Sentences with phrase «justice groups last»

Not only did he donate $ 1.5 million to Black Lives Matter and other social justice groups last year, but he's become an outspoken advocate for criminal justice reform.

Not exact matches

The pricing issue, which has drawn scrutiny from members of Congress and the U.S. Department of Justice, and Chairman Robert Coury's nearly $ 100 million pay package last year have caused a group of investors to launch an effort to vote down the company's board at its annual meeting on Thursday.

Another group called the Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate (NDGJM), conducted a series of attacks on pipelines in the last two weeks.

The American Center for Law and Justice - a group «specifically dedicated to the ideal that religious freedom and freedom of speech are inalienable, God - given rights» - was asked by the pastor's lawyers last year to help publicize Nadarkhani's case, according to Jodran Sekulow, executive director of the group.

Last night Yale's campus pro-life group — after a year in which they participated in meetings and even helped raise money for the organization — became the first group in living memory to be denied membership in the Social Justice Network of Dwight Hall.

Last week, the Justice Ministry submitted a Supreme Court case to label the Jehovah's Witnesses headquarters an extremist group.

The social justice group Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good organized a vigil by the White House last weekend, in anticipation of the new DHS directive.

But the Mario Cuomo Campaign for Economic Justice — a registered lobbying group created last year when Cuomo first embraced the $ 15 minimum wage figure — paid for the RV and rented the space for the event, a spokesman said.

It is why I set up the campaign group Justice Delayed Justice Denied, last year, to push for police bail to be reduced from years in some cases to 28 - days in all but exceptional circumstances.

The group gave the nod to Maddox over former Alabama Chief Justice Sue Bell Cobb, one of the last Democrats to win statewide election.

Last night, a group of suspects that had been arrested in Kwara state for cultism and whose investigations had been completed, and were about to go under prosecution under state law under the advice of the DPP and Ministry of Justice.

Last night, my State Governor, Dr. Abdulfatai Ahmed revealed to me an information at his disposal that a group of suspects who had been in police cells for several weeks for cultism and whose investigation had been concluded with prosecution about to commence under the State law based on the advice of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) and the Ministry of Justice were ordered to be transferred to Abuja this morning.

NEW YORK, NY (12/18/2017)(readMedia)-- Last week, over thirty organizations, nonprofits, labor unions, including the New York State United Teachers, SEIU 32BJ, RWDSU, CWA District 1, and civil rights organizations, including Statewide NAACP and National Action Network, civil liberties, reproductive and immigrant rights, criminal justice and re-entry groups, New American and LGBTQ community groups sent a letter demanding that Governor Cuomo and the legislative leaders prioritize Early Voting in the 2018 - 19 budget.

Those efforts got a boost last week when Citizen Action New York, a statewide grassroots group committed to racial, social and economic justice, endorsed his candidacy.

In the meantime, Assemblyman Karim Camara, chair of Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic, and Asian Legislative Caucus, said the group sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder last month asking that the Department of Justice launch a full investigation into whether Graham's civil rights were violated and to determine whether a federal grand jury should be convened.

Last year, a separate group found that holding a heavy clipboard makes us perceive social - justice issues as more important: In a theoretical scenario, volunteers holding a heavy clipboard were more likely to support a student grievance with a university committee than were those holding a light clipboard.

Last year, then — Justice Secretary Jack Straw set up a libel working group whose members included the head of the U.K.'s Medical Research Council.

The film introduces new characters of the group to the ones who appeared in last year's Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice.

The primary documents are grouped into broad themes such as Confrontations for Justice, Scenes from Hell, Free At Last, Passing of an Era, Fallen Leaders, Leaders in Crisis, Personal Encounters, and America on the Move.

The Justice Policy Institute, a policy and research group at the San Francisco - based Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, released the report last week.

With Senate hearings on U.S. Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. scheduled to begin Sept. 6, several education groups said last week that they were content to wait on opining about whether the federal appellate judge should become the high court's next associate justice.

I told this story to a group of two dozen or so of my fellow ed reformers last week at an American Enterprise Institute convening on «race, social justice, and school reform» because I wanted to make two simple (some will say simplistic) points: our expensive and aggressive ed reform efforts still focus far too little on what kids do in school all day; and we don't all have the same ideas about what it means to serve the cause of social justice — or whether it is even appropriate to place social justice issues at the heart of our efforts to improve outcomes for kids.

Charging that the Justice Department, which filed the suit in January 1981, will not adequately represent the black plaintiffs in the case, the civil - rights group filed its request late last month.

That's one of the reasons why a group of restorative justice advocates and educators met last summer to begin outlining plans for a national association, according to Evans.

Last month, the New York state attorney general filed a motion to combine two related New York cases, one filed by a group called the New York City Parents Union and one brought by Partnership for Educational Justice, a group backed by former CNN anchor Campbell Brown.

Last summer, after its convention attendees approved the draft resolution, a national coalition of local civil rights groups called the Journey for Justice Alliance issued a statement affirming the need to halt charter expansion.

Mike Boyd, President of Boyd Group International, updates us on the U.S. Justice Department's probe into possible airline pricing collusion, and last but not least Ritz - Carlton Pastry Chef Kerry Meister reveals a surprisingly devilish adult desert that's low in calories and high in fun.

