Sentences with phrase «appeals of civil»

HB 1575 Prohibits the supreme court from establishing court fees for civil cases and appeals of civil cases which are actions against governmental entities or officials or employees of governmental entities.

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On Ash Whitaker's second to last day of high school, he learned that he had won a major civil rights case at a federal appeals court.

It also would create an advocate to the FISA court, where surveillance requests are made, to ensure civil liberties and allow for faster appeals of decisions by that secret court.

But is it right that a civil servant will be left to dole out up to $ 500,000 to each plaintiff without BP having the right of appeal, from a BP escrow that has no ultimate cap.

The Supreme Court of Canada will hear four appeals this week, all in civil cases.

Leaders in the civil rights organizations as well as in the halls of Congress remain wedded to a conception of the black condition and to a method of appealing to the rest of the polity that undermine the dignity of our people.

C. J. Mahaney has finally broken his two - year silence about a controversial civil lawsuit (dismissed last May, but being appealed next month) alleging that his Sovereign Grace Ministries (SGM) covered up the abuse of children.

In December the Court of Appeal ruled against her application that she was discriminated against in being compelled to perform civil partnership registrations contrary to her religious beliefs.

The Universal Declaration's balanced view of individual and community, with its integral concept of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, has gained broad appeal throughout the world.

Ellison and I regarded ourselves as being the heirs and continuators of the most indigenous mythic prefigurations of the most fundamental existential assumption underlying the human proposition as stated in the Declaration of Independence... Yes, it would be the likes of him... and me... the grandchildren of slaves freed by the Civil War, betrayed by Reconstruction... who would strive in our stories to provide American literature with representative anecdotes, definitive episodes, and mythic profiles that would add up to a truly comprehensive and universally appealing American epic.

Since your initial appeal was for a more civil debate, is it now your contention that any criticism of gay people, no matter how it is phrased, loving as long as the critic claims biblical support?

The authority of religious leaders, like that of civil and political leaders, will depend on the emotional or intellectual appeal of what they say and not on any special gifts supposedly conferred on them by ordination.

Civil society in Australia and New Zealand also challenged the soundness of FSANZ decision and appealed to review its approval.

Commissioned in 1974 by the International Brigade Association in Scotland (IBASS), who raised the sculptor's # 3,000 fee through an appeal to trade unionists and supporters of the Labour movement in Scotland, it was unveiled by union leader and civil war veteran Jack Jones, who died earlier this year.

A federal appeals court ruled for the first time that the 1964 Civil Rights Act protects LGBT employees from workplace discrimination, setting up a likely battle before the Supreme Court as gay rights advocates push to broaden the scope of the 53 - year - old law.

A civil case pending in a state appeals court is testing the limits of the Shield Law, signed in 1970 by then - Gov.

Art. 3116, however, limits the sum that may be charged candidates for certain posts, such as the offices of district judge, judge of the Court of Civil Appeals, and senator and representative in the state and federal legislatures, and for some counties fees are fixed by Arts. 3116a - 3116d, 1939 Supp., and 3116e, 3116f, 1942 Supp.

Oral arguments are scheduled to take place in the U.S. Court of Appeals on Thursday in a years - long civil litigation over the U.S. Department of Justice's failure to fully release under FOIA records about the prosecution of activists over their activism.

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The five - justice panel heard appeals in a number of civil and criminal cases Friday, including a medical malpractice case, a divorce dispute and the legality of an arrest in a criminal case.

The President also appealed to all political parties and civil society organizations to cooperate with the Electoral Commission in the conduct of this year's election.

The government stated that there are 1,390 cases on civil litigations (legal disputes between two or more parties that seek money damages or specific performance rather than criminal sanctions) in Magistrate, High Courts, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court of Nigeria.

Court officials said the display focused on a mix of civil and criminal cases in which the appeals court made new law, and was tilted toward convictions because appeals generally occur in a criminal case after a conviction.

«We, therefore, appeal to true lovers of democracy, the civil society and the media to join hands with us to ensure that all forms of impunity, lawlessness and blind ambition are controlled and dispensed with.

While appealing to president Muhammadu Buhari to wade into the alleged barbaric acts of the military on the hapless students and lecturers, the union leader called for caution in using the military in a civil or students protest, stressing that the police which is constitutionally empowered should be used in civil matters to prevent loss of lives of the innocent future leaders.

«Nigeria is not ready to go into another civil war, we therefore appeal to the government to allow Igbo to go and be on their own, all the serving governors, senators, House of Reps members, ministers, ambassadors from the southeast extraction should resign immediately and join Nnamdi Kanu to form Biafra government, let peace reign in Nigeria.»

They might also ask if they want to appeal to a broader electorate with policies like free school meals, or a narrower but uncommitted electorate by standing up for civil liberties and an egalitarian system of law.

