Settlement Agreement Reached in Suit Challenging Delay in Processing of Food Stamp Applications As Violation of Section 1983; District Court Had Held Food Stamp Act Creates Private Right of Action Under Section 1983, No Eleventh Amendment Bar to Reprocessing Applications

Governor's Budget Cuts Ending Health Care for Immigrant Women and Children Violated Maryland's Equal Protection Guarantee

School Districts Appeal District Court Dismissal of No Child Left Behind Lawsuit Arguing Act Specifically States Neither School Districts Nor States Are Required Spend Own Funds To Comply With Act

Class of Hurricane Victims Obtain Temporary Relief in Lawsuit Against FEMA Over Short-Term Lodging Program

Employees of WalMart’s Overseas Suppliers and Adversely Affected U.S. Union Members Bring Third-Party Beneficiary and State-Law Claims in California Court Against WalMart for Failure to Enforce the Code of Conduct in Its Supplier Contracts

Finding That Latino Day Laborers Established Likelihood of Success Under a Disparate Impact Theory That Town’s “No Notice, No Standards” Evictions Violate The Fair Housing Act, Court Preliminarily Enjoins Town from Seeking Ex Parte Orders Closing Premises

Complaint Alleges that the 2005 Bankruptcy Prevention and Consumer Protection Act's Classifying of Attorneys as Debt Relief Agencies Is Unconstitutional Under the U.S. Constitution's First and Fifth Amendments

Individuals with Developmental Disabilities Sue Illinois Officials for Failing to Provide Community-Based Services

County May Collect Family Support and Welfare Reimbursements Only Up to Amount of Welfare Benefits Paid for Child’s Support

Raleigh Housing Authority Enjoined from Terminating Tenant’s Section 8 Assistance

Fair Housing Act Requires Landlord to Consider Tenant’s Verbal Requests for Reasonable Accommodation

New York State May Not Deny, Based on Immigration Status, Assistance to Indigent and Lawfully Residing Elderly, Blind, or Disabled Persons

HIV Status Alleged as Reason for Applicant’s Rejection by Service Provider

Court Allows Constitutional Challenge to Proceed Against Freezing Bank Accounts Containing Exempt Federal Benefits

Defendant “Discount Health Care Referral” Business Agrees to Comply with California Discount Buying Law and Pay Damages to Plaintiffs, Who Will Continue Litigating Claim in State Court that Defendants Conduct Unlawful Business Practices

New York Attorney General Is Enjoined from Instituting Judicial Action in State’s Parens Patriae Capacity to Enforce Fair Housing Act’s Fair Lending Provisions Against National Banks

District Court Establishes Receivership to Control Delivery of Medical Services to California Prisoners Confined by State Department of Corrections

Hurricane Evacuees, Who Prepaid for Lodging, Obtain Preliminary Injunction Prohibiting Their Eviction by Hotel Seeking to Charge Higher Rates from Football Fans

Mentally Retarded Youth Argues Before Second Circuit That State Child Care Agency Violated Due Process by Failing to Give Him a Hearing on Use of His Income for Unsafe Housing

Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles Obtains Permanent Injunction to Stop For-Profit “Paralegal” Service from Advertising Itself as “Legal Aid” and Wins Damages and Attorney Fees

Supreme Court Holds That Government May Seize Social Security Benefits to Collect Student Loan Debt

Vision-Impaired Medicare Beneficiary Entitled to Reimbursement for Closed Circuit Television Electronic Vision Enhancement Device

U.S. Department of Education’s Statutory Interpretation in Informal Handbook and E-Mail Does Not Warrant Judicial Deference, Second Circuit Says

Nonlawyer Who Targeted Spanish-Speaking Community Pleads Guilty to Contempt for Violating Injunction Against Practicing Law or Similar Legal Functions

Janitors Locked in Stores During Overnight Shifts Sue Store Owners in Tort

Endorsement of Settlement Agreement by City Education Department’s Hearing Officer Renders Plaintiffs “Prevailing Parties” for Purposes of Attorney Fee Awards, Second Circuit Rules

Resident with Lou Gehrig’s disease Charges that Retirement Home’s Ban on Long-Term Personal Care Attendants in Independent Living Units Violates Federal Disabilities and Fair Housing Laws

New York State Agencies Agree on New Case Management Procedures in Adult Protective Services Program

Wisconsin Supreme Court Orders $50 Assessment on Active Bar Members to Support Legal Services for Low-Income Persons

Utah County Faces Class Action Suit on Zoning Policies Allegedly Excluding Moderately Priced, Disabled-Accessible, and Multifamily Housing Developments

Legal Noncitizen New Hampshire Residents File Section 1983 Suit Against Division of Motor Vehicles for Discriminatory Licensing Rules

Rhode Island Department of Human Services Must Comply with Medicaid Act in Conducting Disability Reviews for Disabled Medical Assistance Recipients

Senior Apartment Complex’s Rejection of Debtor’s Housing Application Violates Bankruptcy Code’s Section 525 Antidiscrimination Provision

Black Residents’ Housing Discrimination Claim Against Florida Town Is Dismissed as Moot after Town Drops Relocation Plan

Federally Qualified Health Centers Have Private Right of Action Under Section 1983 to Enforce Medicaid Reimbursement Provisions, First Circuit Rules

Delivery Drivers Sue FedEx for Classifying Them as Independent Contractors

H-2B Worker Seeks Representative Class Action Status in Suit for Unpaid Wages and Wrongful Termination

Community Development Corporation Violates Federal Relocation Assistance Laws by Not Notifying and Assisting Displaced Single Room Occupancy Residents