| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | Key Terms in Title or Summary |
| Frank I. Michelman |
FOREWORD: ON PROTECTING THE POOR THROUGH THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT |
83 Harvard Law Review 7 (November, 1969) |
IN the end, no doubt, a victorious War on Poverty will have somehow attacked and conquered relative deprivation. In the end, we may believe, the real problem will be found lurking in people's responses to the disparity between the low access of the poor to resources and the observable large control over resources of the elite, or in the poor's... |
1969 |
Yes |
| Lawrence M. Friedman |
SOCIAL WELFARE LEGISLATION: AN INTRODUCTION |
21 Stanford Law Review 217 (January, 1969) |
The declaration of war against poverty was a major event of the 1960's. The federal government loudly and publicly announced its intent to end poverty and discrimination, and to equalize opportunity for white and black, rich and poor, in the United States. This public effort--and the forces that underlay it--has stimulated scholars in many fields... |
1969 |
Yes |
| Joel F. Handler , Ellen Jane Hollingsworth |
STIGMA, PRIVACY, AND OTHER ATTITUDES OF WELFARE RECIPIENTS |
22 Stanford Law Review 1 (November, 1969) |
It has always been assumed that stigma has important consequences for welfare policy. In the 19th century, official policy was deliberately designed to create a sense of shame and moral inferiority on the part of those who sought relief rather than work. This policy was defended both by those sympathetic to the poor and by those who wanted to save... |
1969 |
Yes |
| Beatrice A. Moulton |
THE PERSECUTION AND INTIMIDATION OF THE LOW-INCOME LITIGANT AS PERFORMED BY THE SMALL CLAIMS COURT IN CALIFORNIA |
21 Stanford Law Review 1657 (June, 1969) |
A recent handbook for California judges on the conduct of small claims court concludes with this sober admonition in the words of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes: The Supreme Court of the United States and the Courts of Appeal will take care of themselves. Look after the courts of the poor, who stand most in need of justice. The security of the... |
1969 |
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| Joel F. Handler |
THE ROLE OF LEGAL RESEARCH AND LEGAL EDUCATION IN SOCIAL WELFARE |
20 Stanford Law Review 669 (April, 1968) |
The growing attack on the problems of poverty and racial inequality presents to the legal profession a significant opportunity. The practicing bar, by and large, is responding to the challenge. Legal services for the poor and for civil rights programs have come from the American Bar Association, law students, practicing attorneys, and the Office of... |
1968 |
Yes |
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DISCRIMINATIONS AGAINST THE POOR AND THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT |
81 Harvard Law Review 435 (December, 1967) |
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in streets, and to steal bread. No longer can the mere state of being without funds be characterized as constitutionally an irrelevance. A growing body of law under the due process and equal protection clauses has come to treat the unequal... |
1967 |
Yes |
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FEDERAL JUDICIAL REVIEW OF STATE WELFARE PRACTICES |
67 Columbia Law Review 84 (January, 1967) |
No group is more dependent upon public largesse than the recipients of welfare payments. Indeed, the everyday actions of the governmental bureaucracy are, for them, virtual conditions of survival. Despite the preeminent role which administrative decisions play in the lives of these individuals, their interests have not, until recently, been given... |
1967 |
Yes |
| Alexander W. Bell, G. Todd Norvell |
TEXAS WELFARE APPEALS: THE HIDDEN RIGHT |
46 Texas Law Review 223 (December, 1967) |
Nothing could be more irrational than to give power and not give the knowledge without which there is the greatest risk that power will be abused. In 1966 the Texas Welfare Department disbursed approximately 235 million dollars to needy old people, children, the disabled, and blind persons under the four categorical assistance programs: Old Age... |
1967 |
Yes |
| Harold W. Solomon |
"THIS NEW FETISH FOR INDIGENCY": JUSTICE AND POVERTY IN AN AFFLUENT SOCIETY |
66 Columbia Law Review 248 (February, 1966) |
With this new fetish for indigency the Court piles an intolerable burden on the State's judicial machinery. Clark, J., dissenting in Douglas v. California, 372 U.S. 353, 359 (1963). Infliction of gratuitous hardship on the impoverished accused has long been an ugly reality of the administration of criminal justice, and has aggravated what is... |
1966 |
Yes |
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PARTICIPATION OF THE POOR: SECTION 202(A)(3) ORGANIZATIONS UNDER THE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY ACT OF 1964 |
75 Yale Law Journal 599 (March, 1966) |
Mr. Andrews: Mr. Brooks, do you think in this poverty bill there is a danger of setting up what we call political bossism in the cities? Mr. Brooks: I don't believe it is possible in the city of Chicago because this isn't the way we approach the problem .. I am saying, sir, that the poverty program is being operated under the concept that no... |
1966 |
Yes |
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UNION RETIREMENT AND WELFARE PLANS: EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTIONS AS "WAGES" UNDER SECTION 64a(2) OF THE BANKRUPTCY ACT |
66 Yale Law Journal 449 (January, 1957) |
The most undesirable feature of union retirement and welfare funds is the employee's uncertainty of ever receiving any benefits from his employer's contributions to the fund. Often the worker's expectations are thwarted through his own choice when he voluntarily ceases his employment before being entitled to draw from the fund. Although a few plans... |
1957 |
Yes |