Danny Donohue, president of the Civil Service Employees Association, appealed to the public Sunday, saying, «state employees didn't cause the state's fiscal crisis and slamming them won't solve it.»

Some of Gibson's positions, like his call for less reliance on U.S. military power overseas and more stringent civil liberties protections at home, have shown cross party appeal.

In a move that's been quickly condemned by civil rights groups and Republican Party leaders, Assemblyman Tim Donnelly has turned to conspiracy theories and a defense of the Confederate flag to appeal to voters in his campaign...

The county's major unions — the Civil Service Employees Association, Correction Officers Benevolent Association, Detectives» Association, Inc., Police Benevolent Association and the Superior Officers Association — appealed, contending the freeze violated the U.S. Constitution's Obligation of Contracts Clause, which establishes contracts as binding agreements.

New York County is filled with brilliant attorneys who aspire to the civil court, transcend to the supreme court, enhance the appellate division and ultimately shape the nation on the New York State Court of Appeals.

The Minister of Solid Minerals Development and former Governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has appealed to civil servants and the entire Ekiti populace to...

A Manhattan appeals court ruled on Thursday in two separate lawsuits that a long - established but contentious provision of the New York civil rights code prevents the disciplinary records of city police officers from being publicly released.

In contrast to the INSERM report, in 2003 a French civil appeal court upheld an earlier court ruling that the Pasteur Institute was responsible for the 2001 death of 30 - year - old Pascale Fachin from CJD contracted from contaminated human growth hormone administered in 1985 and imposed a fine of $ 322,000.

The years needed for change as in other civil rights movements echoes in the slow burn of win - appeal we suffer as an audience in the film.

Because that's true, «Captain America: Civil War» appeals to me more strongly than any superhero movie of the last decade.

Half heartfelt memoir / half an urgent appeal for the return of civil discourse to the public arena, «Muzzled» persuasively bemoans the pressure placed on pundits nowadays to talk only in sanitized, politically - correct phraseology.

A federal appeals court in San Francisco Tuesday cleared the way for a trial on two civil rights lawsuits filed against former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle and other officers by the father of Oscar Grant III and five of Grant's friends.

Classroom behavior, grades, and attendance were all given a more prominent role in the retention decision, and an appeals process was, in theory at least, implemented for parents who wanted to dispute a retention decision — in part the result of an agreement with the U.S. Office for Civil Rights that was brought on by the 1999 PURE lawsuit.

Several former and current Dallas school officials must testify in a civil rights lawsuit filed by two self - proclaimed watchdogs of the district, a state appeals court has ruled.

She lectures in Civil Procedure and Alternative Dispute Resolution the Law School at Australian Catholic University and is member of the University of Melbourne Legislative & Trust Committee, a Sessional Member with the Victorian Institute of Teaching and a panel chairperson on the Disciplinary Appeals Board.

The Court of Appeal (Civil Division) has provided some recent case law on reasonable foreseeability in Hadlow v Peterborough City Council (2011), where it was found against the council.

In papers filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, the teachers claimed that the layoff clause in their contract violated their equal - protection and due - process rights under the 14th Amendment and their right to protection from racial discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Sections 1981 and 1983 of the Civil Rights Act of 1871.

Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union went before a federal appeals court last week in an effort to stop what they say is an unconstitutional system of sex - segregated classes at a southern Louisiana school.

For example, in Kajoshaj v. New York City Department of Education (2013), the Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of a civil rights suit of a Muslim student of Albanian descent who was retained for a second year in the fifth grade based on deficient performance on the statewide language arts test.

Whenever any civil action has been brought against any officer of the Florida College System institution board of trustees, including a board member, or any person employed by or agent of the Florida College System institution board of trustees, of any Florida College System institution for any act or omission arising out of and in the course of the performance of his or her duties and responsibilities, the Florida College System institution board of trustees may defray all costs of defending such action, including reasonable attorney's fees and expenses together with costs of appeal, if any, and may save harmless and protect such person from any financial loss resulting therefrom; and the Florida College System institution board of trustees may be self - insured, to enter into risk management programs, or to purchase insurance for whatever coverage it may choose, or to have any combination thereof, to cover all such losses and expenses.

Preeminent education policy experts, school board members and administrators, civil rights advocates, award - winning teachers, and top legal scholars filed amici curiae, or «friend of the court» briefs urging the Court of Appeal to uphold the basic protections on which teachers and students depend.

While appealing even to people opposed to the rest of the corporate education reform «package,» the standards minimize student - centered and culturally - relevant curricula generated at regional levels — and popularized thanks to the work of the Civil Rights and Women's movements — and they shift power away from teachers, parents, and communities.

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