Sentences with phrase «legal history as»

We're proud to be a part of South Carolina's legal history as we continue to grow across the state, region, and country.

The charges were dropped and Bradford made legal history as the first criminal suspect to use a status update as alibi evidence.

The Kansas City, Missouri, case, known through its long legal history as Jenkins v. State of Missouri, was perhaps the most notorious of the tortured efforts to overcome state - sanctioned segregation.

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But the developments on Monday make it clear that, as this and the other threads surrounding the multiple investigations into Trump and his associates continues, the boundaries of legal precedent are being tested in ways unlike any other point in modern history.

Golf has had a rough history in China, but as of this week it's officially legal to play the game again, according to The Guardian.

A little - known former prosecutor with a doctorate in medieval history will play a central role on U.S. President Donald Trump's legal team, as many top - tier lawyers shy away from representing him in a probe into Russia's meddling in the 2016 election.

«The US government acted as police force (identifying the foreign government's crime), prosecutor (making the legal arguments), jury (ruling on the evidence), and judge (sentencing the foreigner to US retaliatory punishment),» Chad Bown, a senior fellow at the pro-free trade Peterson Institute for International Economics, wrote in a memo about Section 301's history earlier in August.

But as Temin and Vines show, history is much more usefully seen as the evolution of often complex institutions — financial, political, legal, cultural, and so on — through which economic behavior is mediated and which affect the ways in which recurring patterns of finance, commerce and trade unfold, and that without an understanding of history we lose so much complexity in our models that we often end up making very obvious mistakes.

A federal court deal this week ended the latest legal skirmish resulting from what the Environmental Protection Agency describes as the costliest inland oil spill in U.S. history — and one of the largest.

Indeed, they posit that one of the potential reasons the five bonds were selected for transfer is that they were issued out of the bank's Lisbon headquarters rather than out of international branches such as London (where pari passu has its own distinct legal history).

It would be interesting to know as a matter of history whether President Lincoln's desire to limit the binding force of Dred Scott ever found its way into a practical legal argument.

With the good news that the Catholic religion is in steep decline here and losing political and legal influence it never should have had, fairly soon those definitions, and the religion itself, won't matter as anything other than a sorry footnote in history.

Any society in history will need structures which balance enhancement of freedom and self - determination with checks on it by long - established legal and moral traditions of keeping power in the service of order and mutual responsibility, as well as creation of new structures of public morality.

As one example, before he took the bench, Brandeis and his legal partner Sam Warren penned «The Right to Privacy,» one of the most influential law - review articles in history, in the Harvard Law Review.

One involves the facts of the case: Evaluation of Pope Pius IX's actions in regard to the Mortara family, and of the family's as well as Edgardo's reactions, should be based on the most accurate detailing of the facts that political, legal, and religious history can provide.

I have never used marijuana nor have any plans to do so, but for the first 150 years of our history as a nation, it was legal and used in nearly 80 % of the medicines of the 19th c. George Washington grew it on Mt. Vernon.

Primary Opinion had a chequered history, having transformed into a legal services, human resources and accounting firm from 2013, from its previous guise as a social media company called Jumbuck Entertainment.

Magna Carta was, perhaps, the first legal document to establish the rights of citizens as opposed to those of kings in European history.

AVENATTI THREATENS CONSERVATIVE OUTLET: As I reported yesterday, Michael Avenatti threatened in an email to sue two Daily Caller News Foundation reporters, and the organization itself, following their report alleging that the Stormy Daniels lawyer has a tangled legal history.

Mayor Bill de Blasio defended his administration's legal effort to avoid divulging the disciplinary history of the NYPD officer who killed black Staten Islander Eric Garner in 2014 — even as the liberal Democrat claimed to support releasing such records in principle.

«As the chief legal officers for over 130 million Americans and foreign residents of our states, we condemn President Trump's unconstitutional, un-American and unlawful Executive Order and will work together to ensure the federal government obeys the Constitution, respects our history as a nation of immigrants, and does not unlawfully target anyone because of their national origin or faith,» the statement saiAs the chief legal officers for over 130 million Americans and foreign residents of our states, we condemn President Trump's unconstitutional, un-American and unlawful Executive Order and will work together to ensure the federal government obeys the Constitution, respects our history as a nation of immigrants, and does not unlawfully target anyone because of their national origin or faith,» the statement saias a nation of immigrants, and does not unlawfully target anyone because of their national origin or faith,» the statement said.

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Personal Info Birthplace: Staten Island, NY High School: Brooklyn Tech High School (public - requires entrance exam) Higher Education: SUNY New Paltz, University of Buffalo Law School NY19 Connection: Attended SUNY New Paltz, 1970 - 1974; Returned to live in Kingston in 1981 and thereafter moved to Woodstock where he has resided through today Length of Residency in NY19: Kingston, NY and Woodstock, NY since 1983; greater than 34 years Prior Job History: Served as a Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) Volunteer working with Native American tribes in Nebraska, Western Nebraska Legal Services attorney between 1977 - 1980; Ulster County Public Defender's Office in the 1980s and early 1990s, Law Offices of Dave Clegg practicing predominantly personal injury law and elder abuse cases until present.

