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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...
October 11, 2019 - 3:24 pm
By
Echo Gamel
October 10, 2019
FLOYD COUNTY, Ky. (WTVQ) – Hundreds of former clients of disbarred Eastern Kentucky attorney Eric C. Conn are starting to get back their Social Security benefits.
Attorney Ned Pillersdorf, who has...
September 17, 2019 - 8:57 am
By Campbell Robertson
Sept. 14, 2019
FLEMING-NEON, Ky. — In the pre-dawn hours when all is dark and quiet, Amanda Lucas leaves her house and begins the long drive to her job at a hospital an hour away.
In years past, it was the men who...
September 3, 2019 - 2:42 pm
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Army veteran Eugene Milligan is 75 years old and blind. He uses a wheelchair since losing half his right leg to diabetes and gets dialysis for kidney failure.
And he has struggled to get enough to eat.
Earlier this year, he ended up in...
July 31, 2019 - 9:05 am
Martha Bergmark
On 7/18/19 at 10:45 AM EDT
Opinion Civil rights Justice
In America, we are raised with the promise of "justice for all." But after decades as a civil rights and civil legal aid lawyer, I know firsthand that our nation falls far...
July 15, 2019 - 9:46 am
By Andrew Strickler | July 14, 2019, 8:02 PM EDT
By the summer of 2007, Johnny McIntosh could barely walk, much less hold down a job.
At just 40 years old, McIntosh had a back injury from a public works job in his native eastern Kentucky, followed by a...
July 15, 2019 - 9:38 am
By Will Wright
July 12, 2019 12:38 PM, Updated July 12, 2019 12:41 PM
As black lung surges across Eastern Kentucky, clinic expands to meet demand.
New Beginnings Pulmonary Rehab plans to double its number of clinics by early 2020 as black lung...
July 11, 2019 - 10:12 am
July 9, 2019
While the criminal justice side of the opioid epidemic has received significant attention, the civil legal issues it has caused have quietly smoldered into a raging inferno, overwhelming legal aid providers, families, social service...
June 26, 2019 - 10:14 am
When recovering opioid addict Jacob was called into court in Clinton County, New York, for violating a restraining order, the judge told him he had 90 days to quit using his addiction medication, Suboxone.
Jacob, whose last name Law360 is withholding for...
June 26, 2019 - 9:32 am
By Will Wright
June 25, 2019 04:18 PM,
Of the 80 counties that will be considered economically distressed by the Appalachian Regional Commission in 2020, nearly half are in Eastern Kentucky. Appalachian Regional Commission
New data released by the...
June 17, 2019 - 2:30 pm
By Dashiell Coleman dcoleman@gastongazette.com
Posted Jun 13, 2019 at 5:05 PM Updated Jun 13, 2019 at 5:05 PM
John Rosenberg remembers his high school years in Gastonia fondly.
The experience stuck...
