The Future of the Legal Services Corporation: Hearing Before the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session, on a Wide Variety of Views on the Legal Services Corporation and to Try to Determine Whether Or Not to Reauthorize Funding for Legal Services, Reform the Organization, Block Grant the Money to States, Or Eliminate Federal Involvement in Providing Legal Services to the Poor, June 23, 1995, Volume 4Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche. |
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... defend- ants have access to representation in criminal cases . The legal services program contributes to this goal by making a small amount of funding available to help low - income citizens obtain some legal assistance in civil matters ...
... defend- ants have access to representation in criminal cases . The legal services program contributes to this goal by making a small amount of funding available to help low - income citizens obtain some legal assistance in civil matters ...
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... defending known drug dealers faced with eviction proceedings from public housing . We address this concern . Limitations on class action suits against government entities ( Section 16 ) —We make it tougher to file a class action suit ...
... defending known drug dealers faced with eviction proceedings from public housing . We address this concern . Limitations on class action suits against government entities ( Section 16 ) —We make it tougher to file a class action suit ...
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... defended in those cases which are just . And how you do that may be a Solomon - like solution , but simply to take jurisdiction away or to bar the lawyers from doing certain things , I worry about that . This is a legitimate concern . I ...
... defended in those cases which are just . And how you do that may be a Solomon - like solution , but simply to take jurisdiction away or to bar the lawyers from doing certain things , I worry about that . This is a legitimate concern . I ...
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... . Nor have any cases been cited where the poor client sought to preserve their rights to home schooling , defend their rights to firearms , represent their rights to protest the establishment of a substance abuse facility in their 39.
... . Nor have any cases been cited where the poor client sought to preserve their rights to home schooling , defend their rights to firearms , represent their rights to protest the establishment of a substance abuse facility in their 39.
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... defend themselves in Federal court , and since we cannot insure ourselves against ABLE , many growers are simply going out of business . I am personally aware of over 20 growers in our area who have quit growing vegetables because of ...
... defend themselves in Federal court , and since we cannot insure ourselves against ABLE , many growers are simply going out of business . I am personally aware of over 20 growers in our area who have quit growing vegetables because of ...
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Page 40 - NO INFORMATION WHATSOEVER ON EXPENDITURES PER CASE OR CASE TYPE As was brought out at the recent hearing on LSC before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary and Related Agencies, there are no figures for what is spent an any individual legal services case or for any particular case type. While representatives of
Page 41 - The individual auditors must be free from personal or external impairments to independence, must be organizationally independent, and shall maintain an independent attitude and appearance." THE LSC ACT DOES NOT GIVE THIRD PARTIES STANDING TO SUE TO FORCE COMPLIANCE WITH THE ACT
Page 29 - For the size of its appropriation, the Corporation's staff is extraordinarily small: the Corporation's administrative budget anticipates only 129 people on staff by late 1995 and proposes no increase for FY 1996. This staff administers and oversees a Legal Services delivery system that employs 11,000 lawyers, paralegals and support staff to provide legal assistance to clients.
Page 29 - Local programs build upon their grants from the LSC with funding from additional sources. In 1994 grantees reported having received more than $240 million from State and local governments, the private bar, other private contributors and other Federal agencies.
Page 38 - Example: While it is a Federal felony for a Federal official to misappropriate government funds, the LSC Act frustrates operation of that law by declaring that "officers and employees of the Corporation shall not be considered officers and employees" of the Federal Government. • the special status of LSC means that many Federal laws in place to assure accountability do not apply to LSC or its grantees
Page 27 - The reasons for which Congress created the Legal Services Corporation 21 years ago remain as important today as they were then. The principle of "Equal Justice Under Law" is fundamental to our system of government, and all Americans have a stake in securing respect for the rule of law, which cannot be elicited unless the judicial system is both just and accessible to all citizens,
Page 29 - Fully 97 percent of the Corporation's budget goes directly to local programs that provide legal services to the poor. Only three percent is used for the Corporation's centralized oversight, management and disbursement functions.
Page 26 - to testify. The Legal Services Corporation welcomes this opportunity to make the case for its mission and structure, to offer proposals for improvements, and to address any concerns that you may have about the program.
Page 28 - of all Legal Services cases were handled by private attorneys in 1994. Even if the present level of pro bono services were doubled or tripled, they would replace only a fraction of the services now being provided by Legal Services attorneys, which in the aggregate meet only a small percentage of the need of the increasing population of eligible clients. Moreover, pro bono programs typically depend upon
Page 23 - law is not merely a caption on the facade of the Supreme Court building. It is perhaps the most inspiring ideal of our society. It is one of the ends for which our entire legal system