Odd as it may seem, the Federal Government spends considerable amounts each year financing law suits against itself. In 1966 the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) began to grant some $200,000 annually to a group of New York lawyers who had formed the Center on Social Welfare Policy and Law.
The money was used to counsel welfare-rights organizations, to prepare research for neighborhood legal-aid centers and to initiate court action on behalf of the poor. As it happens, much of the litigation subsidized by the Federal Government has been used to bring successful suits against local, state and...
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