The Federal Rights Project works to preserve the ability of courts and Congress to protect the health, security and civil rights of individuals under federal law. The Project monitors and provides strategic analyses of legal and legislative developments, offers training and assistance to litigators and support for policy advocates, and promotes public awareness of the importance of federal rights in the judicial nominations process. We are not limited to senior issues; we work to strengthen access to justice for all individuals. The Federal Rights Project also maintains a listserv, which provides recent case developments, strategy articles, and a forum for discussion of issues affecting access to federal court to enforce rights under federal law, including rights under civil rights and public benefits statutes. We particularly emphasize federalism and access to justice developments. We also provide updates on political developments involving the courts, especially judicial nominations. To join, send an email to rbobroff@nsclc.org.

• Don’t Close the Door on Society’s Most Vulnerable PDF document — 1110 KB
This op-ed by By Rochelle Bobroff and Harper Jean Tobin appears in the Los Angeles Daily Journal, August 28, 2008...
• Third-Party Beneficiary Claims: Recent Cases Against Private Parties and Local Agencies PDF document — 1698 KB
By Rochelle Bobroff and Harper Jean Tobin, from the July-August 2008 Clearinghouse Review....
• Will Congress Rebuff the Supreme Court's Anti-Consumer Activism?
The Court's campaign against individual court enforcement of consumer, employee, retiree, and other statutory protections has been a secret hiding in plain sight for the last four decades. Congress is...
• Strings Attached: The Power of the Federal Purse Waives State Sovereign Immunity for the Rehabilitation Act PDF document — 793 KB
This article by Rochelle Bobroff and Harper Jean Tobin appears in the May–June 2008 issue of Clearinghouse Review: Journal of Poverty Law and Policy....
• NSCLC Commends Senate Judiciary for Hearings on Recent Supreme Court Decisions PDF document — 333 KB
NSCLC Public Policy Counsel Simon Lazarus commends the Senate Judiciary Committee for its hearings on recent Supreme Court decisions that undermine laws designed to protect the basic needs of ordinary...
• 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...
• 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...