Henry was evicted from his upper Manhattan apartment within a few months after receiving an eviction notice. He had been living in the apartment for over 12 years and because of an administrative error not due to Henry, his bank …
Court Apologizes to Deaf Woman Denied Interpreter
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
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
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 …
New Year’s Resolution
We placed a small flyer on the door of a social service agency in the Bronx with our name — New York Center for Law and Justice — offering a workshop that we were sponsoring on the subject of legal …
Coming Home for Christmas
We should have been home for Christmas,” Henry tells me as we speak one week before Christmas at the law center. “When you don’t have housing, you don’t have nothing,” he adds. This is a short story about Henry and …
Client Story – Richard
Richard closes his eyes tightly in the middle of his sentence and I know that he is searching for the word that will not come to his mind. In a five-minute conversation, the “pause” will occur many more times. Richard …
Martin Luther King Day
Each day, our deaf clients enter our office and require an American Sign Language interpreter to render our voices into meaning. Our clients cannot hear the spoken word and surely strain to apprehend the resonance of musical notes felt through …
Client Story – Dan and Sheila
Is a house a home? For Dan and Sheila, their modest condominium in Bayside, Queens is both a house and home. The condominium serves as a physical structure against the natural elements, like rain and snow and the heat from …
Client Story – Donna
Things looked pretty bleak for one of our profoundly deaf clients, Donna, just about a year ago. The city and state program-Advantage-was ending and so was the funding provided to her that subsidized Donna’s modest housing in Brooklyn. The fallout …