Sentences with phrase «of civil liberties advocates»

Two lesbians who were denied a double room at a hotel are starting a legal battle with the help of civil liberty advocates.

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While tech companies often lobby Washington on privacy issues, the major firms have been hesitant to enter a fray over a controversial portion of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), industry lobbyists, congressional aides and civil liberties advocates said.

It also would create an advocate to the FISA court, where surveillance requests are made, to ensure civil liberties and allow for faster appeals of decisions by that secret court.

On Tuesday, a non-profit organization that advocates for the complete separation of church and state, as well as civil liberties for atheists in the U.S., announced that they are suspending president David Silverman.

In the recent book, Civil Liberties Under Attack, one of the authors mentions the case of a government official with an impeccable record who was placed under charges because unidentified informers asserted he «advocated the Communist Party line, such as favoring peace and civil liberties,» and «his convictions concerning equal rights for all races and classes extend slightly beyond the normal feelings of the average individual &laCivil Liberties Under Attack, one of the authors mentions the case of a government official with an impeccable record who was placed under charges because unidentified informers asserted he «advocated the Communist Party line, such as favoring peace and civil liberties,» and «his convictions concerning equal rights for all races and classes extend slightly beyond the normal feelings of the average individual &lacivil liberties,» and «his convictions concerning equal rights for all races and classes extend slightly beyond the normal feelings of the average individual «1

Oberlin College went so far as to advocate «civil disobedience» in the face of the fugitive slave laws (leading to the Oberlin - Wellington Rescue Case — an important event in the history of American civil liberties).

Speaking at the Indianapolis coloquium, Dean M. Kelley, the National Council of Churches» executive for religious and civil liberty, criticized advocates of school prayer.

Civil liberties advocates feared that an I.D. card program open to those lacking other kinds of paperwork could, if seized by unsympathetic federal authorities, become a deportation database.

I am honored to stand with Mayor de Blasio as we work together to end the stop - and - frisk era and safeguard the civil liberties of all New Yorkers,» said Public Advocate Letitia James.

Classical liberalism is a political ideology and a branch of liberalism which advocates civil liberties under the rule of law with an emphasis on economic freedom.

Meanwhile, gun advocates and libertarians say the bill would infringe on people's civil liberties and right to due process, by making it possible for the Attorney General to refuse someone a gun and deny certain information about why they'd been refused — without indicting that person or convicting them of a crime.

(CNN) A child custody battle in New York City is raising questions about freedom of speech and religion — and civil liberties advocates are sure to be paying close attention.

Some opponents had argued that their civil liberties were being encroached upon with the raise, while business owners cited a predicted loss in sales revenue and Legislator Tom Barraga said that if health advocates were that afraid of the consequences of smoking, an outright ban on sales should be what legislators are after.

She has also faced criticism from some activists after she refused to support extension of public housing opportunities to all people living with HIV, as opposed to only those with an AIDS diagnosis; from civil liberties advocates for supporting a requirement than any outdoor demonstration of at least 50 people obtain a police permit; and from Lower Manhattan residents angry that more was not done to save St. Vincent's Hospital.

The Green Party advocates for civil rights and liberties, participatory political and economic democracy, demilitarization and the abolition of war, and a sustainable environment.

In addition to the presumptive mayoral hopefuls, the raiding of Zuccotti was slammed by numerous other elected officials and civil liberties advocates.

Last year he drew howls of protest from civil liberties groups and advocates for the poor when he instituted routine warrant checks at a security post manned by deputies inside Ulster County's Department of Social Services.

The dispute has been percolating for months, as union leaders, pro-charter groups, civil liberties advocates, parent leaders, students, teachers and principals have re-framed their ongoing debate about the quality of the city's schools around the safety of the 1,800 schools run by the Department of Education.

Civil liberties advocates have been among the loudest voices pushing for restorative justice, and were sharp critics of Bloomberg's discipline policy, which they said helped create a «school to prison pipeline» of minority students across the city.

His distinguished trajectory includes an early career as a housing and civil liberties advocate, leadership in business as chairman of Polygon Homes Ltd., one of British Columbia's leading home builders, and a longstanding supporter of the visual arts.

My point of talking about the linkage about civil liberties and freedom, and economic growth, is to advocate for less civil rights and freedom.

It's a law that activists, civil liberties advocates and concerned citizen types plead about endlessly and earnestly — and to whose pleas the yawns of mass apathy mostly echo back.

Civil liberties advocates argue the increased usage of cellular surveillance and tracking raises certain constitutional questions as the legal standards for obtaining this cell phone data are generally lower and less clear than the traditional standards applied in circumstances where law enforcement attempts to wiretap or monitor traditional phone lines and conversations.

Last Remembrance Day, my posting was entitled «Lest We Forget,» which offered some profound words from poet / soldiers of WWI and WWII, including a moving passage from F.R. Scott, a Canadian lawyer who was an important civil liberties advocate and past Dean of McGill Law School.

Even so, the expiration of the authority at the end of this year will prompt a fight between security hawks who want to renew it, and civil liberties advocates who want to let it expire, or curtail it.