Author: Rosemary Johnson
Family Court is clogged with petty cases from spurned exes
07/18/2018
Executive Director Amy Barasch responds to a New York Post article stating that courthouses are clogged with cases after a 2008 amendment to the state Family Court Act enabling non-married couples to obtain civil protective orders.
Read more Statement on the Supreme Court decision in Trump v. Hawaii
06/28/2018
We at Her Justice join immigrant communities, business leaders, and many people across the United States in expressing disappointment at this week’s Supreme Court decision in Trump v. Hawaii, one of the legal challenges to President Trump’s executive order that severely restricts travel from several majority Muslim countries to the United States.
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Statement on Family Separation
06/20/2018
Her Justice stands for getting and keeping immigrant parents and their children together. We have embraced this priority since the founding of our immigration program over a decade ago. We abhor and condemn the policy of separating parents and children at the border as a clear human rights abuse.
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Our Response to Sessions’ Decision in the Matter of A-B-
06/13/2018
Her Justice strongly denounces the recent decision In the Matter of A-B- written by Attorney General Jeffrey Sessions. The decision sharply limits the ability of survivors of domestic violence to flee their abusers when their home countries cannot or will not protect them from abuse in order to seek safe haven in the United States.
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Peralta Announces State Grant To Help Women Access the Legal System
06/05/2018
Queens County Politics featured Senator Peralta’s announcement of a state grant for Her Justice.
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Senator Peralta Announces State Grant to Her Justice to Fund a Program to Help Women Access the Legal System
06/05/2018
Her Justice Executive Director Amy Barasch and Director of Legal Services Hamra Ahmad appeared on Telemundo at a news conference with Senator Peralta for the announcement of a state allocation for Her Justice.
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Her Justice Annual Photography Auction & Benefit featured in Crain’s
06/05/2018
Photos from the 2018 Annual Photography Auction & Benefit were featured in the May 28th issue of Crain’s New York Business.
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Susanna Saul graduates as a CORO Fellow in the Immigrant Civic Leadership Program
05/07/2018
Her Justice Managing Attorney, Immigration, Susanna Saul recently graduated from the Immigrant Civic Leadership program at CORO, a New York-based leadership training organization that builds skills to lead change within New York’s diverse immigrant communities.
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Kelley A. Cornish Honored at Her Justice Benefit
05/07/2018
Our 2018 Annual Photography Auction & Benefit and honoree Kelley A. Cornish, Esq., was featured in the New York Law Journal.
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Gov. Cuomo signs legislation to remove firearms from domestic abusers
05/07/2018
Her Justice Executive Director Amy Barasch appeared on NY1 news speaking at Governor Cuomo’s signing ceremony for a bill to remove firearms from domestic abusers.
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