Word: legal-aid
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...city's moves against the homeless have not gone unchallenged. In 1984 some 30 homeless people marched on Reagan's ranch, and recent weeks have brought several sleep-ins at city hall. "The laws haven't been a deterrent," argues Attorney Willard Hastings, director of the Legal Defense Center, a local nonprofit legal-aid organization that was instrumental in fighting the voting-rights restriction. This month the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the city government to reply to the center's legal challenge to the sleeping ordinance. Churches have offered assistance to the homeless as well, and a few wealthy residents...
...local legal-aid lawyers began to take on the cases of imprisoned Cubans one by one, it eventually became clear that many of the suspected "criminals" were nothing of the sort. Some had been jailed in Cuba only for misdemeanors or for acts not considered illegal in the U.S., and others were innocent of virtually any wrongdoing. Ignacio Ruiz de Armes, for example, told TIME Correspondent Anne Constable that he had been jailed in Cuba for refusing to serve in the armed forces as well as for stealing a boat to escape from the island. Says he: "There are many...
...more successful clinics, San Francisco's Legal Services for Children, was opened 18 months ago by Carole Brill, 28, an attractive, intense attorney with a background in prisoner rights law. Operating with local foundation financing out of a refurbished downtown factory building, the clinic's three attorneys and three paralegals can devote personal attention to individual problems that overburdened legal-aid attorneys and probation officers do not have time for. Since most of its clients are involved in juvenile court, the legal goal often boils down to finding an alternative to reform school, and persuading the judge...
...prison classes are a spin-off from a community legal-assistance project pioneered by Newman in 1972. It now provides such services as round-the-clock legal-aid units and high school instruction in legal basics. Street law, which begins its fifth semester next week, offers five subjects-including criminal and corrections law-at six prisons, youth detention centers and halfway houses. Impressed by the Georgetown program, the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration has provided $320,000 in federal grants for similar courses by other universities. Beginning this month, street-law programs will be offered in two California prisons, seven...
...puts it, "no poets, or ballet dancers or famous scientists-no Solzhenitsyns, Panovs, or Sakharovs"-i.e., personalities with the kind of repute that might ensure an international outcry and possibly have an effect on the Kremlin. Taylor only went public with this unique, and hitherto discreetly quiet, legal-aid effort after it became clear that the only response obtainable from Soviet legal authorities was either embarrassed obfuscation or pure stony silence. Still Taylor has some faint hope. Months after the project ended in 1975, one of the 19 defendants...