Consumer Law

NYS High Court Chief Continues Pounding The Pavement With Upstate Tour In Ongoing Push To Ensure Adequate Legal Help For Poor In Civil Cases
In Rochester, New York, the Democrat and Chronicle reports:New York's top judge stumped Thursday in Rochester on behalf of an effort to ensure adequate legal representation for the poor in civil proceedings...

State Budget Crisis Results in Steep Cuts to Legal Aid Programs While the demand for civil legal services for the poor is growing, funding drops
  December 25, 2008   Legal Aid of the Bluegrass , the nonprofit group that provides emergency civil legal help to the poor across Northern and Central Kentucky may have to turn the indigent away to make up for a cut in state funding...

NYT Op Ed calls for Civil Gideon
Happy New Year, and happy day! My wish for 2009: that it will be the year of Civil Gideon. Right now when budgets are being trimmed, cut, and scrutinized, advocates for the poor must continue to work hard demonstrating that adequate funding for legal services to the poor makes for sound policy, is economically smart, and also is just the right thing to do...

Government Funding For Legal Services Lawyers Gets Strong Public Support, Says Poll; Sen. Harkin Looks To Double Budget For Services To Poor, Indigent
The Associated Press reports:Americans strongly support government-paid legal services for the poor, says a poll commissioned by the Legal Services Corp. Two-thirds of those polled for the American Bar Association by Harris Interactive said theyfavor federal funding for people who need legal assistance...

This Week: Legal Services Corp Budget Debate
The Legal Services Corp, the nation's largest funding source for civil legal aid to the poor, has seen its fortunes rise, then fall, and then settle somewhere in the middle during the Obama administration.

NYS Chief Judge Continues Push For "Attorney Emeritus" Program To Bring Free Legal Help To Poor New Yorkers In Civil Cases
In New York City, the New York Law Journal reports:The New York court system has enlisted more than 120 retired lawyers since January to offer free legal advice and representation to poor New Yorkers in foreclosure, debt collection, housing, family and other civil cases -- the first of what could be "thousands" of attorney volunteers, Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman said last week...

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The Civil Rights Act of 1871
Law bans discrimination enacted under color of state law

Legal Forms
Business and Commercial Legal Forms

Heart of Atlanta v United States
Supreme Court Decision: Civil Rights Act Protected by Interstate Commerce Clause

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Law & Order Depicts Police Procedures and Criminal Justice
Accuracy of Criminal Justice Depiction on Television

Sharon Collins
found guilty of conspiring to kill her partner

Clearwire Service
alleging poor quality and unfairly charging early termination fees.

Legal Malpractice
legal malpractice lawsuits.

Cell Phone Services
AT&T Mobility may have to pay $10 million to Florida customers after charging for third-party services.

Civil / Human Rights
alleging violations of basic human and civil rights.

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