Sentences with phrase «legal rights led»

Hours spent at the airport assisting detainees with their legal rights led to the formation of Lawyers for America, a nonprofit organization that provides legal assistance to people whose rights have been violated.

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He has received recognition for his commitment to pro bono legal services, including his work as one of the lead attorneys in a successful federal civil rights lawsuit protecting the voting rights of Georgia citizens.

The Child DAO issue eventually led to an Ethereum hard fork, the result of voting to not let the attacker (who said he had legal right to his property through a lawyer) have his prize for his creation, and emptying the piggy bank to all those who lost ETH and laid claim to it.

That is, it was done prematurely without sufficient legal and international underpinnings and support and the end result was the Arab - Israel war which has led right up to where we are right now with over 100,000 innocent Iraqi victims, 4500 US soldiers dead, and trillions of dollars spent.

Who then will lead the fight for full legal rights and recognition of our moral minority in medicine or any other profession?

Forty - five leading pro-life advocates, including Gary Bauer of the Family Research Council, James Dobson of Focus on the Family, Clarke Forsythe of Americans United for Life, Wanda Franz of the National Right to Life Committee, and Ralph Reed of the Christian Coalition, signed a much heralded joint «Statement of Pro-Life Principle and Concern» published in First Things in 1996 in which the primary legal complaint was made that Roe «wounded American democracy» by removing the issue of abortion from «democratic concern.»

Baroness Jane Campbell of Surbiton (disability rights activist, and former Commissioner of the Equality and Human Rights Commission), Baroness Grey - Thompson (former Gold - medal paralympian), Lady Finlay of Llandaff (leading palliative care specialist and President of the British Medical Association), and Lord Carlisle of Berriew (one of the UK's top QCs and legal experts) are all either atheist or agnostic, and tend to be in favour of legalised aborights activist, and former Commissioner of the Equality and Human Rights Commission), Baroness Grey - Thompson (former Gold - medal paralympian), Lady Finlay of Llandaff (leading palliative care specialist and President of the British Medical Association), and Lord Carlisle of Berriew (one of the UK's top QCs and legal experts) are all either atheist or agnostic, and tend to be in favour of legalised aboRights Commission), Baroness Grey - Thompson (former Gold - medal paralympian), Lady Finlay of Llandaff (leading palliative care specialist and President of the British Medical Association), and Lord Carlisle of Berriew (one of the UK's top QCs and legal experts) are all either atheist or agnostic, and tend to be in favour of legalised abortion.

Tammi has worked solidly over many years for fair and consistent regulation of farming and food production and distribution, and led the process to establish a Legal Defence Fund to protect and promote the right of people to determine their own food and agriculture systems.

The British Institute of Human Rights (BIHR) has led in this call and all the signatories to the letter to David Cameron and Nick Clegg are united around a fundamental belief in the equal dignity of all people and the legal protection of basic human rRights (BIHR) has led in this call and all the signatories to the letter to David Cameron and Nick Clegg are united around a fundamental belief in the equal dignity of all people and the legal protection of basic human rightsrights.

Unsurprisingly, this leads to no small degree of social and political concern, and the UK is currently engaged in an emotive debate as to how best we might balance individual rights to protection from legal but «harmful» online content against rights to sexual freedom and freedom of information or expression.

But other gay rights advocates, led by the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network and Human Rights Campaign, and members of Congress like Rep. Patrick Murphy have argued that a legislative repeal should be the primary goal, as an executive order could be reversed by a new presrights advocates, led by the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network and Human Rights Campaign, and members of Congress like Rep. Patrick Murphy have argued that a legislative repeal should be the primary goal, as an executive order could be reversed by a new presRights Campaign, and members of Congress like Rep. Patrick Murphy have argued that a legislative repeal should be the primary goal, as an executive order could be reversed by a new president.

«It is crystal clear that the process that led to this contract before us today was and is flawed, and that all legal evidence indicates that the City has no right to move on this contract since the LRA process has not been completed,» Diaz testified at Thursday's hearing.

