Sentences with phrase «as a constitutional lawyer»

As both a constitutional lawyer, albeit one specializing in the United States, and a political scientist, I followed with great interest the recent vote in Scotland regarding potential secession from the United Kingdom.

An ordained Baptist minister as well as a constitutional lawyer, the Rev. Oliver Buzz Thomas presents 10 Things Your Minister Wants to Tell You (But Can't, Because He Needs the Job) and offers proof positive that the moniker liberal Christian is not, in fact, an oxymoron.

As constitutional lawyers know, Justice Breyer has typically voted like Justices Brennan and Marshall on the death penalty.

Not exact matches

Levandowski's lawyers argued that the court's order to Uber, as well as Uber's threat to Levandowski, would violate his constitutional right to avoid self - incrimination.

One need not be a lawyer or constitutional scholar to recognize that nowhere does the Charter describe abortion as a right, whereas it definitely guarantees religious freedom.

As many journalists and commentators have argued, agreements like the TPP have dubious benefits for citizens of the countries involved.ISDS provisions have been criticised by U.S. Constitutional lawyer Lori Wallach for «empowering corporations to sue governments — outside their domestic court systems — over any action the corporations believe undermines their expected future profits or rights under the pact by reporting breaches, removing online content and even denying access to Internet users».

Funneling the payments to vice chairmen is not explicitly permitted by law, though Senate leadership and lawyers have tried to prove that there is a legal and constitutional basis for such stipends, commonly known as «lulus.»

Femi Falana, Human right activist and constitutional lawyer, has thrown his weight behind the third force movement of former President Olusegun Obasanjo known as Coalition for...

Ben Kallos (D)- D5 - Upper East Side and Roosevelt Island - Kallos, a lawyer and lifelong Upper East Sider, advocated for state constitutional reform as the Executive Director of the groupEffectiveNY and has put the issues of government accountability and transparency at the forefront of his campaign.

The Leader of Constitutional Rights Awareness and Liberty Initiative, the designer of the application, Adeola Oyinlade, said the initiative was «part of his pro bono efforts as a lawyer.»

WASHINGTON — The inclusion of prayer at a public - school graduation exercise is consistent with the nation's long tradition of invoking God's name during ceremonial events and should be upheld as constitutional, lawyers representing the Bush Administration and a Rhode Island school district told the U.S. Supreme Court last week.

Mayor Villaraigosa was joined today by LAUSD Deputy Superintendent John Deasy, Board Member Yolie Flores, lawyers from the ACLU - SC, Public Counsel, and Morrison & Foerster, LLP, as well as teachers from Gompers Middle School to discuss the details of the settlement agreement in Reed v. State of California, et al., a class action suit that claimed the plaintiffs» constitutional rights to a quality education was being violated by the disproportionate impact of teacher layoff at their schools.

«We are here on behalf of the state of Arkansas as the state's lawyer, as a constitutional officer empowered by the General Assembly to enforce our laws and we were here to conduct an investigation, not take a tour.

Since last year, lawyers for the defendants from various governmental organizations have attempted to get the case dismissed on various grounds, including the question of whether minors can defend their constitutional rights like adults, as well as asserting that climate change is not caused by humans.

If so, a constitutional lawyer can advise you on how likely you are to have a successful case, as well as the process you may go through.

We hold, therefore, that where, as here, the investigation is no longer a general inquiry into an unsolved crime, but has begun to focus on a particular suspect, the suspect has been taken into police custody, the police carry out a process of interrogations that lends itself to eliciting incriminating statements, the suspect has requested and been denied an opportunity to consult with his lawyer, and the police have not effectively warned him of his absolute constitutional right to remain silent, the accused has been denied «the Assistance of Counsel» in violation of the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution as «made obligatory upon the States by the Fourteenth Amendment,» Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. at 342, and that no statement elicited by the police during the interrogation may be used against him at a criminal trial.

The government lawyer's role as constitutional, as agents of the Attorney General, and guardians of the rule of law demonstrate how superb the role is.

In granting A.B.'s application for personal constitutional exemption, Judge Perell considered the affidavit evidence provided by A.B., his wife and daughter, physicians, a geriatric psychiatrist and a legal assistant of A.B.'s counsel, as well as legal argument from A.B.'s lawyers.

