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NSCLC Executive Director Kevin Prindiville calls on Congress in his latest Huffington Post blog to act to update the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program to help low-income seniors like Dollie.
NSCLC Directing Attorney Eric Carlson is quoted in a Nov. 19, 2014 article in Governing concerning Medicaid reimbursement for care outside nursing homes.
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Dollie, 73, lives solely on income from Supplemental Social Security for all of her living expenses. But the program needs an update. Watch Dollie’s story and then help NSCLC restore this important poverty program.
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Fifth Circuit Holds Public Housing Demolition Law Unenforceable
This article appears in the Housing Law Bulletin, published by the National Housing Law Program. Read Housing Law Bulletin.
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How the Sotomayor Saga Could Help Progressives Take Back the Courts
By Doug Kendall and Simon Lazarus Originally published on the American Prospect’s website. As Supreme Court experts rarely fail to point out, Sonia Sotomayor’s accession to the Supreme Court this week will do little to shift future outcomes in … Continue reading
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Don’t Blame Democrats for Republican Obstruction of Obama’s Judicial Nominees
In this Roll Call article, Public Policy Counsel Si Lazarus addresses the concerted effort of Republicans to filibuster Obama’s judicial nominees. Read more.
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Section 1983 and Preemption: Alternative Means of Court Access for Safety Net Statutes
tract: While prior scholarship has noted changes in §1983 jurisprudence, this article demonstrates that the current state of the law reflects the transformation of dissents, particularly the dissent written by Justice O’Connor in 1987, into a majority opinion in 2002. … Continue reading
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The Next War Over the Courts
Conservatives are already fired up about Obama’s judicial nominations. Is the White House prepared for the fight? by Doug Kendall and Simon Lazarus. This article appears in The American Prospect, April 27, 2009. Read The Next War Over the Courts.
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Medicaid Rights Still Viable
(Yale Law Journal) Read Harper Jean Tobin and Rochelle Bobroff’s article from the Yale Law Journal Pocket Part, entitled “The Continuing Viability of Medicaid Rights After the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005”
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Solicitor General’s Office: Course Correction Needed
NSCLC’s Rochelle Bobroff and Harper Jean Tobin advise the new Solicitor General to revive the SG’s traditional understanding that “the United States wins its point whenever justice is done its citizens in the courts.” Read more.
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Reinvigorating Federal Safeguards for Individual Rights and Benefits
Recommendations for the Department of Justice transition team and the new Solicitor General.
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NSCLC in the Guardian: Rebalancing the Scales of Justice
In this op-ed from the Guardian, NSCLC attorneys Simon Lazarus and Ian Millhiser call on Barack Obama to stop the Supreme Court from providing immunity to health insurers and other corporate law-breakers.
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Judicial Nominations: Implementing the Rule of Law
This essay was originally published in Change for America: A Progressive Blueprint for the 44th President by the Center for American Progress Action Fund.
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