Top New York judge urges greater legal rights for the poor, By William Glaberson, May 3, 2010, New York Times: “New York’s chief judge called on Monday for a new guarantee of a lawyer for poor people in civil cases, like suits over eviction and other disputes where basic needs are at stake, pushing the state to the forefront of a national effort to expand the right to representation for the indigent. In a speech in Albany, the chief judge, Jonathan Lippman, said his proposal, the first such plan by a top court official in New York, reflected a commitment by the state’s courts ‘to bring us closer to the ideal of equal access to civil justice’ that he described as one of the foundations of the legal system…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty