henry is fully committed to helping find a…
Read More →Henry Freedman, Executive Director, National Center for Law and Economic Justice January 8, 2014 Fifty years ago today, President Lyndon Johnson launched the “War on Poverty” in his State of the Union address. A year later the National…
Read More →Greg Bass, currently the Litigation Director at Greater Hartford Legal Aid, will start work next month as our new Senior Attorney focused on disability rights. Greg has served as Litigation Director in Hartford for over 16 years. He…
Read More →In Griego v. New Mexico Workers’ Compensation Commission, the state trial court initially denied a motion to dismiss and ruled that a severely injured New Mexico farmworker and two groups that represent farm and ranch laborers may pursue…
Read More →On April 7, 2009, NCLEJ filed Tiffany Bell, et al. v. Anne W. Murphy, et al., a class action challenging Indiana’s failure to timely process food stamp applications. The case was filed in federal district court in South…
Read More →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 →In the latest issue of the Clearinghouse Review focused on racial justice, NCLEJ’s Gina Mannix and Henry Freedman discuss recent social science research showing how subtle race-based factors and stereotypes continue to infect policy and administration in TANF,…
Read More →NCLEJ bids a fond farewell to inimitable Senior Attorney Cary LaCheen. After 13 years at NCLEJ fighting for fairness, justice, and dignity for our clients, especially those with disabilities, Cary has left NCLEJ to join the Office of…
Read More →NCLEJ and Colleagues Achieve Favorable Final Settlement in Hawaii SNAP Delay Case On September 3, 2013 the U.S. District Court approved a settlement of this class action case challenging the Hawaii state agency’s failure to timely process SNAP…
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