Sentences with phrase «legal system challenges»

It seems to me that we often turn to technology as a solution for literacy - related legal system challenges.

Not exact matches

As I wrote last weekend, Facebook faced a legal challenge to the lax system of app permissions it operated in 2011.

Jeremy has shown me over the past couple of years how to challenge my existing belief system arising from (as Neville describes as) «moral / legal covenant interpretation of the gospel».

Both of their legal challenges have brought the shape of the system closer toward what it should look like, but this summer serves as a reminder that something still isn't right.

There are few greater challenges for a dad going through a divorce than dealing with the legal system in determining the custody of his children.

Under her leadership, Dignity in Dying successfully challenged the legal system by winning the Debbie Purdy case, leading to the historic recognition that in certain circumstances people should not be prosecuted for helping a loved one to die.

The largest teachers union in California is preparing for life without forced union membership, as a lawsuit challenging coercive dues makes its way through the legal system.

Sheri Lederman, a fourth - grade teacher in Great Neck, has a legal challenge against the system pending in State Supreme Court in Albany.

Lawmakers this spring included money in the state budget to address a number of legal challenges centered on health care in the prison system, including the treatment of inmates with hepatitis and inmates with disabilities and mental - health issues.

That would be morally wrong but also surely vulnerable to legal challenge as an act of religious discrimination embedded into the legal system.

The ruling ended an eight - year legal challenge to the affirmative action admissions system used by the University of Texas at Austin brought by Abigail Fisher, who was denied a place in 2008.

It was also not a good night for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and his supporters, some of whom complained bitterly about being unable to vote for their preferred candidate due to the state's closed primary system, (though the rules have been as they are for some time, and not at all a secret), and saw a last - minute legal challenge in hopes of opening up the Democratic primary rejected by a judge.

The head of the FDNY's union drew sharp criticism from Bloomberg after announcing he plans to file a legal challenge to the department's problem - plagued 911 system within the next 24 hours.

NYSUT is pledging to defend New York's teacher tenure system in the face of a legal challenge backed by former CNN anchor Campbell Brown's education reform organization.

READ MORE Tear gas fired at Nairobi polling station amid Kenya election tensions As Kenya goes to the polls, voters fear post-election violence Kenya deports US expert who was supporting opposition candidate Threat of another violent Kenyan election looms A similar situation with a systems failure in the 2013 election led to Odinga's legal challenge at the time, though Kenya's Supreme Court ruled in favour of Kenyatta by validating the results.

«Certainly we knew that there was a legal challenge that the comptroller was raising, but we had no idea that he planned to go in and tamper with the system,» said Deputy Onondaga County Executive William Fisher.

It can be a challenge to find someone who understands the deadlines and workload of the legal system, not to mention finding someone to date the kind of people who are drawn to legal work.

The suit, filed in state district court last month by a group of medium - sized districts, is the first legal challenge to the finance system, which dates to 1974.

But the New Mexico system is different in two critical ways from other states» efforts: its design and launch have been especially mired in political and legal challenges, and its implementation and application have been especially effective at differentiating teachers by the skillfulness of their work.

After all, unions are going to be well within their rights to bring legal challenges, especially when there are concerns that systems are inequitable or unreliable.

The lawsuit is the first of what many analysts expect will be numerous legal challenges around the country following a landmark decision in June by a California Superior Court judge who struck down the tenure system there as unconstitutional under state law, saying it unfairly saddled students in high - needs schools with low - performing teachers.

Some 11 years after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Texas's system of financing public schools, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund has launched a new challenge in state court, charging that the finance system denies students in poor districts equal educational opportunity and should be declared unconstitutional.

Advocates argue the best way to make sure an evaluation conforms with state law is not to let locals craft their own, but create a statewide system that, if everyone follows, is safe from legal challenge.

These systems will face legal challenges that they probably will not overcome once test results are used to fire teachers or reward or penalize them with higher or lower pay.

1994 — While continuing to work in the legislature, AEF retains legal counsel to study the feasibility of challenging the existing school finance system's constitutionality.

