Sentences with phrase «public legal fight»

Not exact matches

The CBC story rightly points out that, 20 years ago, a young Canadian woman named Gwen Jacobs fought and won a legal battle for the right to go topless — entirely topless — in public.

The case is important not only because Hogan wants $ 100 million, which could ruin Gawker, but also because it highlights how Gawker is alone among new media companies in waging the sort of public interest legal fights that were once second nature for traditional media.

A simmering dispute between Dauman and Redstone, who has so far successfully fought off legal claims about his competency, broke into public view last week when he fired Dauman and Abrams from the trust and told Viacom executives he opposed the company's plan to sell a stake in the Paramount Pictures division.

The job move amounts to a promotion, but Fredrickson is also a character in Benchmark's legal and public relations fight against former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick.

While there are laws which protect breastfeeding mothers from legal ramifications should she expose her breast in public to nurse, women often still have to fight charges or discrimination.

He explained the challenges of collecting and processing data, the legal fights along the way and the goal of empowering ordinary citizens with access to public information.

A legal fight between the Buffalo Public School District and Buffalo Teachers Federation over a plan to transfer teachers from City Honors will return to court next week, when the district will file papers challenging a restraining order obtained by the BTF.

The issuance will likely further inflame opponents of the project - including the Oneida Indian Nation - who have mounted multiple legal fights and public relations campaigns against Wilmot's plans to put a casino 76 miles west of Turning Stone Casino.

But a day later, he would not specify what legal action would look like — though he maintained that he and other mayors across the country would fight in court — nor explain how the city would handle retaliatory cuts to federal funding for the NYPD, the New York City Housing Authority and the city's public hospital system.

«One of the things I'm proudest of is that we've made the public policy of this state that people in need who are fighting for the necessities of their life... get legal representation, or effective legal assistance,» he said.

This campaign fights for non-sexual public nakedness to be legal.

Public records indicate that legal maneuvers by Small's law firm facilitated nearly $ 700,000 in anonymous lobbying spending for Pledge 2 Protect, a nonprofit founded in 2013 to fight the city government's plan to build a marine waste transfer station on the Upper East Side that would haul away garbage by barge.

«Anti-corruption agencies in Nigeria generally have not met widespread expectations mainly because of lack of political will of those in government to fight grand corruption; absence of an over-all national anti-graft strategy; inadequate legal framework and resources and / or lack of full and effective implementation of new initiatives; limited independence and public trust; lack of an enabling climate and necessary know - how, and lack of basic ethical values.

Greenetrack also issued a statement Tuesday, through its new consulting firm, Mercury Public Affairs, which now employs King and Rachel Noerdlinger, a former aide to Sharpton and First Lady Chirlane McCray, saying that is committed «to fighting for this community and keeping all of our options open including a legal challenge.»

The judge's decision to make the documents public, with some redactions, followed a vigorous and ultimately unsuccessful legal fight by lawyers for Mr. Silver and the two women to block the release of the materials.

«I've helped secure two new public schools for the district (an elementary school on 17th Street and most recently, a new middle school at 75 Morton St.), fought NYU's irresponsible campus expansion plan, established a legal defense fund for rent - stabilized tenants... and brokered a deal to renovate Washington Square Park,» he said.

Thanks in part to several legal fights, journal fees in the Netherlands have become public, and calculations by Waaijers have shown that Elsevier charges two or even three times as much per article by Dutch authors as three other large publishers.

That bravado would send The Post into an epic legal and existential battle just as Graham was preparing to take her family's media company public — a deal that could easily be scuttled by her potential imprisonment and a Supreme Court fight, not to mention the vindictive administration of president Richard M. Nixon.

Why states like Illinois and New Jersey continually pick legal fights with public sector unions on pension benefits to begin with is a mystery, and an expensive one at that.

Rather than take on the difficult and challenging work of winning loyalty and enrollment from low - income parents, school districts face much more powerful incentives to fight legislative, legal, and public - relations wars.

Brown said she sees a parallel to the fight for gay marriage, noting that the legal fight around California's Proposition 8 sparked a public conversation that she credits with changing attitudes and increasing acceptance of same - sex unions.

The N.C. Court of Appeals stepped into a legal fight this week, and will be the most recent judicial authority to decide if the Wall Street - traded online education company K12, Inc. can tap into North Carolina's public education market.

«Tis the season for «the war on Christmas» stories, with widely reported fights over the placement of manger scenes on public property and legal wrangling over other aspects of the national holiday that dares not speak its name.

Last week, a hard - fought legal case brought on behalf of nine California public - school students resulted in a stunning and, for many, exciting decision: A number of the state's teacher - tenure violate the state constitution by depriving California students of the equal opportunity for a quality education.

