Sentences with phrase «court justice project»

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A three - judge panel rejected the appeal by Anthem, and the Department of Justice blocked their merger in the U.S. District Court noting the projected effect of the merger on competition in the market.

Yet after covertly helping civil rights groups set up a well - funded Voter Education Project in 1961, the administration failed to provide the protection that activists required if they were to survive the intimidation of segregationists and what passed for justice in southern courts.

Opponents of the proposed 23 - story Queen City Landing on Lake Erie won a victory in state Supreme Court, with Justice Catherine Nugent Panepinto allowing their case against the project to continue.

«This is why it is so important, especially now, to ensure funding for programs like the Vera Institute of Justice's New York Immigrant Family Unity Project so that immigrants facing deportation have a fair day in court.

A Supreme Court justice stalled Phase II of the Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn, ordering an updated environmental review that includes public hearings.

Justice Chuka A. Obiozor of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Thursday, May 17, 2018, ordered a temporary forfeiture of some properties worth N1.8 bn allegedly belonging to Tuoyo Omatsuli, Executive Director, Projects, Niger Delta Development Commission, NNDC, to the Federal Government.

In a letter to the board read at the hearing by Averill Geus, Stephen Grossman, who lost a bid for town justice on Election Day, also supported Project MOST, questioning an expenditure of $ 80,000 for security at the town court «while underfunding or not funding preschool care.»

The Federal Government has been dragged to the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice in Abuja by the Registered Trustees of the Socio - Economic Rights and Accountability Project...

If elected Sotomayor, who grew up in a Bronx housing project, would be the first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice along with the first Bronx - born Justice.

Mindful of the interest the state has in the project, however, the court, presided over by Mr Justice Kofi Akrowia, said it could not grant a permanent injunction to restrain all work on the project until the final determination of the case.

Mr Justice Akrowia warned that should the defendants fail to take advantage of that leeway offered by the court, the injunction would then become permanent and the whole gas project would be brought to a resounding standstill.

The New Scientific Whale Research Program in the Antarctic Ocean replaces a similar project halted by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague last March.

Pollie Shorthouse, Executive Director, NCCL said: «The professional environment of the Royal Courts of Justice is an ideal venue for this project and allows pupils to learn more about crime and punishment and the legal system as they explore real courtrooms.

In addition to the usual dorm counselors that can help students adjust to college life, Stanford University has created the Resilience Project, where prominent people, including former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, tell their stories of failure.

Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor says that federal mandates are squeezing some subjects out of the curriculum, and she is working on a project that has a goal of restoring one of them: civics education.

This innovative legal education project is delivered by the National Centre for Citizenship and the Law (NCCL) who have an education team based at the Royal Courts of Justice in London.

Yesterday, the director of Journey for Justice Alliance, Jitu Brown — alongside other civil rights groups including the NAACP, the Advancement Project, American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association — held a press conference on the steps of the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C..

The Supreme Court, in its 2003 Grutter v. Bollinger decision upholding affirmative action, and in Justice Breyer's dissent (joined by three other Justices) to its 2007 Parents Involved in Community Schools decision, cited the Civil Rights Project's research.

Multnomah County Library's Everybody Reads 2014, the library's 12th annual community reading project began today with the distribution of thousands of copies of My Beloved World by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to schools and libraries.

A coalition of environmental organizations took their case to the High Court of Justice, arguing that the public and government bodies should be given at least 90 days to submit comments on the new law (the same amount of time the new law gives the planning system to discuss and approve large construction projects).

Chief Justice Heather Smith of the Superior Court of Justice echoed Chief Justice Winkler's dismay that the Unified Family Court pilot project had still not been extended across the province, after 35 years.

Focused on collecting stories from Nova Scotians about their experiences with legal services and the justice system, the project brings together NSBS, the Nova Scotia Department of Justice, the Courts of Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Legal Aid, the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie, the Nova Scotia branch of the Canadian Bar Association and a public represenjustice system, the project brings together NSBS, the Nova Scotia Department of Justice, the Courts of Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Legal Aid, the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie, the Nova Scotia branch of the Canadian Bar Association and a public represenJustice, the Courts of Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Legal Aid, the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie, the Nova Scotia branch of the Canadian Bar Association and a public representative.

