Sentences with phrase «of legal defense funds»

Here the plaintiffs get the funding, so it's the opposite of legal defense funds, which fund defendants.

The use of legal defense funds on the city level isn't unprecedented.

But privately, officials debated whether this was a proper use of the legal defense fund, which was originally intended to help pay for things like vote recounts, according to news reports.

The company claims it was not, however, people protested Uber by deleting their accounts and its app, despite the creation of a legal defense fund for affected drivers that would also pay them even if they're unable to work.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo last week announced the creation of a legal defense fund for immigrants.

«To be a fellow worker, and at a time, particularly recently, in support of the Legal Defense Fund working with so many actors and actresses to support people from all industries, it's been a great privilege to be in unity.»

Tessa Thompson probably saw that the conversation had become about her and Lena Dunham instead of the legal defense fund created to protect victims of sexual assault and she wanted to take back the narrative.

Phyllis McClure, a director of the Legal Defense Fund who presented the report to the state board of education, said that6school...

Edward Snowden, the infamous whistle - blower and general «thorn in the side» of the US authorities, had been accepting Bitcoin as part of his Legal Defense Fund.

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• Speaking of Time's Up... Attorney Tina Tchen, who Bloomberg describes as «arguably the most well - connected person working in women's rights today, thanks to her six years as an assistant to President Barack Obama and as first lady Michelle Obama's chief of staff,» talks about why it was so important that Time's Up include a legal defense fund: «The fastest way to make sure that someone isn't getting bullied by a lawyer for someone rich and powerful is to make sure that person has a lawyer, too.»

Time's Up includes a legal defense fund, made up of $ 13 million in donations, to help less privileged women fight sexual misconduct.

The curriculum will be developed in consultation with a number of prominent African American organizations and figures including Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative; Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director - counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund; and former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.

Zzyym's lawsuit, filed last year by the LGBT rights legal firm Lambda Legal Defense Fund in federal court in Denver, argued that the policy of requiring either a male or female designation on passport applications violated due process and equal protection rights for intersex pelegal firm Lambda Legal Defense Fund in federal court in Denver, argued that the policy of requiring either a male or female designation on passport applications violated due process and equal protection rights for intersex peLegal Defense Fund in federal court in Denver, argued that the policy of requiring either a male or female designation on passport applications violated due process and equal protection rights for intersex people.

We spoke with the head of that coalition, a student who feels being Asian hurt his college application, and an NAACP Legal Defense Fund lawyer to try to settle the debate.

The curriculum will be developed with guidance from several national and local experts confronting racial bias, including Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative; Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director - counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund; Heather McGhee, president of Demos; former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder; and Jonathan Greenblatt, ceo of the Anti-Defamation League.

Starbucks said it would develop the curriculum for the training with guidance from experts including Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative; Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director - counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund; Heather McGhee, president of Demos; former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder; and Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League.

The Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (SALDEF) provided information to Homeland Security for the preparation of these TSA training materials.

The Sikh Coalition, United Sikhs and the Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund are lobbying members of Congress in an effort to pressure federal transportation authorities to re-examine a policy they say unfairly scrutinizes members of the Sikh community.

Navdeep Singh, a policy adviser to the Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund, says Sikhs believe in freedom of religion, community service and inclusiveness.

Sleeping in on Sundays, spending my money on myself instead of some priestpervs legal defense fund or a pastor's fondness for hoookers and blow...

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Promoted most prominently by the Community Environment Legal Defense Fund, the laws center around «the rights of people, natural communities, and ecosystems to exist, regenerate and flourish»» in essence, a «right to life for nature.»

A legal defense fund created by the initiative had a goal of $ 15,000,000.

Hiram Monserrate turned himself in to federal authorities in connection with the NYC Council slush fund scandal, a commission of his former legislative colleagues, which rarely takes action against one of its own, found reasonable cause to believe that he violated the Public Officers Law by setting up a legal defense fund and soliciting contributions from from individuals and entities that had business interests in his work as a senator.

Nabozny, with the help of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, won a landmark federal lawsuit (and eventually settled for close to $ 1 million) against school administrators in his home state of Wisconsin who failed to a spate of stop brutal anti-gay bullying at his school of which he was the target.

Time's Up — an initiative and legal defense fund fighting sexual harassment and gender inequality — has called on Cuomo to open an investigation of Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance and his office after a story in New York Magazine revealed the alleged mishandling handling of a Harvey Weinstein sexual assault case.

