Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Part of a publicity campaign by the city's Legal Aid Society, the slogans warn the poor-most of them uneducated Negroes-against some common forms of exploitation. They also serve as a warning to the exploiters. Under a Legal Aid Society program, some of the smartest young lawyers in Atlanta's top firms are taking their Saturdays and other days off to defend the poor...
Young lawyers in many cities are representing the poor in their spare time. They handle everything from criminal matters to consumer complaints and even divorces. But Atlanta has one of the most aggressive programs. The Legal Aid Society has 21 regular staffers and 56 volunteer lawyers who spend their weekends hearing complaints in ghetto offices. They are responsible for seeing each case through, even if they must work on it during the regular work week. Their employers do not seem to mind. In fact, the society's board of directors is composed mostly of senior lawyers from the volunteers...
Reducing the Bill. The volunteers are doing pioneer work in a comparatively new field of law: the rights of the poor. In an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Legal Aid Society seeks to have the state's tenant-eviction statute declared unconstitutional because the law makes it all but impossible for the evicted persons to defend themselves in court. Volunteer lawyers are also challenging in a federal court state welfare laws that provide payments for a parent's first three children but none for any born thereafter...
...Saturday lawyers try to retaliate against those who take advantage of others' ignorance to make their own living. In a typical case, an illiterate woman came to Legal Aid because she had been tricked into putting up the deed to her home as security for $700 worth of household repairs. After the repairs were completed, a loan company claimed that with interest and other charges she actually owed $1,900. When the company threatened to take over her home, Bill Ide, one of the Legal Aid volunteers, promptly filed suit for his client. Charging contractor and loan company with...
Despite the arguments in Youth Fare's favor -- and the airlines presented many--neither the court nor the Examiner could find a legal basis for age being used to justify discrimination. As far as air travel goes, there is nothing about the 12-22 group that distinguishes it from any other subgroup of the population--all of whom would like to fly for less...