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New Data: 21,400 Kentuckians Have Lost Food Assistance as a Result of Barriers Erected by State
By Anna Baumann May 14, 2019 New data shows 21,400 Kentuckians have had Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits taken away due to a recent state rule requiring adults without dependents or a disability report work hours over a certain threshold or lose food assistance.
Court Rules In Favor Of Former Conn Clients
PRESTONSBURG, Ky. (LEX 18)– Attorneys for the former clients of Eric C. Conn have received more good news in court. According to attorney Ned Pillersdorf, a Floyd County County Circuit Judge ruled against the former attorney’s legal malpractice insurer to pay $1.5 million to his former clients in a legal malpractice class action suit.
University of Kentucky bill collection feud heads to Kentucky Supreme Court
By Darla Carter | June 6, 2019 9:30 am Courtesy of Pixabay
‘Justice by geography.’ Where you live in Kentucky often determines if you stay in jail.
‘Justice by geography.’ Where you live in Kentucky often determines if you stay in jail. By Beth Musgrave and Daniel Desrochers June 14, 2019 Is Kentucky’s cash bail system fair? This defendant says no.
Civil rights advocate, Holocaust survivor recalls time in Gastonia as youth
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 with him enough that he regularly attends reunions of the Gastonia High class of 1949. And, truly, Rosenberg was fortunate to be here. Just a decade earlier, his family fled Nazi Germany after his father was briefly imprisoned in a concentration camp.
Director Emeritus John M. Rosenberg
John M. Rosenberg was the Director of Appalachian Research and Defense Fund of Kentucky, Inc. (AppalReD), since it first received funding from the Office of Economic Opportunity in 1970. He held the directors position for over twenty-eight years before retiring.
Income falls in several Appalachian Kentucky counties as coal fails to bounce back
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 Appalachian Regional Commission Tuesday show per capita annual income fell by more than $1,000 in several Eastern Kentucky counties from 2016 to 2017, the most recent year made available by the ARC.
Urgent Care: How Attorneys Are Battling The Opioid Crisis
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 privacy reasons, said he was “heartbroken” and afraid of possibly relapsing. But his court-appointed lawyer didn’t object, so he figured he had no choice but to get off the medication he had used to treat his opioid addiction for 13 years.
Report Finds Legal Aid Organizations Hard Hit By Opioid Epidemic; Recommends Expanded Partnerships
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 providers, and courts. The Legal Services Corporation, which funds legal aid organizations across America, recently rolled out a new report on this issue at the Tennessee Supreme Court in Nashville.