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.

For the purposes of this initiative the social sciences are defined as inclusive of the subjects of economics, economic and social history, political science, socio - legal studies, education, psychology, cognitive studies, linguistics, management and business studies, human geography, environmental planning, international studies, area and development studies, social statistics, demography, social science computing, sociology, social anthropology, social policy and social work.

New York City Public Advocate Letitia James officially launched her campaign for attorney general on Wednesday, seeking to make history as the first woman of color to serve as the state's top legal officer.

As part of the building pressure on de Blasio to eliminate funding conditions, Make the Road New York, one of the city's leading immigrant advocacy organizations, released its budget priorities for the upcoming fiscal year, with funding for NYIFUP «without any limitation to legal representation based on criminal history» at the top of its list.

The feds asked SKS to state his legal work history and his role as outside counsel to the New York Yankees.

When former Assistant Parks Commissioner Estelle Cooper died Saturday, she left behind a history of public service in Queens clouded by legal troubles associated with her tenure as head of a nonprofit that funded upkeep at Flushing Meadows Corona Park.

«We covered all the scientific principles behind DNA profiling, including the specialist laboratory techniques and software used, as well as learning about the history and legal status of the process,» recalls Phil.

As stated in the legal brief filed by GM in support of the University of Michigan affirmative action case, «only a well - educated, highly diverse workforce, comprised of people who have learned to work productively and creatively with individuals from a multitude of races and ethnic, religious, and cultural histories, can maintain America's global competitiveness in the increasingly diverse and interconnected world economy.»

He is currently preparing to apply for grants to study the technology on volunteers from different economic backgrounds as well as those with a history of personality problems and depression who are more likely to find themselves in legal hot water.

Brooklyn defense attorney David Zevin almost made legal history last month by attempting to submit functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data as evidence that a key witness was telling the truth.

But before that, the Los Angeles native starred as the super-empowered Rachel Zane on the legal drama Suits, and she has a long history of humanitarianism.

Salt has been recognized as a precious commodity throughout human history, even serving as a form of legal currency.

Arguing that cognitively complex animals such as chimpanzees, whales, dolphins and elephants have the capacity for limited personhood rights, Steve and his legal team are making history by filing the first lawsuits that seek to transform a chimpanzee from a «thing» with no rights to a «person» with legal protections.

For as she points out here ever so succinctly,» White men's right of access to black women's bodies was an assumption supported both by their history as legal property and by the myth of their sexual promiscuity,» and «Emancipation did not end the social and political usefulness of this stereotype.»

Her legal opponent David Irving (Timothy Spall), the plaintiff in the case, has made a career of picking apart the specifics of the Holocaust, using any conflicting accounts or pseudoscientific analysis as a way to undermine agreed - upon history.

As the idea flourished into what we now know as the massively popular Facebook, Zuckerberg became the youngest billionaire in history, facing more than his share of legal and personal battles along the waAs the idea flourished into what we now know as the massively popular Facebook, Zuckerberg became the youngest billionaire in history, facing more than his share of legal and personal battles along the waas the massively popular Facebook, Zuckerberg became the youngest billionaire in history, facing more than his share of legal and personal battles along the way.

While she complained, according to Education Week, that the school district should have granted her a leave of absence, a letter writer to the newspaper reminded the teacher of her history: «While civil disobedience and legal protest have long been used as ways of attracting attention to a cause, civil disobedience is unique because it has always carried with it the obvious risk of arrest and possible imprisonment.»

He concluded that among «inclusive displays on places like the courthouse lawns, the Ten Commandments can convey a «secular moral message» about the primacy and authority of law, as well as the «history and moral ideals» of our society and legal tradition.»

The kind of data schools are likely to collect, and therefore need to be wary of, include personal data on members of the school community, including names, addresses, contact details, legal guardianship contact details, disciplinary records; academic data such as class lists, progress reports; professional records of employment history, taxation, national insurance records and appraisal records.

Using the Access to History text book (or their notes, if being used as a revision exercise) students make notes on the legal process surrounding witchcraft accusations.

The sweeping attack on legal impediments to voucher programs, as sullied by anti-Catholic history, promotes a partial and misleading history.

Donna has a long history with USDOT and with the Office of Intelligence, Security, and Emergency Response, having served as the primary staff attorney - advisor on all legal aspects of intelligence, security, and emergency response, during her tenure as a Senior Attorney - Advisor with USDOT's Office of General Counsel.

From its early days as a street legal rally car to its current role as the poster child of the American boy racer, the Subaru WRX has undergone what is undoubtedly the most significant overhaul in its 23 - year history.

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Described by the author as «an alternate history that wasn't alternate enough,» this fast - paced novel depicts a present - day U.S.A. where slavery is legal in four states in the South.

Given the US history of ignoring WTO rulings that go against it, and only enforcing those rulings that are in its favor (as a lawyer specializing in international trade I've had some experience in this area), the actions taken by Antigua, being perfectly legal, may send reverberations around the world.