Marilyn Church's illustrations are an integral part of a new group show opening this week at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. «Drawing Justice: The Art of Courtroom Illustrations» features original art that captures the drama of high - profile court cases in the last 50 years.

Unfortunately, I thought the book skimmed over this last question by invoking collaboration (between justice groups, environmental groups, corporations and communities), but giving only a few examples on how this might look.

On the last night of that massive gathering, I found myself with a group of climate justice activists, including one of the most prominent campaigners in Britain.

The state's environmental agency agreed last week to tighten permit requirements on hog farms to settle civil rights complaints filed by social justice and environmental groups in 2014 and 2016.

This is why, alongside Mazaska Talks and Last Real Indians, we are now calling on 350 groups and climate justice groups around the country to join together for a national day of action targeting the banks most enabling the climate crisis.

Last week, Brentin Mock, Grist's Justice Editor, offered the below reflections on a new report expounding on the lack of diversity in green groups.

But last week, over 60 international civil society groups at Cochabamba's alternative climate summit lent their collective voices in a grassroots campaign to unanimously oppose geoengineering and are urging the public to join with Hands Off Mother Earth (H.O.M.E.) by «lending a hand» in their photo petition.With support from environmental and social justice luminaries like David Suzuki, Vandana Shiva, Maude Barlow, Naomi Klein, Herman Daly and Frances Moore - Lappé, the petition hopes to raise more public awareness about the issue prior to the next climate change convention slated for December.

While on a general basis this index ranks the legal system of the US 19th out of 102 countries, [16] on the specific question of affordable and accessible civil justice, the US is ranked 65th out of 102 (behind countries such as Russia and Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia and Ukraine), [17] and is ranked last out of the regional group of North America and Western Europe, behind countries such as Romania and Bulgaria (the Report places Mexico in the region of Latin America & the Caribbean).

Last year The Action Group on Access to Justice (TAG) released a report that examined public perceptions of access to justice in OJustice (TAG) released a report that examined public perceptions of access to justice in Ojustice in Ontario.

The claim was dismissed last autumn, with Lord Justice Christopher Clarke awarding the defendants costs on an indemnity basis in October, making four groups of third - party funders collectively liable for over # 23m.

The worst - affected group mentioned in the article is the JEHT Foundation (the acronym stands for justice, equality, human dignity and tolerance), which last year gave out $ 24 million, mostly to criminal justice advocacy and reform organizations.

Last week, the National Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters, chaired by Justice Tom Cromwell, released for public consultation two of four reports from its working groups.

Over the last year, task forces or working groups were created California, New York and Oregon to study the feasibility of creating a limited law license for non-lawyer advocates to help bridge the justice gap.

It is the challenges they face that constitute the human rights crisis: This is reflected in the World Justice Project Rule of Law Index [22] which, on the question of affordable and accessible civil justice, ranks the US 94th out of a total of 113 countries, and which, out of the regional group of North America and Western Europe, ranks the US last (behind countries like Romania and BulJustice Project Rule of Law Index [22] which, on the question of affordable and accessible civil justice, ranks the US 94th out of a total of 113 countries, and which, out of the regional group of North America and Western Europe, ranks the US last (behind countries like Romania and Buljustice, ranks the US 94th out of a total of 113 countries, and which, out of the regional group of North America and Western Europe, ranks the US last (behind countries like Romania and Bulgaria).

Last week, the United States Department of Justice issued a consent decree against the Law School Admission Council, the non-profit group that administers the test, accusing it of «widespread and systemic discrimination» and contravening the Americans with Disabilities Act.

The Family Mediation Council — which is made up of Resolution, the Law Society and other legal groups which support mediation — was responding to the green paper, Support for All — the Families and Relationships Green Paper, published last week, which proposes a major review of the family justice system.

Dame Hazel Genn, Dean of the Faculty of Laws at University College London, sat on the Civil Justice Council Working Group on Litigants in Person and was the keynote speaker at the National Action Committee Symposium in Toronto last month.

In an article in the National Post last week, Justice Belobaba is described as having «scorched» Merchant Law Group for its «profoundly unacceptable fee agreement» with its client, the class representative in McCallum - Boxe v. Sony.

A «core group» of specially trained judges will be used for cases involving «significantly vulnerable» witnesses or serious sex cases likely to last more than 10 days, the Lord Chief Justice has confirmed.

At last October's Legal Aid Practitioners Group conference, the justice minister Jonathan Djanogoly insisted that he was committed to a future role for NfP agencies: «However, much like legal aid service provision itself, changes will need to be made if we are to be able to develop a sustainable provision in these areas.»

[Justice Mansfield's] findings that Larrakia did not maintain the acknowledgement of their traditional laws and observance of their traditional customs are based upon evidence, particularly from older members of the Larrakia group, that practices they had engaged in during the first half of the twentieth century did not last into the second half.

For the last 12 years, this incredible group of reproductive health, rights, and justice activists have played a crucial role in advancing Planned Parenthood of New York City's work!

The retail industry's children's apparel segment took a turn for the worse last week, as The Gymboree Corp. filed for bankruptcy and Ascena Retail Group, parent of tween brand Justice, said it would close stores across its portfolio.