Sentences with phrase «american civil»

Apple cider vinegar was used for wound healing during the American civil war and as late as world war one.

Mercury is a heavy metal which makes up 50 % of standard amalgam dental fillings and has done since before the American civil war.

Apple cider vinegar is claimed to treat athlete's foot, gout, and warts, head lice, and was used to clean wounds in the American civil war.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) National Workrights Institute estimates that there are more than 6,000 companies in the U.S. that attempt to regulate off - duty smoking and other private behavior.

During that meeting, the judge ordered PubPeer to produce «identifying information for that commenter,» said Alexander Abdo of the American Civil Liberties Union, who helped represent PubPeer in this case:

Through the American Civil Liberties Union they offered to defend young Scopes.

The ruling follows a lawsuit brought by a group of patients and scientists represented by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) and calls into question the validity of patents now held on approximately 4,000 human genes.

[1] After a protracted legal battle between the American Civil Liberties Union and the U.S. Patent Office against Myriad, the Supreme Court ruled that isolated genes were a «product of nature» and therefore not patent eligible.

He expressed amazement that famous lawyers like Darrow, Colby, Malone and Arthur Garfield Hays (counsel to the American Civil Liberties Union) should come to his defense, and that a group of well known scientists should join them.

The American Civil Liberties Union and other groups jumped in.

Overall, the ruling is a victory for two New York City advocacy groups that have waged a long campaign to get the patents knocked down: the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the smaller Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT), which initiated the effort.

That language has alarmed dozens of advocacy groups, including the American Library Association, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Reporters Without Borders, which sent a letter (PDF) to Congress last month opposing CISPA.

Government documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union and provided to CNET show a split over electronic privacy rights within the Obama administration, with Justice Department prosecutors and investigators privately insisting they're not legally required to obtain search warrants for e-mail.

I claim no particular expertise on the American Civil War, on Lincoln's presidency, or on American history in general, a point I made quite clear to the foundation.

Barry Steinhardt, associate director of the American Civil Liberties Union, calls backscatter x-ray imaging «nothing more than an electronic strip search.»

This year Myriad's patent was challenged in court by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of 20 plaintiffs, including the American College of Medical Genetics, the Association for Molecular Pathology, and various individuals, including Ceriani.

The case was brought by a coalition of organisations including the American Civil Liberties Union against Myriad Genetics of Salt Lake City.

The groups opposing Myriad - the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) of New York - called the decision historic.

The American Civil Liberties Union sued on behalf of federal employees to block the online disclosure provisions; plaintiffs included 45 NIH researchers and other federal scientists.

The most prominent civil libertarian organization in the United States today is the American Civil Liberties Union.

«Those images reveal not only our private body parts but also intimate medical details like colostomy bags,» Barry Steinhardt of the American Civil Liberties Union says.

Figure 5 from the Hippensteel article, «Carbonate rocks and American Civil War infantry tactics.»

In the American Civil War, veterans suffered from «soldier's heart»; in World War I, it was called «shell shock,» and in World War II, the term used was «combat fatigue.»

For data he used a National Institutes of Health — funded database of American Civil War veteran records: an informational treasure trove containing details like height and weight at time of conscription, daily roll calls of the sick and injured, periodic postwar checkups, census data, and, often, death certificates.

Samuel Florman, an American civil engineer, has come up with some answers in The Existential Pleasures of Engineering (Souvenir Press, # 10.99, ISBN 0 285 63287 6).

«We view this system as having the potential of an invisible, all - pervasive invasion of Americans» privacy,» says Don Haines, a lawyer working for the American Civil Liberties Union in Washington DC.

DESPITE strong opposition from American civil liberties campaigners and even religious groups, the FBI can now eavesdrop on phone calls made on digital telephone systems.

The litigation is being carried forward by the Public Patent Foundation, headed by Daniel Ravicher, a patent attorney at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City, and the American Civil Liberties Union.

Meanwhile, attention may shift to a lawsuit filed against Cobb County on 21 August in U.S. District Court by the American Civil Liberties Union, calling the March agreement on textbook inserts unconstitutional, says biologist Sarah Pallas of Georgia State University in Atlanta.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Council for Responsible Genetics filed the suit on behalf of several prisoners who had resisted the forced testing.

She has since become an active member of the American Civil Liberties Union and a member of the Dover Area School Board.

The American Civil Liberties Union, a traditional opponent of surveillance, has cautiously embraced the technology.

Organisations hoping to ban gene patenting, such as the American Civil Liberties Union, are delighted by the DOJ's view.

In a twist, after the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) notified journalists of an upcoming press conference on the matter, Myriad reversed course and supplied the patients with the information they had requested in February.

It was probably responsible for stories that the wounds of some soldiers injured during the American civil war glowed in the dark (New Scientist, 9 June 2001, p 23).

That runaway growth may come at a serious cost, says Tania Simoncelli, a science and technology fellow with the American Civil Liberties Union.

The family tree they assembled shows the darker moments in recent human history; for example the massive waves of death during the American Civil War, World War I and World War II.

Strangio, a staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union's LGBT and AIDS Project, said that despite the community's advances, «the struggle is real and immediate» for many, especially transgender folks and immigrants.

The measure is supported by groups as varied as the American Civil Liberties Union on the left and the Virginia Tea Party Patriots Federation on the right.

On Saturday night, a federal judge in Brooklyn gave lawyers with the American Civil Liberties Union representing two Iraqi immigrants a partial stay of the president's order, preventing the deportation of some arrivals.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg called President Barack Obama's newly announced support for same - sex marriage «a major turning point in the history of American civil rights.»

Roberta Kaplan, a partner at the law firm Paul, Weiss, represented Windsor along with the American Civil Liberties Union and the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU).

In addition, the American Civil Liberties Union of N.C., the State Bar Association, and the N.C. League of Women Voters have expressed support for the bill.

The Council on American Islamic Relations and the American Civil Liberties Union have both launched legal challenges to the executive action.

The bill signing came shortly after the Iowa affiliates of Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union warned that they would sue the governor if she signed the bill, which the Republican - controlled Legislature approved during after - hours votes earlier in the week.

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Romney supported the American Civil Rights Movement while governor.

Gillibrand said she changed her position after meeting with the American Civil Liberties Union, which opposes the bill.

Also mounting good campaigns are talented candidates with good ideas like Brian Kavanagh, former chief - of - staff for Council Member Gale Brewer, and aide to former Mayors Ed Koch & David Dinkins; Chris Papajohn who served on the American Civil Liberties Union's committee on disability law when they discovered that U.S. Post Offices are often not accessible to people with disabilities; Gur Tsabar, an aide to Speaker Gifford Miller, is articulate and well - informed on many issues, and authored an editorial in the April 14 Town & Village newspaper about unjust redlining of disabled New Yorkers due to budget concerns; Darren Bloch, a former Con Ed spokesperson who is a member of Community Board 6, is well - versed on housing and homelessness issues.

The American Civil Liberties Union says the federal government is illegally detaining immigrant teens from Suffolk County, N.Y., in «jail - like facilities,» based on unsubstantiated claims that they are members of transnational street gangs.