Sentences with phrase «on indigent»

January 22, 2015 — «The state Commission on Indigent Legal Services told lawmakers the agency is short $ 1.7 million to meet its expected obligations this budget year.

The order is a setback for the Office of the Public Defender as it seeks to suspend work on some indigent cases while seeking more state funding.

Amicus The Amicus Committee writes or recruit writers to compose appellate briefs that promote law reform on indigent defense and related legal matters.

The ACLU's Marina Low says that's insignificant considering counties across the state spend roughly $ 24 million per year on indigent defense.»

May 17, 2016 — «An effort to reshuffle how Louisiana spends its money on indigent defense is edging closer to final legislative passage.

Alan Crotzer to Testify Before Congressional Subcommittee on Indigent Defense Florida Man Spent 24 Years in Prison for Someone Else's Crime On Thursday, June 4, Alan Crotzer will join two other members of the National Committee on the Right to -LSB-...]

Maine HB 451 Grants emergency approval to changes to Eligibility Requirements for Specialized Case Types, as provisionally adopted by Maine Commission on Indigent Legal Service.

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In 1983 and 2003, the ABA's standing committee marked the 20th and 40th anniversaries of Gideon with hearings on indigent defense funding.

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?

In the late 1980s there were, for example, in Bangladesh 1200 indigent grassroots movements, in Brazil 100,000 Christian communities with three million members committed to land reform and the elimination of poverty, and in Indonesia 600 independent groups working on environmental protection (Durning 1989).

At a City Council hearing on criminal discovery practices in February chaired by Queens councilman Rory Lancman, Sergio de la Pava, a supervising attorney for New York County Defender Services who has been representing indigent defendants in Manhattan for over 20 years, described a typical experience in the borough's courtrooms: After waiting six months or a year for trial, he said, «The DA comes in with a cart and drops about six inches of material on your desk.

«Despite improvement in some geographic areas, our indigent criminal defense system still relies on overworked and underfunded defense attorneys.»

Outside the Hall of Governors on Jan. 31, protesters faulted Cuomo for vetoing a bill that would have had the state assume responsibility for indigent legal defense.

«It's a crisis, it's a crisis that's getting worse,» he said, insisting the indigent sleep on the streets because of fear of the shelters, where one man died after a near - decapitation in January.

American Bar Association President Linda Klein this week sent a letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo urging him to support «independent oversight» for indigent legal services spending on the county level.

«But lost in the rhetoric is that NYSUT is 600,000 - plus men and women who go to work every day and successfully take on the most important responsibilities a society has: educating its youth and caring for the sick and indigent.»

Soon - to - retire Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman reflects on his push to expand legal services to the poor and indigent as he concludes a seven - year run on the top court.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie on Friday touted the provisions in the state budget that address criminal justice reforms, which range from raising the age of criminal responsibility to 18 and providing funds for the public defense of indigents.

His reporting on Virginia's broken indigent defense system won the top award again in 2004 by the Virginia Press Association.

In 2013, Governor Andrew Cuomo's Medicaid Redesign Team recommended removing bad debt from the distribution formula and basing grants strictly on care provided to indigent, uninsured patients.

And a brief protest on Tuesday was held outside of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office on the push for the funding of indigent legal services at the county level.

The grant funds come on the heels of an executive budget proposal by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to offer counties statewide $ 50.7 million to subsidize indigent defense costs, the first appropriation of a proposed five - year initiative that will cost an estimated $ 250 million.

High on that list are persistent shortfalls in school aid and social programs, including adequate legal representation for the indigent, an obligation the state has failed to meet.

On Dec. 31, Gov. Andrew Cuomo vetoed the state takeover of indigent defense costs, bill A10706 / S8114.

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.

The Indigent Care Pool (ICP) was created under the 1996 Health Care Reform Act as a means of reimbursing hospitals for care provided to patients without health insurance, using funds raised by the state's taxes on health insurance policies along with federal aid.

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.

But look, I feel equally strongly on the criminal side of the ledger, where 50 years after Gideon (v. Wainwright), criminal indigent representation for the poor is very uneven in New York and around the country.

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?

The stable boy who fathered Lucrezia's child travels to Rome to rendezvous with her but suffers an unfortunate fate at the hands of Juan; the Pope's lovers Giulia and Vittoria take him in disguise on a revelatory tour of Rome's indigent.

In the meantime, the people of Belfast go on with their lives, trapping lobsters, canning fish, making doughnuts, teaching school, handling court cases, helping the poor and indigent, staging a local production of Death of a Salesman, celebrating holidays, and trying to make the most of their evenings and weekends.

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.

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.

(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.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution had Letitia, an indigent woman on the streets of a dystopian sci - fi future Detroit who somehow sounded like she came off the set of cheesy 1970s cop drama Starsky & Hutch.

Based on these discussions, our focus is on a proposal that encourages the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee to provide $ 5 million annually in state funding over the next biennium for legal aid services to the indigent where legal assistance would: (1) help remove barriers to employment; or (2) protect vulnerable residents from abuse.

ABA Commission on the Future of Legal Services, Standing Committee on Professional Discipline, Criminal Justice Section Law Practice Division, Standing Committee on Legal Aid And Indigent Defendants, and Standing Committee on Client Protection.

apply for public assistance medical treatment through an organization like the Colorado Indigent Care Program (contact your local hospital for information on CICP).

Handling cases on a pro bono basis for the Philadelphia Volunteers for the Indigent Program (VIP)

He also has handled pro bono matters on behalf of the Philadelphia Volunteers for the Indigent Program as well as the Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts.

Rather than re-post this in full, I'll just point out my recent post Anticipating Effect of Public Defender System on Representation of Indigent Youth in Harris County on the Children and the Law Blog, part of my work for the Center for Children, Law & Policy.

[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.

ABA Commission On The Future Of Legal Services, Standing Committee On Professional Discipline Criminal Justice Section, Law Practice Division, Standing Committee On Legal Aid And Indigent Defendants, Standing Committee On Client Protection.

I understand that the detainees» plight raises significant constitutional questions, but so too do the dozens of cases involving indigent criminals arrested on false warrants or deprived of effective assistance of counsel or forced to confess.

The report, «Gideon's Broken Promise: America's Continuing Quest for Equal Justice,» released today by the ABA's Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants, finds that 40 years after the landmark -LSB-...]

Appellate Advocacy Fellow at The Public Justice Center, where he represented indigent clients, authored amicus briefs, and argued in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and Maryland appellate courts on various anti-poverty and civil rights cases.

Finally, at least one other large firm, Covington and Burling, is busy with a pro bono matter — it's working frantically to spare defendant Larry Smith from a capital sentence, after a jury convicted him and recommended the death penalty in less than 30 minutes, according to this extensive story on Alabama's court - appointed program for criminal indigents seeking appeal.