Sentences with phrase «civil liberties lawyers»

Civil liberties lawyers argue the Justice Department request fell well outside the bounds of what is typically covered by a subpoena, including basic subscriber information.

The fact that politicians make politically expedient attacks on lawyers — whether it be Chris Grayling's recent attack on «left wing» pressure groups, or Jack Straw's berating «BMW - driving civil liberties lawyers» — does not mean that claimant law firms don't have a case to answer in relation to drumming up «spurious claims».

Pillay also says there is also work ahead for corporate and commercial lawyers, as well as human rights and civil liberties lawyers, regarding bundled agreements between Canada and the United States.

But the effort could be stalled by legal challenges from civil liberties lawyers and police labor unions.

[Civil liberties lawyers urged a state judge to reverse Staten Island DA Dan Donovan's attempt to keep secret the grand jury testimony concerning the police chokehold death of Eric Garner....]

Civil liberties lawyers urged a state judge to reverse Staten Island DA Dan Donovan's attempt to keep secret the grand jury testimony concerning the police chokehold death of Eric Garner, saying the public needs to reconcile a widely watched video of the arrest with the decision not to indict the officer involved.

I am sure there are hundreds of civil liberties lawyers that would like to know...

But as well - known civil liberties lawyer and writer Harvey Silvergate has said, «Scrutiny and debate are more effective ways of combating hate speech than censorship.»

Public Advocate: We interviewed civil liberties lawyer Norman Siegel and Bronx Assemblyman Michael Benjamin, who has since dropped out.

According to the New York Times, the painting's original owner, Emanuel Redfield, was a celebrated civil liberties lawyer and counsel to the New York chapter of the Artists Equity Association.

The painting's original owner, Emanuel Redfield, was a celebrated civil liberties lawyer and counsel to the New York chapter of the Artists Equity Association.

But [my path] was so wishy - washy... I thought I was going to become a civil liberties lawyer.»

As a civil liberties lawyer, I find the Crown's defence of this application troubling on two points.

Sometimes words in the Constitution actually mean what they say, writes civil liberties lawyer Harvey A. Silverglate at the blog The Free for All.

Janet Sinder, who aspired to be a civil liberties lawyer, found that she didn't like working as a criminal appeals lawyer, so she decided to get a degree in library sciences.

Taylor Hampton's Lewis is set to arrive in the US this weekend to begin discussions with New York civil liberties lawyer Norman Siegel over legal action for three alleged victims of phone - hacking described as a «well - known sports person», a sports person not in the public eye and a US citizen.

In a companion piece, civil liberties lawyer Harvey Silverglate, the original inspiration for the Muzzle Awards in 1998, doles out the Muzzle Awards: Collegiate Division.

«He is frightfully smart and frightfully hard - working,» civil liberties lawyer Harvey Silverglate told the Globe, while Lee Gesmer at Mass Law Blog wrote, «This is a great nomination — Judge Gants is truly a superstar of the Massachusetts Superior Court — without question one of the best, if not the best, minds on the state trial court.»

Civil liberties lawyer Raju Bhatt, of Bhatt Murphy, has been honoured for his work on inquests into deaths in custody at this year's Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year Awards (LALYs)-- the annual Oscars for legal aid folk.

Not exact matches

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When Richard consults a civil - liberties lawyer (Nick Kroll), he finds that there may be some legal hope for them if they are willing to take on the system.

This week on the legal - affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, I discuss the events in Texas with two guests: Betsy Branch, a family - law attorney with the Dallas firm of McCurley, Orsinger, McCurley, Nelson & Downing, who serves as attorney ad litem for several children in the West Texas case, and lawyer and social critic Wendy Kaminer, who has written about the civil liberties aspects of the case at the blogthefreeforall.net.

Our New Haven, Connecticut based criminal lawyers and high conflict civil attorneys help lawyers defend their liberty, license, and property.

The story of Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald), civil liberties litigator turned blogger, has a lot to teach the modern lawyer and a law profession going through a an identity crisis.

Judges were educated, practised as lawyers, and then presided when appointed, in the legal era when the Canadian constitution meant little more than the «peace, order, and good government» clause when it came to the concept of civil liberties.

What was interesting was the number of times that establishment / bif firm lawyers came out with examples from the civil liberties / criminal law areas.

We also discussed the civil liberties issues raised by the massive raid with lawyer and social critic Wendy Kaminer, who has written about the case at the blog thefreeforall.net.

It is very easy for civil liberties to be compromised in a system where individuals are often unrepresented and face a large team of city council lawyers and police officers making statements and giving evidence.

Tuckers Solicitors are the UK's leading criminal defence lawyers specialising in criminal law, civil liberties and regulatory proceedings.

It was inspiring to see lawyers banging out habeas corpus petitions from airports around the US, pulling all - nighters in defense of civil liberties.

Nate Russell is a Canadian lawyer and blogger with a passion for technology, law, access to justice and civil liberties, especially where they intersect.

Our guest is Nathan Russell, a Canadian lawyer and blogger with a passion for technology, law, access to justice and civil liberties, especially where they intersect.

In addition, he oversaw several groups of attorneys at DHS headquarters, including the Regulations Law Division, the Legal Counsel Division (which includes litigation, legislation, civil rights and civil liberties, and privacy), the Science and Technology lawyers and the Intelligence Law Group.

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.

I quote from her website... She's a lawyer licensed in New York, New Jersey, and California... She graduated from Boston University School of Law with a JD and holds a BA from UC Berkeley... She also studied for a semester at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany... Her interests include high tech civil liberties, intellectual property, international law and human rights.

In Burma it was the monks who took to the streets to protect civil liberties, in Lahore it was suited lawyers standing face to face with the military.

The first UK barrister to blog is «geeklawyer», specialising in intellectual property, technology and media issuesDescribed as an IP lawyer who once did R&D in the U.S. for the «evil American empire» and who blogs about IP, civil liberties, the legal system, and «angry liberal» things..