Sentences with phrase «justice issues seemed»

Not exact matches

In December, the first document the Department of Justice (which is representing the SEC) issued in response to Robbins Geller's complaint seemed like a brush - off.

Perhaps with enough people hammering the issues of abortion and gay marriage, Harris is right to direct her attention and effort to other issues of mercy and justice, but the flavor of the book seems to downplay the importance of traditional marriage, infant life, and the church's role in mercy ministry.

The issues that seem to draw the strongest interest are neocolonialism, racism, economic justice, human rights and polygamy.

Much of what environmentalists were saying seemed to call for a redirection of energies from issues of justice to those of preserving the environment.

Those people who are obsessed with the so - called «social issues» seem to overlook the fact that both Jesus and the prophets hammered away primarily and consistently at Social Justice, again and again and again.

But the history of the voting privilege in the twentieth century shows that it takes the combined power of mass movements, economic pressures, and the Federal Government with its military force to give even a relative assurance that this requirement of justice will be realized.3 It seems, therefore, that when we move from the perspective of love to concrete issues of social strategy and political power, justice is accomplished by a confluence of historical forces and humane considerations which indeed may be enforced by love, but which must have other sources.

The Pope's prophetic, even otherworldly positions on ecumenism, capital punishment, third «world debt relief, and a host of other issues of contemporary politics seem to be grounded in this insistence that our notions of justice be derived from the perfect justice and mercy of God.

It seems that spiritual people who have a passion for justice issues, poverty, equality, etc. are somehow branded «liberals» or leftists.

At the same time, the other theologies that have contributed most to explicating and justifying the metaphysical implications of the Christian witness seem to have been typically preoccupied more with theoretical questions of belief and truth than with practical issues of action and justice, and so have contributed only indirectly to clarifying and answering our central question.

But since, as it seems, white churchmen can not deal boldly with the issue of integration, they can hardly be expected to take on the more challenging issue of justice.

Since the Supreme Court has now prevented itself from acknowledging the question of whether Barack H. Obama is or is not an Article II «natural born citizen» based on the Kenyan / British citizenship of Barack Obama's father at the time of his birth (irrespective of whether Barack Obama is deemed a «citizen» born in Hawaii or otherwise) as a prerequisite to qualifying to serve as President of the United States under the Constitution — the Court having done so at least three times and counting, first before the Nov 4 general election and twice before the Dec 15 vote of the College of Electors — it would seem appropriate, if not necessary, for all Executive Branch departments and agencies to secure advance formal advice from the United States Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel as to how to respond to expected inquiries from federal employees who are pledged to «support and defend the Constitution of the United States» as to whether they are governed by laws, regulations, orders and directives issued under Mr. Obama during such periods that said employees, by the weight of existing legal authority and prior to a decision by the Supreme Court, believe in good faith that Mr. Obama is not an Article II «natural born citizen».

Selous doesn't seem to have any background on justice or prison issues.

I saw a judge who on the issue of money in politics, seems to be in the same company as Justices Thomas and Scalia, willing to restrict the most common sense contribution limits.»

Issues with funding don't seem to be limited to the AG's office as Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo complained that the Judiciary is being made to feed off scraps

The justices seem to have chosen the 25 - year time period for no good reason other than that it has been 25 years since they last took up the issue (15).

By failing to take the need for states to address this problem seriously, small - schools advocates seem to ignore the broader issues of social justice that they work so hard to address in their own schools.

Although Apple and the publishers may have cooperated in ways that violated the nation's sometimes contradictory antitrust laws, for the Justice Department to single this matter out and not address other issues in the book industry or in business in general seems misguided.

Some nations seem to be arguing that because there are differences among nations about what equity requires, this is justification for totally ignoring equity and justice issues entailed by making allocations among nations.

«Who» remains a mystery, it seems, but Supreme Court Justice Canady did issue an order yesterday stating that going forward,» [e] very dollar should be spent wisely and with an unceasing awareness that it is hard earned taxpayer money....

It seems to me that Justice Stratas» criticism of the Court's approach (which is particularly apt because, as Daly notes, the Court had undergone a shift in personnel since its last decision on this issue) puts our task into stark relief.

