Sentences with phrase «legal defense funds»

Here the plaintiffs get the funding, so it's the opposite of legal defense funds, which fund defendants.

Also the author of The New York Times best - selling book «Suck It Wonder Woman: The Misadventures of a Hollywood Geek,» Munn and five other women in November accused film producer and director Brett Ratner of sexual misconduct, and she has become an active supporter of the Times Up Initiative, led by women in the entertainment industry to provide legal defense funds to help less privileged women protect themselves from sexual misconduct.

Start public campaign financing, close the LLC loophole in campaign finance regulations, and ban the use of campaign contributions for the legal defense funds of elected officials.

The use of legal defense funds on the city level isn't unprecedented.

«This opinion closes the door on using legal defense funds as a means for influence peddling.»

Melissa Etheridge will bring her powerful voice to Central New York to raise legal defense funds for protesters of the Dakota Access Pipeline.

«It's important that campaign contributions be used for campaigning, not legal defense funds,» said Blair Horner, NYPIRG's executive director.

It refuses to ban the use of campaign contributions for the legal defense funds of elected officials.

Donations to legal defense funds for public officials usually are capped at a certain amount.

• Speaking of Time's Up... Attorney Tina Tchen, who Bloomberg describes as «arguably the most well - connected person working in women's rights today, thanks to her six years as an assistant to President Barack Obama and as first lady Michelle Obama's chief of staff,» talks about why it was so important that Time's Up include a legal defense fund: «The fastest way to make sure that someone isn't getting bullied by a lawyer for someone rich and powerful is to make sure that person has a lawyer, too.»

Time's Up includes a legal defense fund, made up of $ 13 million in donations, to help less privileged women fight sexual misconduct.

But privately, officials debated whether this was a proper use of the legal defense fund, which was originally intended to help pay for things like vote recounts, according to news reports.

Zzyym's lawsuit, filed last year by the LGBT rights legal firm Lambda Legal Defense Fund in federal court in Denver, argued that the policy of requiring either a male or female designation on passport applications violated due process and equal protection rights for intersex people.

We spoke with the head of that coalition, a student who feels being Asian hurt his college application, and an NAACP Legal Defense Fund lawyer to try to settle the debate.

The company claims it was not, however, people protested Uber by deleting their accounts and its app, despite the creation of a legal defense fund for affected drivers that would also pay them even if they're unable to work.

Tina Tchen is building up the Time's Up Legal Defense Fund, which already has more than 2,000 potential clients.

To donate to the TIME»S UP Legal Defense Fund, click here.

Tax - deductible donations made TODAY will go to the TIME»S UP Legal Defense Fund through a partnership with GoFundMe's Direct Impact Fund, a 501 (c) 3.

Uber wouldn't provide comment beyond Kalanick's statement that announced the company's plan to compensate drivers affected by the immigration ban and create a $ 3 million legal defense fund for drivers.

Christian dispensationalists have contributed significantly, together with Jews, to a temple fund, or to a legal defense fund for such terrorists.

Sleeping in on Sundays, spending my money on myself instead of some priestpervs legal defense fund or a pastor's fondness for hoookers and blow...

RESOURCES «New Zealand Grants a River the Rights of Personhood,» Care2.Com [Swiss] Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology, The Dignity of Living Beings with Regard to Plants [PDF] Community Environment Legal Defense Fund Web Site CELDF «Rights of Nature» FAQs Carl Cohen and Tom Regan, chapter by Carl Cohen, «Rights and Interests,» The Animal Rights Debate, (Latham, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2001), p. 17 David S. Oderberg, «The Illusion of Animal Rights,» Human Life Review, Spring - Summer 2000, p. 42.

Promoted most prominently by the Community Environment Legal Defense Fund, the laws center around «the rights of people, natural communities, and ecosystems to exist, regenerate and flourish»» in essence, a «right to life for nature.»

The Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund in America is one body doing that, initially through a focus on litigation, but increasingly on support for compliance and lobbying for legal reform.

#TimesUp Sign the solidarity letter & donate to the @TIMESUPNW Legal Defense Fund: https://t.co/eTwKtOboIl pic.twitter.com/q8aok 1HTGg

They've also created a legal defense fund to assist women in blue - collar and agricultural industries.

A legal defense fund created by the initiative had a goal of $ 15,000,000.

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Hiram Monserrate turned himself in to federal authorities in connection with the NYC Council slush fund scandal, a commission of his former legislative colleagues, which rarely takes action against one of its own, found reasonable cause to believe that he violated the Public Officers Law by setting up a legal defense fund and soliciting contributions from from individuals and entities that had business interests in his work as a senator.

The group last week unveiled an ad featuring Cuomo and celebrities touting an immigrant legal defense fund.

Weiner was the only NY delegation member who gave cash to scandal - scarred Rep. Charlie Rangel's legal defense fund.

Time's Up — an initiative and legal defense fund fighting sexual harassment and gender inequality — has called on Cuomo to open an investigation of Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance and his office after a story in New York Magazine revealed the alleged mishandling handling of a Harvey Weinstein sexual assault case.

Mark - Viverito, an outspoken progressive, pushed as speaker for more stringent limits on police cooperation with immigration officials about undocumented immigrants in their custody and developed a free legal defense fund for immigrants facing possible deportation.

[From FB] The «John F. Haggerty Legal Defense Fund» has been created to help pay for the legal fees associated with John's legal defense in the criminal case against him.

Cuomo trumpeted his immigrant legal defense fund as a response to President Trump's «dramatic plans» to restrict immigration and deport undocumented people.

The legal defense fund would allow people to contribute more than the limits set for campaign contributions, the San Diego - Union Tribune reported.

«We've always opposed the use of campaign coffers as a legal defense fund.

* Checks should be made payable to the John F. Haggerty Legal Defense Fund.

He needs to answer a lot of questions, so don't spend that $ 20 so fst, Schumer may need it for a «Legal Defense fund», after he spends all his campaign money trying to get re-elected JUST LIKE ALAN HEVESI DID IN 2006

The governor announced he's putting together a public - private legal defense fund to help immigrants who can't afford their own defense if they are targeted by the federal government.

Rep. Charles Rangel has launched a legal defense fund to help pay bills from his two - year ethics investigation.

Former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno announced on Friday the bulk of his leftover campaign and legal defense fund cash — some $ 1.4 million — will be transferred to the Senate Republican Campaign Committee.

Bruno announced in a press release sent out by his longtime spokesman John McArdle that he would close out the remainder of his campaign account as well as a legal defense fund formed to help him fight federal corruption charges, with most of the money going to help the GOP maintain control of the chamber.

«We will be putting together a public - private legal defense fund to provide immigrants who can't afford their own defense,» Cuomo said.

Legislative Ethics Commission Commissioner John J. Nigro, who had been active with the Joe Bruno Legal Defense Fund before Bruno's conviction Dec. 7, is continuing his support as the former Republican leader awaits sentencing for two fraud convictions.

She praised the the governor's emergency legal defense fund for immigrants that he launched last month but called on him to make it sustainable and usable for New York City immigrants.

The mayor insinuated that he would have to raise the funds separately, such as through a legal defense fund.

(In a sign of just how tough it is to prove bribery charges, in September, a federal judge threw out four bribery charges, saying Melgen's contributions to Menendez's legal defense fund didn't contain any explicit agreement of quid pro quo.)

The organizers of the Women's March in Albany will also be fundraising on Saturday for a legal defense fund for protesters arrested during last year's demonstrations with a sale of T - shirts and sweatshirts.

«This governor created the Office of New Americans, launched the Naturalize NY initiative to cover the costs of immigrants seeking to become citizens and launched a $ 10 million immigrant legal defense fund,» Azzopardi said.