But like probably many, if not most of our readers, as EU lawyers we are drawn like moths toward lights by such an important constitutional development; there is simply no helping.

Important contributions to the literature by constitutional lawyers such as Harlow, Tomkins, or Alemanno, or political scientists such as Naurin or Cross are omitted.

As lawyers, you will appreciate that the adoption of a constitutional Bill of Rights is intimately related to the whole question of constitutional reform.

«Because of the difficulties inherent in determining the extent to which the information contained in lawyers» bills of account is neutral information, and the importance of the constitutional values that disclosing it would endanger [i.e. such as the right not to self - incriminate], recognizing a presumption that such information falls prima facie within the privileged category will better ensure that the objectives of the solicitor - client privilege are achieved and helps keep impairments of solicitor - client privilege to a minimum,» the Supreme Court found in Maranda.

However, for the EU constitutional lawyer at least, more could certainly been made of the suitability (or otherwise) of the WTO - level framework structuring PBMs as a mechanism to assess the position (and legality) of those measures within the distinctive constitutional context of the Union legal order.

5 and 6 (Order in Council P.C. 2013 - 1105, October 22, 2013)(35586) Mar. 21, 2014 A lawyer with 10 years standing at the Barreau du Québec can not be appointed to the S.C.C. pursuant to sections 5 and 6 of the Supreme Court Act, and Parliament can not (except as a constitutional amendment) pass correcting legislation.

Starting in July 2016, prospective lawyers taking the Massachusetts bar exam will be tested not just on traditional topics such as constitutional law, torts and property, but also on access to justice.

Lawyers have been arguing in court over the past decade that Access to Justice should be recognized as an unwritten constitutional principle or an actual constitutional right.

CCLA will be represented by Anil Kapoor of Kapoor Barristers — an expert criminal and constitutional lawyer who has frequently acted as pro bono counsel for CCLA and whom we spotlight this month, below.

So far, only three published studies have analyzed the association between brief readability and case outcome, 50 and no studies have analyzed that association in the trial courts, where most lawyers practice.51 Long and Christensen sampled 882 appellate briefs from the Supreme Court, federal appellate courts, and state supreme courts.52 Their dependent variable was the outcome of the appeal (affirmed or reversed), while their independent variable was readability measured by the Flesch Reading Ease score as calculated by Microsoft Word.53 For federal appellate and state supreme court briefs, the researchers coded control variables for federal or state court, standard of review, presence of a dissenting opinion, and readability of the opinion deciding the appeal.54 For United States Supreme Court briefs, the researchers coded control variables for constitutional issue, criminal or civil case, presence of a dissenting opinion, and opinion readability.55 They found no statistically significant correlation between readability and outcome in the briefs in their study.56

As a trusted Buenos Aires law firm, Badeni, Cantilo, Laplacette & Carricart's highly skilled Buenos Aires constitutional lawyers have managed a variety of constitutional cases for a wide range of clients.

As featured in The Scotsman - 1 August 2016 The constitutional lawyer was a niche breed 20 years ago.

The stash house sting, as with the undercover terrorism operation and the Mr. Big scenario, will continue to present Canadian criminal lawyers with difficult constitutional issues and substantive questions of proof.

Students will also practice basic lawyering skills to provide a taste of what they would do in law school or as lawyers, including reading and interpreting constitutional provisions, statutes, or regulations, reading and understanding judicial opinions, and mapping out and making basic forms of legal arguments.

He worked as a law clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada (1979 - 80), a parliamentary intern in the House of Commons (1980 - 81), an associate lawyer with Gowling and Henderson (1982 - 84), chief of staff to the Right Honourable Raymon Hnatyshyn (1984 - 85), director of constitutional law in the Saskatchewan Department of Justice (1985 - 90) and a partner at MacPherson Leslie and Tyerman LLP (1990 - 2004) before his appointment to the Court of Appeal for Saskatchewan.

Ms. Kerr's argument, in a nutshell, is an almost Posnerian plea for judges to be attentive to facts and, in particular, to the information that various experts can provide about prisons, when they adjudicate constitutional claims brought by prisoners, as well as for lawyers to provide judges with such information.

