Over the same period, the number of civil cases granted funding for representation and/or legal advice has dropped by 62%.
The suspects I encountered as a former police officer and federal agent in nearly all cases granted permission for me to search their property when asked, often despite unconcealed contraband.
The Children's Aid Society frequently uses Neediest Cases grants to pay for food, clothing, rent or furniture for families in need.
Because the argument calendar for the current term is now full, the cases granted today and for the next four months will be argued after the new term begins next October.
In New York City, which has the highest concentration of confirmed flu cases, federal grants for emergency preparedness have fallen to $23 million, from $28 million a year ago, said Andrew S. Rein, the city health department's executive deputy commissioner.
That is the case with grants for the first of its initiatives — what the philanthropy calls "predict and prevent".
He turned to the Community Service Society of New York, one of the seven agencies supported by The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund, and received a grant for a $104 monthly unlimited MetroCard to use while in school.
Facing a possible eviction, the couple turned to the Children's Aid Society, one of the seven agencies supported by The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund, which provided a grant for $1,273 to help cover some of the arrears.
And mima's rising reputation was acknowledged by the Art Council last year when it was allocating grants for the next few years – while most arts organizations were left on standstill funding or, in many cases, cut back, mima's grant for the next three years was increased by 148%, rising from £180,000 a year now to £535,000 in 2015.
Decisions to hear cases — to grant petitions for certiorari, in court lingo — are announced in terse orders, without explanation or an indication of who voted how.
