On January 4, 2016, Governor Nathan Deal of Georgia rescinded an executive order he issued in November banning Syrian refugees from resettlement benefits. In December 2015, NCLEJ sent a letter to counsel representing Georgia’s Division of Family Services…
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 →On November 19, 2015, the New York State Court of Appeals decided that the seizure of half of New York resident Walter Carver’s $10,000 lottery prize was barred by the Fair Labor Standards Act. NCLEJ authored the friend…
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…
Read More →NCLEJ helped to secure a $59 million settlement in Sykes v. Mel S. Harris & Associates, a federal class action challenging widespread abusive debt collection practices in the New York State courts. The settlement, announced on November 12,…
Read More →On October 15, 2015, the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals issued an important decision in favor of low-income elderly and disabled New York Medicaid recipients who seek fair hearings to challenge New York State’s termination of their…
Read More →At the invitation of the Atlanta Legal Aid Society, NCLEJ Senior Attorney Greg Bass traveled to Atlanta on October 2nd, where he addressed advocates gathered at an annual conference at the Georgia State Bar offices on using the…
Read More →Senior Attorney Greg Bass conducted two recent webinars on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). On August 13th, he conducted a webinar for legal services and disability rights advocates in Georgia on using the ADA on behalf of…
Read More →On August 5, 2015, Judge William S. Duffey, Jr., of the Northern District of Georgia approved the class action settlement in Melanie K. v. Horton. NCLEJ filed the case to challenge Georgia’s system-wide failure to process food stamp…
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