Sentences with phrase «exclusionary laws»

Well - financed NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) activists and a small minority of labor unions defend exclusionary laws that prevent homebuilding, in both cities and suburbs.

Due to exclusionary laws, no student debt can be discharged under ANY bankruptcy law.

It is with dismay that I have listened, for the past five years or so, to direct - entry midwives criticizing nurse - midwives as «medwives» and «physician extenders,» and to nurse - midwives talking about professional direct - entry midwives as if they don't know very much, and working in some states to pass exclusionary laws.

Our commitment to gaining & maintaining extreme knowledge: a. Of Texas substantive product liability law; b. Of Texas & federal expert exclusionary law; c. Of how to destroy adverse experts during deposition & trial cross examination, and through the use of testing, demonstrations, statistical, and other technical evidence presented by a team of highest quality experts; d. Of the overlapping technical issues arising in product liability cases relating to the specific types of technologically advanced products that we defend, which overlapping of issues facilitates our development and maintenance of our extreme knowledge.

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The law provides funding for Youth PROMISE plans, which are aimed at reducing exclusionary discipline practices.

HUD finally accepted an analysis from Westchester County that found there weren't any exclusionary zoning laws in Westchester, county officials said, after previously rejected 10 earlier versions that reached similar conclusions.

That finding by the nation's second highest court clearly repudiated the allegation that Westchester's zoning laws are discriminatory and exclusionary.

The contrived nature of the system is even more abundantly clear when it comes to the discriminatory burdens placed on the nation's minor parties and independent candidates, whether the issue is unfair ballot access laws or the arbitrary and exclusionary 15 percent polling threshold imposed by the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) on the Libertarian Party's Gary Johnson and Jill Stein of the Greens — or any other third - party presidential candidate, for that matter — to appear in the nationally - televised debates this autumn.

We can not be the fairest big city in America if we have some of the most unfair and exclusionary election laws of any state in the country.

As of May 2015, 22 states and the District of Columbia had revised their laws in order to require or encourage schools to: limit the use of exclusionary discipline practices; implement supportive (that is, nonpunitive) discipline strategies that rely on behavioral interventions; and provide support services such as counseling, dropout prevention, and guidance services for at - risk students.

Effective remedies to improve instruction, learning and school climate (including, e.g., decreases in bullying and harassment, use of exclusionary discipline practices, use of police in schools, and student referrals to law enforcement) for students enrolled are implemented in any school where the school as a whole, or any subgroup of students, has not met the annual achievement and graduation targets or where achievement gaps persist.

As many of you know, Black students are disproportionately referred to law enforcement and school - related arrests, as well as subjected to exclusionary discipline.

The report revealed that at least 253 charter schools in California were potentially violating the law by maintaining exclusionary admission requirements for students.

I'm not clear if the law is met if there is open admission and audition is exclusionary in admission to certain programs but the school is required to provide general education for those not in a special program.

The report noted that black students are disproportionately dealt the harshest exclusionary penalties — expulsions and out - of - school suspensions.1 In 2014, the California state legislature passed a state law (AB420) prohibiting public schools from expelling any student or suspending students in third grade or earlier grades for the offense of «willful defiance» — a catchall category of offenses (including disruption) ranging from shouting obscenities at a teacher to forgetting to bring a pencil to class.

Over 1 in 5 of California's charter schools have restrictive admissions requirements or other exclusionary practices that keep out many students with the greatest academic needs, a report released Monday by the ACLU Foundation of Southern California and the public interest law firm Public Advocates alleges.

The author looks at how state - sponsored segregatio0n has played out in various cities across the United States, particularly in Louisville, Kentucky, and Seattle, Washington, and how it's now locked in place by exclusionary zoning laws.

«This used to be what we called a «walk - through only neighborhood,»» recalled artist Dale Brockman Davis, referring to the city's exclusionary zoning laws that prevented African, Asian, or Latin American families from moving into many of the more desirable middle - class neighborhoods.

I suspect that Garner and I differ quite a bit politically, but I like to think we agree that the ideal of equal treatment under the law is best served when legal writing strives to be democratic (note the lower - case «d' there) rather than exclusionary, and, legal terms of art aside, understandable by any literate person.

What it was ultimately about though is that we don't need a new law school, doing everything the old way of doing things, and adding exclusionary criteria that runs contrary to human rights principles.

Legal professional privilege is not merely an exclusionary rule of evidence, but is also a substantive right, which is afforded overriding importance within English law.

However, the law can be an exclusionary profession, and the process of legal research may intimidate the average consumer.

Current snapshots of law school demographics completely ignores the larger picture of the existing demographics of the bar, as well as exclusionary bars preventing advancement of minorities into these positions.

The magazine offers timely, informative articles written for and by criminal defense lawyers, featuring the latest developments in search and seizure laws, DUI / DWI, grand jury proceedings, habeas, the exclusionary rule, death penalty, RICO, federal sentencing guidelines, forfeiture, white collar crime, and more.

In the U.S., LSAT scores play a major role in how law schools get ranked, potentially contributing to more exclusionary practices.

In the same way that blogging democratizes the law by facilitating the free dissemination of legal information, the authorship of those blog posts, and who they are, increases the transparency in a profession that is still enormously hierarchical and exclusionary to new entrants.

Some of the comments indicating that clients expect lawyers «to look the part» should not translate into discriminatory hiring practices by law firms or exclusionary behaviour while within a law firm.

Let's abandon our exclusionary practices and, in the spirit of public service, of free access to law and open access to legal information, let's reform our anachronistic citation practices.

But while the court's decision helpfully clarifies the law, it generally tries to avoid big questions, leaving deeper debates about statutory exclusionary rules for another day.