Sentences with phrase «court challenges program»

«In his 2002 book Friends of the Court: The Privileging of Interest Group Litigants in Canada, Harper's present chief of staff, Ian Brodie, criticized the Court Challenges Program for unduly favouring feminist and gay - rights groups, and noted that Supreme Court decisions benefiting such groups offer the high court «all the fun of making political decisions under the guise of interpreting constitutional law».»

There is now a website devoted to saving the court challenges program.

Following through on their election promise, the Federal Government has committed to reinstating and updating the Court Challenges Program («CCP») after the Harper government cut the entire budget in 2006.

CRARR is a partner of different stakeholders, including the Court Challenges Program of Canada, the Table de concertation des organismes au service des personnes réfugiées et immigrantes du Québec, Pinay, the Public Service Alliance of Canada and the Concordia Student Union Legal Information Clinic.

On February 25 and 26, the Fédération des communautés francophones et acadienne du Canada will appear before the Federal Court to challenge the withdrawal of funding from the Court Challenges Program.

Our submission called for increased civil legal aid funding and for a robust Court Challenges Program to support legal challenges defending equality rights, among other important measures.

West Coast LEAF also called for a revamped Court Challenges Program (CCP).

The Justice Committee has undertaken a study of Access to the Justice System, and is considering issues such as access to legal aid, the resurrection of the Court Challenges Program, delays in the justice system, and the Minister of Justice's obligation to ensure that new legislation upholds constitutionally protected rights and freedoms.

The Court Challenges Program has supported challenges and interventions of national importance, giving rise to the rich body of equality jurisprudence in Canada — a body of jurisprudence that is internationally respected and emulated in other nations.

I am surprised there hasn't been any comment on the other funding cuts announced yesterday ie The Law Commission of Canada, The Court Challenges program, etc..

In light of the abolition of the Court Challenges Program, which would have applied to a case such as this one, and since the respondent [Crown] appears to have acknowledged the importance of the principles in issue in this case, as she has not asked for costs, the appellants are awarded the requested amount.»

The University of Ottawa has been selected by the federal government to administer the recently revamped Court Challenges Program.

Information on Blue J Legal, ROSS, StandIn Law and the New Court Challenges Program — and the minds behind them.

Not exact matches

One official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations, said that Mr. Trump was sympathetic to the plight of the young immigrants, known as Dreamers — many have known life only in the United States and have few connections to the countries of their birth — but had been told by Justice Department lawyers that his predecessor's program would not survive a court challenge.

But there was no resolution for Dreamers, the young immigrants who have been living in the United States illegally since childhood, but whose deportation protections are being challenged in court after Trump tried to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA.

Ramirez filed a challenge to his detention in Seattle federal court on Monday, arguing that the government violated his constitutional rights because he had work authorization under the DACA program, his lawsuit said.

To be sure, something depends upon how a challenged program is designed and which President makes the next Court appointments; nevertheless there is a high probability that educational subsidies empowering the family to choose among the full array of providers will not be found an «establishment of religion.»

A trial court in Rensselaer County has thrown out a union challenge to a pair of programs started by Cuomo — the Empire and Excelsior Service fellowships — that recruits young professionals and those just getting out of school, to work at high level jobs in state government for two year periods.

The Supreme Court also rejected a challenge to a race - conscious admissions program at the University of Texas at Austin, handing supporters of affirmative action a major victory.

In the ruling by Supreme Court Justice Richard McNally tossing the suit, the challenge was deemed «arbitrary and capricious» while requiring a competitive civil service examination for the fellowship program was called impractical, given that it only lasts for two years.

A legal challenge by the state's Public Employees Federation challenging the legality of a fellowship program created Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration was rejected on Thursday by a state Supreme Court.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the consideration of race in college admissions, rejecting a white woman's challenge to a University of Texas program designed to boost the enrollment of minority students.

The lawsuit, which will be brought in Erie County Supreme Court, challenges the police department's refusal to produce records about the city's traffic safety checkpoint program, which were requ...

DEQ will also be studying how a cap - and - trade program would interact with existing programs, including the state's renewable portfolio standard, its clean fuels program and U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan for power plants, which is currently on hold pending court challenges.

The entire Internet censorship program, he says, is currently being challenged by Internet freedom groups in the Council of State, Turkey's highest court.

The U.S. Supreme Court will take up the question of whether parents can be reimbursed under the main federal special education law for the fees of experts they hire as part of challenges to their children's individualized education programs.

