By Olivia Klein Abigail was nervous the first time she walked into the courthouse. She’d been working with students at the Family and Domestic Violence Law Clinic, and she wanted to make sure …
Indigenous Guatemalan client granted asylum after fifteen years
Via HIRCP Blog This spring, HIRC at GBLS concluded another successful semester with a victory for a longtime client, bringing to a close her fifteen-year fight to stay in the United States. …
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Legal Services Center Urges VA to Change Eligibility Rules for Veterans with Bad Paper on behalf of Swords to Plowshares and The National Veterans Legal Services Program
via LSC blog September 8, 2020 – The Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School (LSC), on behalf of veterans organizations Swords to Plowshares and the National Veterans Legal …
Harvard Law students win release for two inmates with mental disabilities
via Harvard Law Today Michael Horrell ’14 became the first of many Harvard Law School students to represent Richard Crowell when he appeared on his client’s behalf at a parole hearing in 2012. …
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They’ve been granted parole. So why can it take years for them to get out of prison?
by Jenifer B. McKim via Boston Globe Magazine Nearly 10 years ago, Wilfred Dacier was told he would be a free man. But for Dacier, now 63, his view continued to be a little corner of the town of …
‘October Massacre’ victims’ trial highlights traumas in Bolivia
via PRI by Elana Gordon The night before she boarded a plane to the United States last month, Etelvina Ramos Mamani awoke from a terrible dream. “I saw Marlene,” she said, referring to her …
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