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Access to Justice
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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.
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June 03, 2022
How Baker McKenzie Attys Helped Ukraine Apply To Join EU
Baker McKenzie LLP attorneys based in Ukraine helped prepare the war-torn country's application to join the European Union, which was submitted last month during the ongoing Russian invasion.
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June 03, 2022
Port Authority Settles Civil Rights Suit Over Bathroom Patrols
Winston & Strawn LLP attorneys and The Legal Aid Society secured a settlement ending the Port Authority Police Department’s bathroom patrols practice that appeared to target members of the LGBTQ community. The settlement will have a far-reaching impact, attorneys say.
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June 01, 2022
ABA Lauds 3 Firms, 2 Texas Attys As Pro Bono Standouts
The American Bar Association this August will honor a lawyer from Baker Botts LLP, a partner from Holland & Knight LLP and the law firms Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC for pro bono work ranging from tenant advocacy to refugee assistance, the organization announced Wednesday.
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May 23, 2022
NY Lawmakers Grant 1-Year Grace Period For Sex Abuse Suits
The New York Assembly on Monday passed the Adult Survivors Act, which, if signed by the governor, would open up sexual assault and abuse litigation by creating a one-year window for adult survivors whose claims are otherwise time-barred.
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May 23, 2022
Justices Shut Door On Inmates Claiming Ineffective Counsel
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday said two Arizona death row inmates could not present evidence in federal court they said proved they were provided with ineffective trial counsel, narrowing the options the prisoners and others convicted in state court have to escape the death penalty.
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May 20, 2022
Push For Gov't-Funded Deportation Defense Gains Steam
Programs that provide government-funded attorneys to noncitizens facing deportation are becoming more common in cities and states across the country, and immigration advocates hope to harness that momentum to scale up those initiatives to the federal level.
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May 20, 2022
Who, Where, How: Mapping Pandemic Rent Aid Across NY
Jada, a tenant from the Bronx, was relieved last summer when her management company sent out an email encouraging her to apply for New York's $2.4 billion federally funded Emergency Rental Assistance Program, or ERAP. Combing through application and payment data, Law360 explores the pandemic program's effectiveness.
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May 20, 2022
Sanctions On Russia Raise Complex Ethical Questions
The sanctions regime imposed on Russia for its war on Ukraine is the most extensive in history, dwarfing all sanctions previously imposed on other countries combined.
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May 20, 2022
Calif. 'CARE Courts' Spark Concerns Over Forced Treatment
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is pioneering a court model that he claims is supportive and empowering to people who have severe mental illnesses, but civil rights advocates oppose the plan, arguing it subjects individuals to involuntary mental health treatment.
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May 20, 2022
DOJ Picks Ex-Public Defender To Head Access To Justice Unit
The U.S. Department of Justice has picked a deputy associate attorney general who previously served as a Los Angeles public defender to lead its revamped Office for Access to Justice that was shuttered under the Trump administration.
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May 20, 2022
Service Members Aid Afghan Women They Fought Alongside
An organization called Sisters of Service, started by two women who served as special operations members in Afghanistan, is working to support female former Afghan soldiers as they navigate the United States' immigration process.
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May 20, 2022
New Orleans, Detroit Join Tenant Right-To-Counsel Movement
A pandemic-fed boom in tenant right-to-counsel laws appears to have staying power, with New Orleans and Detroit recently joining more than a dozen cities and states in guaranteeing renters facing eviction the right to a free lawyer.
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May 20, 2022
Amnesty Int'l Slams US 'Failure' To Protect Native Women
Amnesty International has decried what it calls the U.S. government's failure to adequately prevent rates of violence against Indigenous women, saying in a new report that not much has changed since the nongovernmental organization last studied the issue in 2007.
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May 19, 2022
5th Circ. Says Service Error Dooms Excessive Force Case
The Fifth Circuit declined to revive a "gruesome" police brutality case brought by the family of Darrall Thomas, who was wrongly identified by police in a Texas suburb as a suspect in an ATM break-in and was "tased and brutalized" by police until he died, saying that a failure to properly serve the officer who committed the violence doomed the suit.
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May 16, 2022
Immigration Assistance Platform Formally Raises $2.3M
After beginning life as a hackathon project to assist asylum seekers, Formally, a legal collaboration platform, raised $2.3 million in pre-seed funding, with Bessemer Venture Partners leading the round, the company announced Monday.