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Pine Tree Legal Assistance (PTLA) is a nonprofit agency that specializes in providing free civil legal services for the poor in Maine, United States. Based in Portland, Maine but operating statewide, PTLA opened in 1967. [1] It was led by Nan Heald from 1990 to 2022. [2]
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Legal Services Corporation, 2014, "By the Numbers: The Data Underlying Legal Aid Programs." Remarks by Hillary Rodham Clinton on 25th Anniversary of Legal Services Corporation; Shepard, Kris "Rationing Justice: Poverty Lawyers and Poor People in the Deep South". BAton Rouge, LA.:Louisiana State University Press, 2009 ISBN 978-0-8071-3416-0
Significantly, the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) Legal Services Program in 1965 is a landmark that put forth an innovative goal: “legal services were to function not only as a treatment for the symptoms of poverty — a remedy, so to speak, for the lack-of-a-lawyer pain — but also as an active agent in the struggle against the ...
The settlement comes in response to a lawsuit filed in September by the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division saying Maine's policy violates the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Supreme Court's ...
From 2001 to 2009, he was a partner at Moore, Walters, Thompson, Thomas, Papillion & Cullens, A.P.L.C. From 2009 to 2023, he was a partner with Walters, Papillion, Thomas, Cullens, LLC in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. [1] As a lawyer, he focused on product liability, personal injury, and wrongful death cases. [3]
Although Louisiana's SNAP and LACap are both food assistance programs, LACap is only available to Louisiana residents who are at least 60 years of age and receive Supplemental Security Income (SSI
Senior; 7 Chief Judge Shelly Dick: Baton Rouge: 1960 2013–present 2018–present — Obama: 6 District Judge Brian A. Jackson: Baton Rouge: 1960 2010–present 2011–2018 — Obama: 8 District Judge John W. deGravelles: Baton Rouge: 1949 2014–present — — Obama