Sentences with phrase «justice issue impacting»

This is a real access to justice issue impacting on those most vulnerable.

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The judge said in a 91 - page decision that, while the Army Corps substantially complied with the National Environmental Policy Act, federal permits issued for the pipeline violated the law in some respects, saying in a court order the Corps did not «adequately consider the impacts of an oil spill on fishing rights, hunting rights, or environmental justice.»

And beyond issues related to justice, psychologists are only just beginning to grasp the full impact of pornography upon our brains and how those effects are creating sexual and relational dysfunction.

Likewise, process thinkers, if they are to have any real impact on the contemporary scene, must come to grips with the urgent social justice issues raised by liberation theologians.

Cuomo in his budget plan included issues such his slate of ethics reforms and criminal justice law changes that have little fiscal impact.

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has faced UKIP leader Nigel Farage in a debate about the EU - with human rights legislation, and its impact on the UK's criminal justice system, just one issue that the men had very different opinions on.

According to the State's Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr Adeniji Kazeem, who spoke after he received a 10 - Man Committee's report set up to review communiqué issued at the end of the summit, he pledged that Lagosians would soon feel the positive impact of the policy implementation of the State Government on justice administJustice, Mr Adeniji Kazeem, who spoke after he received a 10 - Man Committee's report set up to review communiqué issued at the end of the summit, he pledged that Lagosians would soon feel the positive impact of the policy implementation of the State Government on justice administjustice administration.

«On Target with Penny Wolfgang» is a weekly public affairs show that discusses local issues that impact the Western New York Area, hosted by Supreme Court of Erie County Justice Penny M. Wolfgang.

It could make the Supreme Court itself more of an issue in that contest and in Senate races around the country, as Democrats highlight the impact of the vacancy Senate Republican leaders have refused to fill since the unexpected death of Justice Antonin Scalia in February.

At 6:30 pm on Tuesday, the Rev. Al Sharpton will take part in a discussion with the New School's Maya Wiley on «key issues impacting civil rights, social justice, and criminal justice reform in NYC and nationally.»

Men reported that the impact of their domestic violence issues on productivity and time lost were just as great before the incident that brought them to the attention to the criminal justice system as after.

«The environmental justice issues facing Native American communities range from direct environmental, public health, cultural and sacred sites impacts, to lack of meaningful involvement and fair treatment in the governmental decision - making processes,» according to an emailed response by the EPA's press office.

Dec. 12: The NYC Coalition for Educational Justice will host a Parent Power School event to explore the impact of race on education policy issues like school funding, standardized testing and school discipline.

NEW YORK CITY - Dec. 12: The NYC Coalition for Educational Justice will host a Parent Power School event to explore the impact of race on education policy issues like school funding, standardized testing and school discipline.

Dec. 12: The Coalition for Educational Justice will host a Parent Power School event to explore the impact of race on education policy issues like school funding, standardized testing and school discipline.

Personal experiences faced by students — homelessness, trauma, health or mental health issues, lack of caring adults, needing to contribute financially to the home, involvement in the criminal justice system, racism and other forms of discrimination — significantly impact school performance and educational outcomes.

When I first began teaching justice issues raised during the civil rights movement, I gave my students an assignment to create a civil rights documentary after viewing segments of Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954 - 1965.2 While this assignment was adequate, I struggled with its impact.

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Jane writes and speaks frequently on issues of education justice and access, the impact of poverty on children's life outcomes, the policy and practice implications of concentrated poverty and trauma on children, school climate, student discipline and attendance.

The mission of the Prize — given to a first - time novelist — is to «advocate serious literary fiction that addresses issues of social justice and the impact of culture and politics on human relationships.»

But it was her job as religion editor that remained constant during her tenure at the paper, which coincided with the rise of feminism, gay rights, the Evangelical Right, the social justice movement, the spread of Buddhism, Hinduism, and New Age groups, and other issues that had a significant impact on religion in America.

The Bellwether Prize, which was established in 2000 by Barbara Kingsolver and is funded entirely by her, was created to promote fiction that addresses issues of social justice and the impact of culture and politics on human relationships.

We favor investments such as those mitigating the impacts of fossil fuels in energy - intensive industries, promoting energy efficiency, or otherwise addressing environmental and social justice issues.

They were recognized by the festival host, Games for Change, an organization with a history of promoting games that not only entertain, but also impact society through education, healthcare and social justice issues.

The report is a joint production of NAACP, Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO), the Indigenous Environmental Network and lead author and researcher Adrian Wilson, and will serve as a launching point for NAACP's campaign to address the issue of the pollution from coal fired power plants and disparate impacts on communities of color.

«International sector - based offsets will exacerbate environmental justice issues and ARB has failed to address concerns from impacted communities living on the front lines of the climate crisis with some of the top offset users in our backyards.

According to a press release, the commission is charged with «advising state entities on environmental justice; analyzing the impact of state and local laws and policies on environmental justice and sustainable communities; developing criteria to assess whether communities in the state may be experiencing environmental issues and recommending options to the Governor's office and legislators for addressing these issues.»

