Sentences with phrase «challenges women attorneys»

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World Watch Monitor reports that Bibi's attorney Naeem Shakir challenged the testimony of the women who feuded with Bibi, arguing to the appellate court that their testimony had been hearsay because the complainant in the case had not heards Bibi's words himself.

Her over 20 years of practice as an attorney includes serving as litigation coordinator for the Women Against Abuse Legal Center in Philadelphia, and on Planned Parenthood's trial team in its challenge to the constitutionality of the Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act.

In some European nations, there are more equal gender laws concerning public nudity but those nations have LESS sexual assault and violence against women than in the United States - so there is no legal rationale for this double - standard - it's simply an unconstitutional tradition that has never been challenged in court by ACLU attorneys.

«Kathleen Rice challenged the status quo to become Nassau County's first woman district attorney and she's proven that she has the toughness to do that job well.

Former state Attorney General Oliver Koppell, who unsuccessfully challenged his fellow Bronx Democrat, Sen. Jeff Klein, in a 2014 primary, today is announcing his support for the woman currently trying to unseat Klein this September, Alessandra Biaggi.

Rice now has the support of two erstwhile AG candidates who were poised to challenge her status as the only woman in the five - person field of Democrats vying to replace Andrew Cuomo as the state's top attorney.

(CNN)- In a new ad, New York Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino accused Democratic candidate and state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo of excluding «the only African - American candidate, the only woman candidate and the Green Party candidate,» from the gubernatorial race and challenged Cuomo to «come out and debate like a man.»

Jimenez, the Green Party's candidate for New York attorney general, was discussing the challenges third parties face in wooing away the Democratic Party's traditional base: blacks, Latinos, women, young people, unions, environmentalists.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo's appointment of a special prosecutor to probe allegations of physical abuse of four women by former Attorney General Eric Schneiderman stoked an internal debate Wednesday among the state's district attorneys about whether to challenge or criticize the governor's intervention.

At least one Boston - based attorney has vowed to challenge the SUNY policy because she does not believe it goes far enough to protect women.

Ellen is particularly known for her expertise on the challenges faced by women in the profession and has been invited to address numerous audiences — including the Department of Justice Canada, the Center for Legal Inclusiveness, Harvard Law School's Women's Leadership Summit, the Center for Women in the Law, the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law's Women Leadership & Equality Program and bar and women attorney's groups on the national and local level throughout the US and Europe — on strategies for advancing women attorwomen in the profession and has been invited to address numerous audiences — including the Department of Justice Canada, the Center for Legal Inclusiveness, Harvard Law School's Women's Leadership Summit, the Center for Women in the Law, the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law's Women Leadership & Equality Program and bar and women attorney's groups on the national and local level throughout the US and Europe — on strategies for advancing women attorWomen's Leadership Summit, the Center for Women in the Law, the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law's Women Leadership & Equality Program and bar and women attorney's groups on the national and local level throughout the US and Europe — on strategies for advancing women attorWomen in the Law, the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law's Women Leadership & Equality Program and bar and women attorney's groups on the national and local level throughout the US and Europe — on strategies for advancing women attorWomen Leadership & Equality Program and bar and women attorney's groups on the national and local level throughout the US and Europe — on strategies for advancing women attorwomen attorney's groups on the national and local level throughout the US and Europe — on strategies for advancing women attorwomen attorneys.

Although our focus is on the unique challenges women lawyers face, our goal is to support all lawyers who are parents or caregivers, promote policies and practices that recognize and accommodate attorneys» family needs, and provide resources to women navigating a challenging profession.

Attorney General Ferguson and his team of remarkable attorneys have successfully defended the rights of LGBTQ people to fair and non-discriminatory treatment, challenged the Administration's unlawful ban on Muslim travelers, and challenged sex - segregated hiring practices and sexual harassment of women workers by a large agricultural packing house.

She has also been a staff attorney at the Center for Reproductive Rights, where she worked on two trials challenging a Texas law limiting women's access to reproductive health care.

Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, represented by attorneys at Planned Parenthood Federation of America, today filed a lawsuit in Federal District Court in Lincoln, Nebraska, challenging the constitutionality of a recently enacted Nebraska law misleadingly titled «The Women's Health Protection Act.»