October 2017

10/31/17

Staunching the School-to-Prison Pipeline In a Mortgage-Crisis Settlement, Did a Bank Get Off Easy? Federal judge bars enforcement of plan to ban transgender people in the military

11/30/17

New Job Openings Posted How Free Legal Help Can Prevent Evictions Justice Department Seeks Dismissal of Lawsuits Seeking to Preserve DACA

10/27/17

NY Times: How Wall Street Won a Fight on Class-Action Suits GSEs Have a Duty to Serve the Entire Mortgage Market, CRL Says in House Hearing MLTC UPDATE 2017 – Home Care Worker Pay Update – New Regulations; “Transition Policy” for Guildnet & Other Closing MLTC Plans

10/26/17

Read the fine print: 4 ways you sign away your rights Argument preview: Supreme Court poised to tell when time is tolled GAO Report: Poverty and Use of Selected Federal Social Safety Net Programs Persist among Working Families

10/25/17

Consumer Bureau Loses Fight to Allow More Class-Action Suits Bad Rabbit: Ten things you need to know about the latest ransomware outbreak Posner says he is organizing a national pro-bono group that includes ex-prisoner The DFNDER Project to Improve Review of Wrongful Convictions in the United States Argument preview: Bankruptcy case will have justices pondering …

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10/24/17

New Job Openings Posted The Justice Gap – America’s unfulfilled promise of “equal justice under law” Attorney hopes to import the best practices of European prisons to the United States GAO Report: Low-Wage Workers: Poverty and Use of Selected Federal Social Safety Net Programs Persist among Working Families

10/23/17

Article: Medicaid Spend-Down TalkPoverty.org: It’s Time to Stop Using Inmates for Free Labor NYC Comptroller Wants Paying Rent on Time to Count Toward Credit Score

10/20/17

UNC Center for Civil Rights attorneys are out of a job. Now what? 18 Attorneys General Step Up for Consumers After No Action from DeVos Posner asks court to let him help ‘determinedly involved’ pro se litigant with beef against 3 judges