The 2018 Legislative Session came and went, and Brian Pitts
of the advocacy group Justice 2 Jesus was nowhere to be found.
Not exact matches
In the same article we reported that while the Citizens United case was pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, Virginia Thomas, the wife
of the
Justice, created a nonprofit Tea Party
advocacy group, Liberty Central, Inc., with a former lawyer for the Charles G. Koch Foundation, Sarah Field, acting as her General Counsel and a former Koch lobbyist, Matt Schlapp, serving on her board at inception.
A Christian
advocacy group has called for the murderers
of a Pakistani Christian politician to be brought to
justice, more than four years after his death.
The IDC, however, insisted the one - house budget resolution
of its own should not be read as a break with the Senate GOP as liberal
advocacy groups press for juvenile
justice reform and other long - sought issues this session.
Also on Tuesday, Police Commissioner James O'Neill said the NYPD will form a 30 - day working
group to address marijuana - related issues, which will consult several experts, including the Mayor's Office
of Criminal
Justice,
advocacy organizations, those involved in academics, and attorneys.
Many
of NYPIRG's proposals were endorsed by other good government or
advocacy groups such as the League
of Women Voters, Empire
Justice Center, Common Cause, Consumers Union, Environmental Advocates
of New York and the Brennan Center for
Justice.
CSBHROs is comprised
of Emeka Umeagbalasi
of International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule
of Law (Intersociety); Aloysius Attah Anambra State Branch
of the Civil Liberties Organization, CLO; Peter Onyegiri
of Centre for Human Rights and Peace
Advocacy, CHRPA; Samuel Njoku of Human Rights Club, HRC, (a project of LRRDC); Justus Ijeoma, of Forum for Justice, Equity and Defense of Human Rights, FJEDHR; Chike Umeh of Society Advocacy Watch Project, SPAW; Obianuju Igboeli of Anambra Human Rights Forum, AHRF; Alex Olisa of Southeast Good Governance Forum, SGGF; Jerry Chukwuokolo of International Solidarity for Peace & Human Rights Initiative, ITERSOLIDARITY; Evlyn Eze of Street Law Africa, LawAfrica, and Tochukwu Ezeoke of Igbo Ekunie Initiative (pan Igbo rights advocac
Advocacy, CHRPA; Samuel Njoku
of Human Rights Club, HRC, (a project
of LRRDC); Justus Ijeoma,
of Forum for
Justice, Equity and Defense
of Human Rights, FJEDHR; Chike Umeh
of Society
Advocacy Watch Project, SPAW; Obianuju Igboeli of Anambra Human Rights Forum, AHRF; Alex Olisa of Southeast Good Governance Forum, SGGF; Jerry Chukwuokolo of International Solidarity for Peace & Human Rights Initiative, ITERSOLIDARITY; Evlyn Eze of Street Law Africa, LawAfrica, and Tochukwu Ezeoke of Igbo Ekunie Initiative (pan Igbo rights advocac
Advocacy Watch Project, SPAW; Obianuju Igboeli
of Anambra Human Rights Forum, AHRF; Alex Olisa
of Southeast Good Governance Forum, SGGF; Jerry Chukwuokolo
of International Solidarity for Peace & Human Rights Initiative, ITERSOLIDARITY; Evlyn Eze
of Street Law Africa, LawAfrica, and Tochukwu Ezeoke
of Igbo Ekunie Initiative (pan Igbo rights
advocacyadvocacy group)
Brent Ferguson
of The Brennan Center for
Justice said that he believed Cuomo's legislation would only cover nonprofit
advocacy groups, a certain class
of 501 (c) 4s, if they engage in «political activity» during campaign season.
Loyda Colon, co-director
of the
Justice Committee, an
advocacy group headed by Latinos, said the patrol guide changes «watered down» the legislation and «subvert the democratic process.»
A new
advocacy group called Blind
Justice is launching a national advertising campaign calling for prosecutor accountability and the importance
of conviction integrity.
A
group under the aegis
of Centre for
Advocacy of Justice and Rights, has called on President Goodluck on the need to ensure that security agencies...
-- A
group of 30 Criminal
justice advocacy groups are pressuring the City Council to end all programs that allow private companies to profit off
of prisons
«It's about time that the communities wake up to understand that we are not trying to destroy Catholic schools or yeshivas,» said Mark Appel, founder
of Voice
of Justice, an
advocacy group.
