Civil lawyers for Zachary Cruz accused the Broward Sheriff's Office, prosecutors and the courts of «torturing» the teen and violating his civil rights «and engaging in an extortive campaign of intimidation because of the identity of his brother,» according to a press release.
Not exact matches
Obama graduated from Harvard Law School in 1991 and worked as a
civil rights
lawyer for a small Chicago firm.
Krasner: I have — like a lot of
civil rights
lawyers, like a lot of activists — been beating my head against the wall of the DA's office and the [Philadelphia] police department
for a long time because the DA's office in Philly was not enforcing the law against police.
Abzug's push
for Women's Equality Day was, in fact, far more symbolic than many of the more concrete policies she made a reality in her six years in Congress, not to mention in the two decades prior to her election, which she spent as a
lawyer fighting
for human rights and
civil rights.
A board member and spokesman
for the Quebec
civil lawyers» and notaries» union — Les avocats et notaires de l'État québécois, or LANEQ — he tried in vain in May to find members who were willing to share their first - hand experiences on the picket lines during their historic four - month general strike, the longest in Canadian public service history.
The American
Civil Liberties Union, the National Education Association, lawyers, legislators and judges have been similarly forced to deal with the issue because of the numerous bills and civil suits demanding equal time for creatio
Civil Liberties Union, the National Education Association,
lawyers, legislators and judges have been similarly forced to deal with the issue because of the numerous bills and
civil suits demanding equal time for creatio
civil suits demanding equal time
for creationism.
so that its Professors are oblig'd to call
for the help of the
Civil Power, it is a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one» (IV: 634) But we also hear of Luther Martin, Maryland's first
lawyer and a leading antifederalist.
Only an infantile
lawyer like Okudzeto Ablakwa would refuse to cut his losses as I did when he knows that governments in Ghana do not pay
for any fees associated with filing and prosecuting
civil cases except legal costs, damages, and other awards.
Given Lippman's political savvy, his initial budget proposal was a surprise in that he called
for essentially no trims and squeezed out $ 25 million to start a new program providing
lawyers to the poor in
civil cases.
A
civil rights
lawyer and advocate
for racial and social justice, Ms. Wiley joined the de Blasio administration in early 2014 to focus on legal issues as well as on the mayor's efforts to address issues of inequality.
The police department's press office
for decades shared such information willingly, but the administration's
lawyers have decided an obscure section of New York State's 1976
Civil Rights Law makes those revelations improper and illegal — or, in de Blasio's phrase today, «a bureacratic error.»
The former minister first came under investigation in 2013 after a human rights
lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), wrote a petition against her
for allegedly approving the purchase of two BMW vehicles worth N225m by the Nigerian
Civil Aviation Authority in breach of the Public Procurement Act.
Johnson defeated
civil rights
lawyer Yetta Kurland to win the Democratic nomination
for the seat.
Several veteran
lawyers who have read Section 107.3 of the
Civil Service Law, which prohibits state employees from allowing political donations in state facilities «occupied
for any governmental purpose,» say they warn or would advise their political clients to stay off the track
for fund - raising.
Sussman is a 1978 Honors Graduate of Harvard Law School and has been one of the Hudson Valley's most prominent
civil rights and trial
lawyers since the 1980's when, as lead counsel
for the Yonkers Branch of the NAACP, he helped end racial segregation in the City of Yonkers public schools.
Now, after a mistrial, a conviction and an exoneration,
lawyer John O'Hara is running
for Brooklyn
civil court judge.
Nearly a year after the federal Justice Department declined to bring
civil rights charges against a white police officer who fatally shot a black college student in Pleasantville, Westchester County in 2010, the victim's family has agreed to a $ 6 million settlement, a
lawyer for the family announced.
On Friday, Assistant US Attorney Thomas Perez, head of the
Civil Rights Division, sent a letter to
lawyers for the NYS Senate Majority saying that... Continue reading →
Despite getting flak from
civil rights advocates over his decision to veto bills that would have legalized specific kinds of pocket knives and offering more state funds to compensate
lawyers designated by the court to represent defendants who don't make enough money to afford a
lawyer for defense in a criminal case, people roared in applause throughout Cuomo's speech.
According to a December 2014 report by the Center
for NYC Neighborhoods and the
Lawyers Committee
for Civil Rights Under Law, more than 42,000 homeowners have been conned out of $ 100 million nationwide.
The protest is just the latest headache
for RBS which has been in the media spotlight
for nearly two weeks now as the fine print of Sir Fred's pension is pored over by
lawyers and
civil servants.
«We would like to thank Team Schneiderman
for producing an ad with a courtroom setting, which only serves to highlight that D.A. Donovan has spent the better part of the last 15 years prosecuting cases in actual courtrooms while State Senator Schneiderman was busy voting to raise taxes, proposing legislation to line trial
lawyers» pockets, voting against
civil confinement
for sex offenders and cutting deals to keep Pedro Espada and Hiram Monserrate in the majority fold in Albany,» Shapiro said.
These patients are left without recourse to pay
for care and suffering from a past mistake by a health care provider, the
civil suit
lawyers argue.
The Bar Association of Erie County Volunteer
Lawyers Project Inc. (VLP) is a 501 (c)(3) not
for profit corporation which provides free
civil legal services to low income individuals and small not -
for - profit groups in Erie County.
But in her motion challenging the EFCC's ex parte application, Mrs. Jonathan, through her
lawyers, argued that the EFCC's «Ex parte Originating Summons» was not one of the modes of commencement of action under Order 3, Rule 1 of the Federal High Court (
Civil Procedure Rules) 2009, and that it was not known or provided
for by any law or rules of court.
