On This Date: September 17, 2008 #OnThisDate in 2008, a settlement between Legal Aid Society, representing individual homeless plaintiffs and the plaintiff class, and the defendants City of New York and OTDA Commissioner David A. …

In NYC, #CosentinoVPerales sued to prevent the City from taking children away from parents and placing them into foster care just because the family was homeless. It became NYC law with the #BostonVNYC settlement.
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#OnThisDate in 2008, Judge Jacqueline Silbermann issued a batch of final judgments, resolving #BostonVNYC #LamboyVDoar #McCainVKoch #SladeVKoch #CosentinoVPerales and clarifying the #RightToShelter and #ShelterQualityStandards for families in NYC.
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