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Access to Justice
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July 08, 2022
The Great Writ In Danger: Where Is Habeas Corpus Headed?
The Great Writ has been on a declining trajectory for several decades. With no signs that Congress will use its power to shore up the habeas process, and a Supreme Court appearing bent on limiting it, the future of habeas corpus is more uncertain than ever.
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July 08, 2022
Venable Donates Atty Fees To Help Exonerees Rejoin Society
Since 2008, Venable LLP has worked with the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project to free five Washington, D.C., men who collectively spent more than 100 years in prison for murders they didn't commit.
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July 08, 2022
Sheppard Mullin Aids Deal On Accessible NY Subway Stations
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP's pro bono partner recently played a key role in negotiating what could be a landmark settlement to guarantee more accessible subway stations in New York — the latest in a series of disability rights wins for the attorney.
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July 08, 2022
Kilpatrick Atty Aids Fellow Ukrainians In War Relief Effort
When one of Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP's Atlanta-based attorneys entered the United States in 1988 as a 9-year-old refugee from Soviet-era Ukraine, she couldn't have imagined she'd end up helping her fellow countrymen flee a Russian invasion 34 years later.
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July 08, 2022
As States Toy With Reform, Legal Tech Cos. Fill Justice Gap
More than 100 legal technology companies have formed in the last 10 years to provide legal assistance to millions of Americans who can't afford an attorney, helping to bridge a gap in access to justice, while less than a handful of states have taken action to expand the practice of law.
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July 06, 2022
Eviction Default Buffer Lifts For Some In NYC Housing Court
A New York City administrative judge has lifted a procedural buffer that gave certain tenants an extra shot to match with a lawyer and mount defenses in housing court before facing a default judgment, citing the "changing course of the pandemic."
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June 29, 2022
Ohio To Use ARPA Money For COVID-Caused Case Backlogs
The state of Ohio set up a $10 million grant program paid for by its federal American Rescue Plan Act money for courts that want help clear backlogs of cases that stem from the coronavirus pandemic, the governor's office announced Wednesday.
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June 27, 2022
Justices Say Courts Must Consider Rehab In Resentencing
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled that district courts must look at defendants' rehabilitation and updated sentencing guidelines when considering a reduction of their sentences.
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June 23, 2022
Justices Give Inmates Path To Swap Execution Methods
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that state death row inmates can ask to be executed in a method not approved in their states by filing a civil rights suit, reversing a ruling by the Eleventh Circuit that compelled the prisoners to file habeas corpus petitions instead.
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June 17, 2022
What San Francisco DA's Recall Could Mean For Reformers
The widely publicized and successful recall campaign of San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin has been described by some as a warning call for progressive prosecutors and rehabilitative justice advocates nationwide.
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June 17, 2022
What States Can Learn From Illinois To End Rape Kit Backlogs
After years of reform, Illinois earlier this month became the 17th state to clear its backlog of nearly 2,000 untested rape kits. Here is what states can learn from Illinois to end their own rape kit backlogs.
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June 17, 2022
Legal System Ill-Equipped For Handling Dementia
The criminal legal system is largely not prepared to handle individuals with dementia who either age into the disease while incarcerated or face criminal charges as their mental capacity diminishes, according to a report released this week by an American Bar Association commission.
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June 17, 2022
Young Thug Case Shows RICO's Shift From Mobs To Gangs
The 88-page indictment charging the rappers Young Thug and Gunna with racketeering along with 26 others made headlines last month, but it was hardly surprising to legal experts familiar with these increasingly common prosecutions.
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June 17, 2022
Jones Walker Partner Talks Police Liabilities After Uvalde
As questions remain unanswered about the response by police in Uvalde, Texas, to the elementary school mass shooting that left 21 dead, Jones Walker LLP partner David S. Weinstein talks to Law360 about potential liability protection for officers who responded to the scene.
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June 17, 2022
Fla. Firm Seeks Restart Of Fee Suit Despite Atty's Misconduct
A Florida law firm that represented two wrongfully convicted men before one of its lawyers was caught defrauding them is continuing its fight for fees after a jury awarded the pair $75 million in a civil rights lawsuit.
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June 17, 2022
DA Dodges NAACP's Jury Race Bias Suit In 5th Circ.
The NAACP and four African American citizens cannot sue a controversial Mississippi prosecutor, best known for his repeated murder prosecutions of Curtis Flowers, over his alleged policy of striking jurors based on race because the chances that any of them will actually be kept off a jury are too small, according to the Fifth Circuit.
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June 17, 2022
Attorneys Worked Fewer Pro Bono Hours In 2021
Attorneys nationwide did 14% less pro bono work last year than they did in 2020, according to a study released Thursday by the Pro Bono Institute.
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June 15, 2022
High Court Says Child's Safety Is Priority In Repatriation
Federal district courts are not obligated to develop more acceptable conditions that could reduce the risk of harm to children as part of determining whether minors who were wrongfully removed from a country should be sent back, the U.S. Supreme Court held Wednesday.
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June 15, 2022
3rd Circ. Says Inmates Have Right To Access Legal Materials
Prisoners may bring claims alleging they were denied access to legal materials while they were pursuing civil rights cases from behind bars, the Third Circuit said Wednesday in a precedential opinion setting forth that right to access the courts.
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June 13, 2022
High Court Ignores Death Row Inmate's Poor Counsel Case
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to reconsider a Texas inmate's contention that he received inadequate counsel before being sentenced to death, about two years after the high court had sent the case back to the Lone Star State for another look.
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June 09, 2022
Atty Access Failures Plague ICE Detention System, ACLU Says
The U.S immigration detention system suffers from a host of systemic failures that create "monumental barriers" for detained immigrants seeking legal representation, rendering their right to counsel "essentially meaningless," the American Civil Liberties Union said in a report released Thursday.
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June 03, 2022
Fla. Bar Skeptical Of Legal Services Expansion Proposals
The Florida Supreme Court amended the Florida Bar rules Thursday to allow nonlawyers to help govern nonprofit legal service providers, but it's just one of many recommendations from a committee at odds with the Florida Bar over how to improve access to legal services and adapt to changing technology.
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June 03, 2022
LGBTQ Legal Groups Gear Up For More Battles Post-Dobbs
When a draft decision of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization was leaked, reproductive rights advocates leapt into action, while civil rights advocates began ringing alarm bells over the future of their movements as legal experts examined how the drafted decision could ripple far beyond the topic of abortion.
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June 03, 2022
Why Funding Is Top Priority For Legal Aid Society's New Head
When she assumes leadership of the nation's largest legal aid provider in August, Twyla Carter, a former public defender and civil rights attorney and newly appointed leader of The Legal Aid Society, will make funding a priority, she told Law360.
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June 03, 2022
Court Watchers Fight To Keep Remote Access
Some volunteer court watchers had to fight to observe criminal justice proceedings remotely during the pandemic. With courts beginning to shut down that remote public access, now they're fighting to keep it.