West Coast Women's Legal Education & Action
Fund intervened in the case to argue that women's allegations of sexual misconduct must be taken seriously and require urgent action to protect the safety of patients while a complaint is under review.
Not exact matches
The Becket
Fund for Religious Liberty, which
intervened in the
case on behalf of the Knights of Columbus and other parties, has a press release about the
case here.
The BHA, which
intervened in the High Court
case against the school
in 2008 and
in the Court of Appeal, says the
case illuminates the wide discrimination
in admissions that state -
funded «faith schools» believe they are permitted to employ.
UC announced yesterday that it is the first research institution to seek to «
intervene,» or become a party
in the
case,
in which the government is appealing a lower court's ruling that National Institutes of Health (NIH)
funding to study human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) violates federal law.
During a congressional hearing
in May, she refused to cite a single example of a time when she thought it was appropriate for the federal government to
intervene in cases of discrimination by private schools receiving federal voucher
funds.
The Women's Legal Education and Action
Fund, which
intervened in the
case, hailed the Supreme Court decision for affirming legal protection for women who are vulnerable to sexual assault by predatory men.
West Coast LEAF (Women's Legal Education and Action
Fund)
intervened in the
case in coalition with the Community Legal Assistance Society (CLAS) at both the BCSC and BCCA levels to highlight the impact of harassment, removals and exclusions on the marginalized population of street homeless
in Vancouver and on the need for a flexible and contextual approach to proving discrimination
in human rights law.
West Coast Women's Legal Education and Action
Fund also
intervened in the
case to draw attention to what it termed the «gendered dimensions» of solitary confinement.