These issues include: (a) the need to determine when the obligation of any nation is triggered, (b) difficulties in determining which adaptation and compensation needs are attributable to human - induced warming versus natural variability, (c) challenges in allocating responsibilities among all nations that have emitted ghg above their fair share of safe global emissions, (e) challenges in prioritizing limited funds among all adaptation and compensation needs, (f) needs to set funding priorities in consultation with those who are vulnerable to climate change impacts as a matter of procedural justice, and (e) the need to consider the capacity of some nations to fund adaptation and compensation needs.

Cost arguments usually ignore issues of procedural justice including the right of victims to consent to being put at risk to climate change impacts.

Her words echoed those written in Pope Francis's landmark Encyclical released on June 18, which condemned ecological destruction and the impact of global warming on the world's poorest people, adding that the Pontiff linked the issues of both economic and climate justice «in a way that this divestment movement does.»

Along with all the improvements and positive impact, technology may also have a negative impact on our society and our system of justice — and most of those revolve around the issue of privacy.

With 87 percent of the nation's 11,000 state judges having to face voters in some type of election, the right's well - funded assault on the courts could have a tremendous impact, not just on obvious issues such as abortion, same - sex marriage, school vouchers, medical research, and school prayer, but on the way justice is delivered day by day.»

«The choice of such a hot - button issue, which will attract a great deal of attention but won't actually have I would think that much of an impact at the end of the day, risks being a distraction from the more important and pressing access - to - justice challenges that we as Ontario lawyers ought to be concerned about,» says Adam Goldenberg, a lawyer with McCarthy Tétrault LLP.

It impacts on the decision and strategy on whether to litigate even with a meritorious claim, and is becoming an issue of access to justice, especially for impecunious litigants who are disproportionally affected by the recovery gap.

But it is the critical issues related to access to justice that will ultimately, I expect, have the greatest impact on the legal marketplace, as consumers relentlessly search for more affordable and more satisfactory alternatives.

Data, if it were to be systematically collected from «the Ministry of Attorney General's Office, legal aid organizations and other (non) law - related groups,» could measure the true impact of technologically based responses to access to justice issues.

a broad range of issues relating to the structure of the government and to civil rights and civil liberties — ranging from racial justice to federalism from the right to privacy to the separation of powers from the right to vote to the role of juries — have a unique impact and import in the context of the criminal justice system.

with millions of crimes committed and over a million felonies prosecuted every year (as well as over two million persons behind bars and seven million persons currently under criminal justice supervision), crime and punishment issues have a profound scope in the United States and have a profound impact on Americans» day - to - day lives;

Following several years of judicial procedures, the Austrian Supreme Court made a preliminary reference to the European Court of Justice on two issues, of which the most interesting one concerns whether the environmental impact assessment also serves to protect an individual against pecuniary damages as a result of the decrease in the value of his or her property.

This one hundred plus page document provides an interesting overview of the legal private practice as we know it today, covering many issues which are ongoing concerns for many in the legal profession: the impact of information technology, questions of access to justice, the ever - growing global village and billable hours.

My blog work facilitates the exposure and scrutiny of my legal ideas to a national and international readership that includes not only judges, policymakers, and practitioners at all levels in many jurisdictions, but also academics from other disciplines, journalists of all stripes, many nonlawyers interested in criminal justice issues, and also — perhaps most valuably — the real people whose lives are most impacted by the policies and doctrines that I discuss.»).

The keynote will be followed by workshop sessions on a wide variety of topics of interest to criminal, juvenile, child welfare and mental health practitioners, including but not limited to the wrongful conviction and exoneration of Frederick Clay, litigating nursing home admissions, appellate advocacy, criminal case law update, how to use social science research in your case, the new sentencing guidelines, restorative justice, ensuring language access, advanced issues in Superior Court litigation, representing emerging adults, how to contest preliminary drug test results, a practicum on mindfulness, as well as the latest from the immigration impact unit.

If that had happened the case would have been appropriate for restorative justice, but because of the victim impact statement the judge could not issue a restorative sentence (R v Drozdowski, 2014 ONCJ 264 at para 51).

In light of this crisis, it seems worthwhile to look at a snapshot of cases involving issues concerning access to justice, the impact of self - represented litigants on the courts» resources, and how the courts have been handling such issues.

West Coast LEAF was invited to share with the Justice Committee our expert perspectives on these important issues and their impacts on women's access to jJustice Committee our expert perspectives on these important issues and their impacts on women's access to justicejustice.

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On December 6th, 2017, the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women, West Coast LEAF issued our 9th annual CEDAW Report Card, assessing BC's progress in nine key areas impacting women's human rights, including access to justice, economic Read More

Though this USSC's new crack work need not directly impact the Supreme Court's assessment of broader Booker issues, the fact that Mario Claiborne's guideline range would be lower under the new crack guidelines could surely impact some Justices» perspectives.

My chief concern is not the narrowness of the NJ recommendations, but the failure to explore complicated issues relating to how having (or not having) the death penalty on the books (or an expanded LWOP) might impact charging and plea bargaining practices throughout New Jersey's criminal justice system.

Education encompasses a broad variety of topics, including education on legal and jurisdictional issues, an understanding of the role of a judicial officer, ethical issues impacting on judicial conduct, the development of specific skills necessary to perform the functions of a justice of the peace, and the development of an awareness of social and cultural context in which social issues and challenges may arise and manifest themselves in judicial proceedings.