Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources
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Languages : en
Pages : 598
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Oversight of the Legal Services Corporation, 1984
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 598
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 598
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Legal Services Corporation, General Oversight
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of Justice
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Category : Legal aid
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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Category : Legal aid
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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Legal Services Corporation reauthorization
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of Justice
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1716
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Languages : en
Pages : 1716
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Legal Services Corporation Act Amendments of 1983
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources
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Category : Legal assistance to the poor
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Category : Legal assistance to the poor
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Oversight of the Legal Services Corporation, 1983
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 680
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Languages : en
Pages : 680
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Legal Services Corporation
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of Justice
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Category : Legal aid
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Category : Legal aid
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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To Establish Justice for All
Author: Earl Johnson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 927
Book Description
For over a century, many have struggled to turn the Constitution's prime goal "to establish Justice" into reality for Americans who cannot afford lawyers through civil legal aid. This book explains how and why. American statesman Sargent Shriver called the Legal Services Program the "most important" of all the War on Poverty programs he started; American Bar Association president Edward Kuhn said its creation was the most important development in the history of the legal profession. Earl Johnson Jr., a former director of the War on Poverty's Legal Services Program, provides a vivid account of the entire history of civil legal aid from its inception in 1876 to the current day. The first to capture the full story of the dramatic, ongoing struggle to bring equal justice to those unable to afford a lawyer, this monumental three-volume work covers the personalities and events leading to a national legal aid movement—and decades later, the federal government's entry into the field, and its creation of a unique institution, an independent Legal Services Corporation, to run the program. The narrative also covers the landmark court victories the attorneys won and the political controversies those cases generated, along with the heated congressional battles over the shape and survival of the Legal Services Corporation. In the final chapters, the author assesses the current state of civil legal aid and its future prospects in the United States.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 927
Book Description
For over a century, many have struggled to turn the Constitution's prime goal "to establish Justice" into reality for Americans who cannot afford lawyers through civil legal aid. This book explains how and why. American statesman Sargent Shriver called the Legal Services Program the "most important" of all the War on Poverty programs he started; American Bar Association president Edward Kuhn said its creation was the most important development in the history of the legal profession. Earl Johnson Jr., a former director of the War on Poverty's Legal Services Program, provides a vivid account of the entire history of civil legal aid from its inception in 1876 to the current day. The first to capture the full story of the dramatic, ongoing struggle to bring equal justice to those unable to afford a lawyer, this monumental three-volume work covers the personalities and events leading to a national legal aid movement—and decades later, the federal government's entry into the field, and its creation of a unique institution, an independent Legal Services Corporation, to run the program. The narrative also covers the landmark court victories the attorneys won and the political controversies those cases generated, along with the heated congressional battles over the shape and survival of the Legal Services Corporation. In the final chapters, the author assesses the current state of civil legal aid and its future prospects in the United States.
Rationing Justice
Author: Kris Shepard
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807134163
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Established in 1964, the federal Legal Services Program (later, Corporation) served a vast group of Americans desperately in need of legal counsel: the poor. In Rationing Justice, Kris Shepard looks at this pioneering program's effect on the Deep South, as the poor made tangible gains in cases involving federal, state, and local social programs, low-income housing, consumer rights, domestic relations, and civil rights. While poverty lawyers, Shepard reveals, did not by themselves create a legal revolution in the South, they did force southern politicians, policy makers, businessmen, and law enforcement officials to recognize that they could not ignore the legal rights of low-income citizens. Having survived for four decades, America's legal services program has adapted to ever-changing political realities, including slashed budgets and severe restrictions on poverty law practice adopted by the Republican-led Congress of the mid-1990s. With its account of the relationship between poverty lawyers and their clients, and their interaction with legal, political, and social structures, Rationing Justice speaks poignantly to the possibility of justice for all in America.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807134163
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Established in 1964, the federal Legal Services Program (later, Corporation) served a vast group of Americans desperately in need of legal counsel: the poor. In Rationing Justice, Kris Shepard looks at this pioneering program's effect on the Deep South, as the poor made tangible gains in cases involving federal, state, and local social programs, low-income housing, consumer rights, domestic relations, and civil rights. While poverty lawyers, Shepard reveals, did not by themselves create a legal revolution in the South, they did force southern politicians, policy makers, businessmen, and law enforcement officials to recognize that they could not ignore the legal rights of low-income citizens. Having survived for four decades, America's legal services program has adapted to ever-changing political realities, including slashed budgets and severe restrictions on poverty law practice adopted by the Republican-led Congress of the mid-1990s. With its account of the relationship between poverty lawyers and their clients, and their interaction with legal, political, and social structures, Rationing Justice speaks poignantly to the possibility of justice for all in America.
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 862
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 862
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Legal Services Corporation Reauthorization
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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