Rose Clouston, national coordinator at
Lawyers Committee
for Civil Rights Under Law, said her Washington - D.C. - based group received hundreds of calls from New York independents who did not understand why they couldn't vote Tuesday.
Rose Clouston, a national coordinator
for the Washington, D.C. - based
Lawyers Committee
for Civil Rights Under Law, said their «Election Protection» hotline — 1 (866) OUR VOTE — will be up and running 30 minutes before and 30 minutes after the polls open and close on Election Day.
Mayor Bill de Blasio today told the state's top judge that he believe the day is approaching when government will guarantee all citizens a
lawyer in
civil court cases — but said that the funding
for the attorneys will have to come from the federal level.
The American Foundation
for Equal Rights — with its attention - getting political odd couple of conservative Republican
lawyer Theodore Olson and liberal Democrat David Boies — will announce Monday it is joining a lawsuit against what the
lawyers called Virginia's «draconian» laws prohibiting same - sex marriages, the recognition of such marriages performed where they are legal, and
civil unions.
Taxpayers, meanwhile, are still footing the bill
for the $ 500 - an - hour
lawyer Silver hired to represent him in a
civil lawsuit brought by two victims of the former Brooklyn Assemblyman and Democratic powerbroker.
Prominent
lawyers,
civil rights groups and individuals, on Tuesday, faulted Buhari
for absolving the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr. Babachir Lawal, of allegations of corruption against him.
Bronx political observers have noted his political ties to Stanley Schlein, a
lawyer, lobbyist and powerful Bronx political insider who was found to be using his public office
for his private firm's work while he was chair of the New York City
Civil Service Commission.
She was also a staff attorney
for Brooklyn Legal Services, a
lawyer for the New York City Office of Labor Services, a
civil court judge and criminal court judge.
GOSHEN, N.Y. >> Orange County
civil rights
lawyer Michael Sussman says he'll seek the Green Party nomination to run
for state attorney general.
«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.
When I asked why Carlson didn't simply go to another dating service, her
lawyer evoked the image of Rosa Parks, noting that «nearly every step in
civil rights law, you could have said the same thing... There is a big difference between the sites that allow the customers to self - select who they are looking
for» and a site that makes the decision «to exclude a minority group.»
When Academy Award - winning actress Frances McDormand lit up Oscar night with her puzzling plea
for «inclusion riders,»
civil rights
lawyer Kalpana Kotagal was watching the Sunday evening event from the other side of the continent in Washington and...
The Lovings are assigned to ACLU attorney Bernie Cohen (Nick Kroll) and
civil rights
lawyer Philip Hirschkop (Jon Bass), who work pro bono
for the couple.
«Our movie is really about a working leader who must make tough decisions and get things done in the face of overwhelming opposition... [The film begins with] Lincoln's realization that the Emancipation Proclamation, the thing he is most known
for, was simply a war powers act that would easily be struck down by any number of
lawyers after the cessation of hostilities after the
Civil War.
After living
for more than thirty years under an assumed identity as a
civil rights
lawyer and single father in New York, he must now go on the run.
It's wonderful that the production team has revived a judicial action that is ultimately heroic, ground - shaking, celebrating the good work of the American
Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), its representative
lawyers noting that only one out of four hundred cases is even accepted
for review, i.e. certiorari.
When Richard consults a
civil - liberties
lawyer (Nick Kroll), he finds that there may be some legal hope
for them if they are willing to take on the system.
Roman is an office - bound
lawyer who does busywork
for his partner, a hero of the
civil - rights movement who's the face of their two - person firm.
Paired with young Jewish
lawyer Friedman in a segregationist court, he's forced to fight prejudice as he and Friedman work their case — which helped set the stage
for the future
Civil Rights Movement.
Currently, parents may choose a better school when their child's school fails to make AYP, but as the
Lawyers» Committee
for Civil Rights Under Law has called it, the choice option is «a right without a remedy.»
A
lawyer for the Education Department's office
for civil rights in San Francisco recently decided to help the University of California rewrite its course catalog, with the aim of deleting allegedly sexist language.
Americans
for a Fair Chance is a consortium of six of America's leading
civil rights legal organizations, including the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., National Partnership for Women & Families, and the National Women's Law Ce
civil rights legal organizations, including the
Lawyers Committee
for Civil Rights Under Law, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., National Partnership for Women & Families, and the National Women's Law Ce
Civil Rights Under Law, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., National Partnership
for Women & Families, and the National Women's Law Center.
Democrats
for Education Reform Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund The Education Trust
Lawyers» Committee
for Civil Rights Under Law The Leadership Conference on
Civil and Human Rights League of United Latin American Citizens MALDEF (the Mexican American League Defense and Education Fund) Mental Health America NAACP NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc..
Advocacy Institute American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations American Association of University Women (AAUW) American
Civil Liberties Union American Federation of Teachers Autism National Committee (AutCom) Center
for American Progress Action Fund Center
for Law and Education Children's Defense Fund Collaboration to Promote Self - Determination (CPSD) Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates, Inc. (COPPA) Democrats
for Education Reform Easter Seals The Education Trust Educators
for Excellence Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN) The
Lawyers» Committee
for Civil Rights Under Law The Leadership Conference on
Civil and Human Rights League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) Mental Health America NAACP NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc..
Lawyers for the American
Civil Liberties Union went before a federal appeals court last week in an effort to stop what they say is an unconstitutional system of sex - segregated classes at a southern Louisiana school.