Author: Earl Johnson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 927
Book Description
For over a century, many have struggled to turn the Constitution's prime goal "to establish Justice" into reality for Americans who cannot afford lawyers through civil legal aid. This book explains how and why. American statesman Sargent Shriver called the Legal Services Program the "most important" of all the War on Poverty programs he started; American Bar Association president Edward Kuhn said its creation was the most important development in the history of the legal profession. Earl Johnson Jr., a former director of the War on Poverty's Legal Services Program, provides a vivid account of the entire history of civil legal aid from its inception in 1876 to the current day. The first to capture the full story of the dramatic, ongoing struggle to bring equal justice to those unable to afford a lawyer, this monumental three-volume work covers the personalities and events leading to a national legal aid movement—and decades later, the federal government's entry into the field, and its creation of a unique institution, an independent Legal Services Corporation, to run the program. The narrative also covers the landmark court victories the attorneys won and the political controversies those cases generated, along with the heated congressional battles over the shape and survival of the Legal Services Corporation. In the final chapters, the author assesses the current state of civil legal aid and its future prospects in the United States.
To Establish Justice for All
Author: Earl Johnson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 927
Book Description
For over a century, many have struggled to turn the Constitution's prime goal "to establish Justice" into reality for Americans who cannot afford lawyers through civil legal aid. This book explains how and why. American statesman Sargent Shriver called the Legal Services Program the "most important" of all the War on Poverty programs he started; American Bar Association president Edward Kuhn said its creation was the most important development in the history of the legal profession. Earl Johnson Jr., a former director of the War on Poverty's Legal Services Program, provides a vivid account of the entire history of civil legal aid from its inception in 1876 to the current day. The first to capture the full story of the dramatic, ongoing struggle to bring equal justice to those unable to afford a lawyer, this monumental three-volume work covers the personalities and events leading to a national legal aid movement—and decades later, the federal government's entry into the field, and its creation of a unique institution, an independent Legal Services Corporation, to run the program. The narrative also covers the landmark court victories the attorneys won and the political controversies those cases generated, along with the heated congressional battles over the shape and survival of the Legal Services Corporation. In the final chapters, the author assesses the current state of civil legal aid and its future prospects in the United States.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 927
Book Description
For over a century, many have struggled to turn the Constitution's prime goal "to establish Justice" into reality for Americans who cannot afford lawyers through civil legal aid. This book explains how and why. American statesman Sargent Shriver called the Legal Services Program the "most important" of all the War on Poverty programs he started; American Bar Association president Edward Kuhn said its creation was the most important development in the history of the legal profession. Earl Johnson Jr., a former director of the War on Poverty's Legal Services Program, provides a vivid account of the entire history of civil legal aid from its inception in 1876 to the current day. The first to capture the full story of the dramatic, ongoing struggle to bring equal justice to those unable to afford a lawyer, this monumental three-volume work covers the personalities and events leading to a national legal aid movement—and decades later, the federal government's entry into the field, and its creation of a unique institution, an independent Legal Services Corporation, to run the program. The narrative also covers the landmark court victories the attorneys won and the political controversies those cases generated, along with the heated congressional battles over the shape and survival of the Legal Services Corporation. In the final chapters, the author assesses the current state of civil legal aid and its future prospects in the United States.
Justice for All
Author: Jim Newton
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781594482700
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
One of the most acclaimed and best political biographies of its time, Justice for All is a monumental work dedicated to a complicated and principled figure that will become a seminal work of twentieth-century U.S. history. In Justice for All, Jim Newton, an award-winning journalist for the Los Angeles Times, brings readers the first truly comprehensive consideration of Earl Warren, the politician-turned-Chief Justice who refashioned the place of the court in American life through landmark Supreme Court cases whose names have entered the common parlance -- Brown v. Board of Education, Griswold v. Connecticut, Miranda v. Arizona, to name just a few. Drawing on unmatched access to government, academic, and private documents pertaining to Warren's life and career, Newton explores a fascinating angle of U.S. Supreme Court history while illuminating both the public and the private Warren.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781594482700
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
One of the most acclaimed and best political biographies of its time, Justice for All is a monumental work dedicated to a complicated and principled figure that will become a seminal work of twentieth-century U.S. history. In Justice for All, Jim Newton, an award-winning journalist for the Los Angeles Times, brings readers the first truly comprehensive consideration of Earl Warren, the politician-turned-Chief Justice who refashioned the place of the court in American life through landmark Supreme Court cases whose names have entered the common parlance -- Brown v. Board of Education, Griswold v. Connecticut, Miranda v. Arizona, to name just a few. Drawing on unmatched access to government, academic, and private documents pertaining to Warren's life and career, Newton explores a fascinating angle of U.S. Supreme Court history while illuminating both the public and the private Warren.
Congressional Record
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1858
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1858
Book Description
The Poor Seek Justice
Author: Legal Services Program (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legal assistance to the poor
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legal assistance to the poor
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Report of the Legal Services Program, Office of Economic Opportunity, to the American Bar Association
Author: Legal Services Program (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legal aid
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legal aid
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Justice of the Peace
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Justices of the peace
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Justices of the peace
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
Book Description
The Poor Seek Justice
Author: United States. Economic Opportunity Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Justice of the Peace and County, Borough, Poor Law Union and Parish Law Records
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Justices of the peace
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Justices of the peace
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Justice of the Peace and County, Borough, Poor Law Union and Parish Law Recorder
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Justices of the peace
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Justices of the peace
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description