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…
Read More →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…
Read More →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…
Read More →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…
Read More →On November 17, 2011, the District Court ruled that Hawaii was clearly out of compliance with federal processing time requirements and that plaintiffs were suffering serious harm. The preliminary injunction order requires the development of a corrective action…
Read More →In late September, NCLEJ Executive Director Henry Freedman spoke to a group of young public interest lawyers from around the world who had been brought to the United States to learn about public interest lawyering by PILnet (formerly…
Read More →The Madison County Department of Social Services has issued an Americans with Disabilities Act policy which is a significant improvement over the ADA materials that Madison DSS had previously, and is similar to the Onondaga County DSS ADA…
Read More →The Board and staff of the National Center for Law and Economic Justice are mourning the loss of Board member Mary Lovings, who died on October 15, 2011, at her home in Houston, Texas. We got to know…
Read More →NCLEJ, the HIV Law Project, and African Services Committee have filed a class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York claiming New York City’s Human Resources Administration (HRA) and HIV/AIDS Services Administration…
Read More →NCLEJ attorneys Gina Mannix and Cary LaCheen have submitted extensive comments on proposed HHS regulations governing the health insurance exchanges to be created under the Affordable Care Act. The comments’ recommendations are drawn from our experience with public…
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