With libraries around the world coming under almost as much threat of demise as brick - and - mortar bookstores, one UK library system is taking legal action to fight back against proposed budget cuts in their county that will mean the planned closing of a number of local public libraries.

During the legal fight, TREB has continued to argue that by allowing the public unrestricted access to housing market data, they would violate the privacy of clients — sellers who list their home for sale and buyers who enter into a contractual agreement to purchase a property.

Heidi began her legal career as a public defender fighting for the «underdog.»

The sale of «Shuffleton's Barbershop» by the Berkshire Museum in Massachusetts for an undisclosed price came amid a public backlash and a legal fight.

The fund is designed to help scientists like Professor Michael Mann cope with the legal fees that stack up in fighting attempts by climate - skeptic groups to gain access to private emails and other correspondence through lawsuits and Freedom of Information Act requests at their public universities.

But before we get to that ending we should recognize that the fifteen years between the December 1965 2nd Circuit decision and the 1980 settlement consisted of a long hard struggle fought along legal, political and public fronts.

The suit also debuts a new legal framework to fight climate change, one that portrays federal support for the development and use of fossil fuels as a violation of the Fifth and Ninth Amendments, as well as the public trust doctrine.

After some reflection over the last couple of months, and some thousands of dollars on legal fees — so far paid by the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) that first published the book that got him into trouble — Professor Ridd has decided to fight the final censure.

While there is public support for fighting climate change (about 61 percent of Americans, in one recent poll) and specifically for regulating carbon emissions (even a majority of Trump voters, in one poll), the CPP does not rest on voter expectations, but on a legal expectation.

That would further weaken the law societies» position as a prosecutor of the commercial producers for UPL — a very biased, self - interested prosecutor fighting off a commercial threat, rather than prosecuting unlicensed individuals for that offence's intended purpose of protecting the public from incompetently provided legal services.

ILR's multifaceted campaign takes the fight for legal reform to legislators, the courts, and the public by engaging in legislative advocacy, strategic communications, and voter education.

This is primarily a cost - avoidance strategy, to avoid the costs to business of a constantly increasing copyright term, or alternately the cost of fighting an extension of the lifetime of copyright, and finally of the legal costs of deciding whether material can regain copyright after once becoming part of the public domain.

If you get a Public Health Order and you want to fight it, you only have 15 days to file an appeal, so you should contact us right away for legal advice.

On Thursday, April 26, CPCS had the pleasure of honoring exceptional members of our community — attorneys from the public and private counsel divisions, as well as a social worker, investigator and administrative professional — who work tirelessly to insure that CPCS meets our mission: to fight for equal justice and human dignity by supporting our clients in achieving their legal and life goals; to zealously advocate for the rights of individuals; and to promote just public policy to protect the rights of all.

For years consumer advocacy groups and others have fought, with little success, to increase public awareness of these product defect legal liabilities and require the manufacturers of fluoroquinolones to participate in these efforts.

We will fight this unilateral and one - sided review process, and this project with all legal means, â $ says Rueben George, Sacred Trust Initiative, Project Manager Public Engagement, Tsleil - Waututh Nation.

We will fight this unilateral and one - sided review process, and this project with all legal means,» says Rueben George, Sacred Trust Initiative, Project Manager Public Engagement, Tsleil - Waututh Nation.

I fervently hope that you and other erstwhile supporters of ABS will have the courage of epiphany and will eschew the worst idea to hit the profession in centuries, and will instead (1) strive to maintain the hard - won full and uncompromised independence of the legal profession, (2) fight against the greedy forces that would cartelize the delivery of legal services to the permanent detriment of the public and the profession, (3) be eternally vigilant in preserving our privilege / right of self - regulation, and (4) strive assiduously toward identifying and implementing effective ways (we pretty much already know them) to bring down the one horrific barrier to justice.

News / Canada Public pays millions for legal fees of federal judges under investigation Judges in trouble have unlimited funding to fight disciplinary action against them.

The publication of this judgment is not only of wider legal and public interest in knowing the outcome of this long fought and extensively reported court battle.

«I can see that if you're involved in a major legal matter, whether it's a litigation, a merger, or an acquisition, the last thing you want to have happening is a very public fight with your legal counsel over fees.»

So far, it's mostly been a problem for legal departments, but as policy changes and contract fights go public, it's started affecting the average web user, too.

Her experience working as an Assistant Public Guardian allowed her to work within the legal system to fight for the best interest of every child.

she can win, regardless of the overall impact (negative or positive) that her supposed «good fight» might have on the public's economic and legal situation.