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News From 2012

- NYLAG Decries European High Court Decision Denying Claims Against Poland Brought by Holocaust Survivor
  
  Posted on October 12, 2012
  
  After seven years of indecision, the Court denied survivors compensation for their Polish properties and businesses that were seized by the Nazis.
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- NYLAG Launches Transgender Employment Rights Program
  
  Posted on September 24, 2012
  
  New program expands NYLAG’s LGBT Law Project capacity to help Enforce transgender workplace rights.
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- NYLAG Receives Prestigious Award from the NYS Bar Association
  
  Posted on September 14, 2012
  
  NYS Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman delivered the keynote address to a packed ballroom of several hundred legal services advocates from across the State.
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- LegalHealth Launches New Website
  
  Posted on September 13, 2012
  
  The country’s largest medical-legal partnership has a new online presence! Visit www.legalhealth.org to tour this dynamic and highly-functional new website.
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- Court Approves Settlement of Suit to Force Housing Authority to Fix Its Elevators
  
  Posted on September 5, 2012
  
  NYLAG’s Litigation Unit won an important victory in its 3-year class action battle with NYCHA on behalf of mobility-impaired tenants in public housing.
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- Back-to-School: Immigration Law Help on Wheels
  
  Posted on September 4, 2012
  
  NYLAG’s Mobile Legal Help Center to Provide Free “Deferred Action” Assistance to Students at Queens High School
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- NYLAG Hosts “DREAMDay” to Help Immigrants Seeking Deferred Action
  
  Posted on August 12, 2012
  
  More than 20 young immigrants were given an opportunity to meet individually with NYLAG attorneys to obtain advice, establish eligibility, and review a list of the documents necessary to apply for Deferred Action
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- NYLAG Launches Deferred Action Assistance Project for Undocumented Immigrant Youth
  
  Posted on July 21, 2012
  
  The new project will educate the public and will provide free direct legal assistance to young people in applying for and obtaining Deferred Action and employment authorization.
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- Over 100 NYLAG Staffers and Supporters Participate in NYC Pride March
  
  Posted on June 27, 2012
  
  Clad in matching t-shirts and carrying “NYLAG Pride” signs, supporters accompanied the Mobile Legal Help Center down Fifth Avenue.
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- Family Law Unit Hosts Female Law Students from Qatar
  
  Posted on June 25, 2012
  
  Students learn from NYLAG about the laws protecting domestic violence victims in NYS, which they will apply to draft similar legislation in Qatar.
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