Sentences with phrase «civil rights decisions»

Rosenstock's Section 1983 Civil Rights Digest: Quick access to 2,000 civil rights decisions in employment discrimination, police misconduct, public employee conduct, sexual harassment, and more.

In this episode, award - winning writer / director Jeff Nichols talks about bringing a highly charged true story to the screen and finding the personal connection to Richard and Mildred Loving — apolitical people at the center of the landmark 1967 civil rights decision of the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate laws prohibiting interracial marriage.

Any time there is a landmark civil rights decision in this country it reminds me of how amazing our system of law and government can be, and makes me proud to be an American.

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In its Vance vs. Ball State decision Monday, the Supreme Court curtailed the ability of employees to sue for workplace discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Congress passed it to overturn the Supreme Court's 1976 decision that pregnancy discrimination is not sex discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Civil rights advocates howled: how could Ledbetter have known that the her bosses were paying her less than the menfolk so soon after they had taken the decision?

Thomas E. Perez, the former Maryland labor secretary nominated to lead the U.S. Department of Labor, faced pointed questions at his Senate confirmation hearing Thursday about whether politics influenced his decisions as the top civil rights attorney in...

The Trump administration's pick for a key position overseeing the 2020 Census is out, the Commerce Department confirmed Monday, as civil rights groups applauded the decision.

A company that even printed out a contract like that would be liable under the Civil Rights Act, because it is illegal to discriminate in employment decisions on the basis of religion.

When the believers in this nonexistent christ want to encode their beliefs in civil law and deny me the right make my own medical and reproductive decisions, or who my neighbor can marry, that's enough motivation to speak out.

Before the 1970s, evangelicals voted as often for Democrats as for Republicans, but in the wake of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, a Supreme Court decision ending prayer in public schools, and the legalisation of abortion in 1973, the Republican Party recognised an opportunity to build a new coalition of Christian conservatives upset with the cultural changes sweeping the country.

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DC based Human Rights Campaign, a lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered civil rights group, lauded the court's decRights Campaign, a lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered civil rights group, lauded the court's decrights group, lauded the court's decision.

They include the «chilling effects» of libel suits, the perennial conflicts between property and access, the three out of four publishers who intervene in news decisions affecting their local markets, the advertisers» freedom to move their money to where their interests are, industry self - regulation in broadcasting and advertising, the backlash against conveying under duress (as in a hostage crisis) points of view that are never aired as directly without duress, the flareups of book banning and censorship of textbooks, the rout of the civil rights movement, the retreat from principles of fairness and equality (even where never implemented), the attack on scientific and humane teaching, the threat of self - appointed media watchdogs to also spy on teachers in the classroom, and the general vigor of ancient orthodoxies masquarading as neo-this and neo-that.

From the beginning, civil rights leaders» the NAACP in particular» adopted the broadest conceivable reading of the decision.

The imperatives that civil rights leaders (and many federal judges) read into the decision» forced integration, mass busing, racial balance» were simply, in his view, not there.

The decision to declassify homosexuality was accompanied by the passage of an APA Position Statement, which supported the protection of the civil rights of homosexual persons.

It is unique also because it comes so soon after King's assassination in 1968 and at a time when the policy decisions made during his leadership of the civil rights movement are still being disputed.

Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League For Religious and Civil Rights, called the decision «mind - boggling» and «indefensible and obscene,» speculating that anti-Catholic bigotry was at play.

On Monday, the US Supreme Court announced it will take on the case of Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, which involves a Christian baker defending his decision to turn down wedding cake orders for same - sex couples.

The civil rights movement was fueled as much by the Court's deference to democratic decision - making as it was by Brown.

(A) kin to a public marriage contract, we need an official «co-parenting agreement» and associated civil status, which not only enshrines the rights and responsibilities of each parent in respect of their children, but also sets out the principles by which they relate to one another and make decisions.

4) Facilitation / Divorce Co-ordinator (Couples / Family): Facilitation can be used to resolve any type of family dispute — divorce (financial aspects, contact and care, rights and responsibilities in respect of the parents to the children, holiday contact, maintenance issues), post-divorce disputes (ongoing contact, disputes with regard to joint decisions to be made between the parties etc), maintenance, permanent relationship or civil union disputes, relocation matters, testamentary division.

It is as if the representatives of Safe Sleep Committees nationwide, who are general supported by public monies, assume that it is their civil right and not the parents civil rights to make one of the most important decisions parents make: how they will choose to care for and express their love to, their infants.

Same - sex couples deserve the right to join in civil marriage, and it is simply unfair to deny them the freedom to make this decision for themselves and their families.

