Class action over New York's public defender system

We've been covering this issue for some time, but now comes news from WSJ Law Blog that the high court in New York has approved a class action suit about the efficacy of  the public defender system there.  Opinion here. 

UPDATE;  Here is the amicus brief by a variety of groups, including legal ethics profs.

Comments

[Patrick S. O'Donnell]

And the joint amicus brief, to which and among other New York law professors, our own Monroe Freedman and Bradley Wendel signed on, is available here: http://www.nacdl.org/public.nsf/newsissues/amicus_attachments/$FILE/Hurrell_Amicus.pdf

[Patrick S. O'Donnell]

And forgive the first person plural possessive pronoun!

[John Steele]

no problem!