Yale Review of Law and Social Actionhttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13051/132024-03-29T08:19:36Z2024-03-29T08:19:36ZThe Shreveport Plan for Providing Legal ServicesClifton, Richardhttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13051/179212021-11-29T09:12:26Z1973-01-01T00:00:00ZThe Shreveport Plan for Providing Legal Services
Clifton, Richard
Since January, 1971, the members of Local 229 of the Laborers' International Union of North America have been covered by the "Shreveport Prepaid Legal Service Plan," a program popularly described as '1egal insurance." Briefly, '1egal insurance" calls for payment of premiums by individuals into a fund which is used to pay the fees of lawyers selected and hired by members when they need legal help. It may prove to facilitate the delivery of legal services to middle-class citizens, who today may be deprived of some of the legal assistance they need. The Shreveport program was instigated by the American Bar Association to test the concept; and the American Bar Foundation, a legal research institute affiliated with the A.B.A., was asked to observe and report on it.
1973-01-01T00:00:00ZA Proposal for Funding Legal ServicesRoitman, Howardhttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13051/179222021-12-07T04:01:33Z1973-01-01T00:00:00ZA Proposal for Funding Legal Services
Roitman, Howard
Connecticut may have found a way of transforming the baser elements into gold. At least, that seems to be the effect of a bill that the State Treasurer has prepared for introduction in the 1973 session of the General Assembly. The bill, which is designed to ease the financial plight of the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, offers the possibility of a novel funding mechanism for other activities including legal services for those who cannot otherwise afford them. This article will describe the Connecticut plan, explore possible difficulties with it in the light of the Internal Revenue Code, and propose a model statute for the plan's application to legal services.
1973-01-01T00:00:00ZSolving Social Crises by CommissionsReich, Roberthttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13051/179182021-12-07T04:00:56Z1973-01-01T00:00:00ZSolving Social Crises by Commissions
Reich, Robert
''The report of the Commissioners," said Washington in his sixth address to Congress, 'ยท"marks their firmness and abilities and must unite all virtuous men." The first commission to deal with a social crisis in America had recommended that the President send troops into western Pennsylvania to end the Whiskey Rebellion. As a cartoon of the day put it, sending 15,000 troops into the Allegheny and Monongahela River valleys against a few farmers for the collection of such a small tax was like swatting flies with a meat axe. But social order was at stake; and that commission, like the.scores of crisis commissions which were to follow it, provided the chief executive with a strategy for restoring the commonweal while assuring the public that the problem could, in fact, be handled.
1973-01-01T00:00:00ZInvoluntary Treatment of Drug AddictionNewman, Roberthttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13051/179172021-12-07T03:57:50Z1973-01-01T00:00:00ZInvoluntary Treatment of Drug Addiction
Newman, Robert
Controversy surrounding the complex issues involved in the compulsory treatment of addicts is by no means new. Statutes explicitly substituting compulsory "treatment" for criminal penalties in the case of addicts charged with criminal offenses, and providing for the involuntary commitment of addicts upon civil complaint, first appeared in 1961 in California, and then in New York, Massachusetts, and Maryland, as well as on the Federal level. But given society's present concern with the "drug problem," it is inevitable that, as the waiting lists of applicants for voluntary treatment programs are eliminated by the expansion of these latter programs, the debate over involuntary treatment will grow.
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