On September 27, 2013, the Appellate Division, Fourth Department affirmed a decision by the Supreme Court, Cayuga County, that local zoning laws that would have effectively barred family day care are unenforceable because state law preempts local regulation…
Read More →NCLEJ’s ADA Public Benefits Access Project is successfully using federal disability rights laws to improve access to public benefits for low-income New Yorkers with disabilities. The focus of the project is to obtain improved policies and procedures in…
Read More →Malini Moorthy and Elpidio (PD) Villarreal were elected on September 13th to NCLEJ’s Board of Directors. Malini is Vice President and Assistant General Counsel and heads the Civil Litigation Group at Pfizer. PD is Senior Vice President, Global…
Read More →NCLEJ and the Empire Justice Center achieved a revised settlement in January 2015 in a case before the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York challenging Nassau County’s unlawful practice of delaying food stamp,…
Read More →Half a century has passed since that sunny day when my future wife and I, both working as interns in Washington, stood on the Mall as Martin Luther King set out his thrilling dream for this nation –…
Read More →On July 9, 2013, NCLEJ and the Western New York Law Center filed a class action, McCoy v. Restaino, in the Western District of New York on behalf of residents of Niagara County who have applied, or are…
Read More →NCLEJ Senior Attorney Laura Redman has been helping low-income LGBT communities to access federal programs following the Supreme Court’s reversal of the Defense of Marriage Act. Working with the National Center for Lesbian Rights, Laura lent a hand…
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…
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