Hearing on Legal Aid Lawsuit Against FEMA This Thursday

AUSTIN, Texas – A hearing on the lawsuit filed by Texas RioGrande Legal Aid, Inc. (TRLA) against the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for preventing attorneys from working with disaster victims in FEMA’s Disaster Recovery Centers has been scheduled for this Thursday, August 16, 2007. The lawsuit asserts that FEMA officials violate First Amendment rights by preventing attorneys from making information available to disaster victims at the centers and that FEMA violates disaster victims’ rights to legal representation.

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