This week on the legal - affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we discuss this pioneering project with John Davidow, the WBUR.org executive editor who helped WBUR win a $ 250,000 grant from the Knight News Challenge to launch the project, and Judge Mark S. Coven, presiding justice at Quincy District Court, where the project will be based.

One of the papers outlined the EU Court of Justice terminology project with its multi lingual comparative vocabulary.

The University of Virginia School of Law has launched the Gorsuch Project, a website devoted to the career of Neil Gorsuch, US President Donald Trump's nominee to fill the vacancy left on the US Supreme Court by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in 2016:

The creation of three designated broadcast rooms — for the provincial, superior, and appeal court — is part of a pilot project designed by the province's three chief justices and intended to «create a comfort level» with media in order to facilitate coverage of cases that have strong public interest and educational aspects.

During the hearing, two judges apologized «if the building exceeded legislative intent» and Florida Supreme Court Justice Charles Canady promised to issue an order that would require closer scrutiny of future capital projects for courts.

His collaboration with Scalia grew out of his earlier project, in which he interviewed eight of the nine Supreme Court justices about legal writing and advocacy and posted the interviews online.

University of Michigan Online Court Project Technology - Aided Access to Justice through Online Dispute Resolution

MontanaLawHelp.org is a project of Montana Legal Services Association and several collaborators, including the Legal Services Corporation, the Montana Justice Foundation, the Montana Credit Unions for Community Development, State of Montana Law Library, the State Bar of Montana, and the Montana Supreme Court.

She said Alberta needs to do more on the justice side of the issue akin to projects in Ontario that provide four hours of free legal advice for anyone who has experienced sexual violence and is considering going to the criminal courts.

Most recently, she was a legal intern at the Montana Supreme Court where she worked for Justice Beth Baker on Access to Justice Commission projects, including the Public Forum Series on access to justice issues as well as drafting a Forum Report summarizing the findings of that series to use in future advocacy eJustice Beth Baker on Access to Justice Commission projects, including the Public Forum Series on access to justice issues as well as drafting a Forum Report summarizing the findings of that series to use in future advocacy eJustice Commission projects, including the Public Forum Series on access to justice issues as well as drafting a Forum Report summarizing the findings of that series to use in future advocacy ejustice issues as well as drafting a Forum Report summarizing the findings of that series to use in future advocacy efforts.

Additional participants included members of the national project team, and representatives from the Alaska Court System and Justice for All project, Alaska Legal Services Corporation, United Way / 211, the Alaska public library system and the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, among other groups.

Phase 1 of the e-filing project enables documents that initiate a civil proceeding in the Superior Court of Justice to be issued online and to be paid online.

The Massachusetts Probate and Family Court, together with the Massachusetts Justice Project and others, today announced the launch of an online resource designed to help self - represented litigants more easily complete court forms in Massachusetts child support cCourt, together with the Massachusetts Justice Project and others, today announced the launch of an online resource designed to help self - represented litigants more easily complete court forms in Massachusetts child support ccourt forms in Massachusetts child support cases.

We have begun to spread word about the project to various justice system stakeholders and potential client referral sources, including legal clinics, court workers and Legal Aid Alberta.

[1] For recent discussions on self - represented litigants and the justice system, see e.g. Julie Macfarlane, The National Self - Represented Litigants Project: Identifying and Meeting the Needs of Self - Represented Litigants, Final Report (May 2013); Trevor C. W. Farrow et al., Addressing the Needs of Self - Represented Litigants in the Canadian Justice System, a White Paper prepared for the Association of Canadian Court Administrators (ACCA)(Toronto and Edmonton: ACCA, Marchjustice system, see e.g. Julie Macfarlane, The National Self - Represented Litigants Project: Identifying and Meeting the Needs of Self - Represented Litigants, Final Report (May 2013); Trevor C. W. Farrow et al., Addressing the Needs of Self - Represented Litigants in the Canadian Justice System, a White Paper prepared for the Association of Canadian Court Administrators (ACCA)(Toronto and Edmonton: ACCA, MarchJustice System, a White Paper prepared for the Association of Canadian Court Administrators (ACCA)(Toronto and Edmonton: ACCA, March 2012).

