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Legal services providers assess gloomy outlook
It’s a done deal. What were announced last week as proposed cuts to the national organization funding civil legal services are now law. And the news does not get any […]
Lippman: Judges can’t be lawyers at the same time
Judges feel their position as a neutral arbiter may be compromised when litigants appear before them without legal representation That is one of the challenges the judiciary faces because of a lack of funding for civil legal services for the state’s poor. A panel of three judges ...
Judge Lippman conducts final hearing in Buffalo
Legal professionals across the Fourth Department are meeting in Buffalo today to testify before Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman’s fourth and final hearing on the unmet civil legal service needs of low-income New Yorkers. Joining Judge Lippman will be Chief Administrative Judge Ann Pfau ...
Lippman returns to Fourth Department
New York State Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman has scheduled a series of hearings on civil legal services. The hearings are to evaluate to continuing unmet civil legal services needs in all parts of the state to access the level of resources ...
Report: Need for civil legal services grows
Legal Services Corp. has an uphill climb to reach its goal of providing equal justice for all. “The need for civil legal services has never been greater,” according to the recently released 2010 annual report. “Low-income Americans are struggling ...
Report: Need for civil legal services grows
Legal Services Corp. has an uphill climb to reach its goal of providing equal justice for all. “The need for civil legal services has never been greater,” according to the recently released 2010 annual report. “Low-income Americans are struggling ...
Reduced IOLA grants still help civil legal services
The trustees of the Interest on Lawyer Account Fund announced its 2011 grants to civil legal service organizations throughout the state, totaling $21 million. In the Rochester area, Empire Justice Center, Legal Aid Society of Rochester ...
Providers: Civil legal service cuts ‘devastating’
Proposed federal cuts to funding for legal aid to the poor would severely impact local providers that are already struggling to serve clients. The House has passed a $70 million cut in Legal Services Corp. funding from the current fiscal year that ends Sept. 30.
A year of uncertainty for legal aid organizations
Finding adequate funding for legal assistance is never easy, but 2011 presents an even tougher challenge for civil legal services providers here in Rochester, across the state and nationwide.
Resources uncertain for civil legal services
2010 was a roller-coaster year for those who provide civil legal services to the poor in Western New York. In a year when unemployment remained at historic highs, interest rates remained at historic lows ...
Civil legal services crisis outlined in new report
The lack of adequate civil legal services for the state’s poor affects everyone. Not only does it impact the quality of justice for all parties in the court system, but it increases litigation down the road and costs millions of dollars ...
Judicial budget includes raises, money for civil legal services
The Office of Court Administration is looking for $2.7 billion from the state to fund its 2011-2012 operations. That includes $617.4 million in fringe benefits, called general state charges, for judges, justices and non-judicial employees ...
Case Digests
- Fourth Department – Termination of parental rights: Matter of Kal-El F.
- Court of Appeals – Probation: People v. Brazeal; People v. Lora
- Fourth Department – Certificate of compliance: People v. Crews
- Fourth Department – Traffic stop: — Vehicle identification People v. Camber
- Court of Appeals – Public works projects: Walton, et al. v. Comfort Systems USA (Syracuse) Inc.
- Second Circuit – Malicious prosecution: Chapdelaine v. Desjardin
- Fourth Department – Collateral estoppel: Busch v. County of Erie, et al.
- Court of Appeals – Best evidence rule: People v. Coggins
- Fourth Department – Unlawful inventory search: People v. Boatwright
- Second Circuit – Fossil-fuel powered appliances: Assoc. of Contracting Plumbers v. CNY; Mulhem Gas Co., v. Mosley
- Fourth Department – Dismissal of the indictment: People v. Anderson
Law News
- Rochester man accused of threatening President Trump’s son
- Legal Aid Society of Rochester leader retiring
- NY appeals court overturns weapon conviction on discovery issue
- Genesee Valley Club to pay $1.05M to settle federal case
- Major Rochester-area auto dealer accused of fraud in federal loan program
- Rochester attorney Donald O. Chesworth Jr. has died
- Split NY appeals court affirms conviction in kidnapping of daughter
- Greece man accused of stealing from class-action settlement funds
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