Sentences with phrase «not indigent»

-- Is this a needy client [needy as in clingy, not indigent]?

But it is okay for her because she is not an indigent woman.

One common problem being addressed by this year's winners is providing better legal services to the vast middle class — people who aren't wealthy enough to pay Wall Street lawyer rates, and aren't indigent enough to qualify for legal aid.

Not exact matches

Gregory makes a stunning point on the ambiguities of giving to those derelicts among the poor who are by consensus generally regarded as less worthy: One should give not just to the unworthy poor, but also to the worthy poor, regardless of their moral condition, and for a profound reason: because one «gives of his bread to an indigent sinner, not because he is a sinner, but because he is a man.

Perhaps Scaperlanda did not witness the thousands marching under Mexican flags on American soil last year, brazenly demanding from their host country benefits paid for by our citizens for our own indigents?

How do I know that losing my home and becoming indigent is NOT Gods plan for me?

Some Christians argue that there is a distinction between the poor who are trying to find work and / or who are working (but can not make ends meet) versus the indigent who refuse to work and expect others to support them.

If profit were driving an increased C - section rate, hospitals that have more indigent and non-paying patients should have lower C - section rates, but they do not.

As well as being the first time in recent memory that meals have been made from scratch in D.C. Public Schools, the program represents the culmination of innovative efforts by D.C. Central Kitchen to build a successful economic model around concepts that don't normally associate in the public mind: local farming, job training for the down - and - out, and feeding the indigent.

Listen you indigent prick, I didn't call you a name and you need to quit the friggen name calling or it is going to come home to roost.

75 Bill Hammond, «Indigent Carelessness: How not to subsidize hospital charity care,» The Empire Center, September 18, 2017 https://www.

«If those are their issues, it's insane their bad performance art is aimed at an administration that is fighting to ensure millionaires don't get a tax break, that indigent legal services is extended statewide and — unlike the previous proposal — is actually funded and is pushing the Legislature to sign the homeless MOU that we signed months ago,» said Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi.

The NYS Office of Indigent Legal Services would have awarded Monroe County's Public Defender's office the money but the County blocked the grant, saying they don't want to protect parents» interests at the expense of the child's well - being.

State law does not require hospitals to show how the hospitals spend the indigent care funds they receive.

While it doesn't look like comprehensive mandate relief is in the cards this year, local municipalities notched a big victory with the passage of a bill that will entirely shift payment for indigent legal services from the counties to the state by 2022.

«The motive is to help the indigent people in the rural communities and the poor who can not afford to seek medical attention,» he said.

A graduate of Howard University School of Law, she served as a public defender for the Legal Aid Society because indigent individuals should not be «denied basic rights.»

The year has not yet ended, but an increase in the number of indigent burials approved under new rules is on pace to increase the county's cost by $ 259,640, according to statistics compiled by Mahoney's staff.

Shola Olatoye, Chairwoman and Chief Executive Officer of the New York City Housing Authority, told the City Council today her agency — on orders from the de Blasio administration — would not set aside more than 1,250 units for the city's mushrooming indigent population.

Her colleagues at the simulation center «don't seem to fully realize yet they'll have indigents in their computer lab,» she says.

Are you focusing on getting resources to the indigent so Whole Health isn't just a luxury good for people who can pay cash for excellent care?

Talk about a movie with no personality, this thematically indigent picture doesn't have any ethical center, much less any political satire to speak of.

Criminal justice, transportation, recreation, indigent care, economic development, commercial regulation, and even public safety are not privileged to the same degree.

The first $ 20 of the fee will not be charged if the requester submits an affidavit that he or she is on public assistance or indigent.

The zoning challenge says College Achieve's recently obtained Certificate of Zoning Compliance for the building located at 700 Grand Avenue isn't valid because after serving as home to Hope Academy for many years, the building was then used for a few years as a church and a community outreach center to serve the indigent.

Prior to this provision, people on full pensions who were exempt from SS contributions (such as teachers in many places) were able to still collect those amounts (which were never earned through contributions) even though they had quite significant pensions; that led to subsidies being given to people that didn't have as much need for them, as opposed to the indigent people who did need them.

Our Mission The purposes for establishing Peewee's Pet Adoption World and Sanctuary are: • To operate a non-profit, no - kill shelter and adoption center for indigent animals, exclusively for charitable purposes; - To rescue, rehabilitate, and care for lost and abandoned animals; - To reunite lost animals with their owners; - To find loving and caring new homes for those animals which are suitable for adoption; - To provide shelter and care for those animals not suitable for adoption, for the duration of their lives; - To promote the humane and proper treatment of all animals.

