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Three Montana groups will share $1,894,452 in Department of Justice grants to improve services for crime victims in Montana.
U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said Wednesday that Montana Legal Services Association will get $1 million, the Montana Board of Crime
A cart is used to hold and organize laptops to be distributed to students at a Manhattan elementary school in March. | Michael Loccisano/Getty Images
The Legal Aid Society is threatening to sue the de Blasio administration for failing to provide internet access to homeless children in shelters, effectively blocking
At last month’s meeting, Attorney Maura O’Keefe said a fee reduction would be an improper use of license fees, which are supposed to reflect the cost of the city service provided and could violate Massachusetts’ Anti-Aid Amendment. The commissioners didn’t want to approve a measure with legal concerns, but in
Attorneys who were fired by Maryland Legal Aid, a top provider of pro bono legal services to low-income residents, have accused their former employer of discrimination.
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Three former senior attorneys for Maryland Legal Aid have filed a discrimination complaint against the pro-bono
Boris Johnson and Ursula Von Der Leyen gave their negotiators another month to reach a post-Brexit deal on Saturday, days after the EU Commission president announced she would begin legal proceedings against the UK for passing a bill to break international law. Analysts say that Johnson’s plan to jettison EU
Once again US dealings turned out to be the exciting part of the trading day yesterday. EMU equities started the day on soft footing, even as Wall Street finished substantially higher the day before. However, losses gradually swapped for gains of about 0.4% with the positive momentum picking up
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Aid organisations and humanitarian agencies should face tougher action including funding cuts if they do not tackle sexual abuse by staff, aid experts told UK parliamentarians on Tuesday amid a sex-for-jobs scandal during an Ebola crisis in the Congo.
There is a “culture of impunity”
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As the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic gathered steam, US lawmakers moved to protect newly unemployed Americans from evictions.
But now, eviction freezes are set to expire on various
This story has been updated to correct the address of the mobile registration center at Pensacola State College’s South Santa Rosa
OTTAWA — A bill authorizing new benefits for workers impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic received royal assent Friday, assuring continued financial support now that the Canada Emergency Response Benefit has come to an end.
Royal assent was granted shortly after the Senate passed Bill C-4 on a simple voice vote.
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Cloncurry residents can access free legal information and advice to help with their family law issues when Legal Aid Queensland’s team visits the area on Friday September 25. Legal Aid Queensland’s Mount Isa-based lawyer Marcia Sullivan is one of the Western Queensland Justice Network team members hitting the
Lawyers who represent the province’s poorest people say they’re growing increasingly worried that some are being left without legal counsel because they collected federal benefits in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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A person experiencing homelessness sits with their belongings on the street during the coronavirus pandemic in New York City. | Cindy Ord/Getty Images
The Legal Aid Society is preparing to sue the de Blasio administration over its plan to move homeless New Yorkers with disabilities out of an accessible shelter
It’s not only the airlines who are struggling during the pandemic.
Airlines have undoubtedly been hit hard during the pandemic as demand for travel has dropped to near-record lows. In order to help the industry survive when revenue has fallen, the United States Treasury Department has offered loans to seven
One of The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland’s biggest annual fundraising events, a summer festival-style concert known as Jam for Justice, was moved to a COVID-19-safe online format this year, and there’s still one more performance to catch and various ways to support the nonprofit agency that’s been busier than
The government has been urged to learn lessons from the first wave of the coronavirus and make its legal aid safety net scheme more easily accessible as the country braces itself for further lockdown measures to prevent a second wave.
Lockdown measures introduced in March have already had a significant
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The Legal Aid Commission has called for more support from government in its quest to provide legal support to the poor and needy.
According to the Executive Secretary of the Commission, Martin Amoyaw, the Commission is struggling with inadequate office spaces
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