But there is an underlying legal crisis which exists because the cost of high quality legal representation is beyond the reach of people of moderate means. and is totally beyond reality for people below or near the poverty level. The result Is that public bodies. corporate interests and others can disregard the legitimate constitutional and legal rights of poor people almost with impunity. sometimes cruelly. I recall hearings held a year or two ago In a county with a high migrant population. where a lawyer testified that the only way he could keep the unemployed migrants of that county from starving was to be with them when they applied for food stamps. If he was not with them. they would not get the stamps. If he did not threaten to sue. the authorities would not grant what the law requires to these pathetic people.
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