Sentences with phrase «at justice for»

Prior to joining CCFL, Claire was a lawyer at Justice for Children and Youth, where she provided legal advice to young people in family, child welfare, youth criminal justice and education matters.

«Certainly we are concerned about the fact that the numbers are higher for remand custody than for an actual custodial sentence,» says Samira Mobina Ahmed, litigation lawyer at Justice for Children and Youth in Toronto, adding however that the gap looks pretty narrow.

Communalism was stopping the movement towards social reforms aimed at justice for women and the depressed groups.

Not exact matches

The Eastern State Penitentiary, for instance, «actually has become this hub of academic [activity],» said Lauren - Brooke Eisen, senior counsel in the justice program at the Brennan Center for Justice, a New York think tank promoting criminal justice justice program at the Brennan Center for Justice, a New York think tank promoting criminal justice Justice, a New York think tank promoting criminal justice justice reform.

At a Wells Fargo media and telecom conference on Wednesday morning, AT&T chief financial officer John Stephens said that closing the mega-deal for Time Warner «is now uncertain» even as he declined to elaborate on the company's ongoing discussions with the U.S. Department of Justice about securing regulatory approval for the transaction.

Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito, both conservatives, hinted during an hour - long argument in the case at support for the Justice Department's stance that because Microsoft is based in the United States it was obligated to turn over data sought by prosecutors in a U.S. warrant.

Some 14 states have enacted more restrictive voting laws than they had in the 2012 presidential election, according to the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law.

I'm also in graduate school for my MPA in emergency management at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, so the schedule is definitely full and it takes a careful balance to have some time to relax and not get burned out.

William Yeomans, a former deputy assistant attorney general who spent 26 years at the Justice Department, said Flynn's guilty plea «is likely big trouble for several members of the Trump administration.»

«The DEA appears to be dragged into this kicking and screaming,» said Sanho Tree, director of the Drug Policy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive think tank focused on social - justice issues.

Forfeiture.gov, a website run by the Justice Department, might seem at first like a godsend for watchdogs.

Sessions» recusal is a key point of frustration for Trump, who once reportedly asked why he couldn't order «my guys» at the «Trump Justice Department» to do what he wanted.

Justice Steven Barrett in Bronx Supreme Court handed the longest sentence of 6-1/2 years to Eliseo Perez, 49, who was an assistant chief for security at the time of the attack.

He went on to use the specifics of Mill's case to paint a picture of injustice in the criminal justice system at large, including how black people are disproportionately imprisoned for probation or parole violations.

That is, instead of buying termination cheaply just for use by Justice's customers, he could buy everything he could get his hands on at a great price and resell the extra capacity to other phone companies, wholesale.

«The determination of the PSD - led government to charge ahead with the contentious criminal justice reform in disregard of widespread public discontent and political opposition sets a scene for tumultuous period ahead, highlighting a risk of further deteriorating operating environment,» Andrius Tursa, advisor on central and eastern European issues at Teneo Intelligence said in a note last week.

Writing in the majority opinion, Justice Antonin Scalia explained, «California has singled out the purveyors of video games for disfavored treatment — at least when compared to booksellers, cartoonists and movie producers — and has given no persuasive reason why.»

In an op - ed for The New York Times, Marc Mauer, executive director of the Sentencing Project, and David Cole, a professor of law and public policy at Georgetown University, write that many liberals and conservatives alike acknowledge the US criminal justice system needs reform.

The Brennan Center for Justice, a nonpartisan policy institute at the NYU School of Law, reports that overall crime rates in the nation's 30 largest cities remain at or near historic lows.

Ruben Cardenas, 47, the Mexican national, died by lethal injection at the Texas death chamber in Huntsville at 10:26 p.m. local time, Jason Clark, deputy chief of staff for the state Department of Criminal Justice, said by phone.

Looking at data from the World Justice Project, Transparency said it found that most countries that score low for civil liberties also tend to score high for corruption.

Lynch leaves office following a nearly two - year tenure marked by massacres carried out by violent extremists, including the shootings at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida; persistent hacking from overseas, including Russian government efforts to meddle in the U.S. presidential election; and an election - season investigation into Hillary Clinton's email server that entangled the Justice Department in presidential politics and led to criticism for her ill - timed meeting on an airport tarmac with former President Bill Clinton.

The Brennan Center for Justice estimated in August that up to 20 % of US voters would use a digital system without a paper trail to cast votes on November 8, and 42 states would use voting machines that were at least a decade old and had outdated hardware and software.

Lauren - Brooke Eisen is a senior counsel at the NYU Brennan Center for Justice and author of Inside Private Prisons, which will be released in fall 2017.

He expressed concern last year about legislation he feared could lead to the early release of felons, and moved quickly at the Justice Department to ensure privately operated prisons would be available for continued use.

Garcia Zarate (right) is led into the courtroom by San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi (left) for his arraignment in the death of Kate Steinle at the Hall of Justice in 2015.

