MARK PULLIAM: How Lawyers Cause Homelessness: The Boise case proves that pro bono litigation is not always “for the public good.”
Cities in the western United States—Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, San Jose, Los Angeles, Venice Beach, San Diego, Phoenix—host some of the nation’s largest populations of bums, vagrants, drunks, drug addicts, and the non-institutionalized mentally ill. These categories of people are …