Applications Being Accepted for Hanna S. Cohn Equal Justice Fellowship
(8/6/2010) - Fellow Will Focus On High Priority Legal Concerns of Low-Income People
Overdraft Protection: Should You Opt-In? (8/9/2010) Consumers are now being given the option to "opt in" to overdraft programs with their financial institutions. Read more to find out whether you should opt in.
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Rent-to-own law worries consumer advocates (
Buffalo News - 8/8/2010) Imagine a special retail business where management can legally mark up their prices on consumer goods by almost 500 percent, and people still readily shop there for big-screen TV's.
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State Budget Hurts Social Services (
WNYT - News Channel 13 - 7/27/2010) - A Number of non-profits are calling on the Legislature to restore millions of dollars in member items vetoed by the governor.
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Katie Courtney Selected by NY Daily Record as 2010 Up & Coming Attorney (
The Daily Record - 8/3/2010) Empire Justice Center's Katie Courtney selected as 2010 Up and Coming attorney by The Daily Record.
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New Resource to Assist Domestic Violence Victims with Unemployment Benefits System - (7/27/2010) - A new user-friendly resource has been developed to assist domestic violence victims navigate through the unemployment insurance benefits system.
EPA Recognizes the Coalition to Prevent Lead Poisoning for Outstanding Community Leadership (
United States Environmental Protection Agency - 7/21/2010) - The Coalition to Prevent Lead Poisoning has been selected as a winner of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Environmental Justice Achievement Award for its leadership in community-based efforts to prevent childhood lead poisoning in the city of Rochester, New York.
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Rochester area anit-lead fighters honored (
Democrat and Chronicle - 7/21/210)
- Calling the community effort to reduce and try to eradicate the problem of lead poisoning a model for the country, a representative of the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency presented an award recognizing health improvements and a sense of justice.
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The Case of the Disappearing NY Legal Services? (Public News Service - July 14, 2010) The providers of civil legal services for those who can't afford a lawyer to fight such things as foreclosure, eviction, and denial of benefits say they are in trouble. They say the public protection budget bills passed by the New York Legislature this spring include a devastating 70 percent cut in funding. Read More
Rochester area anit-lead fighters honored (Democrat and Chronicle - 7/21/210) - Calling the community effort to reduce and try to eradicate the problem of lead poisoning a model for the country, a representative of the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency presented an award recognizing health improvements and a sense of justice. Read More
Empire Justice Memo of Support: Guard the Safety and Welfare of Abuse Victims and Their Children (7/12/2010) Empire Justice urges the Governor to sign A.6195-A/S.2972-A into law, enhancing protections for abuse victims and their children. Read More
Statement on Passage of Critical Legislation that Will Allow Disabled and Struggling New Yorkers on Public Assistance Own a Reliable Car (7/1/2010) Empire Justice Center applauds the State Legislature and particularly bill sponsors Assemblymember Keith Wright and Senator Liz Krueger for passage of A. 1516/S.6680, an important bill that will help low income New Yorkers who have a reliable car hold onto the car when they apply for public assistance. Read More
Empire Justice Center urges Governor to Sign Critical Anti-Hunger Bill (7/1/2010) - This critical bill directs the commissioner of education, in cooperation with the commissioner of health, to facilitate a program to coordinate the donation of excess unused edible food from schools’, universities’ or other educational institutions’ meal programs to voluntary food assistance program. Read more.
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