Integrated Justice Project: In the late 1990s, the Ministry of the Attorney General and a consortium of private sector partners, headed by IBM, announced the creation of the Integrated Justice Project (IJP), a project designed to place the Ontario court system at the forefront of electronic technology worProject: In the late 1990s, the Ministry of the Attorney General and a consortium of private sector partners, headed by IBM, announced the creation of the Integrated Justice Project (IJP), a project designed to place the Ontario court system at the forefront of electronic technology worProject (IJP), a project designed to place the Ontario court system at the forefront of electronic technology worproject designed to place the Ontario court system at the forefront of electronic technology worldwide.

The Committee is also working on the «Least Understood Branch» project, reviewing state court funding, and the Committee is focusing on Justice Is the Business of Government Task Force along with the National Center for State Courts.

In response to the Jordan decision, Williams, through her work on the province's Criminal Justice Transformation Group, helped launch a pilot project that encourages prosecutors in the Halifax area to find speedy and appropriate resolution of less serious crimes, freeing up time in court for more serious and complex matters.

For instance, one report, entitled Human Rights at Home: Miami's Housing Crisis and its Perpetuation of Poverty, analyzed raw data collected by Legal Services of Greater Miami and the Community Justice Project to show how Florida's rent deposit statute disparately impacts low - income people's ability to defend themselves: even if a tenant has a sudden financial hardship to overcome or alleges legitimate concerns about housing conditions, that tenant must deposit all the unpaid rent into the court to even have the dispute heard.

OSCAR — Online System for Court Attendance Reservations — originally released in October 2007 as a pilot project in cooperation with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Toronto; it is expected to expand to other courts in the near future.

Professor Richard Myers, in a piece entitled Restoring the Peers in the «Bulwark»: Blakely V. Washington and the Court's Jury Project, 83 North Carolina Law Review 1383 (June 2005), explores the reasons why a seemingly unusual coalition of Justices came together to champion jury trial rights in Apprendi and Blakely and Booker.

The Helpline is a project of TLSC and is sponsored by the Children's Commission of the Texas Supreme Court, The Children's Justice Act, and the Texas Access to Justice Foundation.

That has led the European Union, together with Allen & Overy and Leiden University, to produce guidance for lawyers and investors working in the region on the workings of EAC law, with the project being overseen by the president of the EAC's Court of Justice, as well as academics and law firms.

Today, under Chief Justice Nicole Duval - Hesler, the Court of Appeal continues to take a great interest in this project.

In a press release from the Supreme Court of B.C., Chief Justice Robert Bauman said although the project is designed to improve matters, it can not «guarantee that every member on the assize list will be heard» and counsel «must be available to proceed on short notice during the assize week.»

Not surprisingly, Free Law Project's listing is more thorough for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

The other winners were: Legal Aid Newcomer — Tom Royston, Garden Court North; Legal Aid Barrister — Philip Rule, No5 Chambers; Family Private (inc Mediation)-- Mary Shaw, David Gray Solicitors; Family Public — Sheila Donn, Philcox Gray Solicitors; Social & Welfare — Stuart Luke, Bhatia Best; Public Law — Keith Lomax, Minton Morrill Solicitors; Criminal Defence — Graeme Hydari, Hodge, Jones & Allen; Children's Rights — Solange Valdez - Symonds, Project for the Registration of Children as British Citizens / Migrant Resource Centre; Legal Aid Firm / Not - for - profit Agency — Community Law Partnership; and Access to Justice through IT — Advicenow, Law for Life.

Even the judiciary have become embroiled in the debate, heavily criticising many of the Lord Chancellor's decisions, and in doing so upholding and facilitating access to justice (see R (on the application of London Criminal Courts Solicitors Association) v Lord Chancellor [2014] EWHC 3020 (Admin), [2014] All ER (D) 145 (Sep); and R (on the application of the Public Law Project) v Secretary of State for Justice [2014] EWHC 2365 (Admin), [2015] 2 All Ejustice (see R (on the application of London Criminal Courts Solicitors Association) v Lord Chancellor [2014] EWHC 3020 (Admin), [2014] All ER (D) 145 (Sep); and R (on the application of the Public Law Project) v Secretary of State for Justice [2014] EWHC 2365 (Admin), [2015] 2 All EJustice [2014] EWHC 2365 (Admin), [2015] 2 All ER 689).