It was, I said, «an almost Posnerian plea for judges to be attentive to facts and, in particular, to the information that various experts can provide about prisons, when they adjudicate constitutional claims brought by prisoners, as well as for lawyers to provide judges with such information.»

It's not quite fair to expect that his lawyers, with his and their limited time resources, would have done as thorough a job of mounting an empirical case as an interest group pursuing a constitutional challenge on its own terms.

With a story like that, you'd think that Gura would be celebrated as the toast of the town — respected by constitutional scholars and Supreme Court advocates for an extraordinary result or held out as an inspiration to young, unemployed lawyers languishing in document review jobs that taking big risks by starting a practice and handling compelling cases can yield big rewards.

I don't know who MLPII is, but he / she sounds like a much better nominee: «As a lawyer for 42 years and a law prof for 34 years, teaching a number of Constitutional Law seminars but many more practice oriented courses such as Evidence and Civil Procedure.&raquAs a lawyer for 42 years and a law prof for 34 years, teaching a number of Constitutional Law seminars but many more practice oriented courses such as Evidence and Civil Procedure.&raquas Evidence and Civil Procedure.»

The defense, such as it is, boils down to this: As officers of the court, all defense lawyers are really on the government's side, having sworn an oath to uphold a vast, century - old conspiracy to conceal the fact that most aspects of the federal government are illegitimate, including the courts, which have no constitutional authority to bring people to triaas it is, boils down to this: As officers of the court, all defense lawyers are really on the government's side, having sworn an oath to uphold a vast, century - old conspiracy to conceal the fact that most aspects of the federal government are illegitimate, including the courts, which have no constitutional authority to bring people to triaAs officers of the court, all defense lawyers are really on the government's side, having sworn an oath to uphold a vast, century - old conspiracy to conceal the fact that most aspects of the federal government are illegitimate, including the courts, which have no constitutional authority to bring people to trial.

As a lawyer, Ronna represented and advised Boards of Education and school Superintendents on education, employment and constitutional matters in North Carolina.

While I was persuaded by the overarching Charter principle — deciding on one's own death is one of the most important manifestations of human dignity, as poignantly captured most recently by Dr. Donald Low's compelling video — I was troubled then (and now) by what would happen when the constitutional lawyers went on to other struggles, and left the dying process to patients, families, doctors, and hospitals.

More broadly, this ruling will be studied closely by constitutional lawyers as it addresses a number of central issues, including the interplay between the Government's executive powers in international law and legislative sovereignty, the powers of the Court to supervise the exercise of prerogative powers particularly where existing law or rights are affected, and the fundamentally political, not legal, nature of the Sewel Convention on consultation of devolved legislatures.

The Task Force does not claim that most lawyers actually use the designated fields of substantive knowledge in their practices; nor could it: almost no one practices in all of the fields mentioned, very few practice in some of them (such as criminal or constitutional law), and a great many who practice in specialized fields require knowledge of substantive subjects other than those specified (such as tax, employment, or intellectual property law).

His name has been bandied about among candidates for the appellate court, which Obama, a constitutional lawyer, can shape as a pool for future Supreme Court nominees.

Hon. Justice Nakatsuru has considerable experience, both in the private sector and in government, in criminal and public law as a defence lawyer, regulatory prosecutor, and constitutional / human rights lawyer.

As part of what may be a multi-year, sea change in the law of lawyering, the SCOTUS issued two more opinions that extended the constitutional guarantee of effective assistance of counsel to the plea bargaining stage of criminal matters.

Moana Jackson, Ngati Kahungunu / Ngati Porou and a lawyer working in New Zealand on Treaty / constitutional issues and international Indigenous rights, including as a member of the UN Committee on Indigenous Rights.

Parenting coordination methodology includes such things as ordering people how to talk with each other («use my template»), ordering parents in what method they may or must talk with each other («email only, and you must copy me»), and even uttering orders to parents regarding when or whether they must or may not meet and / or communicate with each other, with the parenting coordinator, with the court or their own lawyer, and with other people such as extended family, all in astonishing violation of fundamental constitutional rights.