Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Murphy amendment" would give state governors the authority to veto granting or renewal of funds to any legal services program funded by the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), subject o override only by the President of the United States. Currently, a governor's veto may be countermanded by the Director...
...amendment is aimed at weakening the freedom of legal assistance offices throughout the country to bring suits against local, state, and federal government agencies on behalf of the poor. Though legal aid services spend much of their time providing counsel in cases involving individual poor clients, action
...area of "legal reform" constitutes one of their major activities...
Many national legal groups, including the American Bar Association, The National Legal Aid and Defender Association, and the Poverty Lawyers for Effective Advocacy have made public statements opposing the Murphy amendment. Donald Rumsfeld. present OEO director has also publicly opposed the amendment and has said he will work against i? in the House...
...Harvard, John M. Ferron, lecturer on Law at the Law School. Director of the Cambridge Community Legal Assistance Office, and one of those who started circulating the Harvard petition, said yesterday that he saw the Murphy amendment as a direct threat to legal reform only in such states as California and Florida, whose governors oppose broad legal services...