«Senator Alcantara has delivered progressive results for her constituents, including raising the age of criminal responsibility and securing $ 10m in funding for legal defense for immigrants facing deportation,» she said.

When former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos faces his second corruption trial in June he will already have spent over $ 2 million of his campaign funds on his legal defense.

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-RRB- outlines numerous proposals on worker and immigrants rights, including the NY Dream Act; Drivers Licenses for Undocumented Immigrants; and expansion of the Liberty Defense Project by increasing funding for legal services to immigrants to $ 20 million.

Other commission members were Scott P. Campbell, executive director of the Elton John AIDS Foundation; Rose Harvey, commissioner of the State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation; Thomas Krever, CEO of the Hetrick - Martin Institute; Kelsey Louie, CEO of Gay Men's Health Crisis; Christine Quinn, the former City Council speaker who is now CEO of Women in Need; Melissa Sklarz, development director at the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund; and Glennda Testone, executive director of the LGBT Community Center.

Good - government groups have long derided the use of campaign funds to cover legal defense.

«We've always opposed the use of campaign coffers as a legal defense fund.

Hawkins» platform (http://www.howiehawkins.org/issues) outlines numerous proposals on worker and immigrants rights, including the NY Dream Act; Drivers Licenses for Undocumented Immigrants; and expansion of the Liberty Defense Project by increasing funding for legal services to immigrants to $ 20 million.

Former Sen. Carl Kruger spent $ 1.42 million in campaign funds on his legal defense and still has $ 400,000 left over, although he must make a court - ordered restitution to the tune of $ 900,000.

He needs to answer a lot of questions, so don't spend that $ 20 so fst, Schumer may need it for a «Legal Defense fund», after he spends all his campaign money trying to get re-elected JUST LIKE ALAN HEVESI DID IN 2006

Anthony Weiner handed over a wad of money to disgraced Rep. Charles Rangel for his legal - defense fund.

An organization called the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund drew up a map of its own called the Unity Map, which looks drastically different from the current configuration in the borough.

He joined the attorney general's Civil Rights Bureau in 2008, is a former deputy commissioner at the state Division of Human Rights and was a staff attorney at the Lambda Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

When asked about what the legislature has done to protect New Yorkers from the policies of Donald Trump, both Cuomo's office and a spokesperson for the IDC pointed to the $ 10 million set aside in the budget for an immigrant defense fund to ensure that undocumented immigrants have access to legal representation.

Fahy has a couple more days to find out whether her version of the bill funding legal defense services is a winner or not.

It refuses to ban the use of campaign contributions for the legal defense funds of elected officials.

Former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno announced on Friday the bulk of his leftover campaign and legal defense fund cash — some $ 1.4 million — will be transferred to the Senate Republican Campaign Committee.

Bruno announced in a press release sent out by his longtime spokesman John McArdle that he would close out the remainder of his campaign account as well as a legal defense fund formed to help him fight federal corruption charges, with most of the money going to help the GOP maintain control of the chamber.

The letter's signers included the Empire State Pride Agenda, Lambda Legal, the New York City Anti-Violence Project, the LGBT Community Center and the Brooklyn Community Pride Center, the Callen - Lorde Community Health Center, Gay Men's Health Crisis, the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund, Immigration Equality, the Family Equality Council, SAGE (Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders), the GRIOT Circle: a gathering of elders, and several organizations advocating on behalf of LGBT young people, including FIERCE, the Hetrick - Martin Institute, and Streetwise and Safe.

(In a sign of just how tough it is to prove bribery charges, in September, a federal judge threw out four bribery charges, saying Melgen's contributions to Menendez's legal defense fund didn't contain any explicit agreement of quid pro quo.)

The organizers of the Women's March in Albany will also be fundraising on Saturday for a legal defense fund for protesters arrested during last year's demonstrations with a sale of T - shirts and sweatshirts.

«This governor created the Office of New Americans, launched the Naturalize NY initiative to cover the costs of immigrants seeking to become citizens and launched a $ 10 million immigrant legal defense fund,» Azzopardi said.

Melissa Etheridge will bring her powerful voice to Central New York to raise legal defense funds for protesters of the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos spent $ 762,145 of his campaign funds on legal defense, and has $ 1.58 million remaining in his account.