Sentences with phrase «for civil matters»

The Bureau only provides legal aid for civil matters which are handled by in - house lawyers and assigned volunteer lawyers.

Total applications for service were down by 3.4 % for criminal legal aid and up by 3.1 % for civil matters.

The fact that the lawyer is subject to the disciplinary authority of this jurisdiction may be a factor in determining whether personal jurisdiction may be asserted over the lawyer for civil matters.

Texas has two «courts of last resort»: the Supreme Court for civil matters and the Court of Criminal Appeals.

Whereas any attempt made before by the Parliament of Canada to abolish appeals to the Privy Council failed, this time it worked: in 1933 for criminal cases and in 1949 for civil matters.

Just over 780,000 applications for legal assistance were received; applications for criminal matters accounted for 43 % while the remainder of the applications were for civil matters (57 %).

For civil matters, this consent must be accompanied by a subpoena.

This depends upon the procedures of the state court for civil matters.

I generally agree with the adversarial process but this situation is where justice breaks down... no public defenders for civil matters, so if you can't afford an attorney, you just get slammed?

Getting the best legal advice without paying a professional fee for a civil matter is fiction and most people know it, but don't go anywhere yet.

Not exact matches

Granting the CFTC's request for a preliminary injunction against the defendants who allegedly engaged in deception and fraud involving virtual currency spot markets, Judge Weinstein noted that» [u] ntil Congress clarifies the matter,» the CFTC has «concurrent authority» along with other state and federal administrative agencies and civil and criminal courts over transactions in virtual currency.

Mr. Siegal's other client successes include securing a 2016 trial victory in federal court defending Marvel Entertainment against a claim that it stole a patent - holder's design for a Spiderman role play web - shooting toy, and numerous federal and state appellate arguments in criminal and civil matters.

He is a Certified Specialist both in Taxation Law and in Estate Planning, Trust & Probate Law (The State Bar of California, Board of Legal Specialization) admitted to practice law in California, Hawai'i and Arizona (inactive), specializing in Federal and state civil tax and criminal tax controversy matters and tax litigation, including tax - related examinations and investigations for individuals, business enterprises, partnerships, limited liability companies, and corporations.

The U.S. Transportation Security Administration and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, each a division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, are responsible for certain civil aviation security matters, including passenger and baggage screening at U.S. airports and international passenger prescreening prior to entry into or departure from the U.S. International flights are subject to customs, border, immigration and similar requirements of equivalent foreign governmental agencies.

The principal matter separating Israel and the United States continues to be Iran's growing presence in Syria, an enemy state lying along Israel's northern border, that has been riven by a bloody civil war for seven years.

As I've noted before, the greatest act of respect for American troops would be for the Bush Administration to extract the U.S. from the role of occupier and to legitimize its role as peacekeeper; to abandon the objective of unilaterally shaping Iraq, shift enforcement to a wider force of NATO troops, and expand the role of the United Nations in civil matters.

On March 6, 2018, Judge Jack B. Weinstein of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York ruled that virtual currencies are commodities under the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) and therefore subject to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's (CFTC) anti-fraud and anti-manipulation enforcement authority.1 Granting the CFTC's request for a preliminary injunction against the defendants who allegedly engaged in deception and fraud involving virtual currency spot markets, Judge Weinstein noted that «[u] ntil Congress clarifies the matter,» the CFTC has «concurrent authority» along with other state and federal administrative agencies and civil and criminal courts over transactions in virtual currency.2

Since the Civil Rights Act, discriminationhas become a dirty word» no matter that it is no more than an upscale, polysyllabic synonym for choice.

I'm certain that had he lived to see a gay rights movement he would have been marching right alongside them as he did for minorities, the poor and oppressed, because it would have been a civil rights matter for him; a matter of justice for, as he said, ALL of God's people.

For Greenberg, this is not a matter of relativism or mere civil pluralism.

Among other things, it looks at Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement, and how he was not simply interested in «building bridges» nor in waiting for the white moderates to come around, because it was a matter of justice and something had to change!

Furthermore, theological affirmations regarding the divinely appointed vocation of each individual coincide with concern for the civil and human rights of each person born into the world, no matter how conceived.

When the constitution of 1917 was drafted, therefore, «Catholic» representation was nonexistent, and the resulting document not only repeated earlier material restrictions on the Church (such as government ownership of all church property, civil registry of priests, and making marriage a civil matter) but also got in a symbolic lick or two (for example, religious garb was not to be worn in public; worship was to be only an indoor affair; alien priests were forbidden; and no religious labels were allowed for political parties).

