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Phyllis McClure, a director of the Legal Defense Fund who presented the report to the state board of education, said that6school...

You might also consider getting involved with organizations like the Weston A. Price Foundation and the Farm - to - Consumer Legal Defense Fund who are working toward true freedom of choice for American consumers.

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• Speaking of Time's Up... Attorney Tina Tchen, who Bloomberg describes as «arguably the most well - connected person working in women's rights today, thanks to her six years as an assistant to President Barack Obama and as first lady Michelle Obama's chief of staff,» talks about why it was so important that Time's Up include a legal defense fund: «The fastest way to make sure that someone isn't getting bullied by a lawyer for someone rich and powerful is to make sure that person has a lawyer, too.»

We spoke with the head of that coalition, a student who feels being Asian hurt his college application, and an NAACP Legal Defense Fund lawyer to try to settle the debate.

According to a December 1 Reuters article, Arthur and Kathleen Breitman, the married couple who founded the embattled blockchain firm Tezos, want to use proceeds from the company's token offering to fund their legal defense.

Until the IRS sorts out who can authorize church audits, churches are left in limbo, said Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) senior legal counsel Erik Stanley.

Weiner was the only NY delegation member who gave cash to scandal - scarred Rep. Charlie Rangel's legal defense fund.

Nabozny, with the help of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, won a landmark federal lawsuit (and eventually settled for close to $ 1 million) against school administrators in his home state of Wisconsin who failed to a spate of stop brutal anti-gay bullying at his school of which he was the target.

Other commission members were Scott P. Campbell, executive director of the Elton John AIDS Foundation; Rose Harvey, commissioner of the State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation; Thomas Krever, CEO of the Hetrick - Martin Institute; Kelsey Louie, CEO of Gay Men's Health Crisis; Christine Quinn, the former City Council speaker who is now CEO of Women in Need; Melissa Sklarz, development director at the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund; and Glennda Testone, executive director of the LGBT Community Center.

The governor announced he's putting together a public - private legal defense fund to help immigrants who can't afford their own defense if they are targeted by the federal government.

«We will be putting together a public - private legal defense fund to provide immigrants who can't afford their own defense,» Cuomo said.

Former Sen. Nick Spano, who pleaded guilty to a federal tax - evasion charge, used campaign funds to pay for his legal defense.

Legislative Ethics Commission Commissioner John J. Nigro, who had been active with the Joe Bruno Legal Defense Fund before Bruno's conviction Dec. 7, is continuing his support as the former Republican leader awaits sentencing for two fraud convictions.

Those who are part of the Skelos Family Legal Defense Fund will not let that happen to Dean and Adam Skelos.

«I'm not part of the establishment,» said Gagarin, who now works in media relations for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.

A legal defense fund created in 2009 is to receive $ 564,547; Bruno's company, Capital Business Consultants, will get $ 50,358, and two lawyers who worked on his second trial — E. Stewart Jones and William Dreyer — will be paid $ 51,228 and $ 188,742, respectively.

The Skelos Family Legal Defense Fund was formed to help Dean and his family stand up and defeat those who place their own ambition ahead of justice.

It was not clear who requested the conflicts board to render an opinion on the legal defense fund, though a source told the Daily News the query came from an unnamed elected official.

Dr. Piontkovski's case was taken up by the international scientific community, human rights advocates, and friends and colleagues, who organized letter - writing campaigns, shared information on a special website set up for the purpose, and began raising funds for his legal defense.

More and more activists who deny climate change are asking for e-mail records from climate scientists, prompting calls for a legal defense fund

Indeed, the assault against communitybased food has gotten so violent in recent years that the international Weston A. Price Foundation has founded the Farm - To - Consumer Legal Defense Fund to provide pro-bono real - time legal counsel for farmers like me who routinely face government violLegal Defense Fund to provide pro-bono real - time legal counsel for farmers like me who routinely face government viollegal counsel for farmers like me who routinely face government violence.

We are asking people who believe in our collective herbal heritage and knowledge and who wish to help preserve our herbal traditions, to make a difference by helping to lift the trademark by supporting our legal defense fund.

Keep in mind that all funds raised from this auction will benefit the TIME»S UP Legal Defense Fund, which helps individuals who face workplace sexual harassment connect with legal representation and PR assistLegal Defense Fund, which helps individuals who face workplace sexual harassment connect with legal representation and PR assistlegal representation and PR assistance.

