Government
Nov. 9, 2009
Legal Aid to Get Help
The Senate passed a spending bill last week easing restrictions on what nonprofit legal service providers can do if they take federal dollars.
By Robert Iafolla
Daily Journal Staff Writer
WASHINGTON - The Senate passed a spending bill last week that would ease a raft of restrictions on what nonprofit legal service providers can do if they take federal dollars, paving the way for negotiations that could decide the level of access America's poor has to civil legal aid.
Under the bill, federally funded legal nonproftis could once again collect attorney fees, bring cl...
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