Sentences with phrase «public discipline cases»

It is not unusual for public discipline cases to last eighteen months to two years.

Not exact matches

Nevertheless, in some cases outside of public education, bargaining rights have been denied to employees who are considered supervisors because they are involved in assigning, disciplining, or dismissing other workers.

Those involving weapons and violence have increased to nearly 40 percent of all K — 12 public school discipline cases since 1993.

Appellate - level court cases define case law, generate media coverage, influence public perceptions, and can be tracked over time as an empirical indicator of the broad parameters of court climate toward school discipline.

«The looming question in the case was not so much the outcome but the Court's rationale... Today, the Court took that very signifiant step, holding that «when public employees make statements pursuant to their official duties, the employees are not speaking as citizens for First Amendment purposes, and the Constitution does not insulate their communications from employer discipline.»

Third, the Scott case addresses when a professional regulatory body may take «extraordinary» action to protect the public during an investigation and pending the outcome of a discipline hearing.

«The public's confidence in the medical profession demands more from the disciplinary process than recent sexual abuse discipline cases suggest.

One downside of all this, observes Frisch at Legal Profession Blog, is that with so much attention given to the case, the general public's «take - away» may be «that bar discipline is both swift and sure» — when it is rarely either.

'' [T] here's no discipline short of disbarment that would be appropriate in this case given the magnitude of the offenses we have found and the effect upon the profession and the public.»

In that case, the court ruled that public university officials violated the First Amendment when they disciplined a college administrator for his truthful court testimony about financial improprieties involving an Alabama state representative receiving monies from the college.

Another aspect that I have mentioned before that ABS supporters do not address is (1) the fact that Australia's legal profession fumbled the handling of discipline cases, causing the government to step in and make changes and (2) the fact that England's law society fumbled the division of governing in the public interest and advocating in the profession's interest, causing the government to step in and implement a report prepared by an accountant.

The college has spent the past two years arguing at two levels of court that its own discipline committee, made up of doctors and members of the public and which acts independently of the college, failed in the Peirovy case, and should have revoked his licence.

This specialized unit assists public and private counsel attorneys with the forensic aspects of their appointed cases by providing advice and assistance in using a forensic expert, and supplying training and other resources in the various forensic disciplines.