Former Chief Justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals writes letter urging Rep. Mollohan (WV) to lift legal services restriction on non-federal funds.
On the 35th anniversary of LSC, President Barack Obama repeats his call for the repeal of the most onerous legal services restrictions in a presidential proclamation.
Peter Edelman, a professor of law at Georgetown Law Center and chair of the D.C. Access to Justice Commission, writes of the need to lift the federal legal services restrictions, a "de facto violation of equal protection."
Jim Ferguson (Executive Director, Legal Services of Northern Virginia), in The Washington Post
In a letter to the editor of the Washington Post, the head of Legal Services of Northern Virginia extolled the Senate's progress toward lifting the federal LSC restrictions.
FOR THE past 13 years, the Legal Services Corp. has had its hands tied while trying to fulfill its mission of representing poor people in civil matters . . .
