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• NSCLC Urges Senators to Enact Fair Pay Bill PDF document — 98 KB
The National Senior Citizens Law Center submitted this letter to urge swift Senate action on S. 1843, the Fair Pay Restoration Act. The bill would will correct a May 2007 Supreme Court decision that ...
• Justice Scalia's Two-Front War
Despite lip service to "judicial restraint" Scalia has been waging a war against consumer product regulation as well as protections for workers, at both the state and federal level. Read the full arti...
• N.D.Cal: ERISA preempts SF health plan
A California federal district court held that San Francisco’s universal health care plan is preempted by the Employee Retirement and Income Security Act (ERISA). Golden Gate Restaurant Ass’n v. Ci...
• Repealing the 20th Century PDF document — 4224 KB
While everyone focuses on its abortion decisions, the Roberts Court is merrily revoking a century of legislation protecting citizens, consumers, workers and minorities against business. By Simon Lazar...
• Will the Roberts Supreme Court Shred America's Health Safety Net? PDF document — 331 KB
A Paper Presented To A Conference Of The Justice Partnership: “Forgotten Americans: The Future Of Support For Low-Income Older Adults” by Simon Lazarus, Public Policy Counsel, NSCLC ...
• Scorched Earth and Fertile Ground: The Landscape of Suits Against the States to Enforce the ADA PDF document — 706 KB
This article appears in the September/October 2007 issue of Clearinghouse Review, Journal of Poverty Law and Policy...