Associate Dean for Clinical Programs and Experiential Learning & Hosch Associate Professor Jason A. Cade presented “‘Water is Life!’ (and Speech!): Death, Dissent, and Democracy in the Borderlands” as part of the Indiana Law Journal Author Talks Series at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law during November.
Community HeLP Clinic helps client secure immigration status and work authorization
The Community Health Law Partnership Clinic obtained legal immigration status and work authorization for a client pursuant to the Violence Against Women Act in late October. The case will now proceed to adjudication of the client’s application for permanent residence. Working under the supervision of Clinic Director Jason A. Cade, clinic students involved with this…
Cade publishes article in Studies in Law, Politics, and Society
Associate Dean for Clinical Programs and Experiential Learning & Hosch Associate Professor Jason A. Cade published “All the Border’s a Stage: Humanitarian Aid as Expressive Dissent” in 84 Studies in Law, Politics, and Society: Law and the Citizen 109 (Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020) (A. Sarat, ed).
Community HeLP Clinic presents community webinar on COVID-related SNAP and P-EBT benefits
The Community Health Law Partnership Clinic virtually presented “An Update for Advocates and Communities on COVID-related SNAP and P-EBT Benefits” that covered changes to the SNAP (food stamps) Program and the P-EBT (school lunch) Program for families with school-aged children as well as how to challenge decisions. The August webinar had over 60 attendees, representing…
Community HeLP Clinic presents on the future of DACA
The Community Health Law Partnership presented “The Future of DACA,” a webinar in Spanish about recent legal developments concerning the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and the benefits and risks of applying. The event featured immigration attorneys Jessica M. Daman (J.D.’10) and Hannah MacNorlin, and was moderated by Community HeLP Clinic Staff Attorney Kristen…
Cade receives grant to address impact of COVID-19 on immigrants
Hosch Associate Professor and Community Health Law Partnership Clinic Director Jason A. Cade received a Flom Incubator Grant from the Skadden Foundation to address the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic for immigrant families and other uniquely vulnerable communities in Athens and surrounding rural areas. Cade and a coalition of partners will use the $10,000…
Community HeLP Clinic assists with understanding public charge ground of inadmissibility
The Community Health Law Partnership Clinic recently conducted a live online workshop exploring recent changes to the public charge ground of inadmissibility and what it means for low-income noncitizens seeking legal status in the United States, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Third-year law student Andrea G. Aldana, second-year law student James C. Berrigan and clinic…
Community HeLP Clinic secures visas for victims of serious crime
The Community Health Law Partnership Clinic recently helped two clients secure their U Visas, which grant victims of serious crime – who are helpful to law enforcement in investigation or prosecution – with four years of lawful status and a path to permanent residency in the United States. Current Community HeLP Clinic students James C….
Community HeLP Clinic helps crime survivors with visas
The Community Health Law Partnership Clinic recently helped two clients with their preliminary approval for U Visas, which provide a path to lawful status for noncitizens who are the victims of serious crime and are helpful to law enforcement in the investigation or prosecution. According to Jason A. Cade, the clinic’s director and holder of…
Cade publishes article in the Georgia Law Review Online
Hosch Associate Professor Jason Cade published “Teaching Tomorrow’s Lawyers Through a (Semi-) Generalist, (Mostly-) Individual Client Poverty Law Clinic: Reflections on Five Years of the Community Health Law Partnership” in 53 Georgia Law Review Online 143 (2019).