Deaf Football Team’s Inspirational Season

In News by BRUCE GITLIN

If you haven’t received the news by now, California School for the Deaf’s Riverside Cubs came within one game of securing their division’s title. Emerging this year from seven seasons of consistent losses, the Riverside Cubs—an all-deaf team with deaf …

Featured in the NY Law Journal

In News by BRUCE GITLIN

Indigent Deaf Find Fierce Advocates in Husband-Wife Legal Team BY REBECCA BAKER REPRESENTING the indigent deaf poses a host of legal challenges for Bruce and Liz Gitlin, a husband-and-wife team who run a public interest law firm in Manhattan. Among …

Landmark Settlement with NYC

In News by LJC DK Admin

New York, NY – The New York Center for Law and Justice (NYCLJ), a legal services organization dedicated to representing the deaf and hard of hearing communities, negotiated individually with the City of New York, as well as jointly with …

Court Apologizes to Deaf Woman Denied Interpreter

In News by LJC DK Admin

A deaf woman who sued the District of Columbia Superior Court claiming she was unlawfully denied an interpreter for grand jury service has received an apology from the chief judge. Michelle Koplitz on Wednesday voluntarily withdrew her lawsuit accusing the …

One of Marvel’s Avengers Turns to Sign Language

In News by LJC DK Admin

The fight for justice can wear on the body. That is something that Clint Barton, the member of Marvel’s Avengers known as the archer Hawkeye, is going to have to learn to cope with. In issue No. 19 of “Hawkeye,” …

University Ordered to Accommodate Deaf Student

In News by LJC DK Admin

YAKIMA, Wash. — A federal judge has ordered Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences in Yakima to accommodate a deaf student this fall after the man filed a lawsuit claiming the school discriminated against him by withdrawing his acceptance. In …

Martin Luther King Jr. Day Reflection

In News by LJC DK Admin

On March 25, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. appeared at the Concord Hotel in the Catskills and spoke before the Rabbinical Assembly of the Conservative Movement.  The conversation between King and the rabbis is remarkable for so many reasons, including …