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Cost concerns can also completely finish off a case. Last month an Arizona judge dismissed riot and assault charges against 19 members of a black religious sect after officials of sparsely populated Cochise County refused to continue paying for their legal defense. The 19 were charged after a 1982 melee...
Vicki Young, a member of the Volunteer Lawyers Project, agrees. "There was a report issued in Washington on Legal Services--I think David Stockman wrote it--and basically what he said was, 'Well, gee, don't you think we can let the bar take care of the problem and get...
The strength of the minor characters underscores the principals' shortcomings. In particular, James Walch as the indigent Ernest and Jeanette Landis as the dumpy British housekeeper deliver the bold, almost caricature personalities which the play demands. Some flawless performances by minor characters--down to Ernest's butler who, though he...
New York City has had a potter's field in one place or another since 1755. There was one where Washington Square is today; there was one where the New York Public Library now stands. Since 1869 the cemetery for the indigent has been on Hart Island, 101 acres...
Your article on the increased number of U.S. hospitals that are owned or managed by profitmaking companies [July 4] raises a serious question: How will public facilities survive? Public hospitals are forced to accept Medicaid and indigent patients; private hospitals do so only to a nominal degree. Consequently, public hospitals...