Everyday Justice (eBook)

A Legal Aid Story

Ashley Wiltshire (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
394 Seiten
Vanderbilt University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8265-0511-8 (ISBN)

Infos

The Legal Aid Society's mission is to advance, defend, and enforce the legal rights of low-income and otherwise vulnerable people in order to secure for them the basic necessities of life. Everyday Justice is an on-the-ground history of the Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands, the story of how national debates about access to justice have impacted the work of its lawyers, and a warning about why the federally imposed limits on that work must be lifted in order to fulfill the pledge of justice for all. Those surviving on low incomes often see the legal system as an oppressive force stacked against them. Everyday Justice is about lawyers trying to make the law work for these people. This book traces the development and evolution of legal aid in Middle Tennessee from the late 1960s to the turn of the millennium, as told by Ashley Wiltshire, who worked for the Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands in all its incarnations for four decades, beginning a year after its inception. Set in the context of the legal aid movement in the United Statesbeginning as a part of the social awakening in the postCivil War era, continuing with volunteer efforts in the first part of the twentieth century, and coming to fruition beginning with the OEO Office of Legal Services grants of the 1960s as part of the War on PovertyEveryday Justice is a story of Nashville, which levied an extended period of opposition because of prevailing cultural and religious views on race and poverty.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.1.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Alexander v. Choate • Baptist Hospital Nashville • class action lawsuits by Legal Services and legal aid lawyers • Clearinghouse Review • Collection agencies • community education in legal aid • Contract with America • Council of Community Services Nashville • David Ettinger • Davidson County Chancery Court • Dellway Villa • deserving poor worthy poor • Due Process • Earl Johnson, Jr. • “Faith and the Law” • Felice Batlan • Fred Friend • Fundraising for legal aid • Gordon Bonnyman • Grubbs v. Bradley • hill-burton act • home repair rip-offs • housing cooperative • Housing discrimination • Industrial Insurance • IOLTA • jailing indigents for nonpayment of municipal fines • Jean Crowe • Justice and the Poor • L. Clure Morton • Legal Aid Society • Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands • Legal Services Corporation • Legal Services of Nashville • Margaret Behm • Nashville Bar Association • National Health Planning and Resource Development Act • National Legal Aid and Defender Association • OEO Office of Legal Services • opposition to Legal Services Corporation • opposition to OEO Legal Services • patrick mcmanus • prison litigation • Pro Bono Program Nashville • Reginald Heber Smith • Rita Sanders Geier • Ronald Reagan and Legal Services Corporation • Sargent Shriver • Saville v. Treadway • Social Security Disability determination • Stewart Clifton • Tennessee Bar Association • Tennessee Consumer Protection Act • Walter Kurtz • Welfare law
• ISBN-10: 0-8265-0511-2 / 0826505112
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8265-0511-8 / 9780826505118