Courts deny Pfizer access

Medicaid and access to the courts.

10.1056/nejmp1100991 nejm.org 1 2019 — Medicaid will be reex­ amined this year, in all its legal complexities, by the U.S. Supreme Court, which has agreed to hear California’s appeal in the case Maxwell-Jolly v. Independent Living Center of Southern California. The Court’s ruling could fundamen­ tally alter states’ accountability to beneficiaries and providers when their official conduct allege...

Deny-Guarantee Reasoning

Rely-guarantee is a well-established approach to reasoning about concurrent programs that use parallel composition. However, parallel composition is not how concurrency is structured in real systems. Instead, threads are started by ‘fork’ and collected with ‘join’ commands. This style of concurrency cannot be reasoned about using rely-guarantee, as the life-time of a thread can be scoped dynami...

Reimagining Access to Justice in the Poor People’s Courts

Access to justice efforts have been focused more on access than justice, due in part to the framing of access to justice issues around the presence or absence of lawyers. This article argues that access to justice scholars and activists should also think about social justice and provides a roadmap for running a legal services program geared toward making court systems more just. The article als...

In the complement of 'deny'

Access to Justice for Discrimination Complainants: Courts and Legal Representation

In the terms of Marc Galanter’s classic article, ‘Why the “Haves” Come Out Ahead’,1 people making complaints of discrimination are typically ‘one shotters’ who have little or no prior contact with the legal system and who are deeply invested – both emotionally and financially – in the outcome of their case. They tend to have limited financial resources, may be members of ethnic minorities with ...