Updated August, 2001. The LSC restrictions imposed by the FY96 appropriations legislation, modified slightly by the FY98 appropriations legislation, and incorporated in the FY99 and subsequent appropriations legislation, left legal services programs and their staff with less capacity to effectively represent low-income persons in the courts and before other forums that affect their rights and responsibilities. However, there continue to be many critically important representational activities that can still be done by LSC-funded entities, and the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in Velazquez v. LSC restored recipients' ability to more fully represent individual clients in welfare cases. This memo outlines in detail what programs can and cannot do under the restrictions.