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Immigrants and Migrants, Issues in Legal Services Delivery |
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By SuperUser Account on
8/5/2005
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The LSC-funded Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago and the Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justice are calling for a moratorium on the use of videoconferencing in Chicago's immigration court after a joint study -- Videoconferencing in Removal Proceedings" -- found widespread deficiencies in the system. In 2002, the court began using videoconferencing to link downtown Chicago courtrooms with detainees, who take part in their immigration removal hearings from a remote detention center in the city's suburbs.
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Indians garner support for voting act |
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By SuperUser Account on
8/1/2005
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When President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law 40 years ago, the measure was seen largely as a way to fight discrimination against blacks across the South.
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Voting act not luring Indians |
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By SuperUser Account on
7/31/2005
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When President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law 40 years ago, the measure was largely seen as a way to fight discrimination against blacks across the South.
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Appleseed Head Steps Down |
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By SuperUser Account on
7/17/2005
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For the past decade, The Appleseed Foundation of Washington, D.C., has fostered public interest law centers throughout the country. For six of those years, Robert H. Mundheim, of counsel at Shearman & Sterling and a former dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, served as its president.
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