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The Rise And Fall Of The Implied Warranty Of Habitability, David A. Super Jan 2011

The Rise And Fall Of The Implied Warranty Of Habitability, David A. Super

Faculty Scholarship

Growing concern about poverty in the late 1960s produced two sweeping legal revolutions. One gave welfare recipients rights against arbitrary eligibility rules and benefit terminations. The other gave low-income tenants recourse when landlords failed to repair their homes. The 1996 welfare law exposed the welfare rights revolution's frailty. Little-noticed by legal scholars, the tenants' rights revolution also has failed, and for broadly similar reasons. Withholding rent deliberately to challenge landlords' failure to repair is unduly risky for most tenants in ill-maintained dwellings: either moving to better housing is a better option or the risk of retaliation is too great. The …


The Effects Of Net-Widening On Minority And Indigent Drug Offenders: A Critique Of Drug Courts, Joel Gross Jan 2010

The Effects Of Net-Widening On Minority And Indigent Drug Offenders: A Critique Of Drug Courts, Joel Gross

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.


Criminalization Of Housing: A Revolving Door That Results In Boarded Up Doors In Low-Income Neighborhoods In Baltimore, Maryland, Sarah Spangler Rhine Jan 2009

Criminalization Of Housing: A Revolving Door That Results In Boarded Up Doors In Low-Income Neighborhoods In Baltimore, Maryland, Sarah Spangler Rhine

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.


Setting An Agenda For The Future Delivery Of Legal Services To The Poor In Maryland, Michael A. Millemann Jan 2007

Setting An Agenda For The Future Delivery Of Legal Services To The Poor In Maryland, Michael A. Millemann

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.


Diversifying The Delivery Of Legal Services To The Poor By Adding A Reduced Fee Private Attorney Component To The Predominantly Staff Model, Including Through A Judicare Program, Michael A. Millemann Jan 2007

Diversifying The Delivery Of Legal Services To The Poor By Adding A Reduced Fee Private Attorney Component To The Predominantly Staff Model, Including Through A Judicare Program, Michael A. Millemann

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.


Legal Services: Meeting New Challenges With Delivery Systems That Promise Lasting Impact For Maryland's Poor, Hannah E. M. Lieberman Jan 2007

Legal Services: Meeting New Challenges With Delivery Systems That Promise Lasting Impact For Maryland's Poor, Hannah E. M. Lieberman

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.


Technology For Justice Customers: Bridging The Digital Divide Facing Self-Represented Litigants, Rondald W. Staudt Jan 2005

Technology For Justice Customers: Bridging The Digital Divide Facing Self-Represented Litigants, Rondald W. Staudt

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.


Medicaid: Issues And Challenges For Health Coverage Of The Low-Income Population, Diane Rowland Jan 2004

Medicaid: Issues And Challenges For Health Coverage Of The Low-Income Population, Diane Rowland

Journal of Health Care Law and Policy

No abstract provided.


Unequal Access: The Crisis Of Health Care Inequality For Low-Income African-American Residents Of The District Of Columbia, Robyn Whipple Diaz Jan 2004

Unequal Access: The Crisis Of Health Care Inequality For Low-Income African-American Residents Of The District Of Columbia, Robyn Whipple Diaz

Journal of Health Care Law and Policy

No abstract provided.