Category: News

NCLEJ Celebrates 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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Cary LaCheen’s Article on Improving Communication between Public Benefits Agencies and Persons with Hearing Difficulties Is Published in Clearinghouse Review

Find the article here (pdf).

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Improving Remote Communication Between Public Benefits Agencies and Deaf and Hard of Hearing Individuals

by Cary LaCheen, Clearinghouse Review (Jan-Feb 2010)

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NCLEJ Sues New Hampshire for Failing to Pay Full Medical Costs

Capps v. Toumpas challenges New Hampshire’s policy of refusing to reimburse Medicaid recipients who receive Medicaid through the Aid to the Permanently and Totally Disabled program for the full amount of their prescription medication expenses incurred from the…

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Lawsuit Causes FEMA to Disgorge Documents on Accessible Temporary Housing

In January 2010, after a long delay, FEMA released 700 pages of materials to NCLEJ which NCLEJ had requested under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in March 2009. FEMA only released the material after NCLEJ, represented by…

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Total Victory Won in Maryland Benefits Delay Case

On December 10, 2009, after a four-day trial, Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Barry Williams granted plaintiffs’ motion for a permanent injunction requiring the State of Maryland to come into full compliance with timely processing requirements in the…

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Steuben County, NY, Agrees to Speed Provision of Food Stamps, Medicaid, and Cash Public Assistance to Those Hard Hit by Recession

In February 2010, NCLEJ, the Western New York Law Center, and the Empire Justice Center achieved a settlement approved by the United States District Court for the Western District of New York in a class action case challenging…

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Rhode Island to Speed Food Stamp Processing Under Court-Approved Settlement

The National Center for Law and Economic Justice, together with the Rhode Island ACLU through Cooperating Attorney Lynette Labinger of Roney & Labinger LLP, filed suit on July 6, 2009 against the Director of the Rhode Island Department…

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Indiana Agrees to Court Order Speeding Provision of Food Stamp Benefits

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…

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Now Available Online: Reorienting and Expanding Our National Advocacy Program

In this article Henry Freedman reviews the exciting progress made by NCLEJ since it lost all federal funding in 1995. Read more (pdf)

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