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Public Interest

Nov. 28, 2000

Legal Aid Has Strayed

This week, the Daily Journal devotes its pages to a discussion of access-to-justice issues. Coincidentally, the Supreme Court of the United States has pending before it a case that will help define the federal government's role in providing legal services to the poor.

        By John C. Eastman

        This week, the Daily Journal devotes its pages to a discussion of access-to-justice issues. Coincidentally, the Supreme Court of the United States has pending before it a case that will help define the federal government's role in providing legal services to the poor. At issue in Legal Services Corp. v. Velazquez is whether Congress may...

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