Sentences with phrase «legal attacks for»

Any Scouting unit that refuses to accept or abide by the new policy will either have their charter revoked by national BSA leadership or become fully exposed to legal attacks for alleged violations of nondiscrimination ordinances.

«For Apple to be subject to hindsight legal attack for a business strategy well - recognized as perfectly proper sends the wrong message to the market,» it added.

Not exact matches

«Ten years ago I would never think it possible for a college to punish a rape victim for talking about her attack,» Colby Bruno, a senior legal counsel at the Victim Rights Law Center, said when briefed on Beth's case.

Last month he condemned Trump's missiles attacks on the Assad regime in Syria for having no legal authorisation and escalating tensions in the war - torn country.

Trump set off a firestorm after the December attacks — during which an apparently ISIS - inspired couple, both legal residents, killed 14 people — by calling for a complete ban on Muslim travel to the U.S.

However, Legal Week's 2013 Benchmark survey showed only 35 % of firms had a response plan for attacks.

Apple has taken its legal attack on Qualcomm's patent licensing business global, filing two complaints in Chinese courts challenging the way Qualcomm gets paid for its cellular intellectual property.

It is no secret that Qualcomm's lucrative patent licensing business has been a lightning rod for legal attacks by Apple and antitrust regulators over the past year.

President Trump ran through a litany of topics in a series of tweets early Sunday, bouncing from an attack by a gunman in France to his plans for a border wall to his personal legal team.

Giuliani, who is bonded with the president by a particular brand of New York bravado, has escalated Trump's attacks on the Department of Justice, pushed for strict limits on special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe and upended White House legal strategy.

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For Leff, readers «can attest to the rhetorical power of this blend,» of mixing «playful attacks against the professional and philosophical pursuits (but not the persons)» of the prosecutors, including the powerful Cato, «deadly serious emotional appeals,» and «deft maneuvering around the specific legal issues.»

I concluded at the time of the riots that of all the things the government now needed to do, it was the married family which most urgently needed to be rebuilt: I was and remain as certain of that as anything I have ever written, and I have been saying it repeatedly for over 20 years: I was saying it, for instance, when I was attacking (in The Mail and also The Telegraph), as it went through the Commons, the parliamentary bill which became that disastrous piece of (Tory) legislation called the Children Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged parents not to spend too much time with their children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smack.»

Obama opposed the 2001 and 2002 «born alive» bills as backdoor attacks on a woman's legal right to abortion, but he says he would have been «fully in support» of a similar federal bill that President Bush had signed in 2002, because it contained protections for Roe v. Wade.»

«This is a deliberate attack on the Chaldean Catholic Assyrian community of Detroit,» said Wisam Naoum, a community activist helping coordinate legal assistance for detainees and their families at a Chaldean - focused charter school in the area.

That is, that one of the main reasons for his attack on Darwinism is his conclusion that insufficiently critical adoption of evolutionary modes of thought by the majority of scientists, and also by educational (e.g., John Dewey) and legal (e.g., Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.) leaders, has led to a highly unsatisfactory cultural situation, and to many evil consequences.

«Private institutions that dissent from today's reformulation of marriage must be prepared for aggressive legal attacks on all fronts,» Michael McConnell, director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford University Law School, told Inside Higher Ed for its exploration of the consequences for Christian colleges.

And people who are builing the center had nothing to do with the attacks, they even have nothing to be forgiven for, just exercising their legal rights.

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Nevertheless, I am an attorney with 25 years experience, 13 of which were as a criminal defense attorney, and the video makes clear that by legal standards, the young lady WAS the aggressor — twice — no matter what was said prior (words are never an excuse for an attack) and yes Mixon has a valid (at least arguable) self defense case.

«Targeting» means that a player takes aim at an opponent for purposes of attacking with forcible contact that goes beyond making a legal tackle or a legal block or playing the ball.

Reproductive rights groups are ramping up their own attacks on Senate Republican incumbents who oppose the WEA, claiming the conference's refusal to allow the legislation on the chamber floor for a vote flies in the face of public support for legal abortion.

In response to «housing discrimination and attacks from Washington on immigrants,» NYS Senator Jose Peralta and CUNY School of Law's Community Legal Resources Network announced on May 10 the re-launching of free legal assistance services for immigran MoLegal Resources Network announced on May 10 the re-launching of free legal assistance services for immigran Molegal assistance services for immigran More...

Let's remember the roll call of shame - cuts to legal aid, curtailing judicial review, attacks on human rights legislation, making freedom of information request more difficult and legislating for the loathed gagging bill amount to a substantial onslaught on free speech, campaigning and democracy.

The SNP was accused of embedding government officials into the heart of family life today, after its plans for child guardians were attacked by parents and legal groups.

The businesswoman, who won a Brexit legal challenge against the government, recently revealed that she has been receiving threats of acid attacks for months and is afraid to leave her home.

Second, it places a very high bar on the legal and moral authorisation for an intervention on the basis of that attack.

Common Sense Principles, a 501 (c)(4) group that funded advertisements attacking marginal Democrats, paid $ 550,000 to Richard Runes for legal work and $ 140,000 to Frank Sanzillo, a lobbyist, for «consulting,» it stated on a 2012 I.R.S. filing.

Sen. Marisol Alcantara, a Manhattan Democrat who angrily struck back against attacks that the IDC is emboldening the GOP and Trump's agenda, praised the new funding for immigrant legal services.

At the Democratic Party's lunchtime meeting in Tarrytown, Schumer spoke to his hopes for the future, including that he will become Senate majority leader and, in the event the Republican - controlled Senate does not relent in its opposition to an Obama nominee, «our madam president will surely nominate a person for the Supreme Court who is in the legal mainstream (and) will uphold fundamental rights and common sense precedents now so severely under attack by the right - wing.»

