Sentences with phrase «legal civil unions»

It is coincidental but timely that this offering comes at the same time that gay and lesbian couples are being recognized at least as legal civil unions, if not married.

I would support legal civil unions.

Not exact matches

«A ruling by a single judge in one circuit can not and does not undo the years of clear legal precedent nationwide establishing that transgender students have the right to go to school without being singled out for discrimination,» said a statement from five groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), that have filed «friend of the court» briefs on behalf of transgender students.

The American Civil Liberties Union has offered legal counsel for students protesting.

After the sweeping Republican election victory on Nov. 9, 2016, transgender people «are concerned for their safety, survival and legal rights in the coming years,» said Chase Strangio, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union who often works on transgender issues.

Will the SEC take this opportunity to clarify that same - sex couples in civil unions, domestic partnerships, and similar legal relationships intended to give them at least some of the economic benefits of marriage, are «spouses» to one another, and thus eligible for the alternative accredited investor qualification standard made available to persons who are married (with the Supreme Court's recent decision striking down Section 3 of DOMA, it is already clear that persons in same - sex marriages are «spouses» to one another)?

The ruling is a win for the American Civil Liberties Union in its ongoing legal battle with the Office of Refugee Resettlement.

Nevertheless, he decried, and actually seemed surprised by the fact that the jargon, presumptions, odor of sanctity, and especially the legal tools left over from the civil rights movement's glory years, now three generations past, are being used to sanction homosexual unions and in general make of non-heterosexuals yet another legally privileged group.

The only thing the state should regulate or define is the legal contract between two consenting adults to form a civil union, and that should be made available to any two consenting adults regardless of gender.

Failing that, he should simply refuse the government's delegation of legal power, referring the couple to the courthouse after the wedding for the state to confect in its bureaucratic way the amorphous and ill - defined civil union that our regime continues to call «marriage.»

Santorum claims the USA is the shining star on the hill, but while in Europe gays can enter civil unions which are providing the same legal protection and rights as normal weddings the USA is fighting over this and call this an attack on family values.

The sticker is a bit tattered, since it goes back to the controversy about «civil unions» — the Vermont law passed in 2000 establishing various legal equivalencies to marital rights for gay and lesbian couples.

The problem is that a civil union in the eyes of the law does not bring the same legal benefits.

Rather, they issue civil unions allowing for legal connection in matters of health, access, finances, custody and adoption etc. regardless of sex.

Let their be special civil unions for gay people and let them enjoy the same LEGAL benefits as Marriage.

If many heterosexual couples are choosing civil unions (the French PACS — see the below chart), this must be because they find this form of union in their interest, in particular the economic and legal parameters that define the material interests of the parties (housing, finances, social insurance, etc.).

Also at 11 a.m., the New York Civil Liberties Union holds press conference to announce legal action it will take regarding mistreatment, abuse and denial of rights for farmworkers in New York state, East Capital Park steps, Albany.

The Medical Defence Union (MDU) said today the establishment of a Civil Justice Council working group to consider fixed legal costs in clinical negligence claims is a positive step in tackling runaway legal costs.

In about 1864 (during American civil war between the Union side and the Confederates), President Abraham Lincoln, through an executive order / decree, suspended the legal «writ of summons», made a law that was back - dated (retrospective effect) and used it to try some detained saboteur suspects, and those convicted were executed within days after the review of the judgment.

But the effort could be stalled by legal challenges from civil liberties lawyers and police labor unions.

Late last month Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Clifford Stanley issued a memo which stated that chaplains may officiate the marriage and civil union ceremonies of gay couples in states where it's legal, including those taking place on military installations.

Five upstate counties already receive full funding for legal services from the state, the result of a lawsuit that state officials settled with the New York Civil Liberties Union in 2014.

In March, Staten Island Judge William Garnett denied requests to release the minutes from the Eric Garner grand jury proceedings, but James, the Legal Aid Society, the New York Civil Liberties Union and the NAACP filed an appeal in the state over the decision.

«These new figures suggest that chokeholds have been an even more serious problem than we realized,» said Christopher T. Dunn, the associate legal director of the New York Civil Liberties Union.

A number of witnesses were to testify in favor of a marriage equality plank in the platform: Marc Solomon, national campaign director for Freedom to Marry; Allison Herwitt, legislative director for the Human Rights Campaign; Army Chief Warrant Officer Charlie Morgan, a lesbian New Hampshire guardsman with stage - four incurable breast cancer and a plaintiff in Servicemembers Legal Defense Network's lawsuit against the Defense of Marriage Act; Michael Macleod - Ball, the American Civil Liberties Union's chief of staff for the Washington Legislative Office; and Aaron Zellhoefer, a gay delegate to the Democratic National Convention representing the National Stonewall Democrats.

We have decided to mount a legal challenge with other unions representing civil servants and hold a strike ballot of over 270,000 PCS members working in civil and public services.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office will join the American Civil Liberties Union's legal challenge to the executive order issued by President Donald Trump placing a moratorium on immigration and refugees.

