By Marc Cohan, Executive Director, National Center for Law and Economic Justice Twenty years ago then President Clinton signed the so-called “welfare reform” law. The legislation was a comprehensive and far-reaching effort to eliminate welfare as this nation…
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 →It has been 20 years this month since the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, which established the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, was enacted. Marking this anniversary, NCLEJ Executive Director Marc Cohan…
Read More →On March 4, 2016, the U.S. District Court issued an important decision in Fishman v. Daines in favor of low-income elderly and disabled New York Medicaid recipients who seek fair hearings to challenge New York State’s termination of…
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 →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 →In August 2014, NCLEJ and Nebraska Appleseed filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of a working, single mother who has been unlawfully delayed from receiving urgent and necessary help providing food for her family through the Supplemental Nutrition…
Read More →In the years since NCLEJ successfully sued FEMA on behalf of people with disabilities displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita who were not given accessible trailers, NCLEJ has worked hard to ensure that FEMA has policies and procedures…
Read More →On March 11, 2014 NCLEJ filed a federal court class action challenging Georgia’s failure to 1) timely process initial and renewal applications for and provide timely food stamps to eligible households as required by federal food stamp law;…
Read More →NCLEJ and the Western New York Law Center have achieved a revised settlement of Martin v. Weiner, a class action lawsuit filed in 2006 in the United States District Court for the Western District of New York challenging…
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