Media ContactLisa Ramirez, Communications Manager, lramirez@mylegalaid.org
For this story, Sahan Journal reporter Alfonzo Galvan interviews Attorney Danielle Hendrickson of Legal Aid’s Immigration Law Project. The piece puts an immigrant lens on the election and “How Minnesota mutual aid groups are preparing to respond, whatever the outcome.”
Attorney Chad Wilson of our Minnesota Disability Law Center sat down for a chat with Tom Crann of MPR’s All Things Considered. Voters with disabilities and those who help them get to the polls will want to listen in or read the transcript of this segment!
MPR Reporter Kristi Marohn spoke to Robins Kaplan LLC Attorney Rashanda Burt and Legal Aid client Marcie Kox. As she reports, “Four residents of a central Minnesota mobile home park are suing its current and former owners alleging fraudulent practices and health violations, including a faulty sewer system that caused sewage to back up into their homes.”
“Marcie Knox thought she found her forever home when she moved into a mobile home park here in 2017.” But as she told Star Tribune Reporter Jenny Berg, that wasn’t case.
Reporter Danny Spewak spoke to Attorney Justin Perl of Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid and client Marcie Knox. The suit filed with Robins Kaplan LLC seeks redress for clients who say they experienced sewage backups, overcharges for utilities and threats of eviction over lease re-signings.
The “Cold Weather Rule” is the law in Minnesota requiring landlords as well as utility companies to keep the heat on in winter even if you fall behind in payments. But it’s not automatic. Fox9’s Babs Santos interviewed Supervising Attorney, Evan Gelles of MId-Minnesota Legal Aid to find out how that law works.
MMLA’s Danielle Hendrickson, managing attorney of the Immigration Law Project, explains to KARE 11 how some families’ renewed hopes for citizenship are on the brink of being dashed.
When the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau came to town, a panel of experts was assembled to address the pitfalls of alternative financing for home purchases. On the panel was Legal Aid Attorney Colleen Daly of MMLA who shed light on client experiences. Daly is pictured second from the right. Read more in MinnPost
New policies and procedures outlined in a settlement agreement between the Minnesota Department of Corrections and the Minnesota Disability Law Center, on behalf of two Legal Aid clients, took effect July 1. To examine the impact, reporter Louis Krauss of the Star Tribune and photographer Elizabeth Flores visited with our client in the Stillwater prison. MDLC Attorney Sonja Peterson accompanied.
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