Letter to the Editor
Jan. 13, 2010
AB 590 Is Not 'Civil Gideon' Statute and Does Not Provide Right to Counsel
Clare Pastore of USC Gould School of Law says the purpose of AB 590 is to examine the effects of expanding assistance to low-income litigants.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR COLUMN
Julie Waterstone is surely right to call for a statute requiring counsel for children in education matters ("Giving Kids a Fair Day in Court," January 7). But her account of California's new statute, AB 590, overstates the aim and effect of that law. AB 590 is not a "Civil Gideon" statute, at least insofar as that term is commonly used to refer to a civil analog to the public defense required under the Supreme Court's 1...
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