Sentences with phrase «civil rights argument»

Wasn't that the civil rights argument for Common Core and high - stakes testing?

To suggest that sexual orientation may be intertwined with nurture, trauma, experience or desire is to complicate the victories the LGBTQ community has won using this civil rights argument.

Not exact matches

The same argument was used by southern states to defend segregation during the Civil Rights Era, but state's rights factor into issues as diverse as same sex marriage and speed lRights Era, but state's rights factor into issues as diverse as same sex marriage and speed lrights factor into issues as diverse as same sex marriage and speed limits.

And it crosses over all these lines: local environmental impact, there's the climate argument, there's the First Nations rights argument, there's the stewardship argument, so it can really draw from a whole wide sector of civil society in the way that the faceless catastrophe of climate change can't.

The people who resisted the Civil Rights movement in the south, many of whom used religious arguments, people who classified Blacks as animals, were degraded and debased by their own actions: turning fire hoses on children, setting dogs on peaceful marchers, lynching, firebombing churches...

using your argument we would had civil rights in this country just because goverments make certain practices illegal does tat mean that what the goverrmet s doing is moral and just, The fact s the goverment attempted to use Christaniaity to bolster it claim to power through this we have the start of the Roman Catholic Church one of the most insidious evil organzations on this planet which as doe more to oppose ad kill true follewers of Christ then ay group o this planet.

Steele is black, and his argument is that racial victimization games are, in the name of civil rights, turning young blacks into moral rip - off artists, and locking them into permanent inferiority of both feeling and social station.

Yup, same arguments, different day, it's shows how brainwashed the christians are, but when fighting for civil rights it always takes time.

Rather than drawing attention to the distinctiveness of the Judeo - Christian tradition, liberal civil religion is much more likely to include arguments about basic human rights and common human problems.

You're using the same argument that prejudice people used when trying to block African Americans and women civil rights.

Mark Movsesian and senior editor Mark Bauerlein discuss the Supreme Court's oral argument session regarding «Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission.»

The argument for gay rights and anti-discrimination laws depends heavily on asserting the analogy with the civil rights movement, in which skin color is not a choice but an unchangeable given.

Their goal is to use scientific studies to bolster arguments against giving gay and lesbian people political or civil rights.

And I will be adding this to my wonderful list of arguments of why Christianity should not be used to deny Gays and Lesbians their civil rights.

On the right, however, such «higher law» arguments become the basis not for civil disobedience but for armed confrontation with the state.

And for the record «states rights» was the argument used to fight civil rights, and most Americans are not bigotted either.

This argument resonated with many feminists and civil - rights activists and became widely adopted, leading to the «political correctness» justifiably hated by Rush Limbaugh and the «mental masturbation» lampooned by Woody Allen.

The judge's 72 - page decision barely addressed civil - rights lawyers» arguments that the state constitution outlaws all school segregation, regardless of whether government action brought it about.

Could a credible argument have been made in 1969, five years after passage of the Civil Rights Act, that the ambitious law was «not working» and therefore ought to be abandoned?

«The newest and one of the most potent arguments for advancing school choice in Pennsylvania has been pressed forward by state Sen. Anthony Williams, D - Philadelphia, and a handful of urban lawmakers who see the issue as the next step in the civil rights movement.»

He frames that argument in language from the Civil Rights Movement, which really?

Just as importantly, eight decades of court rulings — driven by the courtroom work of civil rights activists and school funding equity advocates — also provides reformers with the legal arguments necessary to challenge tenure laws and other policies that impede the constitutional obligation of states to provide children with high - quality education.

That was the argument of some civil rights groups and some political and business leaders.

Charter proponents ignored the argument put forth by civil rights groups that, as an Education Week reporter put it, expanding charters means «black families and communities are losing control of their public schools.»

You make a provocative argument that what could ultimately cause the charter bubble to burst in these communities is lawsuits, including those filed by parents against charter schools on civil rights grounds.

Even when using subjective data, Eden's arguments don't stand up to scrutiny, a point made by Daniel Losen of the Civil Rights Project at UCLA during testimony at a December hearing held by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights at which Eden also testified.

After participating in a six - week Teaching Matters program focused on the Constitution and civil rights, 7th and 8th grade students from eleven schools across the City will offer original arguments tied to current events, and be judged on their work.

But a civil liberties argument is also being used to challenge the hated Digital Rights Management system that underpins the Kindle.

Abstraction remains an area of research for Godfrey, and his current interests include the arguments made around abstraction in the Civil Rights era and the relationship of contemporary abstract painting to changes in technology.

She has a formidable record of success in arguments before the Supreme Court, and is notable for her high - profile work in civil rights cases as well as large - scale commercial appeals.

Laura has successfully argued a motion to dismiss a federal securities fraud class action, examined the expert witness and conducted the post-trial argument on evidentiary and valuation issues in an appraisal action in Delaware Chancery Court, and obtained a favorable federal jury verdict after a multi-day prisoner civil rights trial.

Anthony's expertise has also been recognised by the Legal 500 2017 edition, where he is recommended as a Leading Silk in Band 2 in crime as «a well - prepared, thorough and engaging advocate — his legal arguments are consistently impressive» and as a Leading Silk in Band 3 in the civil liberties and human rights category as being «well known in the field, especially in claims against the police.»

In April, U.S. District Judge John Corbett O'Meara agreed with that argument and dismissed a civil rights lawsuit brought on behalf of several Flint residents and a local business.

We are extremely proud this year to be presenting our Great Friend of Justice award to Mary L. Bonauto, the civil rights lawyer whose powerful arguments and long - term legal strategies have led to historic strides in achieving marriage equality for same - sex couples across the United States.

We are extremely proud this year to be presenting our Great Friend of Justice award to Mary L. Bonauto, the civil rights lawyer whose powerful arguments and long - term legal strategies have led to historic strides in -LSB-...]

For example in Ishaq v Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2015 FC 156, (a case about whether a woman could wear her niqab during a citizenship ceremony), six public interest groups — including the Ontario Human Rights Commission, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association and the National Council of Canadian Muslims — were refused permission to intervene, as the court determined that they could not advance their proposed arguments without social science evidence to back them up; nor could the court take judicial notice (facts and materials are accepted on a common sense basis without being formally admitted in evidence) of any of the facts necessary to support the arguments.

Superior Court original civil jurisdiction (i.e. opposed to appellate or criminal jurisdiction), other than territorial jurisdiction (I am assuming that Boston is actually the right location for your claim without knowing what it is for sake of argument) is as follows:

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, having read the social workers» argument that they were immune from liability in the civil rights action, was ready.

«Civil rights groups and others view ban - the - box initiatives as important toward re-entry efforts by ex-offenders, the argument being that these measures reduce unfair barriers to employment for those with criminal records,» said Montserrat Miller, a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Arnall Golden Gregory.

The banks» strongest argument rests on a 2011 Supreme Court case that involved not the Fair Housing Act, but Title VII, the more general civil - rights statute that is a cousin to the act.

The Appellate Court then reasoned as follows: «Patel bases his argument on the common law principle codified in Civil Code section 829 which states that «the owner of land has the right to the surface and to everything permanently situated beneath or above it.»»