On Monday, at the Justice Department headquarters in Washington, Mr. Stephenson and AT&T's general counsel, David McAtee, met with Makan Delrahim, the new assistant attorney general for the department's antitrust division, and other Justice Department officials.

Friday's filing is the first time the Justice Department has confirmed that Cohen is being looked at for potential criminal activity.

Take, for example, Justice Cote, formerly the head of litigation at Oslers (if my memory serves).

A Miami Herald series on abuses in the Florida juvenile justice system is a finalist for the 2018 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School announced Wednesday.

Fowler says that she was «one of those people» for most of her life, knowing nothing about forced arbitration until she experienced what she describes as illegal treatment at Uber, after which she says she discovered that she «had no way to get justice.»

Leading members of Quebec's legal community are applauding the $ 1 billion that the provincial government set aside in this week's budget for projects aimed at modernizing the justice system.

The Justice Department review comes at an awkward time for AB InBev as it is seeking to buy No. 2 SABMiller Plc SAB.L for more than $ 100 billion in what would be the biggest - ever merger of brewers.

He previously was a partner at the law firm of O'Melveny & Myers, a deputy general counsel at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Department, and senior counsel at the Justice Department.John Roth joined the firm as chief compliance and ethics officer, with responsibility for ensuring that the company remains in compliance with the evolving legal landscape.

WASHINGTON — Makan Delrahim, the nominee for chief antitrust cop at the Justice Department, was 10 when his family immigrated to the United States from Iran as Jewish political refugees.

Andy Brenner, head of international fixed income securities at National Alliance Securities, said in a note that the hiring of a special prosecutor «and talk about obstruction of justice being an impeachable offense» could push back efforts to enact Trump's tax reform and fiscal stimulus proposals for months.

In the same article we reported that while the Citizens United case was pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, Virginia Thomas, the wife of the Justice, created a nonprofit Tea Party advocacy group, Liberty Central, Inc., with a former lawyer for the Charles G. Koch Foundation, Sarah Field, acting as her General Counsel and a former Koch lobbyist, Matt Schlapp, serving on her board at inception.

Not one executive of any major Wall Street firm that caused the financial crash in 2008 through fraudulent activities was prosecuted by the U.S. Justice Department — which was headed at the time by law partners from Covington & Burling — the Big Tobacco law firm that was singled out in a Federal Court decision for hiding the deadly effects of cigarette smoke for decades.

In September, Roskomnadzor warned CNN International over alleged violations of Russian media law.101 In October, the Ministry of Justice warned Radio Svoboda and Nastoyashcheye Vremya — the Russian - language outlets of U.S. - funded Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE / RL)-- about the possibility of being designated as foreign agents.102 These warnings were apparently aimed at preparing a legal basis for countermeasures if the United States required Kremlin mouthpieces RT and Sputnik to register as foreign agents under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).

While Jesner suggests that five justices likely would rule that the federal courts should not recognize an ATS cause of action against American corporations for their overseas activities, several federal appeals courts have exhibited little willingness to limit the scope of ATS liability unless directly ordered to do so by the Supreme Court.

«The statutory language is so elastic, you can fit almost anything into it,» says Jeffrey Rowes, a senior attorney at the Institute for Justice.

But for good measure, and given the risk of appeal, Justice Macintosh went on to give his reasons denying Burnaby's application and for supporting the NEB's reasoning in its Ruling No. 40 concluding (at para 80) that «under both... paramountcy and interjurisdictional immunity... Burnaby is precluded from seeking to apply its bylaws so as to impede or block any steps Trans Mountain must take in order to safely prepare and locate the Expansion Project.»

Justice Macintosh offers concise and non-technical reasons for this conclusion at paras 62 — 65:

The John R. Justice Student Loan Repayment Program provides up to $ 10,000 per year of law school loan repayment for state and federal public defenders and state prosecutors who agree to remain employed as public defenders and prosecutors for at least three years.

For these at - risk kids, the juvenile justice system is a revolving door that returns them to the environment where their problems began.

For them now to look at loosening the rules, it absolutely is hypocritical,» Liberal justice critic Sean Casey said.

Join Lillian with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Jeff Skoll (Skoll Foundation), Lauren Bush Lauren & Target Corp. at National Jefferson Awards Ceremony, referred to as Nobel Prize for Public Service

The clamor for Rosenstein's dismissal among Trump allies was all but expected with Friday's release of the Nunes memo, whose advocates say reveals anti-Trump bias and abuse of power at the highest levels of the FBI and the Justice Department.

If one searches for news on LIBOR (= London Interbank Offered Rate, i.e., the rate at which banks lend dollars to each other in the euro - dollar market), they are currently dominated by Deutsche Bank getting slapped with a total fine of $ 775 million for the part it played in manipulating the benchmark rate in collusion with other banks (fine for one count of wire fraud: US$ 150 m.; additional shakedown by US Justice Department: US$ 625 m., the price tag for a deferred prosecution agreement).

Meanwhile, Rachel Brand, the third - ranking official at the Department of Justice, also stepped down — for fear that she would have to manage the Russia probe if her superior, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, were to quit or be fired.