Case in point is the civil rights movement the responsibility of the church is to fight for the equal treatment of all human beings in all places at all times no matter what policies the state has in place.

These are matters for civil government to control.

Rather, they issue civil unions allowing for legal connection in matters of health, access, finances, custody and adoption etc. regardless of sex.

And, what are the procedures for dealing with matters (like) civil disobedience, criminal activity, sexual improprieties, etc?

For that matter call a heterosëxual marriage «civil union» as well, in regards to the government.

I do not hold an opinion on this issue but to ask from the sidelines if what you declare that Gays and Lesbians want are the rights then if Civil Unions which would give all of the rights and benefits to Gay and Lesbian couples in all matters, would you accept this and drop the desire for the term «marriage» to be used.

Since your initial appeal was for a more civil debate, is it now your contention that any criticism of gay people, no matter how it is phrased, loving as long as the critic claims biblical support?

But such freedom for variation and intensive community is one thing; compulsory segregation in public places for civil, educational, or religious activity, again, is quite another matter.

Whether he did this out of conviction, or for prudential reasons (after all, the civil religion he advocated had to be made palatable to Christian Europe), or out of odium for his original community is a matter of scholarly controversy.

The position, effectively Foreign Minister for the Holy See, involves the specific duty of attending to matters which involve civil governments.

The result was the bankrupting of good people, who now are being threatened with a lifetime of, effectively, debtor's prison, for what are considered crimes, but are really civil matters, brought on by shameful anti-semitism.

Maybe you should go do a little bit of studying on the matter before attempting to argue for my civil rights.

Another period of conscious concern for matters of civil religion extends from the later Sengoku period in the sixteenth century to the early Tokugawa period in the seventeenth century.

The use of such expressions as «a private matter» and «between God and me» suggests that his Catholicism, however sincere, has been considerably attenuated by Canada's civil religion, which, following Jean - Jacques Rousseau's, will brook no dissent, particularly from those whose faith entails obedience to something beyond the socially - sanctioned quest for autonomy.

Marriage, or for that matter civil union, can not create rights and obligations unless it is legally contracted.

What we often neglect to say: Marriage, or for that matter civil union, can not create rights and obligations unless it is legally contracted.

It is impossible to separate religious freedom from civil freedom, and there can be no democracy if the freedom of the citizen is curtailed in religious matters, for such curtailing can often take place as a means of silencing political dissent.

I was also beaten by random girls for no reason, put into a dumpster, tied up in an abandoned rv by some sick teens who thought that was funny, almost raped by a man while walking down the street at the age of 17 but because I screamed he only made me jack him off (at knife point), almost raped at a friend of a friend's house when we just dropped in for a minute, was impovershed growing up, even to the point where we didn't have power in the middle of winter, had to sleep all in the same bed to stay warm and used our pantry as a refrigerator, lived (and I mean LIVED) with roaches for years no matter where we moved to, was a child during the time when we had our own civil rights movement here and went through a few horrible experiences at the time.

Virginia Poverty Law Center (VPLC) is committed to leading and coordinating efforts to seek justice in civil legal matters for lower income Virginians.

During her time with the court, Stefanie also served as a court appointed mediator for small claims civil matters.

For more information on sugary school breakfast and how to address the matter in your district, be sure to read my Civil Eats piece and also listen to my recent interview on the topic at Sally Kuzemchak and Dina Rose's The Happy Bite podcast.

This woman owned, small business supports the LGBTQIA + community, Black Lives Matter, supports the rights of immigrants and the rights of indigenous people, religious freedoms, civil rights, and this business will always stand for the simple truth that women are PEOPLE who have the fundamental right to reproductive choice.

And even though there have been a few nasty comments directed at me personally (I deleted the worst of these but let some pass through), I want to also commend the majority of pro-LFTB commenters, most of whom are new around here, for also using a civil tone no matter how vehemently they might have disagreed with my petition.

Teddy Roosevelt promoted the non-partisan, professionally oriented Merit and Fitness Civil Service System in Albany (and for that matter, DC).

«In the past four years in the Cuomo administration, Kathy Hochul has been an important part of a team that has delivered progressive gains for New York's working families — an increase in the minimum wage for all New Yorkers, and a historic increase in wages for airport workers — and has been a staunch supporter of civil rights issues that matter to our members and everyone in the state,» said 32BJ SEIU President Héctor Figueroa.

The agreement requires «the town, its officers, officials, employees, and agents to continue to cooperate with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and any and all federal, state and local agencies and authorities, on matters whether civil or criminal in nature, regarding these allegations.»

While the New York attorney general's office does sometimes investigate public corruption, it often focuses on acting as the attorney for state government agencies in civil matters.