In our October 22, 2010 post, we reported on the New York Court of Appeals» decision in Flemming v. Barnwell Nursing, which denied awarding attorney's fees to a class action settlement
objector whose efforts helped reduce requested class counsel fees of $ 448,000 down to $ 425,000 in a $ 950,000 settlement.
Plaintiff in a more recent class action says class members should receive refunds from Massage Envy, while a Denver attorney, labeled a «serial
objector» by lawyers seeking millions, says their fee request is too high.
@NateEldredge: There is a «Conscientious
Objector» which allows those with religious or moral reasons for objecting to fighting in a war.
He was awarded the Medal of Honor (first for
an objector) and refused to carry a fire arm or weapon of any kind in combat conditions.
If the plan does not relate to a bargaining unit and a review officer effected a settlement under subsection (1) with the agreement of
the objector who filed the objection under subsection 15 (7), only an employee or group of employees to whom the plan applies, other than
the objector, may file an objection.
Statutory
objector becomes remaining
objector.
The requirement for
an objector to submit a statement in advance is extended to all inquiries.
In the case of military conscription, someone who does not serve due to a moral opposition to war in general (and not just a particular war) is called a conscientious
objector and in most countries, is usually allowed to perform alternative mandatory government service in lieu of military service if conscripted.
Local boards and courts are to decide whether
the objector's beliefs are sincerely held and whether they are, in his own scheme of things, religious; they are not to require proof of the religious doctrines, nor are they to reject beliefs because they are not comprehensible.
The significance of this is that the conscientious
objector clause flouts the Establishment Clause by specifically giving preferential treatment to beliefs founded on a theistic belief, but not a non-theistic belief.
Ninth Circuit Requires Reexamination of Fee Denial to
Objector's Counsel and Fee Award to Class Counsel.
The WWII era conscious
objector cases held that the CO exception to military service is not limited to governmentally - approved religions, but as a general rule, the courts have not ruled that you can simply claim to have a religious belief which is being infringed on and thereby be excempt from the law.
It may be that there is no title to an area on which turbines or PV panels need to be placed and this prompts a challenge by
an objector.
Objections to a company's registered name (because it is the same as one in which
the objector has goodwill or is so like such a name that it is likely to mislead) are to be determined under the Companies Act 2006 (CA 2006), ss 69 and 70 which come into force on 1 October 2008.
«My understanding is that there is pretty much unanimous agreement except for Canada and Australia, but Canada is the major
objector,» said an anonymous source.Worse yet, the tactic has been attributed to Stephen Harper's own «strong personal view.»
You can not overcome these simple complexities by invoking increasingly complex solutions that you hope will dazzle
the objector.
Having said that, the term deliberate irrational
objector can be manipulated to lead thoughts away from the intended description of the person, to make it seem disparaging or unfair.
«There was one serious conscientious
objector in the Bush / Obama era — Bidder 70, who disrupted an auction of public property for fossil fuel exploitation.
Newman's letter to the Selective Service Board requesting classification as a conscientious
objector, 1942
Sanger was a) German - born, b) too old for U.S. military service and c) would have refused to serve as a conscientious
objector if drafted.
Registered as a conscientious
objector in World War II, Heron worked as an agricultural labourer in Cambridgeshire before he was signed off for ill health.
The chapbook «Chronic
Objector» was released by Miniature Garden Spring 2017.
I had been involved in a lot of antiwar and protest demonstrations and had tried to be a conscientious
objector, so I was able to check off a lot of boxes including the NAACP and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
«Public Fiction: The Conscientious
Objector» with Lucy McKenzie, Mathias Poledna MAK Center, Schindler House, Los Angeles through 15 April, 2018 www.makcenter.org
Todd Gray presents an ongoing durational performance in the exhibition Public Fiction: The Conscientious
Objector at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, West Hollywood curated by Francesca Bertolotti - Bailey and Lauren Mackler through April 15th, 2018.