This led to questioning of his ability to adequately perform his functions, such as building relationships with members of the judiciary, [14] and of further politicisation of the judiciary, with Joshua Rozenberg, a popular legal commentator and Queens» Counsel, writing in the Guardian that his «main qualifications are that he is perceived to be right - wing and once shadowed prisons».

The statement which reads in parts mentioned the legal luminary and human rights activist, Chief Femi Falana as the Lead Speaker while Governor Akinwumi Ambode of Lagos, the Ethiopian Ambassador to Nigeria, Amb.

But, President Barack Obama's recent guidance on how schools must treat transgender students is under a fierce legal assault in federal courts and a comprehensive federal LGBT rights bill, the Equality Act, can not get a hearing in the Republican - led Congress.

Immigrants» rights: The governor said the Liberty Defense Project, a state - led legal defense fund, will continue to provide legal assistance to immigrants, regardless of status.

Funded by MacArthur, Oak and Open Society Foundations, SITU has undertaken collaborations with a diverse range of partners, including the International Criminal Court, the United Nations, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, B'tselem, International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), as well as projects with international legal teams, award - winning journalists and leading academic institutions such as Carnegie Mellon and Princeton Universities.

Scientists are busily filing for legal patents that give them exclusive intellectual property rights for each discovery they make in the hopes that one day, one will lead to a blockbuster cure and big cash for those who devised it.

And some experts believe the US entanglement over legal rights will just make it easier for other countries to take the lead.

The Loving Story (Unrated) Civil rights documentary recounting the events leading up to the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision in Loving vs. Virginia, the historic 1967 case declaring interracial marriage legal under the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause.

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).

The Mass led by Ms. Jayanit Patro, Nari Rashmi Samaj, Kaincha Matia, Women Legal aid cell counselor, Basnati Murumu, Nari Unnati Samaj, Hemal Soren, Nari Jayasri Samaj, rushed to the collector's office without and protection by police and government officials, presented the overall issues and problems of entitlement schemes and its failure before the district administration which was tremendous process of community empowerment by which the socially excluded groups / communities asserted their rights and entitlements.

Americans for a Fair Chance is a consortium of six of America's leading civil rights legal organizations, including the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., National Partnership for Women & Families, and the National Women's Law Crights legal organizations, including the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., National Partnership for Women & Families, and the National Women's Law Celegal organizations, including the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., National Partnership for Women & Families, and the National Women's Law CRights Under Law, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., National Partnership for Women & Families, and the National Women's Law CeLegal Defense and Educational Fund, National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., National Partnership for Women & Families, and the National Women's Law CeLegal Consortium, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., National Partnership for Women & Families, and the National Women's Law CeLegal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., National Partnership for Women & Families, and the National Women's Law Center.

As Mark Blois from Browne Jacobson LLP explains in his session, the key to being comfortable with legal duties is to have access to just the right level of information: a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing, but too much information can sometimes lead to paralysis.

«The briefs on the other side took issue with our legal theories, but, as we lay out, the legal underpinnings of our claims are well established, and they are based on the same principals that led to historic civil rights victories,» Boutrous said.

Even many of King's allies in the civil rights movement — like Roy Wilkins of the NAACP and Thurgood Marshall who would later serve on the Supreme Court — were urging the legal route — in part to avoid confrontations for fear that they would lead to violence — as they eventually did in Birmingham.

Since then, more districts have joined in two other suits - the latest coming earlier this month led by one of the nation's most forceful civil rights organizations, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund.

This week, The Wall Street Journal published an op - ed by Theodore J. Boutrous, Jr. and Joshua S. Lipshutz, two lead members of the legal team behind Vergara v. California and the new federal education equality lawsuit, Martinez v. Malloy, in which the attorneys make the case for a constitutional right to education and federal legal protections for disadvantaged students.