Like the situation Lear describes in the U.S., there remain multiple and significant gaps in access to justice across Canada, none of which seem to be shrinking despite increased awareness of the issues, better data and significant commitment of pro bono hours by lawyers.

Though a few D.C. firms have national security practices, it seems that the real excitement lies in jobs with the Department of Justice, Homeland Security and Treasury Department, which oversees issues related to terrorist financing.

The issue of gaga judges seems to afflict the US Supreme Court, where lifelong tenure and the prospect of political pitched battles keeps judges sitting long after their best - by datesSee Supreme Court Senility or the even more provocative Slate piece on Chief Justice Rehnquist's penchant for serious prescription drugs.

Following the current views of the British governing party, it seems that the EAW can be an issue, as the question is how to keep its structure without the supervision of the European Courts of Justice.

At this time in history, in the midst of a global war on terrorism, when the usually disparate worlds of military and civilian justice seem to overlap in the application of the law, this promises to be a very interesting issue of Blawg Review.»

Constitutionally, the question of the citizen's inalienable right to access the justice process is the most important issue in the court fees debate but until the pips squeak the government seems bent on continuing to squeeze.

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.

On the margin point, the trial Judge made the observation that most claimants seemed to contend that all valuations were «standard»; clear reference to the analysis of the authorities on the issue set out by Mr Justice Coulson in K / S Lincoln v CB Richard Ellis and the tendency for those bringing claims to argue for the lowest possible margin; but accepted that this valuation was in the exceptional category but at the lower end of such — a firm steer that in the right case a higher margin would be achievable.

Justice Stephen Breyer, in reading a summary of his decision from the bench, seemed to deliberately highlight what he wrote about the issue, which actually takes up only a few sentences at the end of the 7 - 2 decision.

Yet Justice Veldhuis does seem to acknowledge there is an arguable point on whether the 8000 resident threshold is merely an aspirational target or a hard cap (at para 41) but then goes on to more or less crunch the numbers and conclude this development project is not going to push Banff over 8000 permanent residents and therefore this issue has no chance of success on appeal (at paras 42 - 44).

It does seem like Justice Veldhuis is reluctant to grant leave to appeal on substantive issues emanating from a development appeal — her comment in the Nash decision certainly supports this observation.

Placing an onus on the applicant to substantiate the general importance of their issues in the context of their particular claim seems like a lot to ask of them, and moreover the assessment by a justice in chambers on what constitutes a question of general importance or one with a reasonable prospect of success seems like a very subjective assessment from my review of decisions in this area.

This is very utopic thinking, I understand, and envisages social change at the fringes of likelihood, but it seems to me that recognizing these underlying issues and spending time stewing on our emotional responses to family breakdown might offer some valuable insights toward the reform of our present system of family justice, whatever the result might be.

Malaise seems to be the modus operandi of the Liberal government when it comes to justice issues.

The central issue of access to justice seems to me, to mean the right to full disclosure and examination of the evidence, full honesty and accountability in behavior from both court staff and judges.

Untrue (see Krugman today), but since the DSCC's approach of softpedaling social issues while highlighting economic justice seems to have worked so well, carry on, carry on.

Yang further added that the central bank issued a request to the Ministry of Justice to regulate Bitcoin trading and help put a stop to incidents of crypto - related money laundering which seem to be on the rise.

Legislation regarding mandatory imprisonment in Western Australia and the Northern Territory, which leads in many cases to imposition of punishments that are disproportionate to the seriousness of the crimes committed and would seem to be inconsistent with the strategies adopted by the State party to reduce the over-representation of indigenous persons in the criminal justice system, raises serious issues of compliance with various articles of the Covenant.

The Human Rights Committee also concluded that mandatory sentencing leads to «the imposition of punishments disproportionate to the seriousness of the crimes committed and would seem to be inconsistent with the strategies adopted by the State Party to reduce the over-representation of indigenous persons in the criminal justice system» and raises «serious issues of compliance with various articles of the Covenant»: UN Doc CPR / CO / 69 / AUS, para 17.