Income falls in several Appalachian Kentucky counties as coal fails to bounce...
By Will Wright June 25, 2019 04:18 PM, Of the 80 counties that will be considered economically distressed by the Appalachian Regional Commission in 2020, nearly half are in Eastern Kentucky....
View ArticleUrgent Care: How Attorneys Are Battling The Opioid Crisis
When recovering opioid addict Jacob was called into court in Clinton County, New York, for violating a restraining order, the judge told him he had 90 days to quit using his addiction medication,...
View ArticleReport Finds Legal Aid Organizations Hard Hit By Opioid Epidemic; Recommends...
July 9, 2019 While the criminal justice side of the opioid epidemic has received significant attention, the civil legal issues it has caused have quietly smoldered into a raging inferno, overwhelming...
View ArticleAs black lung surges across Eastern Kentucky, rehab clinics expand to meet...
By Will Wright July 12, 2019 12:38 PM, Updated July 12, 2019 12:41 PM As black lung surges across Eastern Kentucky, clinic expands to meet demand. New Beginnings Pulmonary Rehab plans to double its...
View ArticleIn Appalachia, A Lawyer’s Vast Fraud Dogs Destitute Clients
By Andrew Strickler | July 14, 2019, 8:02 PM EDT By the summer of 2007, Johnny McIntosh could barely walk, much less hold down a job. At just 40 years old, McIntosh had a back injury from a public...
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Justice ain't much if you can't afford it. America needs to overhaul its...
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View ArticleStarving Seniors: How America Fails To Feed Its Aging
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Army veteran Eugene Milligan is 75 years old and blind. He uses a wheelchair since losing half his right leg to diabetes and gets dialysis for kidney failure. And he has struggled to...
View ArticleIn Coal Country, the Mines Shut Down, the Women Went to Work and the World...
By Campbell Robertson Sept. 14, 2019 FLEMING-NEON, Ky. — In the pre-dawn hours when all is dark and quiet, Amanda Lucas leaves her house and begins the long drive to her job at a hospital an hour away.
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Attorney: Former clients of Eric Conn begin getting benefits back
By Echo Gamel October 10, 2019 FLOYD COUNTY, Ky. (WTVQ) – Hundreds of former clients of disbarred Eastern Kentucky attorney Eric C. Conn are starting to get back their Social Security benefits.
View ArticleHolocaust survivor has dedicated his career to serving others
By Amanda RobertNovember 1, 2019, 1:30 am CDTJohn Rosenberg likes to tell people we’re in a country where the rule of law means something, where no one is above the law.“Lawyers make a difference,” he...
View ArticleMany U.S. Families Faced Civil Legal Issues in 2018
Survey highlights need for alternative approaches to help people navigate the courtsArticle November 19, 2019By: Erika Rickard Topics: U.S. State Policy Projects: Civil Legal System Modernization Read...
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November December Bench & Bar 2019 - Richard F. Dawahare
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View Article2 years after Eric Conn's capture in Honduras, judge denies motion to get out...
(WYMT) - A federal magistrate denied Eric C. Conn's motion to get out of prison.In October, Conn claimed in a handwritten document that the attorneys who represented him were ineffective.He also...
View ArticleEvan Smith on Rural Public Interest Law Podcast
Evan Smith is a public interest attorney and the Director of Advocacy for AppalReD, a nonprofit that gives free legal services in rural Appalachia. We spoke about what it’s like to work in rural...
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U.S. Appeals Court Upholds Ruling Blocking States' Medicaid Work Requirements
A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court decision blocking states' requirements that people must work in order to receive Medicaid.Residents of Kentucky and Arkansas brought the action against...
View ArticleCountry music star Tyler Childers ‘stoked’ to get mannequin of disbarred KY...
By Bill EstepFebruary 20, 2020 11:27 AMEastern Kentucky’s most famous disbarred lawyer is going to be in prison a long time, but it looks like a rising country music star from the region will get a...
View ArticleCoronavirus Pandemic AppalReD Legal Aid's Office Operations
ATTENTION: In response to the coronavirus pandemic, AppalReD Legal Aid is implementing preventative measures to protect the health of our clients, visitors, and staff.
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