The Poverty Law Canon : Exploring the Major Cases /

The Poverty Law Canon takes readers into the lives of the clients and lawyers who brought critical poverty law cases in the United States. These cases involved attempts to establish the right to basic necessities, as well as efforts to ensure dignified treatment of welfare recipients and to halt adm...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Rosser, Ezra (Editor ), Failinger, Marie A. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Public welfare > Law and legislation.
Legal assistance to the poor.
Law > Economic aspects.
Droit > Aspect economique > États-Unis > Jurisprudence.
Law > Economic aspects > United States > Cases.
Public welfare > Law and legislation > United States > Cases.
Legal assistance to the poor > United States > Cases.
United States.
Trials, litigation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Ezra Rosser
  • When paupers became people : Edwards v. California (1941) / Clare Pastore
  • Remaking the "law of the poor" : Williams v. Walker-Thomas Furniture Co. (1965) / Anne Fleming
  • Sylvester Smith, unlikely heroine : King v. Smith (1968) / Henry Freedman
  • Legal services attorneys and migrant advocates join forces : Shapiro v. Thompson (1969) / Elisa Minoff
  • Dignity and passion : Goldberg v. Kelly (1970) / Melanie B. Abbott
  • Litigating in the zeitgeist : Rosado v. Wyman (1970) / Wendy A. Bach
  • A sweeping refusal of equal protection : Dandridge v. Williams (1970) / Julie A. Nice
  • Privacy as a luxury not for the poor : Wyman v. James (1971) / Michele Estrin Gilman
  • A tragedy of two Americas : Jefferson v. Hackney (1972) / Marie A. Failinger
  • Denying the poor access to court : United States v. Kras (1973) / Henry Rose
  • "The poor people have lost again" : San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez (1973) / Camille Walsh
  • Reflecting and foreshadowing : Mathews v. Eldridge (1976) / John J. Capowski
  • Chronicle of a debt foretold : Zablocki v. Red Hail (1978) / Tonya L. Brito, R. Kirk Anderson, and Monica Wedgewood
  • The movement for a right to counsel in civil cases : Turner v. Rogers (2011) / Kelly Terry
  • Public housing as housing of last resort : Department of Housing and Urban Development v. Rucker (2002) / Nestor M. Davidson.

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