Sentences with phrase «veterans justice court»

As the first judge of the Veterans Justice Court, Ross has helped military veterans obtain housing, mental health, drug treatment, and employment services that often resulted in their criminal charges being dismissed or substantially reduced.

She founded the highly acclaimed Veterans Justice Court and helped to reduce truancy in schools by co-founding the Truancy Action Partnership.

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President Barack Obama has announced he is nominating veteran appeals court judge Merrick Garland to be the next US Supreme Court Juscourt judge Merrick Garland to be the next US Supreme Court JusCourt Justice.

The DA will continue to support the local Drug Treatment Courts and the Veterans» Court in Buffalo, which operate within the criminal justice system to engage low - level non-violent offenders in long - term treatment programs and to thereby return them successfully as contributing members of their families and the community.

Other potential Republican or Conservative candidates are William Ferris, a Navy veteran and former prosecutor; Robert Biancavilla, top homicide prosecutor in Spota's office; John Halverson, a private practice attorney and former county prosecutor; Edward Friedland, district executive of the U.S. District Court in Manhattan; Andrew Crecca, a state Supreme Court justice and former county legislator; and Patrick O'Connell, a former prosecutor who is in private law practice with Suffolk County Conservative chairman Frank Tinari.

On May 12, 2016, Judge McMahon tells Pulizotto that Justice Ozzi will not sit on Veterans Court «in her building.»

The SAMSHA grant, totaling $ 971,736 over a three - year period, will also support personnel, training and other needs related to the development of a peer mentor initiative to help military veterans enrolled in the County's drug treatment court programs re-adjust to civilian life and get back on track, as well as efforts to increase participation rates in court - mandated treatment programs among justice - involved veterans.

BY ANDY HUMM Justice Doris Ling - Cohan, a distinguished 20 - year veteran of the State Supreme Court bench and a hero to the LGBT community for her historic 2005 ruling in favor of same - sex marriage, was put through the ringer in recent weeks by a deeply flawed process of the New York County Democratic Party for nominating -LSB-...]

«The Bronx has never had it so good on so many levels of government: an Assembly Speaker (Heastie), a judiciary committee chair (Dinowitz), a Council Speaker candidate (Torres), a US Supreme Court Justice (Sotomayor), and Independent Democratic Conference leader state Sen. Jeff Klein,» one party insider was overheard telling an organization veteran.

And the final nominee for original song is «Stand Up for Something,» Common and Andra Day's proud (if vague) message song — co-written by Common (aka Lonnie R. Lynn) and veteran songwriter Diane Warren — from «Marshall,» which dramatizes the early career of Thurgood Marshall, the first black Supreme Court justice.

In 1991, after veteran Justice Thurgood Marshall announced his intention to retire, President George H.W. Bush nominated Clarence Thomas (played by Wendell Pierce) for the Supreme Court.

Outgoing AALS president Paul Marcus of the William & Mary Law School organized the opening plenary on access to justice where he was joined by Cara Drinan of Catholic University of America's Columbus School of Law, Associate Justice S. Bernard Goodwyn of the Virginia Supreme Court, veteran legal aid attorney and former executive director of Bay Area Legal Aid Alex Gulotta, and Legal Services Corporation vice chair and former Harvard Law School dean Marthajustice where he was joined by Cara Drinan of Catholic University of America's Columbus School of Law, Associate Justice S. Bernard Goodwyn of the Virginia Supreme Court, veteran legal aid attorney and former executive director of Bay Area Legal Aid Alex Gulotta, and Legal Services Corporation vice chair and former Harvard Law School dean MarthaJustice S. Bernard Goodwyn of the Virginia Supreme Court, veteran legal aid attorney and former executive director of Bay Area Legal Aid Alex Gulotta, and Legal Services Corporation vice chair and former Harvard Law School dean Martha Minow.

Exploring the Veterans Treatment Court Experience: Collateral Consequences, Treatment Satisfaction, Procedural Justice, and Legitimacy

NADCP welcomes the public, Drug Court, Veterans Treatment Court, DWI Court, Mental Health Court, Family Drug Court professionals and other problem - solving courts, including justice system, alcohol and drug treatment, and mental health treatment professionals.

