Sentences with phrase «of civil justice issues»

The Social Justice Game Jam is seeking games that in some way promote awareness of or address some of the civil justice issues.

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«After looking at the merits of civil justice issues in all states, Florida was ranked 44.

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Judge John D. Bates of the District Court for the District of Columbia issued a decision today that found in favor of the Justice Department in its civil antitrust lawsuit to block health insurer Aetna Inc.'s acquisition of rival insurer Humana Inc..

That same year Justice also issued sweeping authorizations for more COINTEL - type FBI investigations of «subversives,» potential civil disorders and «potential crimes.»

Sanders also cited the oft - stated civil rights positions of the late Justice Thurgood Marshall, who like Douglas was called upon to vote on cases that concerned issues that were personally important to him.

In a celebrated case brought by a group of civil libertarians to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1942, Chief Justice Robert Jackson, against the strong argument of civil libertarians on the issues of «interrogation without the due process of law» and prolonged detention of suspects, gave his famous ruling that the United States «Constitution is not a suicide pact».

A statement issued by the Judicial Secretary, Justice Alex B. Poku - Acheampong said the move is in furtherance of «the recent groundswell of public revulsion and media and civil society advocacy against the menace of illegal mining, commonly referred to as «galamsey».

A civil rights lawyer and advocate for racial and social justice, Ms. Wiley joined the de Blasio administration in early 2014 to focus on legal issues as well as on the mayor's efforts to address issues of inequality.

While the Sanders campaign in recent months has emphasized criminal justice issues that have been raised by the Black Lives Matter movement — as well as the candidate's own record during the civil rights movement of the 1960s — Rangel said being a representative of Vermont doesn't help the resume.

A group under the aegis of Coalition of Civil Society Groups for Integrity and Justice (CCSGIJ), has issued a five - day ultimatum to the Inspector - General of Police, Ibrahim Idris demanding that he should honourably resign his appointment.

Queens Councilman Rory Lancman, who heads the City Council's newly formed Committee on the Justice System, called Vance's new step «smart policy» and argued the city can hold people accountable for fare evasion by issuing an MTA civil summons instead of «running them through the criminal justice system.Justice System, called Vance's new step «smart policy» and argued the city can hold people accountable for fare evasion by issuing an MTA civil summons instead of «running them through the criminal justice system.justice system.»

He said, «In the course of further review of facts of this case, it transpired that the legal issues arising from the originating motion of the applicant are very recondite and novel as there have not been concrete apex court decisions on them and they also affect and will affect many criminal and civil cases all over Nigeria where the Administration of Criminal Justice Act is being applied.»

The proposals were part of a larger call for reform of «systemic issues» in criminal justice, human rights and civil justice.

Civil society activists in Cambodia are also extremely concerned about issues of land tenure, decent work and justice.

The priorities and language of reformers — achievement gaps, no - excuses schools, social justice, and the «civil rights issue of our generation «-- betrays a focus on fixing schools attended by urban, low - income families of color.

In a «Dear Colleague» letter released last year, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Education (ED) issued guidance for schools on avoiding discrimination against students on the basis of race when administering school disciplinary policies, and warned that if minority students are subject to disciplinary actions at a higher rate than other students, schools could be faulted for civil - rights violations.

Providing students with the opportunity to research and explore the history of civil and social justice issues in their own communities can be a powerful tool for learning and reflection.

On January 8, 2014, the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Office for Civil Rights in the Department of Education (ED) issued a joint «Dear Colleague Letter» to K — 12 schools.

The DCL to which the NSBA objects was jointly issued by three federal agencies and offices — the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, and the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights — on Nov. 12, 2014.

That 2014 civil rights guidance — jointly issued by the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice — put schools on notice that they may be found in violation of federal civil rights laws if they enforce intentially discriminatory rules or if their policies lead to disproportionately higher rates of discipline for students in one racial group, even if those policies were written without discriminatory intent.

Spurred by the data, the federal Departments of Education and Justice issued legal guidance in January to every school district in the country, reminding them that disparities in discipline can violate federal civil rights laws.

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Last summer, after its convention attendees approved the draft resolution, a national coalition of local civil rights groups called the Journey for Justice Alliance issued a statement affirming the need to halt charter expansion.

She also worked at the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California where she concentrated on a range of social and racial justice issues including advancing education equity, LGBTQ issues, immigrant rights, and advocacy for the homeless.

While no such federal law exists, courts and the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR), as well as the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division, issued significant guidance in May 2016 asserting that Title IX prohibition against sex discrimination encompasses discrimination based on a student's gender identity, including discrimination based on a student's transgender status.

