Word: public-interest
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Carthan's legal squad, which calls its first witness this week, is being furnished by the Washington-based Christie Institute, a liberal public-interest law firm, and by the World Council of Churches. Over the past year Carthan (whose $115,000 bail was put up by local black farmers) has spoken at fund raisers in Eddie Carthan 66 cities, sometimes appearing with celebrated Black Actor Ossie Davis...
...fellowship will be administered by SFF, a student organization which gives fellowships to law students doing public-interest legal work over the summer. Fellowships are usually funded through pledges from law students...
...enforcement of marijuana laws concerning small recreational amounts has induced an indifferent attitude towards the legalization and decriminalization of grass. It is only those for whom marijuana is a major aspect of their lives, the heavy users and dealers, who have organized, with the help of public-interest lawyers, into special-interest groups, comprising a lobby whose constituency is the nation's pot smokers...
...worked as a legislative aide to former Republican Senator Milward Simpson, then became a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior and later, commissioner of the Federal Power Commission. For the past three years he has been president of Denver's Mountain States Legal Foundation, a public-interest firm of ten lawyers that was formed in 1977 by Joseph Coors, the Colorado brewer and backer of archconservative causes...
...Foundation gives about half of its grants to public-interest, grass-roots community groups in Boston. The other grants go to community groups in New England. The group continues to raise money, chiefly from donations from individuals with inherited wealth, a member of the group said yesterday...