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The Legal Services Corporation was established to provide tax supported legal services for those people who cannot afford their own attorneys. The service was to be furnished in civil cases only.
We support any federal Legal Service Corporation reform legislation which would reduce many of the abuses presently experienced by farmers.
Experience in Michigan has shown that reform of the program and its policies is overdue. We support reform measures that include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Plaintiffs and plaintiff's legal counsel should be responsible for all legal fees of the defendant when such defendant is found to be not at fault.
- Farmworker Legal Services be banned from the recruitment and solicitation of possible legal suits from migrant workers.
- Farmworker Legal Services adopt an accounting method of cost on a case-by-case basis.
- Lawsuits brought against a producer for violations of labor regulations by an employee or an employee representative should be filed and heard in the jurisdiction the alleged violation occurred.