Money for low - income housing in New York City, help for unions under legal attack, funding for the infamous, murky water - discharging Niagara Falls wastewater plant: done, done and done.

At the Democratic Party's lunchtime meeting in Tarrytown, Schumer spoke about his hopes for the future, including that he will become Senate majority leader, Hillary Clinton will be elected president and she will «nominate a person for the Supreme Court who is in the legal mainstream (and) will uphold fundamental rights and common sense precedents now so severely under attack by the right wing.»

«If animal rights groups continue to pursue the use of laws in ways they were not originally intended, I'm concerned that universities may be forced to expend additional resources to counteract these unwarranted legal attacks,» says Frankie Trull, president of the Foundation for Biomedical Research in Washington DC, which defends animal experiments.

Since last May, in a series of legal documents and Honolulu Star - Bulletin opinion pieces, the five trustees of the Kamehameha Schools / Bernice Pauahi Bishop Estate have come under attack for allegedly mismanaging money and creating an atmosphere of intimidation at the Kamehameha Schools, Hawaii's second - largest private school.

Jepsen lightly approached the question of where Judge Thomas Moukawsher's broad indictment of public K - 12 education was right or wrong as a matter of policy, but the appeal sharply attacks the judge's legal basis for ruling that shortcomings he identified violate students» rights under the state Constitution to a free and adequate education.

The Institute for Justice has a long history of successfully defending school choice from legal attacks and has represented parents and children in defense of every one of Arizona's private school choice programs that have been challenged in court.

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The rise of social media has long been credited with the Arab Spring movement, and sites like Twitter have actually come under legal attack within countries like Turkey for their ability to connect individuals in ways that the government disapproved of.

Affirmative defense: A defense in a legal proceeding that attacks the legal grounds for an accusation rather than the truth of the facts.

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Educate them if they're new, actually ask them what their practices are (I find a lot of people automatically label people as a BYB just for having the gall to breed any dog at all, it doesn't matter what the persons standards were — BYB is just a negative slang term intended to attack / offend any given breeder — it actually doesn't mean anything in a legal sense, there is no legal definition of it because there is no way of defining it in a legal manner without also applying it to all breeders).

The revelation of the e-mail's contents has prompted demands for an investigation to see if the White House and CEI are co-ordinating the legal attack.

And yet, despite some encouraging developments in renewable energy and some breakthroughs in international leadership, carbon emissions continue to rise at a steady rate, and for their pains the scientists themselves — the cruelest blow of all — have been the targets of an unrelenting and well - organized attack that includes death threats, summonses from a hostile Congress, attempts to get them fired, legal harassment, and intrusive discovery demands so severe they had to start their own legal - defense fund, all amplified by a relentless propaganda campaign nakedly financed by the fossil - fuel companies.

O'Reilly largely obfuscated, implying a legal reason for the silence, but still managed to attack one of his accusers on air.

Attorney General Michael Mukasey gave the commencement address Friday at Boston College Law School, acknowledging the controversy over his appearance but nonetheless using the occasion to defend the government lawyers who are now under attack for their roles in drafting legal memoranda condoning the use of torture in interrogating enemy combatants.

But during his confirmation hearings, he said he had dropped the death penalty in an Alabama case when he learned it did not meet the legal criteria, weathering political attacks for the decision.

«Please don't think this won't happen to you»: The lessons learned from DLA's cyber attack To a packed room in which you could literally have heard a pin drop, on 26 February at Legal Leaders IT Forum in Gleneagles Daniel Pollick, outgoing CIO at DLA Piper, described for the first time in an open forum the circumstances surrounding the global «not - Petya» cyber incident that DLA was embroiled in on 27 June 2017 and the lessons that can be learned in its aftermath.

As Alex Novarese of Legal Week is right to point out, overall revenue in the UK legal market last year fell for the first time in living memory, but even if the overall size of the legal market in the UK remains static or falls (a tussle between the opposing forces of economic growth increasing demand on the one hand and business pressures to reduce fees and outsource on the other), market dynamics dictate that the revenue will be clustered differently, with the moderate - high fees currently enjoyed by the mid-tier for mid-market work under the most severe attack, the beneficiaries being niche firms and LPO proviLegal Week is right to point out, overall revenue in the UK legal market last year fell for the first time in living memory, but even if the overall size of the legal market in the UK remains static or falls (a tussle between the opposing forces of economic growth increasing demand on the one hand and business pressures to reduce fees and outsource on the other), market dynamics dictate that the revenue will be clustered differently, with the moderate - high fees currently enjoyed by the mid-tier for mid-market work under the most severe attack, the beneficiaries being niche firms and LPO provilegal market last year fell for the first time in living memory, but even if the overall size of the legal market in the UK remains static or falls (a tussle between the opposing forces of economic growth increasing demand on the one hand and business pressures to reduce fees and outsource on the other), market dynamics dictate that the revenue will be clustered differently, with the moderate - high fees currently enjoyed by the mid-tier for mid-market work under the most severe attack, the beneficiaries being niche firms and LPO provilegal market in the UK remains static or falls (a tussle between the opposing forces of economic growth increasing demand on the one hand and business pressures to reduce fees and outsource on the other), market dynamics dictate that the revenue will be clustered differently, with the moderate - high fees currently enjoyed by the mid-tier for mid-market work under the most severe attack, the beneficiaries being niche firms and LPO providers.

After an attack, you can usually hold the owner of the dog liable for your injuries with the help of your legal team.