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The grim reception given to Jim Neuhard's idea that the state should assume all defense costs indicates how far even the experts have moved away from the concept that an adequate defense is a critically important part of any real
Even if the judiciary were willing to intervene in the manner suggested by the authors, which I seriously question, improvement in the delivery of defense services will not occur until the profession, through legal education and the process of certification,
As over-worked as the institutional lawyer may be, very often she is the best person to represent the accused.
If lawyers love to try cases, why don't they try them? One reason is that the system attaches enormous consequences to a defend-ant's decision to stand trial.
From society's standpoint it is important to preserve not only Native religious property, but also the irreplaceable Native beliefs and practices associated with that property.
Throughout the development of the public education system in this country, the Supreme Court, Congress, and the American majority have supported the power and right of the public schools to serve a socialization function.
Modern decisions document that defendants are frequently subjected to multiple prosecutions that are neither reviewed by executive authority nor subject to judicial review.
This policy of deterrence violates domestic and international law and it should be curtailed. Only by eliminating the detention policy will the human rights of refugees and other aliens be vindicated.
The following articles present a sampling of the areas in which ADR is currently being used.
As a corollary, if the obstacles contained in the anti-fee proposals discussed herein are given serious consideration by Congress, and subsequently enacted, it will be unlikely indeed that competent private counsel will be available to represent potential plaintiffs whose rights
Only if we consciously seek deregulation in the judicial branch does it make sense to significantly reduce or omit the fact determination process.,
In civil rights injunctive suits such as this case, federal courts cannot con-done, much less enforce, defense efforts to coerce fee waivers by conditioning substantial merits relief for plaintiffs upon counsel's abandonment of statutory fee entitlement.
For me, the criminalization of homosexuality is, at bottom, a grievous harm to the spiritual lives of people who deserve more from their constitutional traditions than unjust contempt. Constitutional privacy affords the remedy for this wrong. It is time that
Bowers v. Hardwick amicus curiae brief in support of respondents is submitted on behalf of the Lesbian Rights Project, Women's Legal Defense Fund, Equal
Explores the need for white gay men to acknowledge their role as symbols of the privilege historically denied to gay and lesbian people of color.