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NEW YORK, NY – On Wednesday, September 30, 2020, Judge Eric Komitee in the New York Eastern District Court dismissed landlord groups’ legal challenge to New York’s Rent Stabilization Laws in two cases, upholding the government’s power to regulate rents in New York.
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NEW YORK, NY (July 28, 2020) – In a victory for tens of thousands of app-based drivers across the state of New York who have been paid a lower unemployment benefit rate for months, a federal judge today granted a preliminary injunction ordering the New York Department of Labor to immediately pay Uber, Lyft, and app-based drivers the full amount owed to them and to notify all claimants of their right to request a review of their benefit rates.
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NEW YORK, NY (July 16, 2020) – Today, Legal Services NYC (LSNYC) and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP (Paul, Weiss) announce the Court-approved settlement of an anti-discrimination lawsuit against NYCHA that will reform the public housing agency’s reasonable accommodation and transfer systems to mitigate systemic delays and ensure that thousands of NYCHA tenants with mobility impairments will receive the accommodations that they need to live with dignity and respect.
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NEW YORK, NY (July 15, 2020) – In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, The New York Bar Foundation launched an emergency fundraising drive to help address the legal needs of New Yorkers brought on by the pandemic. With these funds the Foundation has awarded 29 grants to legal services and public interest organizations in neraly every judicial district of the state, in the most successful fundraising effort in the Foundation's history.
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