Sentences with phrase «civil law issues»

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The lawyers in Miami together have decades of experience representing multinational companies and sovereign nations in international litigation and transnational arbitration, including complex jurisdictional disputes concerning common law and civil law issues.

As the chief legal advisor for the state, the attorney general weighs in on both criminal law and civil law issues.

What isn't the least surprising is the fact that criminal or civil law issues aren't really covered.

We also occasionally translate judgments that deal with purely civil law issues if they touch on matters of general human interest or have received a lot of media attention.

I suspect that the real heavy lifting in enhancing access to justice is a matter of procedural reform — specialized decision - making bodies with extremely simplified procedural rules for specific civil law issues (something that actually already exists in certain areas such as Landlord / Tenant, but could be further improved upon), wider permissions for over-the-counter motions, fewer unnecessary court appearances, fewer procedurally - mandated appearances (e.g., going from a Case Conference to a Settlement Conference to a Trial Management Conference, and possibly further, before you can get to a family law trial), and so on.

The pilots aim to integrate and amplify existing efforts by legal aid organizations, courts and other service providers to help more people facing eviction, domestic violence and other civil law issues.

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According to the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA), a firm has to procure a court order before repossessing a vehicle belonging to a member of the military, a law that was established to protect soldiers and other military personnel from having to deal with legal issues while they're actively serving.

Civil rights leader Laura Murphy will examine civil rights issues, along with law firm Relman, Dane & CoCivil rights leader Laura Murphy will examine civil rights issues, along with law firm Relman, Dane & Cocivil rights issues, along with law firm Relman, Dane & Colfax.

Early on Thursday, U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang issued a nationwide preliminary injunction in a similar case in Maryland brought by refugee resettlement agencies represented by the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Immigration Law Center.

Painter recommends that Congress pass a law right now that would require that when a President or his businesses have specific matters pending before a federal agency — like, say, an Internal Revenue Service audit, or a case before the National Labor Relations Board or the Securities and Exchange Commission, or a licensing issue before the Federal Communications Commission — that the matter must be decided by a career civil servant, rather than by a political appointee.

Liability issues raised by companies and privacy concerns of civil liberties groups contributed to the failure to implement such laws.

Obama's administration issued a directive warning districts they might be violating federal civil rights laws if they disproportionately disciplined minority students.

When two people live in a committed relationship for decades and some hospital functionary bars one from visiting the other in the hospital because they can't marry and hence are technically unrelated in the eyes of the law, that is a civil rights issue.

Last month, in the span of two weeks, American millennial Catholics had to confront two of the most important issues facing our generation: the protection of the natural world and the redefinition of marriage in civil law.

If abortion and related life issues are in fact the great civil - rights issues of our time» in that they test whether the state may arbitrarily deny the protection of the law to certain members of the human community» then Griswold eventually led to a situation in which the Democratic and Republican positions on civil rights flipped, with members of today's Democratic party playing the role that its Southern intransigents played during the glory days of the American civil - rights movement.

It is identical to racial issues: civil and church laws need to protect the truth about the equal dignity of all races because that truth allows us to treat others as persons.

Go a head beat your slave it is not a personal liability issue (you pulled this verse from civil laws applied to the Hebrew) and you will see the vengeance of the Lord.

Marriage may have a religious component to the religious, but as far as the law goes, it's a civil issue.

The advice issued by the House of Bishops at the time did not prevent clergy from entering civil partnerships, on the basis that the law did not specify the relationship as necessarily sexual.

(This assumption is shared by virtually all persons quoted in the press on this issue: members of Congress, leaders of civil rights organizations, church leaders, experts on constitutional law, etc..

A fundamental question that Christians must confront when processing this issue is whether the Church is subject to the laws of civil government.

So the «immoral agenda» he alleges is that any «man» who uses a woman's rest room or shower facilities because it best fits with what the individual feels is their gender identity by «mandate of law» is not doing so out of being a civil right issue and him being criticised for expressing that view.

I think they are clearly saying, «We know that the laity thinks we have a problem, but we, the clergy who are far better than everyone else, and above both civil and canon law, are not at all interested in any serious effort to do anything to resolve it, because to us, it's simply not an issue.

The Organisation's offices at Kwadaso Sub-Metro in Kumasi, which issued the directive said Mr. Haroun - Ahmed's behaviour on his private social media handle, breached the Civil Service Law 1993.

New York state will file an amicus brief in support of overturning a North Carolina law that critics say violates the civil rights of LGBT people by prohibiting municipalities from issuing ordinances that allow transgender people to use the bathroom of the gender they identify with.

