On July 23rd, NCLEJ filed an amicus curiae brief in the New York State Court of Appeals on behalf of 13 economic and social justice organizations. The issue on appeal in Carver v. New York is whether New…
Read More →In a major victory for food stamp applicants, represented by the National Center for Law and Economic Justice and Greater Hartford Legal Aid, the U.S Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled on July 6, 2015 that…
Read More →On June 3rd, BNY Mellon Senior Executive Vice President and General Counsel Kevin McCarthy and NLADA Director of Leadership and Racial Equity Camille Holmes were honored at NCLEJ’s 50th Anniversary Awards Dinner at The Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers….
Read More →As a result of a federal class action settlement in Rafferty v. Doar, New York City and State agencies will begin providing information about food stamps and Medicaid in a variety of alternate formats that are accessible to…
Read More →NCLEJ, together with the Legal Aid Society and the Urban Justice Center, released a report on February 25, 2015, showing the difficulties low-wage workers face in collecting their stolen wages. “Empty Judgments: The Wage Collection Crisis in New…
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 October 2014, the Ulster County, NY Sheriff’s Office began running criminal warrant checks on all visitors to the County Department of Social Services (DSS) and Office of the Aging. NCLEJ, along with the New York Civil Liberties…
Read More →On November 11, NCLEJ filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to protect the ability of low-income patients of federally-funded health centers to pursue medical malpractice claims under the Federal Tort Claims Act by continuing the…
Read More →On behalf of its client the National Mobilization Against Sweatshops (NMASS), NCLEJ sent a demand letter to the New York State Department of Labor to thoroughly and promptly investigate its unacceptable backlog of cases. At a press conference…
Read More →On October 10th, NCLEJ’s Dodyk Fellow Leah Lotto presented a Know Your Rights training to members of the Sweatshop Free Upper West Side Campaign (NYC). Members work in industries with high levels of wage theft, where employers fail…
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