Sentences with phrase «in inequitable»

They reflect the fundamental value of equitable inclusion in the legal system, and the need to respond to differences that result in inequitable access.

At trial, the Honorable William T. Hart ruled that Intellect Wireless had engaged in inequitable conduct before the Patent Office rendering the patents unenforceable and dismissed the lawsuit.

What matters is not what the impact of change will be on the «legal profession,» but whether those changes will make it easier, in an inequitable world, for people to find access to the legal system.

Vaughan Russell has obtained a ruling in his client's favor in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, in which the court terminated an employee's worker's compensation benefits, where the employee had acted in an inequitable manner that permitted the forfeiture of the...

The law was to change on 12 October 1984 to its present state under the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, s 25 (as amended) to require the court to have regard to «the conduct of the parties, if that conduct is such that it would in the opinion of the court be in inequitable to disregard it».

As traditionally practiced in southeast Asia, oil palm cultivation is responsible for widespread deforestation that reduces biodiversity, degrades important ecological services, worsens climate change, and traps workers in inequitable conditions sometimes analogous to slavery.

One rationale lies in the inequitable nature of the problem, with countries that built wealth on fossil fuel combustion more insulated from climate dangers than those that haven't prospered yet.

«The county commissioners, in trying to prop up these three segregated, very small districts, have been forced to distribute resources in an inequitable way,» adds Dorosin.

More importantly, performance - driven funding will result in inequitable distribution of dollars.

As I have written in a previous article, Sin is the belly of sexism, racism, classism and other forms of systemic inequality resulting in inequitable education / training / opportunity / pay; harassment; domestic and sexual violence; pornography; sex trafficking; slavery and other crimes.

Not exact matches

What's become known as the «Group of 46» letter to Stanford Provost John Etchemendy was filed in the Phills suit, and accuses the dean of presiding over «reprimands, censures, curtailing of responsibilities, demotions, retribution for expressing concerns or raising issues, offensive behavior and decisions that have led directly to tangible employment actions such as dismissals, undesirable reassignments, forced resignations, and inequitable access to promotion opportunities.»

Free trade has clear gains for U.S. consumers, and also benefits companies that shift jobs overseas, but there does seem to be a tendency for workers in both countries to receive an inequitable share of these gains.

In an alert to clients, attorneys from the law firm Olshan describe the scope of the legislation as «unduly burdensome, excessive and inequitable,» and warn that «it could have a chilling effect on shareholder activism and proxy advisory work that have a specified presence in Texas, which, in turn, would help entrench management and the Boards of underperforming Texas - based companies.&raquIn an alert to clients, attorneys from the law firm Olshan describe the scope of the legislation as «unduly burdensome, excessive and inequitable,» and warn that «it could have a chilling effect on shareholder activism and proxy advisory work that have a specified presence in Texas, which, in turn, would help entrench management and the Boards of underperforming Texas - based companies.&raquin Texas, which, in turn, would help entrench management and the Boards of underperforming Texas - based companies.&raquin turn, would help entrench management and the Boards of underperforming Texas - based companies.»

Even if one chooses to completely ignore the historical foundations of inequitable opportunities in America and tries to eliminate any discussion of race, we are still faced with the fact that millions of kids have grown up and are growing up in places where the economic incentives and social supports don't favor stable work and families.

In an age marked by an inequitable distribution of wealth similar to our own, Jesus knew that money mattered and that money - talk could be used to speak vividly of the clashing priorities of the culture of God with those of the present age.

«The inequitable distribution of the national revenue; the disparity in the scale of salaries (some dispose of emoluments which are an insult to the poverty of the country, while the immense majority receives a miserable pittance); the fact that a bare two per cent of the active population owns seventy per cent of the arable land; the system of recruiting our agricultural laborers, who do not even enjoy legal status; the fact that hundreds of thousands of school - age children lack basic education; the disintegration of the family; the growing immorality everywhere — all this demands bold and definitive change.»

(In a recent column, he labeled as «radical fiscal immorality» Bush's request for $ 87 billion for Iraq with no new taxes to pay the bill) But he does not despise Republicans, often agreeing that market approaches are dynamic ways of organizing production, even though they are inequitable ways of organizing distribution.

To him, it was inherently inequitable rather than merely unequal in application.

That the health - care system in the United States is inequitable seems undeniable.

By participating in an evangelical world that mirrors the inequitable power structures of mainstream America, we undermine our Christian witness.

The fact that inheritance taxes only apply to very large estates is, in my opinion, inequitable but not the subject here.

It's about forcing the city to comply with the Campaign for Fiscal Equity which sued over inequitable distribution of funding among wealthier and poorer school districts back in 1993.

New York's school funding system is the second most inequitable in the nation.