Rep. Jerrold Nadler said Obama's decisions solidifies that the Stonewall riots were the launching point of the modern LGBT civil rights movement.

He goes on to say, «Article 9 of the Charter simply leaves it to States to decide whether they wish to afford homosexual couples the right to marry» — and this in the context of a decision about civil, not religious marriage.

Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand and Claire McCaskill are calling on U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to reverse a decision from her department's Office for Civil Rights changing the way it investigates complaints, arguing that the move would hamper investigations into sexual assault on college campuses.

The U.S. Justice Department has filed court papers in a New York case arguing that a major federal civil rights law does not protect employees from discrimination based on sexual orientation, taking a stand against a decision reached under President Barack Obama.

New York State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia and New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today vehemently objected to the recent decision by the federal Department of Education to no longer investigate civil rights complaints from transgender students regarding access to bathroom facilities.

The federal government's announcement earlier this month is just the latest action to further diminish civil rights protections for transgender students and follows the February 2017 decision by President Trump and the federal Departments of Education and Justice to rescind guidance that clarified federal legal protections for transgender students.

Despite getting flak from civil rights advocates over his decision to veto bills that would have legalized specific kinds of pocket knives and offering more state funds to compensate lawyers designated by the court to represent defendants who don't make enough money to afford a lawyer for defense in a criminal case, people roared in applause throughout Cuomo's speech.

Speaking to politics.co.uk, gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell said opponents were trying to prevent religious officials from making their own decisions on civil partnerships.

Two weeks after debating whether or not to comply on time with the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights, the Buffalo School Board has come to a final decision.

Two of the Council members joining de Blasio on the dais today, Levine and Councilwoman Vanessa Gibson, have both sponsored legislation to establish a «right to counsel» for those face life - altering decisions in civil courts — something that has become an increasing concern of many legal professionals, including former Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman.

Michael Meyers, executive director of the New York Civil Rights Coalition, who has also threatened to sue, blasted Steiner's decision as a «shocking capitulation to political expediency,» and «a scam and a sham.»

«As New York president of the oldest civil rights organization in the nation, I am alarmed by your decision to exclude the Newburgh area, a community that is 80 percent African American and Latino, from participating in the competition for the fourth casino gaming license,» Hazel Dukes wrote in the letter.

«The New York Judge's decision on stop - and - frisk is a huge victory for those of us that have marched and fought against it for years saying is a violation of our constitutional and civil rights.

A chorus of community groups, minority advocates, union leaders and civil rights figures chimed in to add their disappointment with Quinn's decision.

Civil - rights advocates hailed Mr. Cuomo's decision as a long overdue step toward helping former inmates re-enter society.

Cuomo, who signed legislation in 2011 making New York the largest state to legalize same - sex marriage, called the DOMA and Prop. 8 decisions «groundbreaking civil rights victories.»

Decisions of the treaty - monitoring bodies, however, are not well enforced, relying heavily on the will of governments and the strength of civil society to demand compliance with human rights laws.

This unwillingness to let computers override the terrible decisions of terrible drivers is rather ironic, says Brad Templeton, an influential Internet entrepreneur and expert on civil rights in the digital age; accident avoidance is one of the most appropriate ways to have computers intrude into our lives.

Hudson and Goodhand called on the HHS Office for Civil Rights to explicitly say that the regulation «includes variant calls» — decisions about whether a variant is benign, for example — «and raw sequencing files, giving patients the right under HIPAA to routinely access them and thus contribute to research and improved health.»

Civil rights groups and others blasted the decision, predicting that the new question would prompt many immigrants to refuse to fill out the form.

According to the authors, the present study reinforces the notion that altruistic decisions emerge from complex cognitive process that come into action during a moral decision, for instance if one is for or against civil rights.

The problem lies not simply with Ross's controversial, eleventh - hour decision last month to add a citizenship question to the decennial census, although civil rights groups, local and state governments, and business leaders believe the question will depress participation and jeopardize an accurate head count in 2020.

The embryo and the unborn fetus can not participate in the decision — there is no level of self - awareness or understanding that would enable that participation — therefore there is no interference with any right as afforded by our Constitution or civil law.

So, making the decision to transform at the risk of their own safety, civil rights, and personal health requires an incredible sense of identity.

When I asked why Carlson didn't simply go to another dating service, her lawyer evoked the image of Rosa Parks, noting that «nearly every step in civil rights law, you could have said the same thing... There is a big difference between the sites that allow the customers to self - select who they are looking for» and a site that makes the decision «to exclude a minority group.»