Sentences with phrase «civil rights matters»

Over the years Mr. Crump has dedicated his areas of practice in serious personal injury, wrongful death, and civil rights matters.

D. Mark Jackson is a Partner who represents clients in commercial litigation, product liability, toxic tort, fire litigation, and civil rights matters.

Danielle currently represents a Wisconsin nonprofit organization in state and federal court in suits involving the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), a death - sentenced Georgia inmate and is involved in other civil rights matters.

Doyle noted that Wilson has been a partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York City since 1992 «where he has handled a wide variety of cases, including complex commercial and civil rights matters.

She has 10 years experience as a paralegal and legal office administrator in boutique firms specializing in criminal defense, civil rights matters, and consumer bankruptcy.

Although this blog spends most of its time addressing criminal case issues, my practice includes personal injury claims, wrongful death claims, contract disputes and civil rights matters.

The firm concentrates its practice defending a broad spectrum of personal injury, employment discrimination, and civil rights matters.

There, he met law students and lawyers working on civil rights matters, «and it just seemed to me that the lawyers were getting a lot more done than the seminary students.»

Within these broad practice areas, our lawyers have deep knowledge and experience in a variety of legal matters, including the development and review of contracts, regulatory compliance issues, risk management, collective bargaining, civil rights matters, personal injury, property and business transactions, and legislative concerns — to name just a few.

Within these broad practice areas, their lawyers have deep knowledge and experience in a variety of legal matters, including the development and review of contracts, regulatory compliance issues, risk management, collective bargaining, civil rights matters, personal injury, property and business transactions, and legislative concerns — to name just a few.

As an intern, you will have the opportunity to work on a wide variety of matters such as: appropriations, fiscal law and financial management; acquisitions, financial assistance and public private partnerships; innovative financing; real property and asset management; information technology investment and capital planning; employee ethical conduct, conflicts of interest and political activities; equal employment opportunity and other civil rights matters; Federal personnel and employment; and alternative dispute resolution.

Mr. Keller's practice includes the representation of school districts, charter schools and other public and private sector employers in all areas, including labor, employment civil rights matters and special education matters.

This is not a Christian — non Christian matter; it is a civil rights matter.

I'm certain that had he lived to see a gay rights movement he would have been marching right alongside them as he did for minorities, the poor and oppressed, because it would have been a civil rights matter for him; a matter of justice for, as he said, ALL of God's people.

This is a civil rights matter, but not a racial one.

A group of city high school students disrupted a NYC Council hearing where Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña was about to speak, chanting «civil rights matter» to protest a lack of sports programs at their schools.

A group of city high school students disrupted a City Council hearing where Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña was about to speak, chanting «civil rights matter» to protest a lack of sports programs at their schools.

First, it is most certainly a civil rights matter when there are racial disparities in how policies are applied, and there is most definitely a role for the federal government to be sure this does not happen.

For example, when faced with a challenging civil rights matter, he draws upon his days as a Deputy Federal Public Defender when analyzing allegations of excessive force, over detention and police misconduct.

One junior spoke about «a civil rights matter defending an inmate that was abused by a police officer.»

It is a petty squabble, masquerading as a civil rights matter, that has no place in federal court or any other court.

In June 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on a civil rights matter many have been waiting years to finally hear.

Not exact matches

«What's at risk is our foreign policy, that it will be influenced not by what matters — human rights, civil rights or legitimate economic interests — but by the Philippines» ability to get in the good graces of our president.»

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.

This works in tandem with designations like «Black Identity Extremism», a made up term by the FBI to attack Black organizers,» said Janaya Khan, a Black Lives Matter activist and organizer with the national civil rights group Color of Change.

Since the Civil Rights Act, discriminationhas become a dirty word» no matter that it is no more than an upscale, polysyllabic synonym for choice.

«Civil marriage is a civil right and a matter of civilCivil marriage is a civil right and a matter of civilcivil right and a matter of civilcivil law.

«We maintain therefore that in matters of Religion, no man's right is abridged by the inst.itution of Civil Society, and that Religion is wholly exempt from its cognizance.

The voters in CA will not matter if this is determined to be a matter of civil rights, in which case the «tyranny of the majority» will be overturned.

It was originally a term of Roman and Civil law to express the character of a contract which in a single matter involved several obligations on the part of the debtors, with corresponding rights to the creditors....

Among other things, it looks at Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement, and how he was not simply interested in «building bridges» nor in waiting for the white moderates to come around, because it was a matter of justice and something had to change!

Furthermore, theological affirmations regarding the divinely appointed vocation of each individual coincide with concern for the civil and human rights of each person born into the world, no matter how conceived.

Furthermore, we must guard against the notion that reproducing (or in this case replicating) children, no matter what the reason or cost, constitutes a civil right.

Case in point is the civil rights movement the responsibility of the church is to fight for the equal treatment of all human beings in all places at all times no matter what policies the state has in place.

It would not have been a civil case only (as the victim would retain the right to sue in civil court as well) but a criminal matter, punishable by time in prison.

Once we get to a point in this country where people like you can't march to the ballot box and restrict my CIVIL rights (while notably leaving your own intact, no matter how «unscriptural» those rights are), then we'll talk.

John, civil rights do in fact matter to me... and once again, civil marriage has nothing to do with anyone's religion.

I do not hold an opinion on this issue but to ask from the sidelines if what you declare that Gays and Lesbians want are the rights then if Civil Unions which would give all of the rights and benefits to Gay and Lesbian couples in all matters, would you accept this and drop the desire for the term «marriage» to be used.

No matter what version, it's immoral to impose your religion and deny others civil rights.

In 1964 Jerry Falwell was a Virginia pastor who insisted during the civil rights controversy that religious people should stay out of politics and focus entirely on spiritual matters.

Majority does not rule n matters of civil rights, and I suspect that when the SCOTUS finally rules on this issue, you're going to be very unhappy.

No matter what version, it's immoral to impose your religious superstition and deny others civil rights.

Petty apartheid, the public facilities Jim Crow practices that are truly being phased out in the larger cities (where they matter), are trivial and largely irrelevant to the grander strategies of both apartheid and liberation: A point sometimes lost on American liberals who remember the U.S. civil rights activism of the sixties.

Before we turn to the second part of my remarks, it's also worth noting that the full title of Dignitatis Humanae is: On the right of the person and of communities to social and civil freedom in matters religious.

Maybe you should go do a little bit of studying on the matter before attempting to argue for my civil rights.

Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»

Marriage, or for that matter civil union, can not create rights and obligations unless it is legally contracted.

What we often neglect to say: Marriage, or for that matter civil union, can not create rights and obligations unless it is legally contracted.

The conservative mass of people, recovering from the shock of civil war, acknowledged that Luther might be in the right on many matters but were waiting to see whether, after the war, an excommunicate and an outlaw still had might on his side.

School prayer and abortion — the items highlighted in the survey — are comfortably within the realm of family values, but they are something else, too: questions closely allied to the First and Fourteenth Amendments, to civil rights as much as to family values, and, above all, to the nature of the relationship between the individual and the Creator who, as our Declaration states, endows each one of us with every right that matters.