The lead attorney representing the plaintiffs argued that this rule does not apply in this case because «the exception to this policy is where the officer personally committed a tort: a wrongful act or an infringement of a right (other than under contract) leading to civil legal liability.»

PetravelR ™ also likes The Cavy Cottage's philosophy, simply that all Guinea Pigs should lead a safe and healthy life, with the same legislative rights that cats and dogs are finally achieving in the [Australian] legal system.

Prafulla Samantara, India: An iconic leader of social justice movements in India, Prafulla Samantara led a historic 12 - year legal battle that affirmed the indigenous Dongria Kondh's land rights and protected the Niyamgiri Hills from a massive, open - pit aluminum ore mine.

Indigenous rights in Brazil got a boost after a court victory in a dispute with farmers in Roraima and a legal opinion finding that the Surui tribe owns the carbon rights to the land they inhabit, perhaps leading the way for future indigenous - run forest carbon projects.

This workshop, led by attorneys from the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund, will help scientists from all disciplines understand their legal rights and responsibilities, and how to respond in these situatLegal Defense Fund, will help scientists from all disciplines understand their legal rights and responsibilities, and how to respond in these situatlegal rights and responsibilities, and how to respond in these situations.

The movement to make ecocide a crime against peace under international law, led by UK - based lawyer Polly Higgins, as well as efforts to grant legal rights to Mother Earth, such as Bolivia has done, is exactly where we need to be going in terms of the highest level of environmental thinking: Recognizing that destroying whole swaths of the planet, with little to no concern for the effect on all the creatures that live upon it, is not just unethical, unacceptable behavior, but is also a crime, a crime against humanity, a crime against life itself.

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It is just that I find so many of the stories of what led to the discipline to be right out of the legal - affairs edition of «Believe it or Not.»

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Failure to do so can lead to fines and ultimately criminal sanctions against the business and also the individual, not to mention the risk of bad publicity should the business fail to compile to any minimum legal employment rights.

Claiming that the choice of legal basis lead to a denial of its right under the Protocol, the UK decided to bring an action for annulment of the Council Decision 2012 / 776 / EU.

There's a reason why this legal opinion comes from a leading human rights lawyer in our jurisdiction.

As a lawyer who is recognised in her own right both regionally and nationally, Sarah is ranked as a leading individual in the Legal 500 UK guide to the legal profession for Clinical Negligence in Yorkshire, and is praised for «really fighting for her clients&raLegal 500 UK guide to the legal profession for Clinical Negligence in Yorkshire, and is praised for «really fighting for her clients&ralegal profession for Clinical Negligence in Yorkshire, and is praised for «really fighting for her clients».

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Yesterday, however, the Law Blog announced that Jones will now be reporting on national legal affairs for the WSJ, and that Joe Palazzolo (shown on the right) will be the new lead writer for the Law Blog.

When Kentucky nursing home abuse or neglect has led to your loved one suffering serious injuries, then you have the right to seek pursue legal help.

A more contentious point is the notion that greater access to legal technology and a more advanced legal sector could lead to the advancement of human rights in the country.

Anthony's expertise has also been recognised by the Legal 500 2017 edition, where he is recommended as a Leading Silk in Band 2 in crime as «a well - prepared, thorough and engaging advocate — his legal arguments are consistently impressive» and as a Leading Silk in Band 3 in the civil liberties and human rights category as being «well known in the field, especially in claims against the police.&rLegal 500 2017 edition, where he is recommended as a Leading Silk in Band 2 in crime as «a well - prepared, thorough and engaging advocate — his legal arguments are consistently impressive» and as a Leading Silk in Band 3 in the civil liberties and human rights category as being «well known in the field, especially in claims against the police.&rlegal arguments are consistently impressive» and as a Leading Silk in Band 3 in the civil liberties and human rights category as being «well known in the field, especially in claims against the police.»

He leads the largest plaintiff legal organization in the State which fights for plaintiffs» rights and preserving the right to jury trials.

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