The commission tasked with reforming New York's hodge-podge sentencing procedures included restoring voting rights to parolees among their recommendations. It’s about time. A quick peek into the history of the state’s felony disenfranchisement law reveals ugly origins.
Public defenders embrace community defenders. They have begun to embrace more community-orientated forms of advocacy that push a defender's skill beyond the courtroom and the individual case.
Women are being charged with crimes, convicted, and sentenced to prison at a much higher rate than just 20 years ago. The authors explore and analyze this disturbing trend.
FEMA
recently reversed its policy that had barred lawyers who provide
assistance to individuals within government-run disaster relief centers
from initiating litigation on behalf of those individuals against the
government.Although the agency argues that this policy
change moots a pending lawsuit against FEMA, the non-profit lawyers who
The Supreme Court handed down an astonishing decision June 11, ruling that under federal law, home-care workers are not entitled to overtime pay or the minimum wage. Upholding outdated distinctions between those who labor inside and outside the home, the Court excluded more than one million workers from the right to earn a fair wage.
What to do when you have it in for a federal agency that is recognized on both sides of the aisle for providing high-quality services to Americans in need....
Andrew J. Elmore, Georgetown Immigration Law Journal
In the article, Andrew J. Elmore examines current guest worker programs and recommends their reform through a "non-subordination" approach that balances the interests of nonprofessional foreign nationals and U.S. workers.
