Category: News

Economic Justice and Access to Health Care are LGBT Issues

The Summer 2010 issue of the Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy contains an essay based on Laura’s Redman’s 2008 presentation describing the barriers low income LGBT individuals and families confront in seeking access to Medicaid and…

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State Agency Websites Are Often Inaccessible to People with Disabilities

State public benefits agencies increasingly rely on their website as a means of providing information to the public, and as a means of applying for Medicaid, Food Stamps, and cash assistance. Cary LaCheen’s new report, discussing the findings…

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NCLEJ Board Elects Selendy, Curtis, and Barham to Leadership Positions

Jennifer Selendy, a partner at Kirkland & Ellis; Douglas F. Curtis, a partner at WilmerHale, and Cassandra Barham, a respected advocate from Ohio, have been chosen to serve as Chair and Vice-Chairs, respectively, of NCLEJ’s Board of Directors….

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NCLEJ Dinner on June 9th Honored Amy Schulman, Mark Greenberg, and Partners in Maryland Court Victory

Pfizer Senior Vice President and General Counsel Amy Schulman; HHS Administration for Children and Families Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy Mark Greenberg; and the Homeless Persons Representation Project, Public Justice Center, and the law firm of Kirkland &…

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New Mexico Court Allows Agricultural Workers to Pursue Case Challenging Denial of Workers’ Compensation

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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NCLEJ Report on Barriers Childless Adults Face in Accessing Public Health Insurance

Childless Adults: Barriers to Enrollment in Public Health Insurance (pdf) is a qualitative study of uninsured New Yorkers who are eligible for public coverage but are not enrolled. Beyond its groundbreaking work exploring the specific barriers faced by…

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NCLEJ Sues Nassau County NY For Delaying Food Stamps, Medicaid, and Cash Public Assistance to Hundreds Each Month

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,…

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NCLEJ Reports on Barriers Childless Adults Face in Accessing Public Health Insurance

Childless Adults: Barriers to Enrollment in Public Health Insurance (pdf) is a qualitative study of uninsured New Yorkers who are eligible for public coverage but are not enrolled. Beyond its groundbreaking work exploring the specific barriers faced by…

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NCLEJ Sues Nassau County for Delaying Food Stamps, Medicaid, and Cash Public Assistance to Hundreds Each Month

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,…

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NCLEJ Celbrates 40th Anniversary of Goldberg v. Kelly, Landmark Supreme Court Victory

The Supreme Court issued its landmark decision in Goldberg v. Kelly, 397 U.S. 254 (1970), on March 23, 1970 – forty years ago – in a case brought by the National Center for Law and Economic Justice (then…

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