The hearing was on a resolution to support congressional legislation that would dismantle ICE and legislation that would prevent the city from contracting with entities that engage in immigration enforcement.
New York City’s Rent Freeze Program (RFP) freezes the rents paid by lower-income elderly and disabled rent-regulated tenants—in many cases for decades—and provides landlords with tax credits to cover the portion of the legal regulated rent not being paid by the tenant.
Tenants must renew their RFP benefits every two years, but some eligible tenants may be unable to complete the renewal process because of their disabilities. When this happened, Cardozo Law's Bet Tzedek Clinic stepped in to help.
The first Cardozo clinic won his appeal. The second Cardozo clinic convinced the jury in a two-week-long retrial that he was not guilty. Now that their client is finally out of prison, a third Cardozo clinic is fighting to adjust his immigration status in order to keep him in the country with his wife and family.
The visit’s purpose was to understand the human rights concerns related to operations of private militias, as well as private military and private security contractors.
As the Tribeca Film Festival takes New York City by storm, Cardozo’s own Indie Film Clinic had a role in the action as they presented, in partnership with Tribeca Film Institute, a pop-up clinic which offered free legal advice to filmmakers around the city.
LeslieAnn Manning, a trans woman, has been awarded $100,000 in damages after she claimed she was raped at a men’s prison in New York. It is believed to be the largest settlement ever offered to a trans person in a case of sexual assault in a New York State prison.
Broadly, which is a part of Vice, reports on LeslieAnn Manning, an inmate at Sullivan Correctional Facility in New York who says she was raped by another inmate in 2013.
Make the Road New York's "Briefing from the Grassroots" event on April 19, 2018 at Shearman & Sterling will feature Cardozo clinic students and professors who have worked on this important issue.
Cardozo Securities Arbitration Clinic students Armando Martinez '19, Cristiana Modesti '18 and Ishara Quick '19 attended the Public Meeting of the Investor Advisory Committee on March 8, 2018, at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C.