Known as the Gilmer - Aiken Act, this basic funding plan served as the primary vehicle for the support of Texas public schools for a few years until legal challenges to inequalities in public school funding caused the state to review its funding system.

The PED continues to stand by its teacher evaluation system, calling the court challenge «frivolous» and «a legal PR stunt,» all the while noting that Judge Thomson's decision «won't affect how the state conducts its teacher evaluations.»

«This landscape is littered with courts that have been bogged down in the legal quicksand of continuous litigation and challenges to their states» school funding systems,» the Nebraska Supreme Court said.

Legal challenges have abounded across the English education system recently, raising concerns about mounting costs.

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However, the possible gain comes with a challenge: Trading with ever more business partners, across territories, cultures and legal systems, with an increasing complexity of formats and channels, turns into a serious management challenge.

In the end, the main value of the climate calculations spurred by Trump's election could be in refocusing attention on the true scope of the challenge, which some researchers have described as «super wicked» given how hard it has been, using conventional political, legal or diplomatic tools, to balance human energy needs and the climate system's limits.

It identifies key legal challenges associated with REDD +, including equitable and secure land tenure, decentralized governance, integrated land - use planning, benefit distribution systems, inter-ministerial coordination and definitions in the forest sector.

As a global challenge calling for collective action, climate change has elicited substantial rulemaking at the international plane, percolating through the broader legal system to the regional, national and local levels.

The challenges I did not expect were examples of malfunction associated with the Hungarian legal system.

The new regulatory framework is currently being challenged in court by patients, and for the time being there's a temporary injunction in place extending the old system until the legal dispute is resolved.

Lord Neuberger, President of the Supreme Court, alluded to this in his speech at the Legal Wales Conference 2014 on 10 October: «The academics debate whether it is conceivable that Parliament would enact a law which was so contrary to principle that the courts would ignore it — eg a law which prevents citizens from challenging any decision of a government department in the courts... I profoundly hope that it is an issue which never has to be tested, not least because, if it does, something will already have gone very wrong with our system of government.»

Furthermore, clients should always keep in mind that doing business in an increasingly global economy may be challenging due to language barriers and different legal systems.

The recent LexisNexis survey cites several challenges, including finding a budget to put systems in place, getting a «buy - in» from upper management on the importance of litigation preparedness and finding e-discovery staff with the right mix of IT and legal expertise.

«Legal researchers do not have to satisfy the world's hunger for information, they have to satisfy the court's expectation of presenting authoritative information that can withstand the challenges of a system that relies upon that authority to drive the decision it makes.»

As legal departments face mounting pressures to reduce their legal spend, manage costs and demonstrate value to the organization, enterprise legal management (ELM) systems are more and more in the fore as a key player to address those challenges.

The case study system, employed with the Socratic method, forces the student to challenge their own inferences to foster objective, less - biased legal decision - making.

In «Legal Infrastructure and the New Economy,» [5] Hadfield provides fascinating and valuable insight on the challenges that companies like Google, Mozilla and Cisco Systems face in obtaining legal servLegal Infrastructure and the New Economy,» [5] Hadfield provides fascinating and valuable insight on the challenges that companies like Google, Mozilla and Cisco Systems face in obtaining legal servlegal services.

Incidentally, Sood added in response to a question from Artificial Lawyer as to why Microsoft was not making legal AI systems itself, that the challenge was «a lack of data and resources» on the part of the US tech giant.

Summary: The respondent challenged Stockholm as the seat of arbitration, alleging an insufficient connection to the Swedish legal system under the Swedish Arbitration Act.

Members of the legal profession who draft, argue, interpret and challenge the law of the land can attest to the robust legal system in Canada.

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Access to justice is a challenge to the legal system and our society, but it is also a potential new market ready to keep many resourceful and efficient young lawyers

As the legal systems of such jurisdictions — many of which are based on English law — evolve to meet this challenge, a trend towards interpreting trustee duties widely and extending asset recovery powers is emerging.