/access-to-justice?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Access to Justice Copyright 2025 ¼«ËÙÈü³µ. en-US Tue, 29 Jul 2025 19:57:16 +0000 /access-to-justice/articles/2370436?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /access-to-justice/articles/2370436 Georgia's governor and attorney general encouraged the Eleventh Circuit to reverse a district court ruling temporarily blocking enforcement of the state's cash bail reform law, arguing the lower court wrongly found the act of paying bail to be inherently expressive. Tue, 29 Jul 2025 17:37:05 +0000 /access-to-justice/articles/2370572?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /access-to-justice/articles/2370572 A Tennessee man convicted of a 1988 triple murder whom the state has since deemed intellectually disabled has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt his execution and fully review his case, his attorney confirmed Tuesday. Tue, 29 Jul 2025 16:07:26 +0000 /access-to-justice/articles/2370238?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /access-to-justice/articles/2370238 Legal Aid DC plans to relocate and nearly double the size of its Anacostia office in 2026 as it faces growing demand for legal services, the organization announced this week. Fri, 25 Jul 2025 20:15:57 +0000 /access-to-justice/articles/2369126?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /access-to-justice/articles/2369126 A Texas death row prisoner convicted of killing his 2-year-old daughter under the controversial shaken baby syndrome theory has asked the state's top criminal appeals court to halt his upcoming execution, arguing new evidence discredits the diagnosis, his attorney said Friday. Fri, 25 Jul 2025 18:07:45 +0000 /access-to-justice/articles/2368355?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /access-to-justice/articles/2368355 The Fourth Circuit has affirmed a West Virginia federal court's dismissal of a convicted murderer's bid to get out of prison, finding that although his rights may have been violated by "Kafkaesque," decadeslong delays and ineffective counsel, he was nevertheless able to find resolution in state court. Fri, 25 Jul 2025 14:21:50 +0000 /access-to-justice/articles/2369358?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /access-to-justice/articles/2369358 Two more New York-based member shops of the Association of Legal Advocates and Attorneys have reached tentative agreements with their managers after almost a week on strike. Thu, 24 Jul 2025 20:42:35 +0000 /access-to-justice/articles/2368062?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /access-to-justice/articles/2368062 Although the request by top U.S. Department of Justice officials seeking a one-day sentence for a former Louisville police officer who participated in the raid that led to Breonna Taylor's death wasn't heeded, former federal prosecutors and defense attorneys say a government request to downgrade a sentence is unusual, but likely to recur in politically relevant matters. Thu, 24 Jul 2025 20:21:49 +0000 /access-to-justice/articles/2369205?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /access-to-justice/articles/2369205 A New York state appellate court held Thursday that the Family Court acted unlawfully in placing a mother under the supervision of New York City's child welfare agency just because she has experienced domestic abuse, further curtailing a controversial practice that's already banned elsewhere in the state. Thu, 24 Jul 2025 19:03:25 +0000 /access-to-justice/articles/2369153?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /access-to-justice/articles/2369153 The Connecticut Appellate Court on July 23 allowed six out-of-state attorneys representing special interest groups to appear in an appeal questioning whether an unapproved amicus brief in a separate case defamed an acquitted ex-Yale student. Wed, 23 Jul 2025 18:05:35 +0000 /access-to-justice/articles/2368139?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /access-to-justice/articles/2368139 A Washington state appeals court has ruled that a coalition of counties has standing to sue the state to force it to provide adequate funding for indigent defense services, saying the coalition had shown that it had been harmed by the current funding system. Wed, 23 Jul 2025 17:37:14 +0000 /access-to-justice/articles/2368471?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /access-to-justice/articles/2368471 The ACLU's Connecticut litigation arm and five other legal advocacy groups cannot file friend-of-the-court briefs in former Yale University student Saifullah Khan's defamation case against 16 others that filed a rejected amici brief in a separate state Supreme Court matter, a state appeals court has ruled. Tue, 22 Jul 2025 15:07:31 +0000 /access-to-justice/articles/2367729?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /access-to-justice/articles/2367729 A federal judge in Kentucky has sentenced a former Louisville Metro Police Department officer to nearly three years in prison for firing a gun into the home of Breonna Taylor the night she died in March 2020. Tue, 22 Jul 2025 14:19:05 +0000 /access-to-justice/articles/2367722?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /access-to-justice/articles/2367722 Phone calls for inmates in New York state prisons will soon be free of charge, officials announced Tuesday — a policy shift advocates say will save more than $13 million annually for families of incarcerated people and strengthen ties that are crucial to rehabilitation and public safety. Mon, 21 Jul 2025 16:23:39 +0000 /access-to-justice/articles/2367420?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /access-to-justice/articles/2367420 The union representing staff attorneys for the Bronx Defenders — one of several member shops of the Association of Legal Advocates and Attorneys that went on strike last week — has reached a tentative contract agreement with their managers. Fri, 18 Jul 2025 16:52:35 +0000 /access-to-justice/articles/2363988?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /access-to-justice/articles/2363988 As AI-generated evidence and deepfake claims become more common in litigation, the steep expense of challenging or verifying such evidence threatens to worsen unequal justice system outcomes — and a new cost-allocation framework is needed to preserve fairness, says Rebecca Delfino at Loyola Law School. Fri, 18 Jul 2025 16:50:18 +0000 /access-to-justice/articles/2366835?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /access-to-justice/articles/2366835 A strike by hundreds of legal service workers in New York City grew even larger on Friday after three more member shops of the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys joined the picket line. Fri, 18 Jul 2025 15:17:41 +0000 /access-to-justice/articles/2353097?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /access-to-justice/articles/2353097 In January, California adopted race-blind charging as a statewide policy, after a law passed in 2022 went into effect. Now, seven months into the program's statewide rollout, race-blind charging is showing both promise and limitations. Thu, 17 Jul 2025 20:55:24 +0000 /access-to-justice/articles/2366294?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /access-to-justice/articles/2366294 The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday recommended a one-day sentence for a former Louisville Metro Police Department officer in Kentucky who fired shots into the home of Breonna Taylor the night she died in March 2020, according to the government's sentencing memorandum. Thu, 17 Jul 2025 14:58:16 +0000 /access-to-justice/articles/2363166?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /access-to-justice/articles/2363166 Carla Barrett has spent the past 19 years working for the Committee for Public Counsel Services, Massachusetts' public defenders. She told ¼«ËÙÈü³µ the job comes with challenges both structural and legal, adding that even among her prosecutorial counterparts, her work can often be misunderstood. Tue, 15 Jul 2025 16:56:45 +0000 /access-to-justice/articles/2353098?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /access-to-justice/articles/2353098 The U.S. Supreme Court addressed several contentious issues this term, with the conservative majority prevailing in numerous high-profile cases. Yet, in a notable trend, the court also issued multiple rulings favorable to criminal defendants, including expanding prisoners' rights in civil lawsuits and reinforcing due process protections in capital cases.