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May 12, 2020 - 4:21 pm
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April 9, 2020 - 3:57 pm
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March 31, 2020 - 11:39 am
Already short on resources, civil legal aid groups now face unprecedented crunch
By Todd Ruger
Posted March 31, 2020 at 5:57am
Attorneys at the Southeast Louisiana Legal Services Corp. helped the state’s poorest residents in the aftermath of two...
March 30, 2020 - 11:43 am
One Kentucky community has seen a wave of violence and homelessness as methamphetamine use returns.
By Timothy Williams
March 28, 2020
LOUISA, Ky. — Home deliveries from the local food bank now require a police escort. A shop owner has started...
March 23, 2020 - 5:08 pm
ELCOMB, Ky. — The two men sat on the covered porch of an aging mobile home along an Appalachian creek, a loud rain pinging off the sheet metal roof.
Joe Goans’ four children were packed inside, shut out of school by the spreading coronavirus. He hadn...
March 23, 2020 - 3:15 pm
At AppalReD Legal Aid we are committed to providing free legal services to the low-income and vulnerable in eastern and...
March 16, 2020 - 12:11 pm
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In response to the coronavirus pandemic, AppalReD Legal Aid is implementing preventative...
February 20, 2020 - 5:06 pm
By Bill Estep
February 20, 2020 11:27 AM
Eastern Kentucky’s most famous disbarred lawyer is going to be in prison a long time, but it looks like a rising country music star from the region will get a likeness of him to take home.
The lawyer is Eric C...
February 17, 2020 - 10:38 am
A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court decision blocking states' requirements that people must work in order to receive Medicaid.
Residents of Kentucky and Arkansas brought the action against Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar,...
December 5, 2019 - 4:59 pm
Evan Smith is a public interest attorney and the Director of Advocacy for AppalReD, a nonprofit that gives free legal services in rural Appalachia. We spoke about what it’s like to work in rural America, the legal issues people face in that part of the...
December 5, 2019 - 4:51 pm
(WYMT) - A federal magistrate denied Eric C. Conn's motion to get out of prison.
In October, Conn claimed in a handwritten document that the attorneys who represented him were ineffective.
He also claimed the escape charge was not relevant to him...
December 2, 2019 - 10:19 am
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November 26, 2019 - 10:53 am
Survey highlights need for alternative approaches to help people navigate the courts
Article November 19, 2019
By: Erika Rickard Topics: U.S. State Policy Projects: Civil Legal System Modernization Read time: 2 min
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October 29, 2019 - 1:44 pm
By Amanda Robert
November 1, 2019, 1:30 am CDT
John Rosenberg likes to tell people we’re in a country where the rule of law means something, where no one is above the law.
“Lawyers make a difference,” he says. “We have demonstrated in our work that...
