Sentences with phrase «court on behalf of women»

It's more than a question of money or strength, physical and mental: King was taking court on behalf of women all over the world, people who felt they, too, should be treated as equals.

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In a new complaint seeking class action status, two women — who are maintaining anonymity — are asking a court to force the $ 69 billion ride - hail company to change many of its driver screening and other practices on behalf of all U.S. riders who were «subject to rape, sexual assault or gender - motivated violence or harassment by their Uber driver in the last four years.»

Attorney Pete Gleason said he was contacted by two separate women over the course of a year about alleged assault at the hands of former Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, and maintained in a court filing that he had communications with Michael Cohen, after an intermediary reached out on his behalf to Trump.

The plaintiffs in the suit before the Federal High Court — Ewenla Fishermen Cooperative Society Limited, Afenifere Fish Sellers Better - Life Igbokusu, Eti - Osa Fishermen Cooperative Society Limited, Kolawole Giwa Balogun, and Alhaji Folani Oladipupo Sikiru suing for themselves and on behalf of all fishermen / women and fish sellers in Eti - Osa.

The Landmark Legal Foundation has filed suit in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles on behalf of Mary Amaya, a Fontana, Calif., woman who claims her son was denied an intelligence test on the basis of his race.

More notably, the women asked that the court issue the injunction not just on their own behalves, but on behalf of all women in Massachusetts — a request that would effectively mean Marzilli would have to stay away from all members of the opposite sex.

«The impediments to women of bringing discrimination claims against their firms to court are great,» said Wendi S. Lazar, a partner at Outten & Golden in New York City who testified on behalf of the women's commission.

Today the women's health care providers who jointly filed suit last month on behalf of their patients have filed an emergency application with the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate an injunction granted by U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel on October 28 blocking a Texas provision requiring doctors who provide abortions to obtain admitting privileges at a local hospital — a requirement that leading medical associations oppose and only results in women losing access to safe medical care.

It was argued on behalf of the supposedly LGBTI - friendly UK Government (represented by Nicky Morgan, the Secretary of State for Education and Minister for Women and Equalities) that the High Court should follow two anti-LGBTI decisions from 2006.

In 1929, overturning the Supreme Court of Canada's decision that «Persons» in the constitution excluded women, Lord Sankey, on behalf of the Privy Council, directed the Court to interpret the Canadian constitution as a «living tree capable of growth and expansion», and in a «large and liberal», not a «narrow and technical» way.

Yesterday, a 2 - 1 decision, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in a case brought by the Center for Reproductive Rights on behalf of several Texas abortion providers, ruled against Texas women and allowed abortion restrictions to eviscerate women's access to safe and legal abortion in the state.

Tallahassee, FL — Today on behalf of four women's health care centers and two individual physicians, the Center for Reproductive Rights and Planned Parenthood Federation of America asked a federal court to strike down a new law that will endanger the health and lives of young women seeking abortions in Florida.