Arizona HB 2457 amends an existing law authorizing the creation of homeless courts in the state's lower tier criminal courts (Justice and Municipal) to include the creation of «veterans court and mental health court» divisions.

Another bill, SB 5129 introduced in 2013 and carried over into 2014 specifically authorizes veterans» courts established by the Chief Justice, but has never been heard in committee.

NADCP membership is open to the public; professionals working in drug court, DWI Court, veterans treatment court and mental health court; and other justice system, alcohol / drug treatment, and mental health treatment professiocourt, DWI Court, veterans treatment court and mental health court; and other justice system, alcohol / drug treatment, and mental health treatment professioCourt, veterans treatment court and mental health court; and other justice system, alcohol / drug treatment, and mental health treatment professiocourt and mental health court; and other justice system, alcohol / drug treatment, and mental health treatment professiocourt; and other justice system, alcohol / drug treatment, and mental health treatment professionals.

The lawsuit, filed by the Alliance for Justice, the National Veterans Legal Services Program and the National Consumer Law Center, claims that the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts is violating the E-Government Act of 2002, which mandates that the fees to access court records online can not exceed the amount needed to maintain the system itself.

I promised at the beginning of this podcast that I want to talk about our member benefit initiative, just as voting and veterans and education are very basic, that's how we feel about member benefits, and we are going to be looking back to basics that the ABA does incredible things for access to justice for the legal community, for the court system, but we are going to also do incredible things for our members and potential members.

Examinations of Procedural Justice and Treatment Satisfaction in Veterans Treatment Court - Richard Hartley, University of Texas at San Antonio; Julie Baldwin, Missouri State University

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At Scarinci Hollenbeck, our veteran appellate practitioners, some who were law clerks to Appellate Judges and N.J. Supreme Court Justices, have gained an intimate knowledge of the appellate process that trial lawyers, who may only occasionally be involved in an appeal, do not possess.

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«Justices signal dismay at Texas; Decision to hear capital cases may suggest high court questions handling»: The Dallas Morning News today contains an article that begins, «The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear three Texas death penalty cases in its new term, a move that veteran court watchers called the latest signal of the court's increasing frustration with how condemned inmates» appeals are handled by Texas» highest criminal judges and the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.&rcourt questions handling»: The Dallas Morning News today contains an article that begins, «The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear three Texas death penalty cases in its new term, a move that veteran court watchers called the latest signal of the court's increasing frustration with how condemned inmates» appeals are handled by Texas» highest criminal judges and the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.&rCourt has agreed to hear three Texas death penalty cases in its new term, a move that veteran court watchers called the latest signal of the court's increasing frustration with how condemned inmates» appeals are handled by Texas» highest criminal judges and the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.&rcourt watchers called the latest signal of the court's increasing frustration with how condemned inmates» appeals are handled by Texas» highest criminal judges and the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.&rcourt's increasing frustration with how condemned inmates» appeals are handled by Texas» highest criminal judges and the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.&rCourt of Appeals.»

«The wounds of war have changed,» said Scott, who is the task force commander for the Veterans Subcommittee of the Kentucky Supreme Court Access to Justice Commission, which was set up by Kentucky Chief Justice John D. Minton Jr..

Qualifying organizations include those that host Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps Legal Fellows or privately - funded Equal Justice Works Fellows, those that are funded by the Legal Services Corporation, State Offices of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Treatment Courts and other 501c3 legal aid organizations providing direct services to low - income clients.

The National Veterans Legal Services Program, the National Consumer Law Center and the Alliance for Justice, all nonprofit entities that paid fees to obtain court records from PACER, filed suit to recover the allegedly excessive fees charged by the government for PACER access.

Peggy is a licensed attorney and has experience in criminal law, including problem - solving courts aimed at improving the lives of individuals with a mental health diagnosis, veterans, women involved in prostitution, individuals experiencing homelessness, and people struggling with addiction who come in contact with the criminal justice system.