The spokeswoman for Election
Justice U.S.A., a voting rights
advocacy group that put together a lawsuit against the state's Board
of Elections for voter registration issues, said she is «concerned» about a possible conflict
of interest with Stringer.
A
group,
Advocacy for Advancement
of Peace and Harmony in Africa Initiative, ADAPHAI, has petitioned the Court
of Appeal President,
Justice Zainab Adamu Bulkachuka, over the...
The commission also should represent the interests
of the gamut
of other people and
groups that interact with the criminal
justice system — prosecutors, judges, police and correction officers, people in prison, defense attorneys,
advocacy groups, think tanks, victims» rights organizations, and academics.
The latest edition
of this edited volume includes an overview
of social
justice principles and public health; chapters on social injustice and its effects on the health
of specific population
groups; and the intersection
of social
justice and key aspects
of public health, such as health care delivery; and a call to action that promotes human rights and social
justice advocacy for improving public health.
«I have a Ph.D and I don't understand it,» said Maria Powell
of the Midwest Environmental
Justice Organization, an
advocacy group.
A broad - based coalition
of neighborhood activists, social
justice and food
advocacy groups, top chefs, writers, farmers, fishermen, ranchers, civic leaders and state agencies is revamping the way food is grown, distributed and disposed.
Dorothy Guerrero
of advocacy group Global
Justice Now summed it up: «Science is political.»
This morning, representatives from several science and
justice advocacy groups held a small protest in front
of CDC's Washington, D.C., office.
The Institute for
Justice, the Washington - based legal -
advocacy group that helped defend the Cleveland program, filed suit Sept. 18 in the Cumberland County Superior Court in Portland, Maine, on behalf
of six families from three towns in the state.
While one segment has coalesced around a broad social
justice agenda, including education, housing, economics, and criminal
justice advocacy, a contrasting
group of center - right leaders say the presence
of «social
justice warriors» will marginalize their voices.
The parents have the backing
of — and some observers say are a proxy for — the Partnership for Educational
Justice, an
advocacy group founded and promoted by former television journalist Campbell Brown.
The lawsuit — filed Nov. 14 in the Arizona Supreme Court on behalf
of the parents by People for the American Way, a Washington - based
advocacy group, and other
groups — marks the first time a voucher program for special - needs students has been challenged in court, according to the Institute for
Justice, an Arlington, Va. - based legal -
advocacy group that will...
Texas» School - to - Prison Pipeline: Ticketing, Arrest, and Use
of Force is the third in a series by social
justice advocacy group Texas Appleseed.
Large
advocacy groups with access to considerable resources and large followings tell others that we should be asking people to reduce — rather than end — their exploitation, diluting our collective vegan message
of social
justice and undermining the ethical argument.
U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Rep. Ted Lieu, Rep. Mark DeSaulnier, a coalition
of environmental
advocacy groups, and even a
group of climate scientists have petitioned the U.S. Department
of Justice to use RCIO to launch an investigation
of Exxon - Mobil.
Much more surprisingly, the fossil - fuel lobby was joined in opposition, or non-endorsement, by Sierra Club, Union
of Concerned Scientists, Washington Environmental Council, and several other environmental, social
justice and health
advocacy groups.
Finally, a global initiative hosted by the United Nations and led by high profile policymakers, including US Supreme Court
Justice Anthony Kennedy, has recommended the liberalization of the regulation of legal services in order to allow nonlawyers and community - based organizations and advocacy groups to provide legal services to the poor, stating that «it is likely to improve access to justice for the poor substantially while imposing relatively few costs on society,» and that a «major attraction» of such liberalization is that it may require «fewer government or donor expenditures.
Justice Anthony Kennedy, has recommended the liberalization
of the regulation
of legal services in order to allow nonlawyers and community - based organizations and
advocacy groups to provide legal services to the poor, stating that «it is likely to improve access to
justice for the poor substantially while imposing relatively few costs on society,» and that a «major attraction» of such liberalization is that it may require «fewer government or donor expenditures.
justice for the poor substantially while imposing relatively few costs on society,» and that a «major attraction»
of such liberalization is that it may require «fewer government or donor expenditures.»
Mr. Placitella volunteers his time to numerous consumer
advocacy groups to fight for the rights
of people who suffered because
of corporate misconduct, including serving as Counsel for Consumers for Civil
Justice.
