Sentences with phrase «failed black law»
Richard Sander, the UCLA law professor who says empirical data demonstrates that affirmative action has failed black law students, has agreed to chat about the subject from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. EST Wednesday on ALM's Legal Times.
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After a Staten Island grand jury failed to indict a white NYPD officer in the death of Garner, a black Staten Islander, last year, critics in political and academic circles charged that local district attorneys, who often work closely with the police to prosecute crimes, are too close to law enforcement to consistently bring charges against them when they run afoul of the law.
Friday, White Plains police Officer Michael Hannon stood with other Black Law Enforcement officers as they expressed their outrage in the failed investigation of the Westchester County DA's office.
What is most disturbing is that the Westchester County District Attorney Janet Difiore failed miserably to investigate the assault by an Assistant Chief of a Police Department «Said Damon K. Jones, New York Representative of Blacks in Law Enforcement of America.
Years of effort failed to change those laws until New York elected a black governor and a minority - led, Democrat - controlled State Senate.
Under the framework being proposed for the reform of the law, the administration would require that, unless a school is among the very worst in the nation, it would no longer be required to improve even if it continues to fail its black, Hispanic and other disadvantaged kids.
The lawsuit, filed by the nonprofit Public Interest Law Office of Rochester in September 1998, claims that the state has deprived the plaintiffs — all low - income black and Hispanic students — of their rights under the state constitution to a sound basic education by failing to alleviate concentrations of poverty in the 37,000 - student Rochester school district.
Cohen, from the Southern Poverty Law Center, says the OCR quickly resolved his group's complaint against the state of Georgia for failing to identify black students who may be learning - disabled.
This sort of law is not wholly different from past sumptuary laws, which were ostensibly aimed at «restraining luxury or extravagance... in the matter of apparel, food, furniture, etc.,» as Black's puts it, when in fact they were about maintaining social class distinctions and hierarchies — and mostly they failed.
On Wednesday, seven of the websites were down and two links showed a black screen with «Failed Law.
In related Uber news, a group of supporters of London's black cab taxis this week kicked off a crowdfunding campaign they're hoping will finance an application to secure a judicial review of the legality of Uber's PHV licence — arguing that TfL failed to uphold the existing law when it granted Uber a licence to operate in 2012.