On June 25 the National Center for Access to Justice filed a brief as lead amicus (“friend of the court”) in Rosa v. Doe in the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. On behalf of nine organizations, the amicus brief urges the Circuit Court to guide its federal district courts on how to ensure that people in state prison are not forced by substantial federal court filing fees to choose between pursuing justice in court and covering their “necessary expenses” including their expenditures for family members.
We are delighted to share with you the news that yesterday, the National Center for Access to Justice at Fordham Law launched the updated and expanded Justice Index 2021 at NCAJ's new website, https://ncaj.org.
The Justice Index is NCAJ’s comprehensive national resource that since 2014 has collected and presented data on the presence of selected best access to justice policies in each state...
The Count. This summer, the National Center for Access to Justice (NCAJ) at Fordham Law School is carrying out a research initiative to update the “Attorney Count” in the Justice Index, justiceindex.org.
In more than a dozen new writings gathered in The A2J Summit Collection, activists from across the country describe the leading edge and future promise of the civil justice reform movement...