Law Practice
Nov. 19, 2016
Conservatorships: a rigged system
In at least 20 states, it is not mandatory for the court to give these adults a lawyer. By Thomas F. Coleman
By Thomas F. Coleman
During the last few weeks of the presidential campaign, voters heard Donald Trump repeatedly tell audiences at his rallies that "the system is rigged." As applied to voting systems operated by state governments, that was a gross exaggeration.
Even so, the notion of a system being "rigged" did not seem far-fetched to me. I have been fighting oppressive and overbearing economic and legal syste...
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