The Governor of California has just recently proposed a state budget that includes $5 million over three years to provide counsel to otherwise self-represented litigants in civil cases. Although nobody seems to have details yet about how the program would work, it’s probably some form of judicare.

There’s a famous GLBT&c bookstore called Little Sister’s on Davie Street in Vancouver.  There’s also a famous 2003 decision from the Supreme Court of Canada that says that Canadian courts can order the government to advance private litigants the costs necessary to bring public interest claims.  Little Sister’s said it should get one of those […]

When Ed Stelmach became the premier of Alberta a month ago, he opened his swearing-in ceremony to the public. An unusual thing, said CBC Edmonton, and considered by some Canadians to be a little troubling. When Butch Otter became the governor of Idaho on New Year’s Day, he held his swearing-in ceremony in […]

Here’s a happy compromise—now I’ll use these “asides” to get out the extraneous tidbits.