Sentences with phrase «about achieving justice»

Kimball Jones is passionate about achieving justice for his clients.

Not exact matches

Because the birth control cases all focus on a 1993 federal law, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, not the Constitution, the Justices will face questions about whether the mandate to provide free access to 20 forms of birth control drugs or devices, sterilization, screenings, and counseling imposes a «substantial burden» on religious freedom of nonprofit employers with religious objections to some or all contraceptives, whether the mandate in fact serves a «compelling interest» of the government, and whether an attempt to provide an exemption from the mandate satisfies the requirement that such an accommodation is «the least restrictive means» of achieving the government's policy interest.

(Though we need to note that while the Bible speaks consistently for justice and for siding with the poor it offers little that is unambiguous about policy and strategy for achieving it - another example of how God gives plenty of scope to us to participate in creation - redemption by using our imagination and initiative!)

The second question is related to the above: a «free market» baseline of justice is about procedure - how outcomes are arrived at, who is involved in making decisions, has rights over their own actions, how actions are agreed by parties etc. (or something like that) whereas equality is an outcome, that may or may not be achieved under various procedural arrangements, and may or may not be viewed as desirable by people who hold different views about what forms of society - specifications over who has what rights to do what to who.

Research led by Sophieke Russell at the University of Kent in Canterbury, UK, holds important lessons about how juries arrive at decisions of guilt and sentencing — and possible pointers for achieving genuine justice in courts.

Berkeley, CA About Blog Environmental Progress (EP) is a research and policy organization fighting for clean power and energy justice to achieve nature and prosperity for all.

I have assumed that my conservative colleagues are equally concerned about justice; we simply disagree about the best way to achieve justice in today's complex world.

I agree with Professor Fraser that liberals and conservatives are «equally concerned» but «simply disagree about the best way to achieve justice.»

I'm more than happy to confer about ways we can partner in achieving meaningful outcomes for students, particularly the ones below, outcomes that align with cultural responsiveness and social justice.

In the unit's later lessons, students draw connections between this history and the present day, weighing questions like how to achieve justice and reconciliation in the aftermath of atrocities, how painful histories should be remembered, and how this history educates us about our responsibilities in the world today.

Handout 1 (Nuremberg trial fact sheet) provides information (eight points) about what was actually done after the Holocaust to achieve justice and related questions.

A multiracial fightback against the testing industrial complex — one that is explicitly ant - racist and takes up issues of class inequality — has the potential to change the terms of the education reform debate and envision a world where authentic assessments are used to support students as they engage in classroom inquiry about how to achieve social justice.

leadership insisting that educational justice for Black children can not be achieved unless the elusive wholesale integration effort occurs, I know they belie Dr. King's radical traditions about economic, and thus educational justice.

Cristian is passionate about social justice and art and believes it is possible to fuse various elements together in order to achieve an innovative form of activism.

«How are we ever going to achieve climate justice,» Gualinga asks, «if we keep on criminalizing those who are actually fighting climate change, and not just only talking about it?»

There remains lots to talk about how improved access to justice and legal services can be achieved without giving up ownership or bringing about an anti-competitive concentration of delivery (and this is where I pray the benchers will go).

10 See, e.g., Cliff Villa, Sampling the Garden Soil, Environmental Justice in Action: Blogging about Efforts to Achieve Environmental Justice in Overburdened Communities (Nov. 24, 2014), http://blog.epa.gov/ej/2014/11/ sampling - the - garden - soil / (author is Assistant Regional Counsel for EPA Region 10 as well as an adjunct law professor).

As the author of the majority opinion Justice Stevens has come under enough flak that he spoke out about his decision, saying he has «always allowed local policymakers wide latitude in determining how best to achieve legitimate public goals.»

Some radical ideas that came to me on a Saturday morning: (1) States Parties: set up a Global Justice Research Fund to support a well directed and sustained quest for multidisciplinary knowledge about the core idea of a justice component and how it can be achieved: what are the components of justice connected to atrocities, what is connected with what, what tools can be developed to measure and learn, and how can we make better use of techJustice Research Fund to support a well directed and sustained quest for multidisciplinary knowledge about the core idea of a justice component and how it can be achieved: what are the components of justice connected to atrocities, what is connected with what, what tools can be developed to measure and learn, and how can we make better use of techjustice component and how it can be achieved: what are the components of justice connected to atrocities, what is connected with what, what tools can be developed to measure and learn, and how can we make better use of techjustice connected to atrocities, what is connected with what, what tools can be developed to measure and learn, and how can we make better use of technology.

Deference is not justified by arguing that trial judges are always right about such matters, but rather that having a final outcome is preferable to having a reversal that encourages more appeals in the name of achieving «perfect justice» (which dovetails, of course, with «justice as proportionality» arguments that getting what is arguably the «right answer» is often not worth the public or private cost).

Further, they fail to realize that (1) every single benefit they extol can be achieved without selling our ownership, and (2) ABS does nothing about the one gigantic barrier to access to justice - the ruinous time and cost of litigation.

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With these caveats in mind, the initiatives in the UK nevertheless remind us that it is crucial to the ongoing project of endeavouring to achieve justice in sexual assault trials that adjudicators (as well as other legal actors) disabuse themselves of discredited myths and stereotypes and apply sexual assault laws free from «ignorance, prejudice, and / or misconception about rape» (see Ellison & Munro, «A Stranger in the Bushes or an Elephant in the Room?

We speak more with Deborah about her notable cases, the importance behind seeking justice over personal injury and malpractice cases, and, most importantly, what drives her to achieve the best for her clients.

It comes back to the old argument about who pays for access to justice; with yet further cuts to legal aid piggy backing on restricting access for claimants under the Jackson reforms where's the balance to be achieved?

«Back when we first spoke about this case with our clients, one of the hopes was that not only would they be able to fight for justice in their case and achieve justice, but they would be paving the way for other communities similarly affected,» says Wanless.

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About Blog The Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) is a human rights organisation and movement dedicated to achieving equality and justice for all Guyanese, especially those suffering discrimination based on their sexuality, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression.

Worldwide About Blog Rooted in faith and justice, this global project amplifies faith voices that protect human dignity and achieve equality for LGBT people and their families.

Berkeley, CA About Blog Environmental Progress (EP) is a research and policy organization fighting for clean power and energy justice to achieve nature and prosperity for all.

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Berkeley, CA About Blog Environmental Progress (EP) is a research and policy organization fighting for clean power and energy justice to achieve nature and prosperity for all.

The Social Justice Commissioner June Oscar spoke about Indigenous women and girls across the country who are achieving extraordinary acts while living in great adversity.

In drafting this section of the Native Title Report 2011 and the Social Justice Report 2011, I have been concerned about achieving a balance between what may be seen as the promotion of yet more negative views about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the need to address an issue that has serious implications for us as peoples.

Then you forget about getting «justice» and you focus on achieving the best possible result you can, under the circumstances that exist is your case.