Category: News

Check Out NCLEJ’s Summer Newsletter

Read more about our recent cases and other exciting NCLEJ news, made possible by the support of our donors.

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NCLEJ Dinner on June 5th Celebrated Four Outstanding Honorees

Allstate General Counsel Michele Coleman Mayes, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities President Robert Greenstein, and the law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges were honored at NCLEJ’s awards dinner on June 5 at…

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NCLEJ and Other Advocates Sue Missouri for Medicaid Change that Would Cause Unnecessary Institutionalization of Dialysis Patients

NCLEJ, Legal Services of Eastern Missouri, the Saint Louis Legal Clinic, Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, and two private attorneys have filed a federal lawsuit to challenge a new Medicaid policy that will cause Medicaid recipients who…

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NCLEJ and Greater Hartford Legal Aid Sue State For Delays in Providing Food Stamps

NCLEJ and Greater Hartford Legal Aid have filed a federal class action challenging the state’s pervasive delays in providing food stamps to needy Connecticut residents. The delays affect thousands of individuals each month, depriving them of food stamps…

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NCLEJ Joins Supreme Court Amicus Brief Supporting the Affordable Care Act

For Immediate Release Contact: Gina Mannix (212) 633-6967 March 2012 New York, NY – The National Center for Law and Economic Justice (NCLEJ) has joined the National Health Law Program (NHeLP) and thirty-eight prominent organizations of health care…

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Willkie Farr Partner Elected to NCLEJ’s Board of Directors

New York City attorney Keila Ravelo, a partner at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP and a 1991 graduate of Columbia Law School, was elected to NCLEJ’s Board of Directors at the March 2012 meeting. “We are so pleased…

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Contempt Motion Responds to Suffolk County’s Failure to Provide Promised Food and Medical Assistance Promptly

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…

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NCLEJ Files Contempt Motion to Address Suffolk County’s Failure to Provide Promised Food and Medicaid Promptly

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…

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Welcome to Our First Pickering Fellow!

Clarion Johnson, a senior associate at WilmerHale, began a six-month, full-time Pickering Fellowship at NCLEJ in January 2012. Clarion is a graduate of the Howard University School of Law and Vanderbilt University. While in law school, he attended…

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New Mexico Court Says Denying Workers’ Compensation Benefits to Farm and Ranch Laborers is Unconstitutional

In Griego v. New Mexico Workers’ Compensation Commission, the state trial court initially denied a motion to dismiss and ruled that a severely injured New Mexico farmworker and two groups that represent farm and ranch laborers may pursue…

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