«Rather as peace activists during the Cold War discouraged talk
about civil defense, lest it make nuclear war seem more thinkable, many Greens seem to believe that discussing adaptation would reduce support fo...
Not exact matches
Also catching the play
about the passage of the landmark 1964
Civil Rights Act was former Maine Sen. William Cohen, who was also a secretary of
defense under Bill Clinton.
«On every placard is a story
about an actual case in New York, where the public
defense system failed a person's right to counsel,» said Bob Perry is the New York
Civil Liberties Union legislative director.
The utter confusion and ill - preparedness that was evident in the aftermath of Hawaii's mistaken alert
about an incoming North Korean missile highlighted the irresponsible and dangerous abandonment of
civil defense preparedness throughout the nation.
Two films on Syria's
civil war made the cut — Matthew Heineman's City of Ghosts,
about the ISIS takeover of Raqqa, and Feras Fayyad's Last Men in Aleppo,
about courageous
civil defense workers in that city.
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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.
I did that for
about a year and I went to another law firm which was more of a boutique law firm focusing on insurance
defense and general
civil litigation.
About St. John, Bowling, Lawrence & Quagliana, LLP St. John, Bowling, Lawrence & Quagliana, LLP, representing RRHA in this case, is a litigation firm that has past experience in 42 U.S.C. § 1983 public housing litigation and represents clients in Virginia state and federal courts in matters including
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I went to law school idealistic
about using my law degree for
civil liberties, learned during law school that First Amendment rights are suppressed all the time, and feel heartened
about being able to light a candle rather than to curse the darkness, through my First Amendment
defense work.
Each of the five U.S. military branches has a large legal staff that handles
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about personal injury, workers» compensation,
civil litigation or criminal
defense.
CPCS provides trainings and advice
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1 For attempts to measure the effect of advocacy quality through other means, see, e.g., Banks Miller et al., Leveling the Odds: The Effect of Quality Legal Representation in Cases of Asymmetrical Capability, 49 Law & Soc» y Rev. 209 (2015)(finding that high quality representation evened the odds for asylum applicants and that asylum seekers fared better when unrepresented than when represented by a poor lawyer); Mitchell J. Frank & Dr. Osvaldo F. Morera, Professionalism and Advocacy at Trial — Real Jurors Speak in Detail
About the Performance of Their Advocates, 64 Baylor L. Rev. 1, 38 (2012)(finding statistically significant correlations in criminal cases between jurors» perceptions of closing argument persuasiveness and jury verdict, and finding statistically significant correlations in
civil cases between perceptions of
defense counsel's closing argument persuasiveness and
defense verdict); James M. Anderson & Paul Heaton, How Much Difference Does the Lawyer Make?
For a
defense witness, it might be possible for lawyers for both sides to travel to the witness and get a deposition; this happens in
civil cases, but I don't know
about criminal cases.
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A
civil engineering graduate with thorough knowledge
about handling big construction projects, seeks to serve the
defense organization as an army
civil engineer.
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The
Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act (H.R. 1658) creates an innocent owner
defense and places the burden on the government to prove that the owner knew
about the illegal activity.