Sam Halpert, NALP Director of Public Service Initiatives
Photo: Harris and Ewing Collection, Library of Congress
Hello, interested public! We’re back with another week of news from the world of public service law. Major stories this week from Hawaii, where the entire staff of a domestic violence nonprofit simultaneously quit, and Washington, where the DOJ has informed the immigration judges’ union it can no longer issue public statements without prior agency approval. As always, these stories and more are in the links below.
Sam Halpert, NALP Director of Public Service Initiatives
Photo: Harris and Ewing Collection, Library of Congress
Hello, interested public! We’re back with another week of news from the world of public service law. The biggest story this week concerns a controversy surrounding the new contractor placed in charge of student loans likely to be subject to public service loan forgiveness. This story and others are in the links below.
Sam Halpert, NALP Director of Public Service Initiatives
Photo: Harris and Ewing Collection, Library of Congress
Hello, interested public! We’re back with another week of news from the world of public service law. The biggest story this week concerns an attempt to restructure public defender work in the state of Louisiana. This story and others are in the links below.
Sam Halpert, NALP Director of Public Service Initiatives
Photo: Harris and Ewing Collection, Library of Congress
Hello, interested public! We’re back with another week of news from the world of public service law. The biggest story this week concerns a letter sent by the senators from Massachusetts to the Department of Labor, “urging DOL to request additional funds in its upcoming budget request to add nonprofit data to future [Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages] reports”. This story and others are in the links below.
Sam Halpert, NALP Director of Public Service Initiatives
Photo: Harris and Ewing Collection, Library of Congress
Hello, interested public! We’re back with another week of news from the world of public service law. The biggest story this week concerns student loans. This story and others are in the links below.
Sam Halpert, NALP Director of Public Service Initiatives
Photo: Harris and Ewing Collection, Library of Congress
Hello, interested public! The Digest has been missing for awhile; news has been coming too thick and fast for me to manage. I’m sorry for letting you all down. As a solution, I’m going to move to a more terse delivery of key stories. Please feel free to let me know how this new format lands.
Sam Halpert, NALP Director of Public Service Initiatives
Photo: Harris and Ewing Collection, Library of Congress
Hello, interested public! The Digest has finally caught up with current events, which continue to move at a whirlwind pace. This week sees major stories in almost every area we follow together, including the State of Alabama’s decision to disobey an order from the Supreme Court to rework its election districts, a lawsuit brought by the DoJ against the State of Texas for deploying spiked barriers into the Rio Grande, a congressional budgeting error that threatens to dramatically cut funding to the federal defender service, an effort by landlords in New Jersey to undo recent right-to-counsel in eviction legislation…I could go on, but I’ll stop there and invite you instead to keep reading. As always, these stories and more are in the links below.
Sam Halpert, NALP Director of Public Service Initiatives
Photo: Harris and Ewing Collection, Library of Congress
Hello, interested public! Thanks for bearing with me these last couple of weeks. This digest covers last week’s news; you can expect the Friday issue to be up-to-date with current events. There were some real bombshells last week, as the Justice Department threatened the Texas Government over its decision to deploy a floating barrier into the Rio Grande and the Alameda County DA’s office accused a former employee attorney of passing confidential work product information to a defendant.
As always, these stories and more are in the links below.
Sam Halpert, NALP Director of Public Service Initiatives
Photo: Harris and Ewing Collection, Library of Congress
Hello, interested public! Apologies, but the stories today are all news from /last/ week. This week’s digest is in the pipeline and I am hoping to get it to you all first thing Monday. (I’ve been dealing with some illness and am a bit behind.) Major stories include additional fallout from the Supreme Court’s recent decision regarding student loans, the continued growth of local-government-based “right to counsel in eviction programs” (and a critique of this approach to securing housing in the United States, featured as an Editor’s Choice), and news on hiring trends within private firms’ pro bono teams and across the US government sector. It’s a long one, and I’ve got more news coming at you soon. Hang in there.
As always, these stories and more are in the links below.
Sam Halpert, NALP Director of Public Service Initiatives
Photo: Harris and Ewing Collection, Library of Congress
Hello, interested public!
This is going to be a double-header week for the Digest as I play catchup after a family tragedy last week. Thank you all for your patience with me as I’ve worked to bring you a doorstop of a Digest covering last week’s news. Major stories include responses to major decisions released by the US Supreme Court week before last (you can read NALP’s official response to the Court’s affirmative action ruling here). Most notably, additional media outlets are continuing to unravel the implications of the late-breaking revelation (discussed in the last edition of this Digest) that the facts underlying the Court’s recent decision in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis may have been fabricated.
As always, these stories and more are in the links below.
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