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Archive Home > 2009 > January > 13 > Justices weigh depth of U.S. legal aid law

Justices weigh depth of U.S. legal aid law


January 13, 2009

In an unusually testy argument, the Supreme Court on Monday tried to make sense of a federal law that provides lawyers to poor inmates on state death rows when their cases move to federal court. The question for the justices was whether the law also requires the federal government to pay those....

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