FBI agents misled officials and the public, violated their own policy manual, used poor judgment, and engaged in sloppy police work when they investigated certain left - leaning, high - profile, domestic
advocacy groups in the years immediately following 9/11, the
Justice Department announced today following a four - year - long internal investigation by the Office
of the Inspector General.
Some
advocacy groups in the U.S. have promoted the idea
of letting non-lawyers invest equity in law firms as a way to provide access to
justice, enable innovation in the legal marketplace, and expand legal services.
Today, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association joins a coalition
of community and
advocacy groups calling for action on
Justice Tulloch's police oversight recommendations.
This is even more important in the context
of our strategic framework, which is examining the nature and extent
of our role as a regulator, and in which the Society is committed to
advocacy on the issue
of access to
justice for equity - seeking
groups.
Partner Ashley Campbell addressed the NC Equal Access to
Justice Commission informing the
group of the
advocacy and representative work
of the Campbell Community Law Clinic.
During law school he clerked for a complex plaintiffs» firm, helped write briefs for the United States Supreme Court and other appellate courts at Public
Justice, a consumer
advocacy group, and externed for the Honorable Marsha S. Berzon
of the United States Court
of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Some advocates, like Elizabeth Clarke, president
of the Juvenile
Justice Initiative, an
advocacy group based in Evanston, says it could have helped.
Elizabeth Clarke is president
of the Juvenile
Justice Initiative, an
advocacy group based in Evanston.
TORONTO — Today, a coalition
of community and
advocacy groups, as well as the Ontario Human Rights Commission, issued a joint statement calling on the Government
of Ontario and police oversight bodies to immediately implement recommendations
of the Honourable
Justice Michael Tulloch from his Report
of the Independent Police Oversight Review.
Collaborators included Pro Bono Net, the New York Court's Access to
Justice Program, NYC Family Court, the Court's Division
of Technology, and the Center for Court Innovation and domestic violence
advocacy groups.
Given that the Mountain States Legal Foundation is exactly the sort
of right - wing
advocacy group that
Justice Scalia bases his jurisprudence around, you'd think he'd take it easy on this guy — and he basically did after getting this first dig out
of his system.
Over the course
of the semester, students will advise a community
group on an environmental
justice advocacy strategy, help clients determine whether they have standing to bring an environmental case, negotiate a RCRA enforcement settlement and a regional - scale habitat conservation plan, design a litigation strategy to address changes to air quality standards, and testify at a hearing on water pollution reduction — among many other exercises.
Over the course
of the semester, students will advise a community
group on an environmental
justice advocacy strategy, help clients determine whether they have standing to bring an environmental case, negotiate a RCRA enforcement settlement and a regional - scale habitat conservation plan, design a litigation strategy to address changes to air quality standards, and testify at a hearing on water pollution reduction
Further, the film suggests that these
advocacy groups devastated America's civil
justice system by funding the judicial campaigns
of candidates willing to serve corporate interests at the expense
of consumers and sympathetic Plaintiffs.
WASHINGTON (Sputnik)- A complaint filed with the US Department
of Justice and the Federal Election Commission charges the UK firm Cambridge Analytica and a related firm repeatedly violated US laws in the past two election cycles, including with work for Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, the
advocacy group Common Cause said in a press release.
Advocacy groups, researchers, and public policy experts believe that the juvenile
justice system has become the only alternative for many poor and minority youth with psychiatric disorders.88 - 92 Many states have imposed more severe sanctions for delinquent youth and transfer increasing numbers
of juveniles to adult court,93 - 95 policies that disproportionately affect minority youth.94, 96 In addition, 2 recent changes in public health policy may have inadvertently contributed to the criminalization
of youth with mental disorders.
Texas» School - to - Prison Pipeline: Ticketing, Arrest, and Use
of Force is the third in a series by social
justice advocacy group Texas Appleseed.
There are even «
advocacy»
groups,
Justice for Children (JFC) being among them, that vociferously reject the very existence
of PA and even go to lengths
of making such wild claims that the use
of the PA allegation is nothing but than an act
of retaliation by a child sexually abusing man (father) toward a «protective» woman (mother).
The year 2016 saw different sets
of advocacy groups and foundations coalesce around two national policy agendas related to juvenile
justice.