The Yale Student Association for Small Claims Assistance (Y-SASCA) is an organization based in New Haven that seeks to provide legal information to individuals navigating the small claims court system in Connecticut.

Y-SASCA can help with…

  • Understanding the requirements of a successful claim, starting a case, locating required forms, serving documents, filing a case in court, preparing for trial, deciding between post-trial options, and more.

  • Understanding a small claims judgement, collecting awarded monies, understanding a default judgement, and more.

  • Understanding lease agreements and tenant and landlord rights, recovering a security deposit, and more.

  • Understanding what qualifies as home improvement, hiring a licensed and registered contractor, writing a home improvement contract, recovering damages from home improvement disputes, and more.

  • Recovering damages from negligence, nuisance, assault and battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and breach of contract, and more.

  • Recovering damages from unfair trade practices, understanding refund, exchange, and discount policies, and more.

  • Recovering damages from the purchase of a defective automobile, understanding used car purchase rights, and more.

  • Understanding debt collection, loans, and fraud, recovering labor compensation from an employer, and more.