Texas Riogrande Legal Aid Press Center

News and developments of interest to and that has an impact on the legal aid community in Texas.

Author: Texas RioGrande Legal Aid, or TRLA, is a not-for-profit agency that provides free legal services to the indigent in Central, South and West Texas.

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Recent Posts from Texas RioGrande Legal Aid Press Center

Free Times – USC Students Swap Beach for Farm
They could have done anything, really: hit the beach; lay out by the pool; play video games; go to the movies; goof off. But three University of South Carolina students foreswore the typical activities of…
Chattanooga Times Free Press – Foreign farm worker pay rises
Judy Cooper hired temporary foreign workers to help out at her Flat Top Mountain fruit and vegetable farm for three years, and this year she received a break on their wages because of a regulation…
American Lawyer – Combating a Fake Legal Aid Operation
In the fall of 2007, Texas RioGrande Legal Aid started getting complaints on its voicemail system from clients that it had no record of in its files. Around the same time, people began showing up…
Summer 2009 TRLA Times
Feature Story: The Power of Pro Bono Every year Texas RioGrande Legal Aid (TRLA) works with hundreds of private attorneys who selflessly volunteer their time to provide their services at no cost to low-income clients.…
Valley Morning Star – New Law May Help Tenants Facing Eviction
A new federal law provides protection to tenants of foreclosed rental properties and may help apartment dwellers such as those on Sonesta Drive and Sonesta Circle who received eviction notices last week. President Obama signed…
Mississippi Company Fined for Not Reporting Outbreak
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Spring Miller, Attorney 615.750.1200 smiller@trla.org Cynthia Martinez, Communications Director 512.374.2764 cmartinez@trla.org JACKSON, Mississippi – June 17, 2009 – The Mississippi office of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has fined…
Brownsville Herald – UTB-TSC Center for Civic Engagement shines a light on human trafficking
When two Brownsville residents were charged in May with importing and harboring unauthorized immigrants for prostitution, UTB-TSC student Yadira Gonzalez started to wonder how she could bring awareness to the presence of human trafficking in…
KGBT – Two farmworkers lawsuits filed in McAllen
Two farmworkers rights lawsuits have been filed in federal court in McAllen over the past week. The first lawsuit was filed on Monday by three Rio Grande Valley farmworkers who labored in corn and soy…
Ahora Si – Secuestrada por mi padre
Pocos minutos antes de que el camión partiera, José Carranza le arrebató a la niña de sus brazos. “Me la quitó por la fuerza y me dijo que regresara por ella en agosto”, recuerda Loretta…
Arkansas Democrat Gazette – Mexican workers awarded $36,000
A federal judge on Wednesday ordered an Arkansas farm to pay 24 Mexican workers a total of $36,000 for violating federal employment laws and for breaching the terms of the workers’ contracts under the federal…