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<title>Comment by Kimbo (September 5, 2008, 01:00:00)</title>
<link>http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_SN_1515.html#41631</link>
<description>When are groups mascarading at helping people going to stop trying to get taxpayer dollars to do so? It is not the law's purpose to be  philanthropic, it is the lawyer's choice to be.

Frederic Bastiat, 1853. STILL TRUE.

Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, public schools, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on. All these plans as a whole—with their common aim of legal plunder—constitute socialism. 

But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime....</description>
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<title>Comment by E Barnett (June 12, 2008, 01:00:00)</title>
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<description>Another welfare assistance program for the legal profession...</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>Revision by webmaster (June 19, 2007, 01:00:00)</title>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;S. 1515 would establish a domestic violence volunteer attorney network to represent domestic violence victims.&lt;/p&gt;


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&lt;p&gt;Latest Major Action: 5/24/2007: Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.&lt;/p&gt;


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<description>&lt;p&gt;S. 1515 would establish a domestic violence volunteer attorney network to represent domestic violence victims.&lt;/p&gt;


&lt;h2 id=&quot;toc4&quot;&gt; Detailed Summary &lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;National Domestic Violence Volunteer Attorney Network Act - Authorizes the Attorney General to award grants to the American Bar Association Commission on Domestic Violence to work in collaboration with the American Bar Association Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service and other organizations to create, recruit lawyers for, and provide training, mentoring, and technical assistance for a National Domestic Violence Volunteer Attorney Network.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Requires the Office on Violence Against Women of the Department of Justice to designate five states in which to implement the pilot program of a National Domestic Violence Volunteer Attorney Referral Project and distribute funds under this Act.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Requires the Attorney General to award grants to national domestic violence legal technical assistance providers to expand their services to provide training and ongoing technical assistance to volunteer attorneys in the National Domestic Violence Volunteer Network, statewide legal coordinators, the National Domestic Violence Hotline, and Internet-based legal referral organizations.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Authorizes the Attorney General to: (1) award grants to the National Domestic Violence Hotline to provide information about statewide legal coordinators and legal services; and (2) award grants to Internet-based non-profit organizations with a demonstrated expertise on domestic violence to provide state-specific information about statewide legal coordinators and legal services through the Internet.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Directs the General Accountability Office to study and report to Congress on the scope and quality of legal representation and advocacy for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking, including the provision of culturally and linguistically appropriate services.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Directs the Attorney General to establish the Domestic Violence Legal Advisory Task Force.&lt;/p&gt;


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&lt;h2 id=&quot;toc5&quot;&gt; Status of the Legislation &lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Latest Major Action: 5/24/2007: Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.&lt;/p&gt;


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<title>Status as of May 24, 2007</title>
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<description>5/24/2007: Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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