Sentences with phrase «new civil legal»

By Josh Fogt, Communications & Development Manager, Fair Work Center On Labor Day, Fair Work Center opened its new civil legal aid clinic, the Fair Work Legal Clinic (which was partially funded by an LFW grant).

Its practical effect will be to make it uneconomic to accept new civil legal aid instructions.

On Labor Day, Fair Work Center opened its new civil legal aid clinic, the Fair Work Legal Clinic (which was partially funded by an LFW grant).

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While the civil suits aren't likely to shut down Uber in either Los Angeles or San Francisco, they come at trying legal times for the company, which has faced new operational snags in a host of cities both domestic and international.

We do well to remember that the freedoms we tend to take for granted are, in disputes all around the country, being defended daily by organizations such as the Rutherford Institute, the Christian Legal Society, the Catholic League for Civil and Religious Liberty, Dean Kelley of New York and William Ball of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (each of whose prodigious energy is tantamount to that of an organization).

She is not the first to question that; earlier this year, I read an intriguing essay by legal scholar Katherine Franke in the anthology, Marriage at the Crossroads Law, Policy, and the Brave New World of Twenty - First - Century Families, comparing the experience of African - American slaves who, once freed after the Civil War, also became free to marry — but «free» is a relative word.

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.

Harriet then became Legal Officer to Liberty (then the National Council for Civil Liberties) where she took the first cases for women under the then new Equal Pay and Sex Discrimination Acts.

According to a New Law Journal report published earlier this year, there's been a 25 % decline in the number of solicitors taking civil legal aid cases.

A damning new report published by Amnesty today lays bare the impact that cuts to civil legal aid have had and concludes that access to justice has been decimated.

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.

The speaker said she would expand legal aid for New Yorkers in some civil cases, like evictions and credit disputes, and fund more stringent enforcement of laws that protect workers.

The New York Immigration Coalition organized the march, which was sponsored by 85 organizations representing immigrant rights and advocacy, legal services, labor, faith, civil rights, LGBTQI, women's rights and anti-violence groups.

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.

Among its new tasks will be to coordinate with the Office of the Civil Justice Coordinator — another Mark - Viverito brainchild — to determine the «legal service needs» of people without proper paperwork.

«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 Uninew 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 UniNew York Civil Liberties Union.

Alongside this push for marriage rights I've simultaneously been championing a whole new legal framework of relationship recognition, rights and responsibilities which I've called a civil commitment pact.

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.

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 Empire Center: New York laws encourage a proliferation of civil suits seeking damages for various kinds of alleged wrongful actions, known in legal terms as «torts.»

ALBANY — Providing legal services for low - income New Yorkers in civil cases boosts the economy by speeding court dockets, keeping people in their homes and ensuring they get the federal...

The new office will be headed by a Civil Justice Coordinator, who will «advise» the mayor on ways to connect people in need of legal help with civil legal servCivil Justice Coordinator, who will «advise» the mayor on ways to connect people in need of legal help with civil legal servcivil legal services.

ALBANY — Providing legal services for low - income New Yorkers in civil cases boosts the economy by speeding court dockets, keeping people in their homes and ensuring they get the federal benefits they're due, state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said Tuesday.

They must first have their marriage dissolved, gain legal recognition of the new gender and then register for a civil partnership.

Speaking to an audience of approximately 300 people at the Johnson Community Center in East Harlem, Mark - Viverito called for new programs which would expand access to civil legal services, create new technology - focused programs in City high schools, as well as for expanding existing agencies and programs such as the Human Rights Commission.

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.

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

He also served as a legal intern with the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, the Office of Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messinger, Judge David Trager of the Eastern District of New York and the Civil Rights Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New legal intern with the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, the Office of Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messinger, Judge David Trager of the Eastern District of New York and the Civil Rights Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New Legal Defense and Education Fund, the Office of Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messinger, Judge David Trager of the Eastern District of New York and the Civil Rights Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.

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.

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.

At 1:30 p.m., Empire State Agenda will be joined in Albany by Assembly members, state senators, and LGBTQ advocates to «demand the State Senate take up the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA), civil rights legislation that would extend New York's anti-discrimination laws to safeguard trans individuals, who currently stand outside our state's legal protections against unfair practices.»

«They're expected to go into court, opposite a government lawyer with all the complexities of immigration law to actually then defend themselves,» Adriene Holder, attorney - in - charge of the Legal Aid Society's Civil Practice told POLITICO New York.

Michael Meyers, executive director of the New York Civil Rights Coalition, which began meeting with lawyers Saturday, declined to provide specific about how his organization plans to pursue legal action, but said he was «encouraged» by what he'd heard.

She was also a staff attorney for Brooklyn Legal Services, a lawyer for the New York City Office of Labor Services, a civil court judge and criminal court judge.

A new Office of the Civil Justice Coordinator will ensure that New Yorkers have legal representation when it comes to everything from fighting eviction to dealing with debt collectonew Office of the Civil Justice Coordinator will ensure that New Yorkers have legal representation when it comes to everything from fighting eviction to dealing with debt collectoNew Yorkers have legal representation when it comes to everything from fighting eviction to dealing with debt collectors.

Concert proceeds will support the Indian Country Action Fund, a new nonprofit organization which defends the civil, legal, economic and political rights of Native Americans.

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.

With a background as a civil rights activist and as an early leader of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, Perales would be a plus with Latinos, one of the fastest - growing groups of New Yorkers.

In a new article for Education Next, Boston College professor Shep Melnick says OCR is on shaky legal ground, since its «Letter» fails to take into account the landmark Rodriguez v. San Antonio Board of Education (1973), which ruled that neither the Constitution nor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 require equal distribution of school resources across school districts.

Both reports provide new evidence buttressing criticisms that have frequently been leveled at the Education Department's office for civil rights in hearings and legal actions during the past eight years.

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Jon is a former public defender at New York's Legal Aid Society, as well as a former Senior Civil Rights Attorney at the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR).

Connecticut's system has been hugely successful in its attempts to promote racial integration within schools: In a recent Civil Rights Project report, Gary Orfield, a Distinguished Professor of Education, Law and Political Science and Urban Planning at UCLA, referred to it as «the only successful effort to produce a new legal framework to deal with the reality of metropolitan segregation.»

To help with new Parent and Family Engagement requirements under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) and to meet the civil rights obligations of schools in working with Limited English Proficient (LEP) and English Learner (EL) families across the state of Maine, leaders in the Maine Department of Education are partnering with TransACT ® Parent Notices to provide all 266 local education agencies representing thousands of schools and teachers with unlimited access to expertly written parent notifications that meet legal requirements and guidance on required audiences, and recommended timelines.

(Calif.) While fate of a new state law extending protections for transgendered students remains uncertain, schools response has been varied — but legal experts say schools should set their own anti-discriminatory protocols for handling gender identity questions — balancing both the civil rights and needs of transgender students with the privacy of all students.

Although many of the topics have been covered in legal and political - science encyclopedias, they take on a new vibrancy when seen through the lens of civil liberties.