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Serious Problems Linger On Anniversary Of Landmark Court Case

AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 05.17.2013 | Crime
Read More: Legal Aid, Gideon v. Wainwright Case, Public Defenders, Lawyers for the Poor, Public Defense, Gideon v. Wainwright Anniversary, Gideon v. Wainwright, Crime News

WASHINGTON — It is not the happiest of birthdays for the landmark Supreme Court decision that, a half-century ago, guaranteed a lawyer for crimi...

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Jason Cherkis

U.S. Promotes 'Slave-Master' Hold On Migrant Workers, Advocates Say

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Cherkis | Posted 01.31.2013 | Politics
Read More: Migrant Farm Workers, United Nations, Farmworkers United Nations, Immigration, Colorado, Video, Farms, Farm Workers Un, Migrant Farmworkers, Legal Aid, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Health Care, Farmworkers Un, Department-of-Justice, North Carolina, Maryland, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Caitlin Berberich, managing attorney with the Southern Migrant Legal Services, a project of Texas RioGrande Legal Aid, said that when pa...

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Zach Carter

One Big Partisan Knife: The Real Story Of Mitt Romney's 'Bipartisan' Massachusetts Budget

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 11.01.2012 | Politics
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WASHINGTON -- Over the past month, Mitt Romney touted similarities between the fiscal mess he inherited as Massachusetts governor and the current U.S....

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An Ounce of Prevention for Teen Pregnancy

Judith Sandalow | Posted 09.11.2012 | DC
Read More: Teen Mom, Teen Pregnancy, Raising Children, Legal Aid, Foster Care, Children's Health, Teenagers, Teen Pregnancy Prevention, DC News
Judith Sandalow

All parents -- even teen parents -- want to give their children a better life with more opportunity than they had. As a community we should want this for our children as well.

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Project Justice Changes the Judicial Game in Rural Uganda

Vivian Glyck | Posted 12.11.2011 | Impact
Read More: Uganda, Just Like My Child, Paralegal Training, Project Justice, Legal Aid, Project Justice Uganda, Uganda Law, Uganda Lawyers, Legal Assistance, African Legal Systems, Impact News
Vivian Glyck

When 15-year-old Jillian was pressured by her father to marry too young to a much older man, she pushed back. Unlike many young girls in rural Uganda, Jillian knew that she had legal rights.

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Cash-Strapped

USA Today | Posted 10.30.2011 | Black Voices
Read More: Civil Court, Legal Services, Criminal Defense, Poverty, Budget Cuts, Criminal Justice System, Economic Disparities, Criminal Justice, Legal Aid, Black Voices News

JACKSON, Miss. – Programs that provide free legal aid to the poor are laying off employees, cutting services and increasingly turning away people wh...

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Amanda Terkel

State Budget Cuts Threaten U.S. Justice System

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 10.02.2011 | Politics
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WASHINGTON -- Brian and Patty Baxter's daughter wasn't even two years old yet when they moved into their place in New Hampshire in 1996. The landlord ...

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Cabrini Green Legal Aid Helping Low-Income Residents One Case At A Time

The Huffington Post | Aixa Velez | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
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For about 10 years, the Cabrini-Green neighborhood has seen many changes. Pricey condos went up, and the infamous housing projects were torn down. Whi...

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Zach Carter

Senate Kills Foreclosure Aid

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Foreclosures, Hamp, Housing Values, Unemployment, Housing, Homeowners, Legal Aid, Foreclosure, Foreclosure Fraud, Business News

WASHINGTON -- Despite mounting evidence of big banks committing serious fraud in the foreclosure process, the U.S. Senate eliminated $35 million in le...

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Geithner Backs Foreclosure Aid With Clock Running Out

Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Foreclosures, Legal Aid, Boehner, Geithner, Economy, Speaker-Elect John Boehner, Treasury Department, Foreclosure Crisis, Tim Geithner Treasury Secretary, John Boehner, Tim Geithner, Foreclosure, Business News

The U.S. Treasury Department has spent months blocking legal aid funding for borrowers fighting foreclosure, but is giving a late push to legislation ...

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Zach Carter

Geithner Blocks Foreclosure Relief

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Foreclosures, Sherrod Brown, Hamp, Banks, Legal Aid, Congress, Geithner, Kaptur, Business News

WASHINGTON -- Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has authorized big payouts to banks in an effort to encourage mortgage modifications, but is prevent...

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In The Public Interest: Next Up For the Supreme Court That Brought You Unlimited Corporate Campaign Cash: Do Consumers Have the Right to Band Together To Fight Corporate Crime?

Ed Mierzwinski | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Supreme Court, Corporations, Public Interest, Legal Aid, Class Action Lawsuit, US Pirg, Citizens United, Consumer Protection, Arbitration, Politics News
Ed Mierzwinski

On November 9th, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in a very important case that if wrongly decided will allow powerful special interests to u...

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James Gibbons, Manhattan Judge, Quits After Huge Porn Stash Found On Work Computer

nydailynews.com | By Melissa Grace, Alison Gendar and Larry Mcshane | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: James Gibbons, Judge Porn Stash, Jeanne Emhoff, Rudy Giuliani, Legal Aid, Judge Porn Computer, New York News

A cleavage-crazed criminal court judge - who fathered a son with a young Legal Aid lawyer - quit after officials found a massive porn stash on his wor...

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Class Action Suit Against New York Seeks To End Violence In Juvenile Detention

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Juvenile Detention Violence, Class Action Lawsuit, Legal Aid, Juvenile Detention, New York Juvenile Detention, New York News

ALBANY, N.Y. — A federal lawsuit filed on behalf of 500 juveniles in New York state detention seeks to ban violent physical restraint and to req...

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Rewind: Looking Back in Harsh Economic Times

Stephanie Gertler | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
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Stephanie Gertler

What did my generation do? I see all this anger and sorrow in the neighborhood. I can't help but stare.

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