In a celebrated case brought by a group of civil libertarians to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1942, Chief Justice Robert Jackson, against the strong argument of civil libertarians on the issues of «interrogation without the due process of law» and prolonged detention of suspects, gave his famous ruling that the United States «Constitution is not a suicide pact».

A future President could still issue an executive order to break the law or act unconstitutionally, but in theory would lose eventually in the courts, and civil servants might refuse to obey it anyway.

That caveat has led some to claim that the free vote, which is usually reserved to sensitive moral issues like abortion, is not applicable to what is ultimately a matter of civil law.

At a separate news conference in Mineola with law enforcement and civil service unions, Martins, a former state senator from Old Westbury, stood by the mailer and accused Curran of politicizing the issue.

The 52 - year - old Takoma Park resident, who is a professor at American University Washington College of Law, has focused his energy on a number of civil rights and constitutional issues in both the academic and legislative arenas, including marijuana legalization, campaign finance, and voting rights.

A few days after a state audit criticized a long - used Syracuse hiring practice to get around civil service laws, the Common Council probed the issue, but councilors came down more on the side of the mayor's office than the auditors.

As the Times Union reported in June, Schwartz was quietly given the power to issue civil subpoenas under the Moreland Act, a century - old law that allows a governor «to examine and investigate the management and affairs of any department, board, bureau or commission of the state.»

In 2005, Palestinian civil society issued a call for a campaign of boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel until it complies with international law and Palestinian rights.

Also mounting good campaigns are talented candidates with good ideas like Brian Kavanagh, former chief - of - staff for Council Member Gale Brewer, and aide to former Mayors Ed Koch & David Dinkins; Chris Papajohn who served on the American Civil Liberties Union's committee on disability law when they discovered that U.S. Post Offices are often not accessible to people with disabilities; Gur Tsabar, an aide to Speaker Gifford Miller, is articulate and well - informed on many issues, and authored an editorial in the April 14 Town & Village newspaper about unjust redlining of disabled New Yorkers due to budget concerns; Darren Bloch, a former Con Ed spokesperson who is a member of Community Board 6, is well - versed on housing and homelessness issues.

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The point I was making is that, as a law officer, it's my duty to ensure the rule of law is upheld, and one of the issues that I feel requires close attention is any potential for a rise in corruption to undermine civil society.

«Because of all these factors and to restore the public's trust, I call on you to issue an Executive Order enabling a special counsel to investigate whether any criminal, civil or election laws have been broken.»

Two days later, State Attorney Eric Schneiderman, flanked by the National Action Network's Kirsten John Foy and civil rights leaders, issued a bulletin to law enforcement agencies and district attorney's offices statewide that identifies hate crimes statutes and stresses that law enforcement has to properly identify incidents as possible hate crimes promptly.

The issue: An obscure section of the state civil rights law that shields myriad police, correction officer and paid firefighter employee records from public disclosure isn't known that well at the Capitol.

This stands in contrast to the U.S. Congress, where from the 1930s through the 1960s, many Southern legislators voted for progressive - minded economic legislation such as Social Security and other New Deal laws that expanded the role of government, while maintaining a much more conservative outlook on social issues, most prominently civil rights.

In connection with any such proposed application the attorney general is authorized to take proof and make a determination of the relevant facts and to issue subpoenas in accordance with the civil practice law and rules, and direct restitution.

As a nonviolent act of civil disobedience escalates into a stand - off with law enforcement officials, issues such as homelessness, mental illness, and drug addiction are explored.

U.S. District Judge Adrian Duplantier of New Orleans has postponed the American Civil Liberties Union's suit against Louisiana's «scientific - creationism» law until a separate suit on the issue before another federal district court has been decided.

The issue arises fairly often for school administrators and other government officials sued under the federal Civil Rights Act of 1871, a Reconstruction - era law that is frequently the basis for suits alleging that government officials have deprived someone of...

76, dean of Harvard Law School, examines the ways in which Brown's legacy continues to affect equality issues in public and in school choice programs, and argues that the terms placed on such initiatives have real repercussions for both the character of American education and civil society itself.

76, dean of Harvard Law School, examines the ways in which Brown's legacy continues to affect equality issues in public and in school choice programs, and argues that the terms placed on such initiatives have real repercussions for both the character of American education and civil...

Comments: In May 2014, the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights issued new guidance on the obligations of charter schools to comply with federal civil rights Civil Rights issued new guidance on the obligations of charter schools to comply with federal civil rights civil rights laws.