In January, the Florida Supreme Court dismissed a legal challenge to the state's Tax Credit Scholarship Program, thereby preserving financial aid opportunities for thousands of low - income students to attend private schools.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — A bumper crop of school choice programs was passed into law in the last year, but education associations and teacher unions wasted no time in challenging virtually every new law in court.

A lawyer for the parents who challenged the program said last week that they plan to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Paul E. Peterson discusses his pick for Choice Media's Story of the Day: the ruling of the Florida Supreme Court rejecting a union's attempt to challenge the state's tax credit scholarship program.

Although most of the programs have been extremely successful, they have not been without controversy, and many are still being challenged in court.

Saul fails to mention this inconvenient fact, writing only that: «For school choice advocates, the genius of the program was that the money would never go into public accounts, making it less susceptible to court challenges.»

In 1998, it refused to hear a challenge to a voucher program in Milwaukee that was approved by the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

The courts» role in this process is to outline in general, principled terms the expectation that the legislative and executive branches will develop challenging standards, fair and adequate funding systems, and effective programs and accountability measures, but to leave to the programs and the political branches the full responsibility for actually formulating these policies.

As Clint Bolick of the Goldwater Institute details in the report, publicly funded educational choice programs have a mixed record in court, but STC laws have a perfect record of withstanding constitutional challenges.

The U.S. Supreme Court will use the legal challenge to this program to decide the constitutionality...

Opponents would claim that the inclusion of religious schools among the choices for parents violated the separation of church and state, required by the federal constitution, and they challenged the program in court.

The Cleveland - only program was vigorously challenged, with the U.S. Supreme Court deciding on a five - to - four vote in 2002 that it was constitutional.

For the next 25 years, Dockterman tested and created dozens of educational programs, among them the award - winning Science Court, an animated television show that aired on ABC Kids that taught the fundamental concepts of elementary and middle school science; the Great Ocean Rescue, a computer application where students face four challenging rescue missions that take them deep into the world's oceans; and Decisions, Decisions, a game that teaches students the complexities of topics like immigration, the constitution, environment, or building a nation through role - playing and informed discussion.

Florida's teachers union struck out Wednesday in its latest effort to dismantle a tax credit scholarship program as the state's Supreme Court rejected the union's appeal for legal standing to challenge the voucher - like program that finances students from low - performing schools who want to attend private schools.

After a series of court challenges, the transfer program survived and continues today.

The groups had previously been told by both the trial court and appeals court that they did not have legal standing to challenge the 15 - year - old program adopted by the Legislature, and Wednesday's rejection ends their appeal.

The American Civil Liberties Union and Americans United for the Separation of Church and State immediately challenged the program in court, and Denver district court judge Michael A Martinez issued a permanent injunction in August.

The courts» role in this process is to outline in general, principled terms the expectation that the legislative and executive branches will develop challenging standards, fair and adequate funding systems, and effective accountability measures, but to leave to the programs and the political branches the full responsibility for actually formulating these policies.

Coming on the heels of the U.S. Supreme Court's Zelman decision, approving the public funding of religious schooling, Colorado's program was the first enacted without the cloud of a potential First Amendment challenge.

They challenged the program, and we fought all the way to the Florida Supreme Court.

«We will take our challenge to the First District Court of Appeals, because ftp firmly believes that both the Merit Schools Program and the Master Teacher Program are unconstitutional,» said Ruth Holmes, president of the ftp «The programs are inequitable, infeasible, and discriminatory,» she charged.

Many of the laws, including Indiana's voucher program, Arizona's savings accounts, and a new voucher program in Douglas County, Colorado, were challenged in court shortly after passage.

The lawsuit — filed Nov. 14 in the Arizona Supreme Court on behalf of the parents by People for the American Way, a Washington - based advocacy group, and other groups — marks the first time a voucher program for special - needs students has been challenged in court, according to the Institute for Justice, an Arlington, Va. - based legal - advocacy group that wiCourt on behalf of the parents by People for the American Way, a Washington - based advocacy group, and other groups — marks the first time a voucher program for special - needs students has been challenged in court, according to the Institute for Justice, an Arlington, Va. - based legal - advocacy group that wicourt, according to the Institute for Justice, an Arlington, Va. - based legal - advocacy group that will...

«The Future of Vouchers: Lessons from the Adoption, Design, and Court Challenges of Florida's Three Voucher Programs,» Educational Policy, Vol 21, Issue 1.