Supreme Court rulings lifted bar-imposed restrictions on group legal service plans.
Evidence
Such prepaid plans originated early in the twentieth century, when the Physicians’ Defense Company and automobile clubs began to offer legal services or coverage of legal fees for subscribing members. But opposition from the ABA limited experimentation with group legal services until the 1970s. Promoting the renewed interest in group legal plans were a series of Supreme Court rulings during the 1960s that held that restrictions could not be placed on group efforts to ensure legal representation for their members.°’ Thus, associations could offer prepaid legal plans to their members, and unions could seek coverage for their members in collective bargaining. By the early twenty-first century, more than 30 percent of Americans had some form of coverage. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1157
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the course’s theme of bar regulation versus constitutional rights of access to representation (cf. NAACP v. Button line). — connects to: Supreme Court rulings in the 1960s legalized group legal service plans — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 749; Courts expand constitutional rights by redefining the legal standard they rest on. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 2533; State courts can construe mirrored rights provisions more protectively than the Supreme Court does. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 3372 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Courts expand constitutional rights by redefining the legal standard they rest on.
#corroborates(1.00) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 2533 - Judicial discretion is channeled by constraints, not eliminated.
#complicates(0.90) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 188 - State courts can construe mirrored rights provisions more protectively than the Supreme Court does.
#complicates(0.85) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 3372