Sentences with phrase «civil liberties advocates»

The complaints of civil liberties advocates remain for both cases.

It hasn't happened yet as far as civil liberties advocates can determine from public legal records, but there are no specific rules or regulations against it, she says.

Two lesbians who were denied a double room at a hotel are starting a legal battle with the help of civil liberty advocates.

Section 5 of the Public Order Act is considered a severe infringement on free speech by civil liberties advocates but police say it is more likely to be employed at Thatcher's funeral because mourners are particularly likely to be caused distress.

She has also faced criticism from some activists after she refused to support extension of public housing opportunities to all people living with HIV, as opposed to only those with an AIDS diagnosis; from civil liberties advocates for supporting a requirement than any outdoor demonstration of at least 50 people obtain a police permit; and from Lower Manhattan residents angry that more was not done to save St. Vincent's Hospital.

While tech companies often lobby Washington on privacy issues, the major firms have been hesitant to enter a fray over a controversial portion of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), industry lobbyists, congressional aides and civil liberties advocates said.

As the immigration bill makes its way through the Senate, some proposed amendments are setting off heated scrimmages between civil liberties advocates and conservatives.

New York (CNN)- New York - area Muslims and civil liberties advocates called Wednesday for investigations and hearings after a report said that in the years since the 9/11 attacks, city police have carried out covert surveillance on Muslims with the help of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Civil liberties advocates raised alarm over the arrest however, coming so soon after the «Twitter joke trial», where Paul Chambers was convicted for jokingly tweeting he would blow Robin Hood airport «sky high».

Civil liberties advocates feared that an I.D. card program open to those lacking other kinds of paperwork could, if seized by unsympathetic federal authorities, become a deportation database.

Civil liberties advocates responded angrily to a Home Office decision to extend 28 - day detention for another six months today, despite clear signs from the government that it would soon shorten the period.

Former shadow home secretary and prominent civil liberties advocate David Davis said the decision was «unnecessary and regrettable».

Civil liberties advocates argue the increased usage of cellular surveillance and tracking raises certain constitutional questions as the legal standards for obtaining this cell phone data are generally lower and less clear than the traditional standards applied in circumstances where law enforcement attempts to wiretap or monitor traditional phone lines and conversations.

Many civil liberties advocates, such as Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which defends civil rights and freedoms in the digital world, believe that this patented system would enable Apple to secretly collect, store and potentially use sensitive biometric information about a user — simply put, to spy on their customers.

Last Remembrance Day, my posting was entitled «Lest We Forget,» which offered some profound words from poet / soldiers of WWI and WWII, including a moving passage from F.R. Scott, a Canadian lawyer who was an important civil liberties advocate and past Dean of McGill Law School.

Even so, the expiration of the authority at the end of this year will prompt a fight between security hawks who want to renew it, and civil liberties advocates who want to let it expire, or curtail it.

The proposal has been championed by civil liberties advocates and others troubled by some of the department's practices.

Despite slams from a Supreme Court judge and civil liberties advocates, America's DEA calls B.C. home.

By promoting Rehnquist and nominating the archconservative Antonin Scalia to the court, President Reagan has turned the tables on religious and civil liberty advocates.

Backers say it could be a vital tool for law enforcement, but civil liberties advocates have concerns.

Civil liberties advocates have urged senators to press him on his involvement in national security matters during that period, when the government authorized harsh interrogation techniques and routinely shipped terrorism suspects captured on foreign battlefields to Guantanamo Bay.

He has been credited with securing several convictions in high - profile terror cases and is well respected by both national security experts and civil liberties advocates.

(CNN) A child custody battle in New York City is raising questions about freedom of speech and religion — and civil liberties advocates are sure to be paying close attention.

The revelations have drawn outrage from the Muslim community and civil liberties advocates, who say the surveillance has gone too far.

In addition to the presumptive mayoral hopefuls, the raiding of Zuccotti was slammed by numerous other elected officials and civil liberties advocates.

But civil liberties advocates are furious with the government's refusal to comply with the European ruling.

The dispute has been percolating for months, as union leaders, pro-charter groups, civil liberties advocates, parent leaders, students, teachers and principals have re-framed their ongoing debate about the quality of the city's schools around the safety of the 1,800 schools run by the Department of Education.

City officials, civil liberties advocates and a number of educators argue just the opposite: that schools are in fact safer because of the administration's turn away from suspensions and towards restorative justice practices.

Civil liberties advocates have been among the loudest voices pushing for restorative justice, and were sharp critics of Bloomberg's discipline policy, which they said helped create a «school to prison pipeline» of minority students across the city.

Law enforcement will presumably push for greater surveillance powers, and civil liberty advocates will resist.

His distinguished trajectory includes an early career as a housing and civil liberties advocate, leadership in business as chairman of Polygon Homes Ltd., one of British Columbia's leading home builders, and a longstanding supporter of the visual arts.

It's a law that activists, civil liberties advocates and concerned citizen types plead about endlessly and earnestly — and to whose pleas the yawns of mass apathy mostly echo back.

While defense attorneys and civil liberties advocates are concerned by this approach to data collection, not everyone is bothered by it.

Jennifer Robinson from Doughty Street Chambers, a leading international free speech and civil liberties advocate, is working with Rose to make sure other women are given the help they need to speak out.

Teaching fundamentals of research that rely on legal reasoning rather than the vagaries of legal publishing should be the primary objective in critical inquiry — be it by graduated students in law firms; public policy analysts; civil liberties advocates and yea, even law librarians.

However, civil liberty advocates and privacy groups have yet to weigh in.