Sentences with phrase «of black court»

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No item is more deserving of the accolade «wardrobe staple» than a pair of black court shoes — they look good with everything and couldn't be easier to wear.

Add a pair of black court shoes and a colorblock bag and you're done.

Wear it with a denim jacket and a slouchy tee for an off - duty vibe or smarten them up with a sheer blouse and a pair of black courts.

Not exact matches

Hacked emails from the personal account of Hillary Clinton's top campaign official show some of the attention her team paid to courting black voters.

Justice Stephen Breyer wrote for the court that the Alabama Legislature and the federal court that ruled on the plan had taken a «mechanically numerical» view, instead of trying to figure out what percentage of black voters were needed to elect a candidate of their choice.

Last year, the Supreme Court decided to hear a series of appeals against the statute, including that of Black and jailed former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling.

The U.S. Supreme Court emasculated the controversial legal concept of «honest services» on Jun. 24th and in so doing, handed a moral victory to jailed former press baron Conrad Black.

Miguel Estrada, one of Black's lawyers, told the Globe and Mail he intended to seek Black's release on bail pending the Appeals Court's deliberations.

«Conrad Black has a tough road ahead of him to convince the court to reconsider that portion of their opinion,» Sussman claimed.

This time Black's persistence paid off: The Supreme Court decided to examine this long - criticized statute, ultimately striking down portions of it.

«It is highly ironic that Mr. Black is the one accused of showing insufficient respect for our rule of law or a failure of trust in our courts and juries,» Gurland quipped.

Trump did not elaborate on how exactly he thought the election would be rigged, though he did make mention of his displeasure that a federal court had struck down a North Carolina voter ID law that the court said was specifically aimed at disenfranchising black voters.

The war on drugs is an expensive battle because a great number of resources go into catching those who buy or sell illegal drugs on the black market, prosecuting them in court, and housing them in jail.

Alberta - based Senator Doug Black is urging the Canadian federal government to refer the dispute over Kinder Morgan Canada's [KML - TSX] stalled Trans Mountain pipeline expansion directly to the Supreme Court of... Read more»

News Release Independent Senator Doug Black calls on the Government of Canada to immediately refer his bill and the constitutional question regarding Ottawa's ability to regulate the Trans Mountain pipeline to the Supreme Court of Canada for an expedited hearing.

Policemen escort driver Shiv Kumar Yadav (3rd R in black jacket) who is accused of a rape outside a court in New Delhi December 8, 2014.

By reading the Ninth Amendment as creating a general right to privacy, Black and Stewart suggested, the unelected justices of the Supreme Court had subst - ituted their own subjective notions of justice, liberty, and reasonableness for the wisdom and experience of the elected representatives in the Connecticut state legislature who were responsible for passing the birth control regulation.

CNN: Court says lawsuit of «Vampsh Black Sheep League of Doom Gardamun Family Circle Master Vampire High Priest» is «frivolous» A man who said his religious freedom to practice «Vampirism» is being violated in prison won't have his day, or even night, in cCourt says lawsuit of «Vampsh Black Sheep League of Doom Gardamun Family Circle Master Vampire High Priest» is «frivolous» A man who said his religious freedom to practice «Vampirism» is being violated in prison won't have his day, or even night, in courtcourt.

Yes it is, in Californa it was the black church support of Prop 8 that denied gay and lesbians the right to marry after it was upheld by the state Supreme Court.

The bottom stratum of the black community has compelling problems that can no longer be blamed solely on white racism, that will not yield to protest marches or court orders, and that force us to confront fundamental failures in lower - class black urban society.

Conservative spokesmen have pointed to the «trickling down» of the benefits of economic growth as the ultimate solution to racial problems; they have at times seemed to court the support of segregationist elements; and they remain at this late date without a positive program of action aimed at narrowing the yawning chasm separating the black poor from the rest of the nation.

For aside from those instances in which hiring goals are ordered by a court subsequent to a finding of illegal discrimination, and with the purpose of providing relief for those discriminated against, the use of differential standards for the hiring of blacks and whites acknowledges the inability of blacks to perform up to the white standard.

Employees who refuse to work on their sabbath have been the principal beneficiaries of this rule (in another case a worker lost his job in a brass mill because he refused to help manufacture tank turrets) The Oregon courts followed these cases and awarded unemployment compensation to Smith and Black.

The causes, no doubt, are many: For example, the Court attached itself at the outset, in its 1947 Everson decision, to Justice Hugo Black's superficial and selective account of the religion clause's history and purposes.

Oregon's Supreme Court, which had already concluded that this question was irrelevant, dutifully answered that in its judgment criminal prosecution of Smith and Black would violate the federal Constitution.

The opinions of the Oregon courts provide few details about exactly what Smith and Black did with peyote.

The plan calls upon churches to, among other things, «adopt» street gangs and allow troubled youths to use church properties as safe havens; intercede for youth in the juvenile court system; provide vocational training to inner - city residents; organize capital for micro-enterprises; develop educational curricula heralding the achievements of blacks and Latinos; initiate neighborhood crime watch groups; and establish counseling programs for battered women and the men who abuse them.

