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Class Actions And The Poor, Henry Rose
Class Actions And The Poor, Henry Rose
Henry Rose
“Class Actions and the Poor” (Abstract)
Attorneys funded by the national Legal Services Corporation (LSC) provide free legal representation to the poor in civil matters. In 1996, a federal law was enacted that prohibited LSC-funded attorneys from representing their clients in class actions.
This article examines the policy justifications for barring LSC-funded attorneys from being involved in class actions. These justifications included: directing the resources of LSC to the legal problems of individuals rather than the poor as a group; and preventing the use of federal dollars from supporting political or social change. The article demonstrates that these are not …