Founded in 1997 as the fundraising arm of Maryland Legal Aid, the Equal Justice Council has raised more than $11 million from the private bar to help balance the scales of justice for disadvantaged Marylanders in family, housing, public benefits and other critical areas of civil law. Who are these people? And why do they take time to raise money for Legal Aid (which is celebrating its centennial)?
Founded Sept. 24, 1911, Maryland Legal Aid has helped hundreds of thousands of low-income Marylanders, the elderly, and abused and neglected children with their critical civil legal needs. But Legal Aid's efforts to balance the scales of justice weren't done alone. To honor those who over the last century contributed their energy and skills to further justice, Legal Aid will recognize Champions of Human Rights and Justice at its Centennial Celebration on Sept. 24 at the Baltimore Waterfront Marriott Hotel.
A $900,000 class action settlement with telecommunications giant AT&T primarily benefits Missouri's legal aid organizations. The federal lawsuit alleged violations of the Driver's Privacy Protection Act. According to the plaintiffs' lawsuit, filed in November 2009, AT&T obtained a database of driver's license information from the Missouri Department of Revenue.
THE Assembly Judiciary Committee last week asked Governor Christie to restore funding to the state's agency. During the governor's budget-veto rampage, Legal Services of New Jersey was the victim of a surprise $5 million slashing, an amount that will cripple the organization even further. It already lost $10 million in state aid last year. Legal Services President Melville Miller Jr. told legislators the new bottom line most likely will mean 100 fewer lawyers, the closure of at least three offices and 10,000 fewer people getting legal help by the end of the year. As a result of the last cuts, Miller estimates that two out of three people seeking help are turned away. This new round may mean three out of four people with a real need for attorneys' services are out of luck. It's...
Legal aid providers, who just dodged a bullet in current year federal funding cuts, are more worried about 2012 financing. They are breathing a sigh of relief that the propped cut to the Legal Services Corporation for this year was reduced from $70 million to $15.8 million, but know that will be compounded next year, in addition to state and local aid reductions.
A change in federal rules could strengthen the rights of retirees, veterans and disabled Oklahomans against bank garnishments that would delete their federal benefit funds, an official with Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma said this week. The new rule, Legal Aid Litigation Director Mike Miller said, is being proposed by the U.S. Treasury Department and is expected to take effect on May 1. He said the rule would limit creditors' ability to freeze and take funds from accounts that contain Social Security, Supplemental Security Income, Veterans Affairs and other federal benefits.
WE RECITE the Pledge of Allegiance at the start of a school day or a council meeting, declaring "With liberty and justice for all. But the rights we intone need constant attention. In New Jersey, "justice for all" is in a particularly bad way.
Oklahoma's statewide legal aid system is bracing itself for a 10- percent cut in its budget, officials with the organization announced this week. Gayla Machell, director of marketing and development for Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma, said the nonprofit law firm is preparing for a federal funding cut of about $700,000 for the coming fiscal year.
The hope is to have a state-funded centralized intake center to provide all types of legal aid to those in need. By Lindsey Erin Kroskob
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