An attorney testifies that her client’s children have visible bites from insects and rodents. A mother tries to justify why she had to grab a gun to save her son’s life.
Residents of a Columbia Heights apartment building who are withholding rent over complaints about their building are due in court this week. The hearing could be an early step toward eviction, or it could offer a path toward reconciliation.
Some of the most controversial development decisions the D.C. Housing Authority is making have to do with its own headquarters.
Fourteen states, New York City and the District of Columbia asked the courts to block the Trump administration from imposing tougher work requirements on food stamp recipients.
dvocates for the poor have estimated that the new rule would cut off 700,000 people from the program.
Senior Staff Attorney Amee Vora Reflects on her work in the Domestic Violence/Family Law Unit at Legal Aid
As the director of DCHA’s Housing Choice Voucher Program for more than a decade, McCoy oversaw and managed the distribution of vouchers to an estimated 19,000 families, up from about 5,000 when he started.
It wasn’t the first time the 45-year-old woman’s husband had verbally abused her. But last September, he “spiraled out of control,” she said. In front of their children in their Northeast D.C. living room, he threatened to stab her to death.
It’s literally in the American Bar Association’s manual — Model Rule 6.1 calls for a goal of 50 hours of pro bono service per year for each and every lawyer.
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