The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) decided today to launch legal action with other unions against the government over unilateral changes to the Civil Service Compensation Scheme and hold a strike ballot amongst 270,000 PCS members working for the civil service and its related bCivil Service Compensation Scheme and hold a strike ballot amongst 270,000 PCS members working for the civil service and its related bcivil service and its related bodies

In the meantime, PCS in conjunction with other unions representing civil servants, will be mounting a legal challenge and seeking a judicial review over the changes.

Civil rights groups, including the Legal Aid Society and tghe New York Civil Liberties Union, have criticized de Blasio, a Democrat, for interpreting the state's decades - old police - officer - secrecy law, known as 50 - a of the Civil Rights Law, more strictly than any mayor in history.

At 2 p.m., the New York Civil Liberties Union and Legal Services of Central New York announce a lawsuit, 221 S. Warren St., first floor, Syracuse.

Some ecclesiastical lawyers argue that by allowing civil unions to take place the government will leave religious groups at the mercy of local authorities, who have a legal obligation to ensure equality in the provision of goods and services.

Garnett met with lawyers from the New York Civil Liberties Union, Public Advocate Letita James and the Legal Aid Society on Monday as well.

Last week, the petitioners, which also include the Legal Aid Society, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the New York Civil Liberties Union, submitted a motion for preference to the appellate court, asking that arguments in the case be heard by the end of June.

«What I'd like to do legislatively, on the federal level — and I think we'll be able to do this with the new president — is actually make civil unions legal in all 50 states, make it the law of the land.

The forum will address these issues and bring together representatives from the Empire State Pride Agenda, New York Civil Liberties Union, Lambda Legal, and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, as well as an official from the federal government.

The Council on American Islamic Relations and the American Civil Liberties Union have both launched legal challenges to the executive action.

The American Foundation for Equal Rights — with its attention - getting political odd couple of conservative Republican lawyer Theodore Olson and liberal Democrat David Boies — will announce Monday it is joining a lawsuit against what the lawyers called Virginia's «draconian» laws prohibiting same - sex marriages, the recognition of such marriages performed where they are legal, and civil unions.

At a June 17th hearing exploring our current bail system, the New York Civil Liberties Union issued these, among other findings, to the NYC Council Committee on Courts and Legal Services:

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about legal fees two local lawyers, who are also local officials, claim are owed to them from a 2006 civil rights case and a proposed New York State constitutional amendment to strip the pensions of corrupt public officials.

As an authority, LIPA is exempt from civil service rules that impose legal limits on political activity and affiliation being the basis for employment, and is not constrained by union contracts.

James — along with The Post, the Legal Aid Society and the New York Civil Liberties Union — also filed a petition in Dec. 2014 seeking to have the Staten Island District Attorney unseal the grand jury minutes in the Eric Garner verdict.

[1] After a protracted legal battle between the American Civil Liberties Union and the U.S. Patent Office against Myriad, the Supreme Court ruled that isolated genes were a «product of nature» and therefore not patent eligible.

Theroux will play Mel Wulf, a longtime national legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union.

Advocacy Institute American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations American Association of University Women (AAUW) American Civil Liberties Union American Federation of Teachers Autism National Committee (AutCom) Center for American Progress Action Fund Center for Law and Education Children's Defense Fund Collaboration to Promote Self - Determination (CPSD) Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates, Inc. (COPPA) Democrats for Education Reform Easter Seals The Education Trust Educators for Excellence Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN) The Lawyers» Committee for Civil Rights Under Law The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) Mental Health America NAACP NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc..

The lawsuit is the first test of the applicability of the state's 1972 Equal Rights Amendment to voting - rights issues, said James C. Harrington, legal director of the Texas Civil Liberties Union, which together with the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund is representing the plaintlegal director of the Texas Civil Liberties Union, which together with the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund is representing the plaintLegal Defense and Educational Fund is representing the plaintiffs.

In 2014, the Community Legal Aid Society and the American Civil Liberties Union brought a complaint to the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights that asserted that the charter schools of Delaware were resegregating the state's schools by race and by disability.

If the state where the couple lived doesn't recognize same - sex marriages, a surviving partner may still qualify as a widow or widower for Social Security benefits if the intestacy laws of that state allow the surviving partner of a non-marital legal relationship (such as a civil union or domestic partnership) to inherit as a spouse.

Rotten though the American legal system is, and despite the fact that most of these organizations do not agree with Steyn's views on climate change (nor necessarily with Mann's either), amicus curiae briefs supporting Mark's position have been filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Reporters» Committee for Press Freedom, the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the Associations of American Publishers and of Alternative News Media (e.g. Village Voice), NBC Universal, Bloomberg, Time, USA Today, the Washington Post, and many other publications and groups.

There can be no doubt that unions have the legal status to sue and to be sued in civil matters.