Sentences with phrase «legal advocacy organization»

Also, most legal advocacy organizations that rely on pro bono counsel have limited access to support staff.

The Animal Legal Defense Fund, the nation's preeminent legal advocacy organization for animals, brought the lawsuit on behalf of Barkworks puppy purchasers harmed by Barkworks practices they claimed were illegal and deceptive.

The Animal Legal Defense Fund is the nation's preeminent legal advocacy organization for animals, and thanks the Humane Society of the United States and international law firm Locke Lord LLP for their work on this case.

Several groups, led by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE), a nonprofit legal advocacy organization, filed suit in 1993 claiming that New York State was depriving New York City public school students of their constitutional rights to a «sound basic education,» a standard that had been prescribed in 1982 by the state's highest court (in New York, the Court of Appeals).

Legal Advocacy organizations across the state are invited to sign on and create their own folders, news and training announcements.

Interventions in Charter litigation and public interest litigation brought by lawyers and legal advocacy organizations play a role, not only in the courts in which the matters take place, but also within the public discourse surrounding the Charter and human rights issues raised.

Pivot Legal Society is a Vancouver - based legal advocacy organization that seeks to challenge laws that entrench poverty and marginalization.

The proposed class representatives, three nonprofit legal advocacy organizations, overcame the government's primary challenge to class certification, which was that they were not adequate class representatives.

Atlanta — Today, the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF), the nation's preeminent legal advocacy organization for animals, filed a «friend of the court» brief in the Georgia Supreme Court, in support of a family suing Barking Hound Village for gross negligence that allegedly led to the death of the family's dog, Lola.

The Animal Legal Defense Fund, the nation's preeminent legal advocacy organization for animals, has some tips.

News NBC News reports that, while Muslim Americans have filled roles as state judges, none have served at the federal trial or appellate levels, according to Muslim Advocates, a national legal advocacy organization.

Her organization, ACT for America, has been criticized by Muslim Advocates, a legal advocacy organization focused on the civil rights of Muslim citizens.

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS — City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez is donating a $ 30,000 settlement he received from a lawsuit against the city over his arrest during Occupy Wall Street to a legal advocacy organization founded to defend civil rights activists.

David Sciarra, the executive director of the New Jersey - based Education Law Center, a legal advocacy organization, told The American Prospect that Newark's State Superintendent Chris Cerf supported the plaintiffs in the case, claiming that state law tied his hands when cutting the district's budget.

About the same time that Nolo got started in 1971, a couple of libertarians started a legal advocacy organization named Help Abolish Legal Tyranny, or HALT as it is now known.