The National Health Law Program is pleased to announce the funding renewal of The Health Activist Court Watch Project (Court Watch) by The Nathan Cummings Foundation. Since 2002, Court Watch has worked to preserve Medicaid beneficiaries access to the courts at a time when conservative jurists and policy makers are promoting policies that threaten to end the Medicaid entitlement and litigation strategies that offer states unprecedented protections against lawsuits. Court Watch confronts these obstacles to justice by:
- co-counseling cases where Medicaid beneficiaries access the courts is being challenged;
- providing technical legal assistance and training to advocates throughout the country, and
- alerting the public to court access issues and the ramifications they may have on the democratic freedoms of limited-income people and people with disabilities.
Project staff includes Jane Perkins, NHeLP Legal Director, and Sarah Somers, NHeLP staff attorney, both of NHeLPs Chapel Hill, North Carolina Office.
The National Health Law Program is pleased to announce the funding renewal of The Health Activist Court Watch Project (Court Watch) by The Nathan Cummings Foundation. Since 2002, Court Watch has worked to preserve Medicaid beneficiaries access to the courts at a time when conservative jurists and policy makers are promoting policies that threaten to end the Medicaid entitlement and litigation strategies that offer states unprecedented protections against lawsuits. Court Watch confronts these obstacles to justice by:
- co-counseling cases where Medicaid beneficiaries access the courts is being challenged;
- providing technical legal assistance and training to advocates throughout the country, and
- alerting the public to court access issues and the ramifications they may have on the democratic freedoms of limited-income people and people with disabilities.
Project staff includes Jane Perkins, NHeLP Legal Director, and Sarah Somers, NHeLP staff attorney, both of NHeLPs Chapel Hill, North Carolina Office.