In a speech given May 3, the Hon. Jonathan Lippman, chief judge of the NY Court of Appeals, proposed a 'Civil Gideon' program, one which would provide right to counsel in New York State for the indigent in cases involving basic human needs.
The Brennan Center’s Rebekah Diller testified at Tuesday’s House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing, speaking of the vastly increased need for LSC grantees’ services amid the current recession.
Enacting the Civil Access to Justice Act is a first step toward ensuring that low-income families facing a broad range of survival-threatening civil legal issues can get the legal help they need.
In our second annual Living Constitution Lecture, Senator Whitehouse of Rhode Island spoke about threats to our Constitution: inequalities in our justice and taxation systems, the damage done by torture memos, and other erosions to our Constitutional rights--and how to get them back.
One in two low-income Americans seeking legal help does not receive it, a new report shows. The report paints a grim picture of a two-tiered justice system . . .
