Word: program
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...young lawyers who run the OEO Legal Services Program see themselves as ombudsmen for the poor. As such, they do more than represent individual indigents in minor court actions. They also sue state and local governments on behalf of welfare recipients, migrant workers and other large groups of poor people. The growing success of such broad test cases may be measured by the opposition that has surfaced in the U.S. Senate...
After that, by a vote of 45 to 40, the Senate passed a surprise amendment that Murphy tacked on to a poverty-program bill to give governors a veto over individual budget items in OEO Legal Services programs. Previously, a governor could veto the appropriation for an entire program in his state-but the OEO Director could override his veto.* "This is a disastrous piece of legislation," protested Alfred Feinberg, an OEO lawyer who heads an association called PLEA (Poverty Lawyers for Effective Advocacy). "If ultimately passed by the House, it will destroy OEO Legal Services...
Already lawyers in the South Florida Migrant Legal Services program are in trouble with Governor Claude Kirk. He threatened to veto the program when the OEO lawyers brought legal action on behalf of migrant workers against, among others, the Florida State Employment Service. In a compromise, the lawyers agreed to permit appointment to their governing board of more members who may not be sympathetic to such suits...
Greater Respect. Senator Murphy's target is one of the most ambitious Legal Services programs: the California Rural Legal Assistance project. In three years, CRLA lawyers have won 85% of more than 35,000 cases. Their success has nourished a greater respect for law among the state's rural poor, especially Mexican Americans. In 1967, the agency upset Governor Ronald Reagan when it won a suit to prevent him from cutting benefits for almost 1,500,000 people in the state's medical-assistance program. Reagan threatened to veto CRLA's aDoropriation but reportedly...
...after the strike began, a federal court in New York attacked Boulwarism. It ruled that G.E. had violated the National Labor Relations Act in 1960 by refusing to furnish information requested by the union, trying to deal directly with union locals and presenting a personal-accident-insurance program on a take-it-or-leave-it basis. Judge Irving Kaufman chided the company for its "patronizing attitude" and charged it with an overall failure to bargain in good faith...