Maryland state senators voted this week to withhold $250,000 from the University of Maryland’s law school until it submits a report listing the lawsuits filed by students in its environmental legal clinic, according to MarylandReporter.com. Some lawmakers said the clinics were unfairly challenging poultry businesses — a key industry on the state’s Eastern Shore — over their disposal of chicken waste. The critics said they wanted to know the identities of the legal clinic’s clients and how much money it has spent. Other senators said a requirement for a report would violate academic freedom. One senator said the demand was “something straight out of Communist China.”
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One Response to Maryland Senators Vote to Withhold Money From University Over Legal Clinics
jaysanderson - March 26, 2010 at 11:28 pm
straight out of communist China? Really? So these law students were imprisoned, tortured, and forced to work in factories making flat screen televisions?No, kids. Only in America would law students be able to file whatever lawsuits they want, then whine when the legislators who appropriate money for the whole junior lawyer thing want to know how the people’s money was spent.