new york lawyers for the public interest

• Jane Roe, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Cheyenne Mountain Conference Resort, Inc., Defendant-Appellee. National Employment Lawyers' Association, Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, Employment Law Center, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, the Impact Fund, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Amici Curiae., 124 F.3d 1221 (10th Cir. 1997)

Craig M. Cornish (Melissa L. Phillips with him on the briefs), of Cornish & Dell'Olio, Colorado Springs, CO, for Plaintiff-Appellant. Glenn H. Schlab...

• Federal Circuits

• The 11-Year-Old Perp

Is she afraid that a hearing and a quite possible majority vote would so antagonize the hallowed Education Mayor-despite her ultra-loyal support for his third term-that her reciprocal chance to succeed him would be jeopardized? A School Safety Coalition supporting this law, which would return the school system to civilian control, includes the Children's Defense Fund-New York; NAACP-Legal Defense and Education Fund; New York Lawyers for the Public Interest; the Correctional Association of New York; the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys; and others. In the Daily News on October 9, his spokesman, Deputy Commissioner Paul Brown-who is clearly qualified to teach a course in Orwellian doublespeak for White House press secretariesdeclared that although students can't be criminally prosecute...

• Village Voice, The
• August 28, 2009

• Public Advocate Gotbaum Calls for Independent Testing of Pellets Used in City Parks

Public Advocate Gotbaum was joined by CUNY Professor William Grain and representatives from New York Lawyers for the Public Interest to call on the Parks Department to allow an independent study of the health impacts of the pellets before the City expands their use to additional fields. Public Advocate [Betsy Gotbaum] said, "Families and children play in City parks every day - and they shouldn't be placed in danger. We know these pellets contain toxic agents, but we don't know if these hazardous agents will hurt families or children. That's why the City should allow an exhaustive, independent study to help us identify possible health risks and protect New Yorkers." In 2006, researchers at Rutgers University studied the pellets and found levels of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons at leve...

• Culvert Chronicles, The
• August 18, 2009

• A civic republican view of hospital closures and community health planning.

...Presidential candidates,(1) former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer,(2) and even New York City ... of deliberation as people with diverse interests collectively seek the common good. Thus civic repu... proposal can succeed without engaging the public in a meaningful dialogue that learns from communit...New York Lawyers for the Public Interest ("NYLPI") represented a co...

• Fordham Urban Law Journal
• Vol. 35 Nbr. 3, April 2008

• Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained

Veronica Eady, a senior staff attorney at New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, gives us a graphic story of why the laws created to protect the environment work only sometimes; and Peggy Shepard, co-founder of WE ACT for Environmental Justice, describes how a community can organize to empower itself. A Kentucky native, Dunnigan was a pioneer journalist who was responsible for getting Black reporters accredited to cover the White House and the two divisions of Congress.

• Crisis, The
• Vol. 114 Nbr. 4, July 2007

• Public interest law: the movement at midlife.

...How the nation's leading public interest lawyers cope with those pressures, and remain a powerful i... in four metropolitan areas: New York, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, and Los Angeles....

• Stanford Law Review
• Vol. 60 Nbr. 6, April 2008

• Disability Advocates, Inc. v. New York Coalition for Quality Assisted, (2nd Cir. 2012)

... (Aditi Koethekar, on the brief), New York Lawyers for the Publicc Interest, New York, NY; and Jeannette Zelhof ...

• Federal Circuits

• Goodwin Procter Partner Richard M. Strassberg Admitted to American College of Trial Lawyers.

NEW YORK -- Goodwin Procter partner Richard M. Strassberg h... a Board member of New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, a Master in the Federal Bar Council Inn ...

• Business Wire
• November 08, 2011

• From Within -- Unprecedented Conference to Empower Women with Disabilities Sponsored by United Spinal Association and Independence Care System

NEW YORK, May 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- United Spinal Association and Independence Care System (ICS), are co-sponsoring the first annual conference to improve the lives, health, and well- being of women with disabilities. The conference titled From Within -- A Discussion About Self- Esteem, Self-Awareness, & Self-Empowerment for Women with Disabilities, will include a variety of workshops to enable women with disabilities to overcome many common obstacles toward a better quality of life.

Open to the public, From Within attendees will have the opportunity t..., Esq., Disability Law Center, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, on the challenges of acce...

• U.S. Newswire
• May 14, 2010

• Bronx President Says Public School Buildings Unsafe

PCBs have long been known to be severely toxic, and were banned for use by Congress in 1978. Experts have noted that PCBs are damaging to the brain. the immune system, the hormonal system, and can cause cancer. PCBs continue to pose health risks despite the ban, as they persist in the environment rather than break down. It is estimated that most schools built before 1980 might be contaminated with PCBs. PCB exposure, whether it is by inhalation of vapor phase PCBs or ingestion of PCB contaminated foods, causes an irreversible loss of cognitive function and also results in increased symptoms of hyperactivity, decreased general performance and decreased ability to deal with frustration." said David O. Carpenter. M. D. director of the Institute for Health and the Environment, University a...

... President Ruben Diaz, Jr., has rapped New York City Department of Education officials for failing... Bronx mother represented by the New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, has filed a formal notice...

• Weekly Gleaner, The; North American ed.
• October 09, 2009