Mary R. (Gina) Mannix has been elected by the Board of Directors as Interim Executive Director of NCLEJ. She will serve in this position until a new Executive Director is on board. Gina began her career at NCLEJ…
Read More →Earlier this month, NCLEJ’s Greg Bass, along with attorneys from Greater Boston Legal Services and the Northwest Justice Project, presented on advocacy with state welfare agencies under the Americans with Disabilities Act, and Marc Cohan, along with colleagues…
Read More →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 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 →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 →On May 22nd, retiring NCLEJ Executive Director Henry Freedman and JPMorgan Chase Executive Vice President and General Counsel Steve Cutler were honored at NCLEJ’s Benefit Awards Dinner at Chelsea Piers. Thanks to all who made the dinner a…
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 →The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) will address mold and excessive moisture in its apartments more quickly and thoroughly as a result of an agreement approved by the court in, Baez v. NYCHA, filed by NCLEJ and…
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;…
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