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PILP partners with Disability Rights Ca. to challenge constitutionality of CARE Court
(Sacramento, CA) – Today, on behalf of the thousands of California’s with disabilities who can be targeted and impacted by CARE Court, Disability Rights California (DRC), Western Center on Law & Poverty, and The Public Interest Law Project filed an … Read more
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San Luis Obispo’s Motion to Dismiss Denied
Federal Judge Cormac J. Carney resoundingly rejected the City of San Luis Obispo’s motion to dismiss, allowing a case brought by unhoused residents and Hope’s Village SLO to move forward.
Five unhoused and low-income Plaintiffs, along with Hope’s Village SLO, … Read more
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LA County Sued for Failing to Provide Timely Emergency Food Assistance to Eligible Households
Lawsuit accuses county of violating state and federal laws mandating expedited processing of CalFresh food benefits
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County fails to comply with California’s requirement that counties expedite the processing of urgent applications for CalFresh (formerly known … Read more
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The Public Interest Law Project (PILP) seeks an experienced attorney to join the public benefits practice of one of California’s premier legal services support centers. Since 1996, PILP has provided crucial litigation and advocacy support to local legal services and … Read more
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Lawsuit Seeks to Stop the City of San Luis Obispo from Criminalizing Homelessness
On September 17, 2021, PILP, along with California Legal Rural Assistance and Law Office of Babak Naficy filed a lawsuit against the City of San Luis Obispo in federal court, seeking to stop the City’s practice of criminalizing homelessness, unlawfully … Read more
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Ninth Circuit Rejects Los Angeles Apartment Owners’ Challenge to LA’s COVID Eviction Moratorium
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal issued an August 25, 2021 opinion affirming the trial court’s rejection of a preliminary injunction motion by the Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles to stop the COVID eviction moratorium enacted by the City … Read more
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Court Finds Clovis’s Current and Inadequate Zoning Does Not Comply with State Law.
Petitioners Desiree Martinez and Maria de Jesus Sanchez, represented by PILP and Central California Legal Services, sued the City of Clovis to force the City’s Housing Element to comply with state law. On April 30, 2021, the Fresno County … Read more
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More Than $10 million Secured for Affordable Housing in San Mateo County
On April 15, 2021, the California Supreme Court declined the Department of Finance’s request to depublish the opinion in Legal Aid Society v. Department of Finance, 59 Cal. App. 5th 166 (2020). The opinion (also linked below) filed on … Read more
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From Atlanta to Oakland, Action Not Silence
We Rise with All to Condemn Anti-Asian Hate and Violence
The Public Interest Law Project stands in solidarity and defense of all Asian and Pacific Islander communities, and we condemn the recent violence against them and the racist rhetoric about … Read more
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BLACK LIVES MATTER – Action Not Patience
Black Lives Matter. The suffering inflicted by COVID-19 falls disproportionately on black and brown people due to a much more sinister pandemic—the centuries long plague of systemic racism that killed Mr. Rayshard Brooks, Mr. George Floyd, Ms. Breonna Taylor, Mr. … Read more
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