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Law to protect betrays victims (Times Union)
Arrests of abuse victims who sought protection orders fuels call for change
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N.Y. bill would speed up foreclosure 'waiting game' (lohud.com)
Delay can prove a catastrophic enemy of New Yorkers facing the loss of their homes to foreclosure.
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Courts clogged by debt cases, 'rubber stamp' rulings, advocacy group says (NBCnews.com)
It's a growing problem, say consumer advocates around the country: courts that seem to behave like assembly lines, clogged with debt cases that sometimes consume an entire day’s legal action. The New Economy Project report is among the first to quantify the issue.
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Attorney general sues HSBC over foreclosures (The Buffalo News)
Thousands of New Yorkers have likely been denied a better chance to get their homes out from under foreclosure by HSBC Bank USA and its Depew mortgage operations facility, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is charging in a new lawsuit.
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Researchers Share Findings on Youth Needs, Programs at National Conference (Youth Today)
During his keynote speech for the 16th Annual Welfare Research and Evaluation Conference, Jack Shonkoff, director of the Harvard Center on the Developing Child and chair of the committee that developed the groundbreaking 2000 report “From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development,” called for a “new era in early childhood policy and practice.”
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Long road to justice (UB Reporter)
Everyone connected to Conrad v. Perales has a war story, and most of them mention the UB Law School professor who was there from the beginning to the end two decades later.
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Lefkowitz: Help homeowners in foreclosure get mediation (Newsday)
There's a crisis brewing for homeowners on Long Island. Thousands of foreclosures filed against homeowners in the past three years are sitting in limbo. Cases get stuck because banks are not filing the required court papers that trigger a homeowner's right to meet with the lender in a court-supervised settlement conference -- a system designed to find alternatives to foreclosure.
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Non-Lawyers May Be Given Role in Closing 'Justice Gap' (New York Law Journal)
Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman yesterday announced the makeup of a committee to study the feasibility of allowing non-attorneys to provide legal services to poor New Yorkers in "simpler" civil matters.
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A.G. Schneiderman and Senate Majority Coalition Leader Klein Highlight Foreclosure Relief Bills (NewsLI.com)
Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman and New York State Senate Majority Coalition Leader Jeff Klein today highlighted the “Certificate of Merit” bill (A. 5582) and the Foreclosure Fraud Prevention Act (A.7395), two important pieces of legislation to protect New York homeowners facing foreclosure.
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Assembly Passes Bills Giving Foreclosure Protections (New York Law Journal)
One bill would require residential mortgage holders to file the paperwork necessary to initiate mandatory settlement conferences where lenders are seeking to foreclose, while another would impose both misdemeanor- and felony-level penalties for some fraudulent foreclosure practices.
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