State legal aid may become victim of Republican budget ax

The conservative ascendancy born of November's general election has cast a shadow of uncertainty on many of the legal services now available to indigent Marylanders. Key Republican Congressmen have indicated that funding for the federal Legal Services Corp., which finances community-based legal...

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Published inThe Daily Record (Baltimore, Md. : 1888)
Main Author Bauman, Gregory C
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Baltimore, Md BridgeTower Media Holding Company 27.12.1994
Subjects
Attorneys
Bank service charges
Budgeting
Budgets
Congressional committees
Federal government
Funding
Government agencies
Legal aid
Legal services
Pro bono services
South Atlantic
United States > US
MD
Baltimore Maryland
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Summary:The conservative ascendancy born of November's general election has cast a shadow of uncertainty on many of the legal services now available to indigent Marylanders. Key Republican Congressmen have indicated that funding for the federal Legal Services Corp., which finances community-based legal services nationwide, will come under close scrutiny in congress's upcoming session. "I can speculate that some effort will be made to change legal services...be it defunding entirely or putting new time-keeping requirements on [legal services] or initiating competition for grants," said Ray Smietanka, counsel for the house of representatives subcommittee on commercial and administrative law, the arm of the judiciary committee that oversees the LSC. (excerpt)