Western New York Law Center

8/12/20

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Aug 122020

 

• Opinion: Lives Hang in the Balance as Courts Resume In-Person Work
• COVID-19 – State Policies Relating to Legal Services Attorneys and Clients – Updated
• Stateline: Businesses Want a Shield Against COVID-19 Lawsuits. But What About Customer Safety?
• CBPP: Trump Executive Order Doesn’t Extend Eviction Ban, Won’t Help the Millions Struggling to Pay Rent
• GAO Report – Child Welfare and Aging Programs: HHS Could Enhance Support for Grandparents and Other Relative Caregivers

8/11/20

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Aug 112020

 

• The Coming Eviction Crisis: ‘It’s Hard to Pay the Bills on Nothing’
• Will Roberts opinion ‘eviscerate abortion rights’? 8th Circuit cites new standard
• Covid-19 Resources and Advocacy on Medicaid in NYS – COVID Flexibilities extended through Oct. 2020

8/10/20

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Aug 102020

 

• Critics Question CARES Act Spending in Some States
• Jost on Justice: For Justices, the Pandemic Is What It Is
• CBPP: Trump Executive Orders Likely Won’t Help the Millions Struggling to Pay Rent

8/7/20

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Aug 072020

 

• Supreme Court lifts injunction requiring COVID-19 safety measures at jail
• Federal judiciary wrongly used PACER fees for unrelated projects, Federal Circuit rules
• NPR – Ending ‘Asylum As We Know It’: Using Pandemic To Expel Migrants, Children At Border

8/6/20

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Aug 062020

 

• Center for American Progress: The Need for Supreme Court Term Limits
• Erie County Zombie Task Force Press Release – longstanding vacant and abandoned zombie house finally demolished
• In Comment to CFPB, Consumer and Civil Rights Organizations Urge Agency to Ban Collection of Time-Barred Debt
• CBPP: Robust Unemployment Insurance, Other Relief Needed to Mitigate Racial and Ethnic Unemployment Disparities

8/5/20

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Aug 052020

 

• Data on police deadly force should be tracked, ABA House urges
• Brennan Center: Covid-19 Is Turning Prison Terms into Death Sentences
• Trump Hammered at 2nd Circuit for Shake-Up of Green Card Rules
• Changes in State TANF Policies in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
• CBPP: 5 Million Essential and Front-line Workers Get Health Coverage Through Medicaid

8/4/20

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Aug 042020

 

• Income and Resource Limits for New York State Public Health Insurance Programs
• Legal community has a ‘special responsibility to fight injustice,’ ABA president says in final speech
• Obamacare back at the court: Julie Rovner joins SCOTUStalk to preview the newest ACA challenge
• Holocaust or Nazi Victim Reparations — Effect on Medicaid, SSI and other Federally Funded and New York State Benefits (Updated)

8/3/20

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Aug 032020

 

• Disability Law News – July 2020
• State’s Window for COVID Rent Relief Reopens Amid Criticism
• CRL: Amicus Brief Opposes OCC Charter That Would Aid Predatory Lenders
• City Limits Opinion: Religious Leaders Call to Release People Facing COVID Risks from Prisons & Jails