July 23, 2008
TRLA offices in the Rio Grande Valley will be CLOSED tomorrow, July 24, due to Hurricane Dolly.
As of 6:45pm Central Time, all other TRLA offices will be OPEN. In the event that weather conditions worsen, the TRLA website, blog, and twitter will update as soon as possible.
July 23, 2008
Opponents raised numerous legal arguments, but in the end, it was politics that convinced the politicians to kill Bexar County’s self-help center for people who file their own lawsuits.
County commissioners voted 4-1 Tuesday to rescind their January decision to set up the center in the public law library, throwing three people out of work and scoring a victory for lawyers who felt that its designers had not included them in the process.
The decision means more than 2,000 people who file their own civil cases each year in Bexar County won’t get extra guidance as they navigate the court system.
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July 22, 2008
UPDATE (4:58pm)
TRLA offices in the Valley will be CLOSED tomorrow, July 23rd, due to Hurricane Dolly.
TRLA is monitoring the development of Tropical Storm Dolly as she heads towards the Rio Grande Valley. As of 8:30 am Central Time, TRLA offices in the Rio Grande Valley will be OPEN on July 22, 2008.
TRLA will continue to monitor the weather situation and make plans as necessary. Updates can be obtained from this blog post, the main TRLA website (www.trla.org), or TRLA’s Twitter page (twitter.com/TRLA).
July 17, 2008
The latest editon of the LSC Updates newsletter features TRLA’s recent success in reuniting Ana Maria Cegledi with her two sons two years after the boys were kidnapped by their father.
To read the story and the rest of the LSC Updates, click here.
July 10, 2008
Four community groups sought clarification in federal court Wednesday on whether authorities will conduct immigration checks in the event of a hurricane evacuation.
The activists filed a petition Wednesday asking a judge to order the U.S. Border Patrol to clearly outline its policy on what documents, if any, will be needed to pass through checkpoints should a storm hit the Rio Grande Valley.
“To prevent a Hurricane Katrina-type catastrophe, residents must know what is going to happen when an evacuation is called,” said Juanita Valdez-Cox, Texas director of La Union del Pueblo Entero, one of the groups that filed the petition in U.S. District Court in McAllen. “We must have answers to make sure residents of the Valley find safety.”
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