State public benefits agencies increasingly rely on their website as a means of providing information to the public, and as a means of applying for Medicaid, Food Stamps, and cash assistance. Cary LaCheen’s new report, discussing the findings…
Read More →The Supreme Court issued its landmark decision in Goldberg v. Kelly, 397 U.S. 254 (1970), on March 23, 1970 – forty years ago – in a case brought by the National Center for Law and Economic Justice (then…
Read More →The National Center for Law and Economic Justice, together with the Rhode Island ACLU through Cooperating Attorney Lynette Labinger of Roney & Labinger LLP, filed suit on July 6, 2009 against the Director of the Rhode Island Department…
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 →NCLEJ and the Empire Justice Center achieved a revised settlement in July 2014 in a United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York case challenging Suffolk County’s unlawful practice of delaying food stamp and Medicaid…
Read More →NCLEJ and the National Health Law Program (NHeLP) have achieved a settlement in a case in the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri challenging Missouri’s unlawful practice of terminating health coverage without due process…
Read More →On June 13, 2007, a federal court in New Orleans, Louisiana issued a preliminary injunction in Ridgely v. FEMA, prohibiting FEMA from 1) terminating rental assistance to victims of Hurricane Katrina and Rita without giving them adequate notice…
Read More →We and our colleagues successfully challenged New York State’s practice of depriving welfare recipients of the right to review evidence, call witnesses, and present documents in the course of appealing a negative decisions. Our 2005 landmark class action…
Read More →To protect the rights of Medicaid recipients in Missouri, the Center filed a federal class action lawsuit in June 2005 in the Western District of Missouri challenging the implementation of cuts in state’s Medicaid program. The cuts dis-enrolled…
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