NCLEJ and the American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island (ACLU) have filed a class action lawsuit against the State of Rhode Island over its widespread failure to process food stamp applications from the state’s neediest residents in…
Read More →NCLEJ, along with co-counsel New Economy Project (NEP) and Ahmad Keshavarz, filed a brief in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in a case of first impression that addresses the need to protect Social Security benefits from unlawful…
Read More →On August 19, 2016 the Empire Justice Center, with NCLEJ as co-counsel, filed a federal class action lawsuit to challenge New York’s termination of SNAP benefits, also known as food stamps, to thousands of New Yorkers. The benefits…
Read More →Low-income New Hampshire families with a child with a disability won a major victory on August 2, 2016, when the New Hampshire Supreme Court struck down a rule requiring that the child’s Supplemental Security Income (SSI) disability benefits…
Read More →On May 24, 2016, the U.S. District Court approved a historic settlement in Sykes v. Mel S. Harris & Associates, a class action alleging massive debt collection abuse in the New York State Courts. The settlement will return…
Read More →NCLEJ and Nebraska Appleseed have secured a settlement in a Nebraska Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) class action lawsuit, which will help tens of thousands of low-income Nebraska families. The case challenged a system-wide failure by the Nebraska state…
Read More →Tens of thousands of low-income Georgia families who were wrongly deprived of food stamps will receive $22 million as part of an agreement negotiated by NCLEJ. This agreement will provide relief to nearly 48,000 households across the state,…
Read More →On December 18, 2015, the New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice (NOWCRJ) and NCLEJ filed a lawsuit against the State of Louisiana for threatening to terminate food stamps for more than 31,000 low-income individuals. Outgoing Louisiana Governor…
Read More →In a victory for New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) tenants with asthma who have mold in their apartments, Judge William H. Pauley III of the Southern District of New York issued an order on December 15, 2015…
Read More →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…
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