Sentences with phrase «into civil unions»

While some of these couples eventually marry, or enter into civil unions in other states, some do not.

The board also voted to amend the Park District's rules to give full spousal benefits to people who have entered into civil unions.

A postnup agreement is a legal contract signed after a couple gets into a civil union or marriage.

Be also wary, that if you entered into a civil union in Rhode Island or Delaware, these States have adopted legislation that the civil unions are automatically converted to marriages!

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All sorts of social action apps have already sprung up, including Berlin - based «Refugees Welcome,» which has helped dozens of German citizens invite refugees into their homes, as well as «Mobile Justice,» an app related to the #BlackLivesMatter movement and giving users the ability to zap video footage from a phone directly to the American Civil Liberties Union.

Tens of thousands of christian bodies in the western world have thoughtlessly, or perhaps knowingly entered into this spiritually adulterous union with their civil governments.

The string of discordant communities along the Atlantic coast has grown into a mighty people, joined in a union which the earthquake of civil war only served to compact and consolidate.

Reconstruction refers to the effort to bring the South into the Union after the Civil War, a period that was followed by a curtailment of civil rights for Southern African - AmeriCivil War, a period that was followed by a curtailment of civil rights for Southern African - Americivil rights for Southern African - Americans.

Throw into the mix all sorts of new ways of partnering — from cohabitation to same - sex civil unions — and already convoluted and outdated family laws are being stretched in ways they can no longer handle, he says.

The Education Act of 1980 introduced the Assisted Place Scheme which took selected and gifted children out of the state school system and placed them into independent schools; the trade union reform acts abolished the closed shops, secondary picketing and stamped down wild - cat strikes; the Education Act of 1988 introduced City Technology Colleges, which took states schools out of the purview of the Local Education Authority; the 1988 Next Steps development began a transformation of the civil service by fragmenting in up into executive agencies; and the NHS and Community Care Act 1990 introduced the internal market into the NHS.

«As a movement we will continue to push back against attempts to undermine and diminish workers» rights, to extend trade unions» reach into workplaces and to continue to ensure that unions remain a strong, progressive force in civil society.»

The Spanish CNT trade union, for example, for a brief period in the Civil War, put many of these republican self - government principles into practice through their collectivisation of industry in Barcelona and Catalonia.

The Communication Workers» Union — which has lost its Blairite general secretary to the House of Commons — threw out the Labour into Power document and the civil service union PTC rejected the Maastricht convergence critUnion — which has lost its Blairite general secretary to the House of Commons — threw out the Labour into Power document and the civil service union PTC rejected the Maastricht convergence critunion PTC rejected the Maastricht convergence criteria.

In the Reconstruction following the Civil War, later Union leaders like Andrew Johnson (Abraham Lincoln's successor), made only half - hearted efforts to really deeply assimilate the formerly Confederate states into the Union and when Reconstruction ended Confederate and white supremacist sympathies remained strong.

While appealing to president Muhammadu Buhari to wade into the alleged barbaric acts of the military on the hapless students and lecturers, the union leader called for caution in using the military in a civil or students protest, stressing that the police which is constitutionally empowered should be used in civil matters to prevent loss of lives of the innocent future leaders.

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about a federal investigation into payments made to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver by a small law firm and Albany County legislature rejecting a proposed settlement in a federal civil rights lawsuit about the county under representing minorities in the redistricting plan.

The ruling follows a lawsuit brought by a group of patients and scientists represented by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) and calls into question the validity of patents now held on approximately 4,000 human genes.

As of June 1st, Illinois's marriage equality law went into effect, and we went to officially convert our civil union to a marriage.

The navy blue remained to have a military meaning all the way into the late 1800's, but during the American Civil War, it became the defining colour of the Union soldiers who were fighting the Confederate States of America.

The red carpet may have been a melange of colours, but the political undercurrent was hard to miss with Time's Up pin, blue American Civil Liberties Union ribbons and orange American flag pins calling for gun safety reforms in the wake of Florida school shooting, making their way into designer wears.

