Author: United States. Congress. Joint Economic CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Block grants
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
New Federalism: Appendix
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Economic CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Block grants
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Rationing Justice
Author: Kris ShepardPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807134163
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Established in 1964, the federal Legal Services Program (later, Corporation) served a vast group of Americans desperately in need of legal counsel: the poor. In Rationing Justice, Kris Shepard looks at this pioneering program's effect on the Deep South, as the poor made tangible gains in cases involving federal, state, and local social programs, low-income housing, consumer rights, domestic relations, and civil rights. While poverty lawyers, Shepard reveals, did not by themselves create a legal revolution in the South, they did force southern politicians, policy makers, businessmen, and law enforcement officials to recognize that they could not ignore the legal rights of low-income citizens. Having survived for four decades, America's legal services program has adapted to ever-changing political realities, including slashed budgets and severe restrictions on poverty law practice adopted by the Republican-led Congress of the mid-1990s. With its account of the relationship between poverty lawyers and their clients, and their interaction with legal, political, and social structures, Rationing Justice speaks poignantly to the possibility of justice for all in America.
No Contest
Author: Ralph NaderPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 0375752587
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 461
Book Description
The legal rights of Americans are threatened as never before. In No Contest, Ralph Nader and Wesley J. Smith reveal how power lawyers--Kenneth Starr perhaps the most notorious among them--misuse and manipulate the law at the expense of fairness and equity. Nader and Smith document how corporate lawyers File baseless lawsuits Use court secrecy to their unfair advantage Engage in billing fraud Nader and Smith sound the warning that this system-wide abuse is eroding our basic legal rights, and propose a positive, commonsense vision of what should be done to reverse the corporate-inspired corruption of civil justice. Timely, incisive, and highly readable, this is a book for all citizens who believe that prompt access to justice is the backbone of democracy, and a precious right to be reclaimed.
Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives of New Zealand
Author: New Zealand. Parliament. House of RepresentativesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 1292
Book Description
Crashing the Party
Author: Ralph NaderPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 142997852X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Ralph Nader is one of America's most passionate and effective social critics. He has been called a muckraker, a consumer crusader, and America's public defender. The cars we drive, the food we eat, the water we drink-their safety has been enhanced largely due to Ralph Nader. His inspiration and example have rallied consumer advocates, citizen activists, public interest lawyers, and government officials into action, and in the 2000 election, nearly three million people voted for him. An inspiring and defiant memoir, Crashing the Party takes us inside Nader's campaign and explains what it took to fight the two-party juggernaut; why Bush and Gore were really afraid to let him in on their debates; why progressive Democrats have been left behind and ignored by their party; how Democrat and Republican interests have been lost to corporate bankrolling; and what needs to happen in the future for people to take back their political system.
Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1348
Book Description
Bankruptcy Act Revision
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional RightsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bankruptcy
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Church Rates and the Parochial System ... With appendix containing ... references to the Minutes of Evidence brought before the House of Commons in 1851, etc
Author: John Cobbold ALDRICHRecent Acquisitions
Author: Ohio State University. College of Law. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Author: