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...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...
...cannot make law without lawsuits. Tocqueville observed more than a century ago that there is "hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one." With the growth of Government, the power of the judiciary has naturally expanded. Thus public-interest groups that cannot sway legislatures will not hesitate to run off to the courts to get their "rights" upheld. Judges are often more likely to extend a sympathetic ear, less likely to get hamstrung by opposing interests...
...California's unaccredited law schools have eyes fixed on quick bucks, at least one offers a kind of legal education hard to find elsewhere. San Francisco's pioneering New College, which will graduate its first class next year, attracts applicants because of its apprenticeship program in public-interest law. Last year 60% of its first-year students passed the baby bar exam. Getting a job, however, is another matter. In 1975 there were 34,000 law school graduates round the country looking for work-and only 26,000 jobs...
Repossessed Cars. Each day some 40 to 50 desperate people telephone "Call for Action," a national public-interest program broadcast in Chicago by radio station WIND, to complain that they are not getting unemployment-compensation checks to which they are entitled. Some tell stories of having cars repossessed or heat cut off; others plead for aid in getting emergency food. Says Illinois Republican Senator Charles Percy: "It's the biggest snafu I've ever seen." He calls the IBES "the Bureau of Employment Insecurity...
Most disturbing for the nation's future, students demonstrate almost no interest in political activities, on or off campus. There are rare exceptions. In 21 states, small numbers of student activists operate public-interest research groups, which lobby for education bills in state legislatures and try to influence state politics. For example, New York's group recently published pamphlet-size political profiles of each of the 60 senators and 150 assemblymen who are running for re-election to the state legislature...