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For examples of types of cases run sec Redlich Allen , ‘A New Legal Services Agenda’, (1993) 57 Alb. L. Rev 169.

Ernesto Sanchez , ‘Equal Justice is a Right’, 38 OCT Advocate (Idaho) 29.

‘Conservative Think Tank Recommends LSC Be Abolished’, (1980) Legal Services Corp. News. Nov-Dec, p.2.

Ray Reese Eldred Carolyn , Legal Needs Among Low Income and Moderate Income Households: Summary of Findings from the Comprehensive Legal Needs Study, Consortium on Legal Services and the Public Interest, American Bar Association, 18 January 1994, p.41.

Dodson Doreen , FY99, Congressional Testimony on behalf of the American Bar Association before the Sub Committee on Commerce, Justice, State the Judiciary and related agencies on the committee on Appropriations of the US House of Representatives, 1 April 1998.

National Legal Aid and Defender Association website at <www.nlada.org/g-98congvote.httn>.

Rogers David , ‘Republicans Seek Budget Cuts to Pay for Tax Reduction’, Wall Street Journal, Europe, 15 April 1998.

See Lobbying Disclosure Act 1995, 1996 Changes to OMB Circular A-122, Circular A-i 33.

Omnibus Consolidated Recessions and Appropriations Act of 1996.

For a more detailed breakdown see CLASP website <www.clasp.org/pubs/legalservices/whatcant>.

Harmon Curran Spielberg , Regulation of Advocacy Activities of Non Profits That Receive Federal Grants, Alliance for Justice website <www.afi.org.fai/regula/html>.

Omnibus Consolidated Recissions and Appropriations Act of 1996 Pub I No 104–134 110 Stat 132 S 504(a)(16).

See Yoder Dwight J , Justice or Injustice for the Poor? A Look at the Constitutionality of Congressional Restrictions on Legal Services , 6(3) Wm & Mary Bill Rts J 827 at 843.

Bochm Kenneth P. , National Legal and Policy Center Congressional Testimony FY99, before Commerce, Justice, State the Judiciary and related agencies on the committee on appropriations for the US House of Representatives, 1 April 1998.

See the website of the Center at <www.nlpc.org>.

Bochm Kenneth F. , above, ref 14.

For a discussion of how these restrictions have affected legal services lawyers see, Rosche Staci Billings Lucy Bogart Valerie J. Boskey Jill Ann , ‘Implementation Issues Panel’, (1998) 25 Fordham Urban LJ 321, Symposium.

Udell David S. , ‘Implications of the Legal Services Struggle for Other Government Grants for Lawyering for the Poor’ (1998) 25(4) Fordham Urban LJ 895.

Houseman Alan W. , ‘Restrictions by Funders and the Ethical Practice of Law’, Conference on the Delivery of Legal Services to Low Income Persons, (1999) 67(5) Fordham Law Review 2187.

Roth Jessica , ‘It is Lawyers We are Funding: A Constitutional Challenge to the 1996 Restrictions on the Legal Services Corporation’, (1998) 33 Harvard Civil Rights Civil Liberties Law Review 107.

Freedman Eric , ‘Constitutional Issues Panel’, (1998) 25 Fordham Urb LJ 345.

Note for example the NSW Legal Aid Commission's almost complete abandonment of immigration/refugee matters and nature of service agreements entered into by various community legal centres specifying numbers of cases to be run/clients to be assisted in particular areas of law.