The United States Senate passed a two-month extension of eligibility for unemployment insurance and tax credits to help cover the cost of health insurance premiums for Americans who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own on April 15, 2010. The bill also restores these critical benefits

The Legal Service Corporation’s Office of Legal Affairs issued an Advisory Opinion on April 14 entitled, Legal Assistance to Ineligible Alien Parents with U.S. Citizen Children. The opinion discusses whether Part 1626 of the Corporation’s regulations permits LSC grantees to provide services to

Story from the Maryland Legal Aid Newsroom discussing the action of the the Maryland legislature approving a bill to increase the surcharge on civil court filing fees to address the funding crisis caused by historically low interest rates on IOLTA.

Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), flanked by the Rev. Jesse Jackson and other civil rights and union leaders, introduced the Protect Our Workers from Exploitation and Retaliation (POWER) Act on Capitol Hill on April 14, 2010. Crafted in response to reports across the country of employers using

Article on Philly.com discussing the national class action lawsuit, filed by Outten & Golden L.L.P. in New York with co-counsel by Community Legal Services of Philadelphia, against the U.S. Census Bureau alleging systemic employment discriminaton in the hiring of employees to work on the 2010 census

A lawsuit settled in Pennsylvania by the Education Law Center-PA and the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty (NLCHP) ensures the continued enrollment of homeless children in school and significantly revises state polices to better protect the rights of homeless students. As part of the

Community Legal Services of Philadelphia is co-counseling a class action along with lead counsel Outten & Golden, LLP of New York, against the United States Census Bureau, alleging that thousands of African Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans have been rejected for jobs by the Census Bureau

The March 2010 isssue of Health Law PA News, the free bi-monthly newsletter from the Pennsylvania Health Law Project, is now available on PALawHELP.org.