The Time's Up initiative, unveiled on New Year's Day and signed on by 300 prominent Hollywood women, is designed to address gender inequity in the workplace and provide a legal defense fund for women who have suffered sexual harassment or assault, but its first big impact was seen at Sunday's Golden Globes ceremony, where virtually every woman attending wore black..

Horne v. Flores AFC, along with the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, filed a «friend of the court» brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in Horne v. Flores urging that the requirements in the Equal Education Opportunity Act (EEOA) continue to protect students who do not speak English and are not diminished by the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB).

UTLA's reason cited the $ 75,000 donation of Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, who sits on the board of the KIPP Foundation, to Rodriguez's legal defense fund.

2) While you're at it, don't forget to support the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, which helps protect retailers who are brave enough to carry work that some in their communities might consider offensive.

As Stephen Wells, executive director of the Animal Legal Defense Fund, tells TulsaPets Magazine, «Animals don't vote, but those who advocate for them do.

Salzer v. King Kong Zoo The Animal Legal Defense Fund is assisting in legal representation of several North Carolina residents who filed a lawsuit against King Kong Zoo for violating the state's animal crueltyLegal Defense Fund is assisting in legal representation of several North Carolina residents who filed a lawsuit against King Kong Zoo for violating the state's animal crueltylegal representation of several North Carolina residents who filed a lawsuit against King Kong Zoo for violating the state's animal cruelty law.

In connecting with the compassionate people who make the Animal Legal Defense Fund's work possible, Ofra shares her passion for protecting animals.

That's why the Animal Legal Defense Fund is celebrating some of our nation's most important animal advocates during National Justice for Animals Week — the prosecutors and other law enforcement professionals who have let it be known that animal abuse will not be tolerated in their communities.

Joining the Animal Legal Defense Fund is the fulfillment of a long - time dream for Elizabeth, who went to law school for the sole purpose of protecting animals through the legal syLegal Defense Fund is the fulfillment of a long - time dream for Elizabeth, who went to law school for the sole purpose of protecting animals through the legal sylegal system.

Norm Clasen will be contributing a portion of the profits from this show to the APA, (American Photographic Artists) for their copyright defense fund to «help defray legal costs for photographers everywhere who have been affected by artistic piracy.»

«The Climate Science Legal Defense Fund dovetails with the mission of PEER — to protect those who protect our environment,» stated PEER executive Director Jeff Ruch.

At the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund, we've assisted well - meaning researchers who inadvertently put themselves at risk and encountered problems when they forayed into activism.

Among those who became Pew Fellows in 1992 is a lawyer named Victor Sher who is described as «the former president of the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund» and Jane Lubchenco — who now heads the US government's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (see more about her activist ties here).

Furthermore, the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund views the malicious and fraudulent manner in which the Climatic Research Unit documents were obtained and / or thereafter disseminated, as well as the repeated blogs about them, as providing the basis for civil actions against those who obtained and / or disseminated them and blogged about them.

In 2011, Dicaprio joined the Animal Legal Defense Fund's battle to free Tony, a tiger who has used the most recent decade at the Tiger Truck Stop in Grosse Tete, Louisiana.

The Climate Science Legal Defense Fund (CLSDF), a non-profit organization based in New York City, provides free support and resources to scientists who are dragged into litigation or otherwise threatened with legal attacks and harassment by politically and ideologically motivated grLegal Defense Fund (CLSDF), a non-profit organization based in New York City, provides free support and resources to scientists who are dragged into litigation or otherwise threatened with legal attacks and harassment by politically and ideologically motivated grlegal attacks and harassment by politically and ideologically motivated groups.

Greenberg was one of the lawyers, along with Thurgood Marshall, who argued Brown v. Board of Education before the Supreme Court in 1954, when he was assistant counsel to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (and Marshall was its chief counsel).

TIME»S UP Legal Defense Fund will help defray legal and public relations costs in select cases for those who have experienced sexual harassment or related retaliation in the workpLegal Defense Fund will help defray legal and public relations costs in select cases for those who have experienced sexual harassment or related retaliation in the workplegal and public relations costs in select cases for those who have experienced sexual harassment or related retaliation in the workplace.

February 6, 2017 — «The Utah Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice is seeking $ 1.5 million in one - time funding to support legal defense for Utahns who can't afford it.