«John Faso's idea would finally end the inequitable system — in place for 50 years since the Rockefeller Administration — which has county governments and the City of New York paying for a local share of Medicaid benefits mandated by Albany,» said William Cherry, Schoharie County Treasurer.

Speaking at a City Hall press conference with fellow Staten Island Republican and Council Member Joe Borelli, Malliotakis pledged to appoint a commission within 60 days of taking office, with a goal of producing changes to the complex property tax system in the City that's widely viewed as uneven and inequitable.

Mahoney last night defended the economic development council program, which many of her fellow Republicans have dubbed the «Hunger Games,» because it pits regions against one another in the battle for state funds — a process critics say is inequitable and unfair.

At a time when the corporate education reformers like Governor Cuomo scapegoat teachers, underfund public schools, and push high - stakes testing linked to Common Core as way to justify the expansion of privately - managed charter schools, she has persistently brought forth real facts about how poverty, segregation, and inequitable school funding affect testing and achievement in public schools.

Data released by the New York State Education Department on the distribution of teacher quality reveals inequitable access to highly effective teachers in New York City.

The inability of the government to address the inequitable situation in the country has provided breeding ground for violent reactions, protests and agitations, which exploit the grievances of different segments of the country.

«Giving minimum wage workers a small increase over three years and linking it to a business tax break that will actually encourage the creation of more minimum wage jobs is unconscionable, especially in a state that already has the most inequitable income distribution in the nation,» said Donohue.

Teachers, parents, union leaders and even some school superintendents and board members in New York are clothed in blue to show their concern for what they see as an overemphasis on testing, an under - emphasis on state education funding, and inequitable spending between districts.

It's counterproductive for working people and the economy, especially in a state that already has the nation's most inequitable wage income distribution.

Pa Adebanjo, whose integrity, Omatseye's perfidious employer himself publicly acknowledged, was in 2015, advancing the course of the Yorùbá interest to rearrange a system that was and still is unjust, unfair, unbalanced and inequitable.

«We filed the lawsuit because there is clearly an inequitable funding of education in New York state,» said Iannuzzi.

Parker says the coalition is hopeful their message to Albany of inequitable state aid for Rochester is finally sinking in.

«While the executive's proposal falls far short of eliminating the GEA in [fiscal year] 2017, it will likely be looked at as inequitable because some districts had their GEA eliminated and some did not,» the Senate analysis said.

«We filed the lawsuit because there is clearly an inequitable funding of education in New York State,» said Iannuzzi.

The Long Island Senate delegation, the single most powerful block in the 32 - member Republican Senate majority, Wednesday said Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's proposed budget is an inequitable hit on Nassau and Suffolk county schools.

It's contrary to the public interest; inequitable, disproportionate, unfair and a clear case of conflict of interest for leaders of the National Assembly to enjoy unbridled discretion in the allocation and diversion of projects to their constituencies.»

«We know that, in many ways, land use can have severe ecological impacts, for example, biodiversity loss; an extreme and inequitable competition for land, water and energy; and carbon emissions, an adverse impact of converting corn to biofuels.

People seemed to be suppressing their indignant reaction in order to accept a reward that was inequitable but appealing.

The film opens up some new themes for Bigelow — race in America, inequitable police treatment, discriminatory urban planning — in addition to the exploration of conflict and state violence.

The European observers hesitated to proclaim wholesale fraud, however they did raise concerns with the ruling party's use of state resources for campaigning purposes, inequitable access to media, implausibly high voter turnout at polling stations in Sargsyan strongholds, voter list manipulation, and a lack of impartiality on the part of the public administration.

Despite its name, the lead plaintiff in the 1993 complaint, CFE, did not argue that the state's financing arrangements were inequitable, but that the funds given to New York City were not «adequate» for a sound basic education.

The status quo in development is predatory of both nature and people, ecologically unsustainable, and socio - economically inequitable.

In the 2018 state budget negotiations, a rewrite to fix an inequitable sharing of state funding for school districts reached the top of the agenda.

Masters pointed to the fact that many students are falling behind and not meeting minimum standards, in part due to the inequitable distribution of quality leadership and ineffective day - to - day practices.

On the inequitable social transformation, President Zuma explained that «many sections of society and individuals become agitated when [the ANC government] refers to the apartheid legacy in [South Africa]» and that «this is a fact that the legacy can not be reversed overnight.»

Federal courts should insist that states design their education systems to accomplish the aims of the right to education — be they ending inequitable disparities in educational opportunity, preparing students to be competent voters and civic participants, or ensuring that students are equal citizens.

Similarly, many schoolchildren today attend schools that lack sufficient and equitable funding in part because of Rodriguez, which foreclosed the federal judicial accountability that could require states to remedy their inequitable funding disparities.