Sentences with phrase «first public defense»

For more than a century, we have pioneered access to justice at the national, state, and local levels in multiple ways: helping create many of the first public defense systems in the country; supporting the Legal Services Corporation; developing nationally applicable standards for legal representation; and advocating for groundbreaking legislation.

Not exact matches

And yet, even when the abuse allegations were first reported to the public this week, Kelly came to Porter's defense.

If anything, the first few weeks of the year have served as a valuable reminder that investing in public markets is inherently volatile and that our main defense against that volatility is to diversify our risk exposures by owning a variety of asset classes and risk factors.

The offices of Public Advocate Letitia James and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito could not come up with a defense for the ongoing practice, first exposed by The Post two months ago, and passed the buck to the NYPD.

«They are our first line of defense because they are the first ones to find the neglected swimming pools that are virtually hidden from public view,» Contra Costa Mosquito and Vector Control District spokeswoman Deborah Bass told the Contra Costa Times on Monday.

When you get together a possible partner on your site online and free for the first time, decides to meet in a public place, never at home Use your ordinary sense and take simple defense like telling somebody where you go, you there, or even twice dating with a friend.

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1912: NEA endorses Women's Suffrage 1919: NEA members in New Jersey lead the way to the nation's first state pension; by 1945, every state had a pension plan in effect 1941: NEA successfully lobbied Congress for special funding for public schools near military bases 1945: NEA lobbied for the G.I. Bill of Rights to help returning soldiers continue their education 1958: NEA helps gain passage of the National Defense Education Act 1964: NEA lobbies to pass the Civil Rights Act 1968: NEA leads an effort to establish the Bilingual Education Act 1974: NEA backs a case heard before the U.S. Supreme Court that proposes to make unlawful the firing of pregnant teachers or forced maternity leave 1984: NEA fights for and wins passage of a federal retirement equity law that provides the means to end sex discrimination against women in retirement funds 2000s: NEA has lobbied for changes to the No Child Left Behind Act 2009: NEA delegates to the Representative Assembly pass a resolution that opposes the discriminatory treatment of same - sex couple

And my supreme delight is derived from seeing the critics realize what I have known since all the essays were first submitted to me by the many parent, student, teacher, and administrator contributors to the book: There is a new leadership emerging across the country, with stirring stories of personal courage, in defense of public education.

Our readers, over 1.2 million last year, were helpful in achieving passage of the Military Dog Retirement Act in the National Defense Authorization Bill giving first adoption priority to civilian Law Enforcement Agencies, then to prior military handlers, and finally to the general public.

While acknowledging that a judge has an interest — perhaps even a First Amendment interest — in self - defense against public criticism, Kaufman writes:

Her accomplishments include development of legal reforms following Deepwater Horizon, the successful defense of the first renewables on public lands, and the historic settlement of the largest class action lawsuit in U.S. history — the Cobell tribal trust litigation.

But would the barely trained criminal defense lawyer have the competence of one who first works as a public defender or prosecutor?

Mary L. Bonauto, the civil rights lawyer for Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders who was lead counsel in Goodridge v. Dept. of Public Health — the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court case in 2003 that legalized same - sex marriage in the United States for the first time — said the suit asks the court to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act because it targets gays and lesbians for discrimination.

The Rockland Public Defender's Office remains the first line of defense for poor people.

Jonathan joined Lightfoot in September 2012 and has represented clients in many areas of civil defense litigation including product liability, premises liability, toxic torts, public record and first amendment disputes, and business and commercial cases.

Both ironic and disturbing: rejecting a First Amendment defense, a New York court says city and state public accommodation law may forbid the left - wing National Lawyers Guild from turning down (in line with its position favoring an Israel boycott) an attempt from a group based in West Bank Israeli settlements to buy an ad in its awards banquet program [Eugene Volokh]

In one of his last public acts before announcing his resignation, Attorney General Eric Holder submitted a statement of interest supporting the Hurrell - Harring lawsuit, the first ever U.S. Department of Justice show of support in a state court proceeding on public defense.

Hurrell - Harring v. New York would have been the first time any state stood trial for its public defense failures, calling attention to a nationwide criminal justice crisis where poor, or indigent, defendants are too often effectively denied the right to counsel, creating a two - tiered system of justice.

The obstructionists, in Stewart's view, included county prosecutors, the trial judge, the assistant public defender who represented him at his first trial (which ended in a mistrial), the private defense lawyer who represented him between the two trials, jail officials he says unfairly denied him access to the law library and the state Attorney Grievance Commission.