In 2018, Gray's work was included in Public Fiction: the Conscientious
Objector at the MAK Center for Art & Architecture in Los Angeles where he directed a new durational performance delivered by professional actors, and upcoming, a number of Gray's works are included in the major summer group exhibition Michael Jackson: On the Wall at London's National Portrait Gallery, travelling to the Grand Palais Paris, and the Kunstmusem Bonn through 2019.
A pacifist, Glankoff left the United States in 1917 for Cuba as a conscientious
objector to World War I.
The Conscientious
Objector at the Schindler House presents new and existing works by Sam Gilliam, Anthea Hamilton, Lucy McKenzie, Dianna Molzan, and Suki Seokyeong Kang, plus a new durational performance delivered by professional actors and directed by Todd Gray.
Hockney was born in Bradford, England, to Laura and Kenneth Hockney (a conscientious
objector in the Second World War), the fourth of five children.
His chronic asthma would have excluded him from military service, but he insisted on registering as a conscientious
objector and worked as an agricultural labourer for three years until doctors ordered him to desist.
A conscientious
objector to the Vietnam War, Eugene Richards joined VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) in 1968 and found himself working in a community service organization in eastern Arkansas.
[1] Charles Shaw, «A Word to
the Objector,» American Abstract Artists 1938.
Take, for example, one of The Chinese Room's earliest games, 2008's Conscientious
Objector, an experimental mod for Doom 3 that strips down its original environment and funnels the player through its first three levels without the act of killing.
However, on the railways one of the few jobs that remained «protected» (meaning that men could choose to stay in these jobs instead of joining up, and wouldn't be penalised by the government for being a contentious
objector) were train drivers.
You can be a brilliant moral philosopher with a prizewinning doctoral thesis expounding the evils of war, and still be given a hard time by a draft board evaluating your claim to be a conscientious
objector.
By far the easiest grounds for gaining conscientious
objector status in wartime are religious.
Ford and Chevrolet are once again engaged in muscle car wars — but Dodge seems to be playing the role of conscientious
objector.
As someone who has been a conscientious
objector of high stakes standardized tests and is actively involved in the opt out campaign in our state, the decoupling of standardized tests scores from the teacher evaluation does not get at the root of the issues.
Conscientious
Objector 6.
What is a conscientious
objector?
SYNOPSIS: The World War II movie Hacksaw Ridge, which tells the story of a conscientious
objector, Desmond Doss, who achieved heroic feats on the battlefield as a medic despite not carrying a -LSB-...]
Garfield netted his first Oscar nomination for his portrayal of conscientious
objector and Medal of Honor winner Desmond Doss in Hacksaw Ridge.
This HBO drama about Muhammad Ali's court case over his conscientious
objector status is surprisingly inert.
A powerhouse cast is featured in a dramatic film about the legal battle over whether to find in favor of the boxing champ in his appeal for conscientious
objector status in the military draft.
The adulterer in question is Ginger's father Roland (Alessandro Nivola), a left - wing academic who spent time in prison as a conscientious
objector.
The Trials of Muhammad Ali (Unrated) Conscientious
objector documentary revisiting disgraced Heavyweight Champ Muhammad Ali's legal battle to overturn his five - year sentence for refusing to serve in Vietnam because «Ain't no Viet Cong ever call me [N - word].»
Lew Ayres, who starred in the classic 1931 anti-war film (and Best Picture Academy Award winner), «All Quiet on the Western Front,» was so affected by that movie, he became a conscientious
objector and served as a medic in World War II (and was later to earn a Best Actor nomination for «Johnny Belinda»).
Hacksaw Ridge has some pretentious moments, but they're redeemable thanks to Andrew Garfield's amazing performance as conscientious
objector, Desmond Doss.
Seeing how army medic and conscientious
objector Desmond Doss managed to be both hero and pacifist under such fire makes for a powerful movie, especially in its second half.
An intellectual imprisoned for his beliefs (a conscientious
objector during the War), the period transforms the man into a philosophizer, a deep thinker and further, an unfaithful lothario.