NCLEJ Receives 2025 Melton M. Lewis Equal Justice Award

The National Center for Law and Economic Justice is deeply excited to receive the 2025 Melton M. Lewis Equal Justice Award by our friends, Legal Services of Eastern Missouri. Together, we are litigating to combat Missouri’s SNAP delays and program dysfunction stemming from an overloaded call center.

In May 2025, we secured a victory in our lawsuit against the Missouri Department of Social Services when a district court judge ordered the State to take remedial action to improve their dysfunctional SNAP program.

Watch LSEM’s video showcasing our joint effort, featuring NCLEJ attorney Katie Deabler and Stinson LLP Partner Andrew Scayotto.