(2) Any indigent pet owner on public assistance, including but not limited to the Food Stamp Program, the Supplemental Security Income Program, the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program, the Family Independence Temporary Assistance Program, or any other similar public assistance program named by the Pet Overpopulation Advisory Council, shall qualify for low - cost services.

We also provide hands - on help to people in indigent communities who don't have transportation and / or access to veterinary care, most of whom could not afford it even if it were available in their community.

If the deceased or the legal next of kin do not have sufficient funds for burial, the alternative may be indigent cremation.

George Bellas, in association with Clifford Law Offices, filed a series of class actions against several not - for - profit hospitals alleging that these not - for - profits violate their tax exempt status by overcharging uninsured and indigent patients and then employing strong - arm tactics to collect from the indigent and uninsured, driving many people into bankruptcy.

And she did not fall within an exemption for indigent litigants.

Much of the public, and often the litigants themselves, incorrectly believe that indigent people are not only legally entitled to a lawyer in any kind of case, but that getting one at no cost is simply a matter of making the request.

Not only is the «actual imprisonment» standard unprecedented as the exclusive test, but also the problems inherent in its application demonstrate the superiority of an «authorized imprisonment» standard that would require the appointment of counsel for indigents accused of any offense for which imprisonment for any time is authorized.

[77] On that question, I agree with the Chief Justice and the trial judge: the plain meaning of the exemption, referring to persons who are «impoverished» and «indigent» can not be interpreted to cover people of modest means who are prevented from having a trial because of the hearing fees.

[76] The trial judge found as a fact that the hearing fees are unaffordable and therefore limit access for litigants who do not fall within the exemptions for the indigent and the impoverished.

Held: The Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments require that no indigent criminal defendant be sentenced to a term of imprisonment unless the State has afforded him the right to assistance of appointed counsel in his defense, but do not require a state trial court to appoint counsel for a criminal defendant, such as petitioner, who is charged with a statutory offense for which imprisonment upon conviction is authorized but not imposed.

Parselle is correct in suggesting that the solution is simple: Mediators should not be required to work pro bono except to help the needy and indigent, and courts should adopt fair programs that allow mediators to charge for their services as the market dicates.

Access to justice is an incredibly difficult problem not only for those who are indigent or without resources but increasingly for those in the middle class who can't afford legal services in order to meet their basic needs or find them difficult to access.

Nevada's Indigent Defense Commission is tasked with making sure that the state's system for providing counsel to criminal defendants who can not afford to retain their own lawyers is adequately staffed and running as smoothly as possible.

British Columbia is currently the only province that levies substantial hearing fees ($ 800 per day after the 10th day of hearings), and while the province's Rules of Civil Procedure already allow them to be waived for the «impoverished» or «indigent,» V did not strictly fall under these categories.

Innocence Texas provides free, first - class investigative and legal services to indigent prisoners serving time for crimes they did not commit.

One of Volokh's commenters viewed the judge's comments differently, as an expression of frustation that hundreds of other indigent criminal defendants charged with crimes don't attract the same interest and support from law professors.

I think that most people in this country have, at one point or another, seen Law and Order or some show like it, and they've seen someone be told, «If you are indigent, if you can not afford a lawyer, one will be provided to you at state expense,» and they don't necessarily understand that, that only applies to criminal proceedings, not civil ones.

The data was a «game - changer,» Hanlon says, in the Missouri State Public Defender Commission's relationship with the state legislature, which hadn't increased indigent defense funding in years.

Finally, I'd be remiss not to mention that in general judicial discretion in many aspects of litigation is a desirable and useful occurrence, whether it manifests itself in the dismissal of a frivolous case or appointing counsel to an indigent defendant.

Also, since there is a right to counsel for indigent defendants in criminal cases, when a lawyer withdraws (especially for non-payment) the court now has to determine whether or not the client is indigent (which non-payment would typically support an inference of) and if so, the court must appoint a new lawyer who would have to do lots of redundant work to get up to speed in a case.

He called attention to the fact that public attorneys who represent the liberty interests and rights of the Commonwealth's indigent do not make nearly as much as Executive Branch attorneys who do important work, but who do not face the same burdens and complications as public defenders, especially risking a client's freedom.

The LRF understands that it is not enough to provide the indigent with legal assistance and legal education if the structures within the justice system do not facilitate access to justice for the general population.

He was also recognized for his role in managing Brooks Kushman «s pro-bono program, voluntarily representing indigent clients who can not afford the legal representation they deserve.