Media ContactLisa Ramirez, Communications Director, lramirez@mylegalaid.org
Effective March 1, a Minneapolis city ordinance requires landlords to disclose outstanding housing violations and their housing rights to prospective tenants.
Legal Aid client Cathy was drawn to her retirement community because it was marketed to people with disabilities. But, soon, she encountered barriers that hindered her mobility. That’s when she called Legal Aid.
Lyn was 18 years-old when she suffered a spinal cord injury. Her optimism has sustained her through career, child-rearing and in her latest legal battle, which she hopes will help others.
Our Immigration Law Project is producing webinars to inform community members who are on a journey to legal status and
On the occasion of her birthday, Legal Aid Lawyer Laurie Davison is remembered this Oct. 11 by colleagues as a generous mentor and brilliant legal scholar. She pursued cases that changed law, improved lives and got the attention of the U.S. Supreme Court. In her honor, MMLA Minneapolis, at the behest of Attorney Anne Robertson, is now home to the “Laurie Davison Memorial Civil Rights Law Library.”
In legislative testimony and in front of a packed news conference, our client Amy Lemer described how her husband harassed and chastised her. “He told me I would be homeless, penniless and childless by the time he was done with me.” Amy shared her story in support of the Debt Fairness Act.
In the matter of the Housing Authority v. Johnson, a grandma on the verge of eviction cried and the maintenance man, a witness for the plaintiffs, cussed up a storm. But only the attorneys were real. That’s how it played out at trial school!
As the Minnesota law providing free school meals gains national attention and enters its second year on the books, this story recalls the history, the Legal Aid attorney and years of hard-fought work that made it happen.
In this staff profile piece, Attorney Steve Schmidt reflects on five memorable cases. Each focused on disability rights for clients of Legal Aid’s Minnesota Disability Law Center. All had far-reaching effects in achieving justice for countless others in areas of legislation, prisoner rights, compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and increasing access to time with personal care assistants.
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