NCLEJ has reached a settlement agreement on behalf of its client Migrant Justice in a federal lawsuit against the Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles. The case stems from the DMV’s practice of information-sharing and collaboration with federal immigration…
Read More →On November 20, 2019, Tennessee submitted an application to the federal Center for Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). With its application, Tennessee is requesting that the Secretary of HHS waive certain…
Read More →This week, NCLEJ joined with 72 other organizations committed to equality and economic opportunity for women in signing on to an amicus brief submitted to the Supreme Court in June Medical Services LLC v. Gee. The brief was…
Read More →Earlier today, a federal judge granted a nationwide preliminary injunction to block the racist and abusive “public charge” rule. The Department of Homeland Security finalized the rule in August, and was set to begin implementing the new changes…
Read More →Yesterday, NCLEJ filed a federal class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York on behalf of low-income Suffolk County residents with disabilities, alleging discrimination by the Suffolk County Department of Social…
Read More →Read the statement from Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, Voto Latino, MoveOn, and 100 other civil rights and gun reform organizations in response to the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio: https://civilrights.org/2019/08/06/civil-rights-and-gun-reform-orgs-show-solidarity-demand-action-against-white-supremacy/
Read More →On July 25, 2019, NCLEJ was voted in as a new member of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, a national coalition of more than two hundred civil and human rights organizations. You can read more…
Read More →In this NPR 1A Podcast, National Center for Law and Economic Justice Executive Director Dennis D. Parker and Pennsylvania State Professor Erica Frankenberg discuss the history of discrimination and exclusion that resulted in the use of busing to…
Read More →NCLEJ’s Katie Deabler spoke at the 10th Anniversary Celebration of the Barbara McDowell and Gerald S. Hartman Foundation about our work on Robinson et al., v. New York City Transit Authority, which challenges unlawful collections of fines. With…
Read More →See our exciting new video about our work with Migrant Justice/Justicia Migrante
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