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Oakland, CA – NCYL senior attorney Bill Grimm has won the highly prestigious 2005 Kutak-Dodds Prize for his work on behalf of low-income children. The Kutak-Dodds Prize is awarded to an equal justice advocate who makes a significant contribution to “the enhancement of human dignity and quality of life” of those people unable to afford legal representation.
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John O’Toole, director of the Oakland, CA-based National Center of Youth Law (NCYL), has been chosen by the Daily Journal as one of California’s top 100 lawyers. The annual survey by the statewide legal newspaper reports on the state’s most influential attorneys as selected by their peers. This year’s list, chosen from more than 196,000 lawyers in the state, was announced in the Sept. 27 issue of the Daily Journal. |
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The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision to ban the juvenile death penalty marks a major victory for the National Center for Youth Law (NCYL) and other child advocacy groups that have worked for years to abolish the practice. NCYL has long been an active opponent of the juvenile death penalty and joined about 50 other child advocacy groups in filing an amicus curiae brief urging the Court to ban the practice. The Court ruled March 1 that this country’s rare practice of executing criminal offenders under the age of 18 is unconstitutional because it constitutes “cruel and unusual punishment”.
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NCYL STAFF ATTORNEYS IN
HEALTH/MENTAL HEALTH:
Patrick Gardner
A NCYL staff attorney since
1999, Patrick Gardner
works works in health and welfare issues,
with an emphasis in adolescent health.
Rebecca Gudeman
A NCYL staff attorney since 1999, Patrick Gardner works works in health and welfare issues, with an emphasis in adolescent health.
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