On April 7, 2009, NCLEJ filed Tiffany Bell, et al. v. Anne W. Murphy, et al., a class action challenging Indiana’s failure to timely process food stamp applications. The case was filed in federal district court in South…
Read More →On June 19, 2013, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York approved the negotiated settlement in Richard C. v. Proud, 12 Civ. 5942, which challenged the State’s failure to advise individuals facing SNAP (Food…
Read More →In the latest issue of the Clearinghouse Review focused on racial justice, NCLEJ’s Gina Mannix and Henry Freedman discuss recent social science research showing how subtle race-based factors and stereotypes continue to infect policy and administration in TANF,…
Read More →NCLEJ bids a fond farewell to inimitable Senior Attorney Cary LaCheen. After 13 years at NCLEJ fighting for fairness, justice, and dignity for our clients, especially those with disabilities, Cary has left NCLEJ to join the Office of…
Read More →NCLEJ and Colleagues Achieve Favorable Final Settlement in Hawaii SNAP Delay Case On September 3, 2013 the U.S. District Court approved a settlement of this class action case challenging the Hawaii state agency’s failure to timely process SNAP…
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’s ADA Public Benefits Access Project is successfully using federal disability rights laws to improve access to public benefits for low-income New Yorkers with disabilities. The focus of the project is to obtain improved policies and procedures in…
Read More →Malini Moorthy and Elpidio (PD) Villarreal were elected on September 13th to NCLEJ’s Board of Directors. Malini is Vice President and Assistant General Counsel and heads the Civil Litigation Group at Pfizer. PD is Senior Vice President, Global…
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 →Half a century has passed since that sunny day when my future wife and I, both working as interns in Washington, stood on the Mall as Martin Luther King set out his thrilling dream for this nation –…
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