«Mercy Street» focuses on two volunteer nurses on opposing sides of the Civil War — New England abolitionist Phinney and Confederate supporter Emma Green, whose family's luxury hotel in Alexandria, Virginia, has been converted into the Mansion House Union Army hospital.

A bill that requires Tennessee's public schools to set aside one minute at the beginning of the school day for «meditation, or prayer, or personal beliefs» has been signed into law by Gov. Lamar Alexander, but the American Civil Liberties Union (aclu) of Tennessee intends to file suit shortly on the grounds that the law is in violation of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

The American Civil Liberties Union defines the school - to - prison pipeline as «the policies and practices that push our nation's schoolchildren, especially our most at - risk children, out of classrooms and into the juvenile and criminal justice systems.»

In August 2011, following a complaint from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Disability Rights Wisconsin (DRW), the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice launched an investigation into the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program and two private schools for alleged violations of federal disability law, i.e. the Americans with Disabilities Act.

But in her fourth novel, The Spy Lover (Thomas & Mercer), she pulls from her Alabama - born father's family history to tell a gripping Civil War story about three complicated, suffering people — a nurse who's spying for the Union behind enemy lines, a Chinese immigrant who escapes his conscription into the Confederacy to fight for the Union instead, and a wounded Confederate cavalryman.

A wide - ranging Civil War novel based on the true story of a Union raid into Alabama.

Ames is the son of an Iowan preacher and the grandson of a minister who, as a young man in Maine, saw a vision of Christ bound in chains and came west to Kansas to fight for abolition: He «preached men into the Civil War,» then, at age fifty, became a chaplain in the Union Army, losing his right eye in battle.

In Myers» fast, clever novel, a Civil War project in a Harlem school divides a class into Confederate and Union sympathizers — and a group of student slackers are tasked with mediating peace.

Backed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Reader Privacy Act extends, as of January 1, 2012, the confidentiality afforded to library patron's reading records into the for - profit world of booksellers.

A few months after a devastating defeat at Fredericksburg, before Gettysburg would be won, before Richmond would fall, before the fate of the Union would be at all certain, President Abraham Lincoln signed into law an act creating the National Academy of Sciences — in the midst of civil war.

[UPDATED 3:45 p.m. below — response from publisher] Matthew LaClair, a high school senior in Kearny, N.J., had already gained fame as something of a one - man American Civil Liberties Union for pointing out intrusions of religion into the classroom.

A lawsuit initiated by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has forced thousands of Scott Pruitt's emails into the daylight, after Pruitt's office delayed CMD's records requests for two years.

The same laws and procedures will apply to same - sex and opposite sex couples who wish to dissolve a civil union entered into after January 1, 2012.

But it has only recently begun to break through into mainstream public justice processes, with the passage of the Civil Resolution Tribunal Act, and with the passage of the ODR Regulation in the European Union.

It only took one day for the Ohio prisons director, as well as the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio, to launch two separate reviews into the suicide of Ariel Castro, the Cleveland kidnapper who was sentenced last month to life in prison, plus 1,000 years, for crimes relating to the kidnapping and sequestration of three women over the course of a decade.

The FTCA does not bar suits for breach of contract, does not bar suits for injunctive or declaratory relief, and does not bar suits against government employees for money damages for intentionally violating someone's civil rights (even though some union contract indemnify and defend government employees for civil rights violations, in practice, converting tort liability of an individual into contractual liability of the United States government).

So he did what any a self - described designer, programmer and «tinkerer» would do: He hacked into an Amazon gizmo designed to instantly order consumer goods for the home and made it donate $ 5 to the American Civil Liberties Union with every press, instead.

In fact, US Marshals once seized records from a Florida police department to prevent documentation about cell - site simulators from falling into the hands of the American Civil Liberties Union, which had requested them under public records law.

Should the agunah decide to enter into a civil marriage, any children she would have from this relationship would be considered a «mamzer», a child from a forbidden sexual union.

Even though these new laws are not slated to go into effect for a few months, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has already filed a legal challenge to the Arkansas measure.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) announced it would be filing a lawsuit against investment bank Morgan Stanley, alleging discrimination in the way the bank packaged subprime mortgage loans into securities.