Students in the Bet Tzedek and Guardianship Clinics have filed suit in Brooklyn Federal Courton behalf of 74-year-old Luz Ortega, who is suffering from Alzheimer's and is being denied benefits to pay her rent by the New York City Housing Authority.
Lindsay Nash, a fellow at the Immigration Justice Clinic at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, said the justice corps would address a growing interest in immigration and public interest law among young lawyers at a time when it is far more challenging to find jobs in the nonprofit sector than in the private one.
Immigration rights advocates announced March 13 that they have filed 10 suits around the country targeting abuses by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency.
“We hope these cases bring attention to the systemic actions on the part of border patrol agents,” said Betsy Ginsberg, a professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.
Michael Morton and Cynthia May Chessman politely told the approximately 200 guests invited to their wedding on Saturday to resist giving them gifts. Instead, they asked relatives and friends to donate to the Innocence Project, the nonprofit group founded at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University that uses DNA evidence to free the wrongfully convicted from prison.
Too often, though, without a video, our clients’ accounts of the lies told by police fall on deaf ears. Prosecutors and judges engage in cognitive dissonance — on the one hand understanding that police lie; on the other, failing to address the issue in any meaningful way.