CNN: Twitter must identify racist, anti-Semitic posters, French court says For months now, the French - language twittersphere has lit up with a rash of racist, homophobic, and anti-Semitic tweets using the hashtags #UnBonJuif (a good Jew), #SiMonFilsEstGay (if my son is gay), and #SiMaFilleRamèneUnNoir (if my daughter brings home a black guy).

The racial aspect of the appointment» that Thomas has replaced on the Court the only other black ever to serve there» is of crucial importance to understanding the vehemence of some of the opposition.

The process of nominating and confirming Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court served to underline the debate about public philosophy ongoing among black Americans.

In thinking about them, we should bear in mind that Lincoln refused to accept the ruling of the Dred Scott Court that blacks — even free blacks — could not be citizens.

The federal courts have «abstained» in certain classes of cases, notably those involving «political questions» (usually matters of foreign affairs) and what Justice Hugo Black called «Our Federalism.»

In those cases the court deferred to the judgment of the Air Force that the free - exercise claim of a Jewish officer who wore his yarmulke on duty could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of correctional authorities that the free - exercise claim of a Black Muslim to attend Friday afternoon religious services could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service that building a logging road through a national forest was necessary despite the damage to religious practices of Native American tribes in that area; it deferred to the Internal Revenue Service's ruling that Bob Jones University was not entitled to tax exemption because of its religiously motivated rule against interracial dating and marriage on campus; it deferred to the judgment of the secretary of labor that a religious community must pay its members the minimum wage for work they performed in the group's business although the members said they had religious objections to being paid for their work.

This happened, for example, when the Supreme Court of the United States, in a ruling that helped to precipitate the Civil War, held in Dred Scott v. Sandford that blacks were noncitizens» and, for all practical purposes, nonpersons» possessed of no rights that white people must respect.

Here was a black man obviously involved to some degree in the theft of church funds and the murder of a white man in a southern city, now on trial in «the Man's» court before an all - white middle - class jury.

«The attack on the character of Associate U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas by militant white feminists, in books and newspaper articles, should not be ignored by anyone concerned with the misuse of the Black American Civil Rights Movement.

It was in 1969 that Judge James McMillan of the Federal District Court ruled that the district had been intentionally segregated» virtually all black students went to all - black schools» and ordered a district - wide busing system to achieve integration.

In short, states where courts have ruled on same - sex marriage are «black hole» states where few or no specific religious protections are given, according to Robin Fretwell Wilson, a University of Illinois law professor who leads a group of legal scholars that advise lawmakers on religious exemptions.

The Reverend Peter J. Gomes, a black minister of the American Baptist Church and longtime Harvard chaplain, wrote in the Boston Globe: «When lawyers, the courts, and the media all seem complicit in the cycle of vengeance and blood and no closure short of decapitation seems acceptable, then we have reason to worry about the climate for justice, mercy, and charity; and Salem in 1692 seems not so far removed in moral climate from Boston in 2002.»

Although «secular humanism» is a term used most frequently by Protestant Fundamentalists, it was Justice Hugo Black» in delivering the opinion of the United States Supreme Court in a 1961 case, Torcaso v. Watkins» who distinguished between «religions based on a belief in the existence of God» and «religions founded on different beliefs,» such as «Buddhism, Taoism, Ethical Culture, Secular Humanism, and others.»

The majority ruled that blacks could not be citizens of the United States, and therefore lacked the concomitant right to bring lawsuits in federal courts.

Somewhat to the bewilderment of other black leaders, he patiently courted Vorster's successor, P. W. Botha, explaining that even Moses continued to reason with Pharaoh.

What if Slavery was put on the Ballot for a Vote, state by state would it of passed???? You can vote on civil rights, and the Supreme Court will finally have to legalize it, just like they did when Blacks could not marry out of their race as recent as 1971 in some states.

This happened, for example, when the Supreme Court of the United States, in a ruling that helped to precipitate the Civil War, held in Dred Scott v. Sandford that blacks were noncitizens — and, for all practical purposes, nonpersons — possessed of no rights that white people must respect.

So Moses was a better magician than Jannes and Jambres (Moses trained in the «black arts» in Egypt at Pharaoh's court) and the ignorant, gullible, needy, fearful, superst!tious people of the day fell for it.

The Act barred both free and enslaved blacks from the rights of citizenship, laid the foundation for the 1857 Dred Scott Decision, and triggered more than a century of Supreme Court cases like Takao Ozawa v. United States (1922), where Ozawa argued that as a Japanese man, he was white.

Only nine years earlier, as we have seen, the Court had interpreted the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment to mean that Congress could not bar slavery from the territories (and that members of the black race could not be citizens of the United States or enjoy any rights and privileges save those that the dominant white race chose to grant them).

One of the favorite dishes of Akbar's court was a Mughlai curry called do - piyaza, or two onions, which combined four pounds of onions with twenty pounds of meat, seasoned with crushed red chiles, cumin, coriander, cardamom, cloves, and black pepper.

It flooded through him when he walked onto a basketball court — the jump shots with crumpled paper cups he took as a little boy after every high school game his dad coached, the million three - man weaves, all the sweat and the squeaks and the passion so white - hot that twice during his career he had rocketed off the bench to scream... and blacked out... and five or six times every season the backside of his suit pants had gone rrr - iii - p!