«Like you, I believe education is a civil rights issue,» Wareing wrote, «but consigning other people's kids to dilapidated buildings and / or schools that have not gotten the job done for a decade or more, and / or schools that are so small that they can not sustain quality programming doesn't further the causes of civil rights, equality, and justice.»

An estimated 8,000 delegates and observers from across the country attended five days of workshops, speeches and public presentations and to vote on resolutions that addressed what many speakers called the pressing civil rights issues of the day: criminal justice, voting rights, health care, education and more.

This included a discussion of many cases, settlements, Federal Court Complaints and rulings issued by the US Dept of Justice and the Office of Civil Rights.

Shanteal Lake is a social justice advocate who views equity in education as one of the civil rights issues of her time.

In January 2014, the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights issued a joint federal guidance stating that school discipline was discriminatory based on race and ethnicity and that exclusionary discipline «creates the potential for significant, negative educational and long - term outcomes, and can contribute to what has been termed the «school to prison pipeline»» (Joint «Dear Colleague Letter», 2014).

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Fast - paced and three - dimensional, the novel does justice to this pivotal civil rights issue, and Picoult again proves herself the queen of heartfelt social statement.

The Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has issued proposed rules to enforce the Americans with Disabilities Act.

The abstract expressions reference civil rights and social justice issues and are composed of materials of personal cultural relevance to Edwards.

Some of the artists felt it incumbent upon them to use their artwork to directly address civil rights and civil justice issues related to African American experience through representation of Black people and Black lives.

Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power creates a space for an array of African American artists who were deeply engaged in the aesthetic and social justice issues that emerged from the civil rights and Black Power movements.

In the editor's note for the special issue titled «Visualizing the Riot,» Chika Okeke - Agulu reminds readers that during the Civil Rights Movement artists of color considered the relationship between their work and politics and social justice, citing three groups in particular — Spiral in New York; Los Angeles artists associated with the Watts Tower Arts Center; and Chicago - based AfriCOBRA.

The «Art & Justice» issue of Aperture magazine was published with two covers: From left, AWOL ERIZKU, «Untitled (Forces of Nature # 1),» 2014; and RICHARD AVEDON, «Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights leader, with his father, Martin Luther King, Baptist minister, and his son, Martin Luther King III, Atlanta, Georgia, March 22, 1963.»

As a delegation, Earth in Brackets is committed to bringing the message of equity and climate justice to negotiators and civil society, so keep checking back here for updates and blog posts on major issues during COP 22.

In December 2010, Attorney General Eric Holder called King a father of the environmental justice movement and urged everyone to think about the environment as a civil rights issue — because minority and low income populations have the same right to be free of health hazards posed by unsustainable practices as everyone else.

In 2011, a colloquium was held at the U of T law school which lead to Middle Income Access to Justice, a collection of essays about civil justice issues from Canada, Britain, the United States, and AusJustice, a collection of essays about civil justice issues from Canada, Britain, the United States, and Ausjustice issues from Canada, Britain, the United States, and Australia.

As Justice Stratas put it to the attendees, should Canada ever be gripped by some form of threat or disorder, leading the government to abridge the civil liberties of many Canadians, do we want the judge deciding the constitutionality of the government's action to be able to turn to a body of constitutional law «based on fundamental principles, consistently applied over decades» — in other words, «settled legal doctrine» — or do we want the judge deciding the issue based upon «her or his own worldview?»

Finally, one of the most important civil justice issues today is the need to protect the independence of state judiciaries.

«[T] he most prevalent and acute access to civil justice needs of Ontarians, those for which legal advice and representation are most in demand, fall in the areas of family law, employment law, debt and consumer issues.»

It follows that the issue then becomes whether the exemptions under the Court Rules Act can be interpreted so that they are consistent with the common law right of access to civil justice, which is preserved, as the Attorney General submits, by the Court Rules Act.

As can be seen in this appeal, the creation of national classes also raises the issue of relations between equal but different superior courts in a federal system in which civil procedure and the administration of justice are under provincial jurisdiction.

Phase 1 of the e-filing project enables documents that initiate a civil proceeding in the Superior Court of Justice to be issued online and to be paid online.

I suspect that the real heavy lifting in enhancing access to justice is a matter of procedural reform — specialized decision - making bodies with extremely simplified procedural rules for specific civil law issues (something that actually already exists in certain areas such as Landlord / Tenant, but could be further improved upon), wider permissions for over-the-counter motions, fewer unnecessary court appearances, fewer procedurally - mandated appearances (e.g., going from a Case Conference to a Settlement Conference to a Trial Management Conference, and possibly further, before you can get to a family law trial), and so on.

Recommendation 87 of Jackson LJ's Final Report of the Review of Civil Litigation Costs, said the Master of the Rolls should designate two Lord Justices to consider issues concerning the Civil Procedure Rules arising from the reforms.