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...CLAO is optimistic that its test case will establish the rule that public hearings, with full counsel, must be held for even such supposedly temporary commitments...
This plan has worked well in several cases, but, according to Ferren, it appears that the personal qualities of a given lawyer, not necessarily his organizational skills, determine the outcome. CLAO continues to get references from most local social and welfare agencies...
...cozy co-existence between CLAO and the powers-that-be may be shattered as the office moves from "service" cases toward improving the state of the poor in the face of the law. Ferren says they will try to "aim broadsides against institutional adversaries of the poor,"--chiefly by using the weapon of test cases. Eligibility standards of local welfare boards are one primary target of the "institutional reform" policy...
...present the CLAO is challenging a welfare board which threatened to cut off a recipient's benefits unless she filed a paternity suit against her "paramour...
...efforts to establish precedents can be frustrated, for targets of test cases will sometimes offer generous out-of-court settlements to avoid an adverse--and publicized--court ruling. They can then continue their practices, hoping only that their next victim does not go to CLAO...