Sentences with phrase «serving on a jury»

Former President Barack Obama will serve on a jury in Cook County sometime next month, according to a report in the Chicago Tribune.

For instance, it wasn't until 1968 that women were allowed to serve on juries in all 50 states.

The pay you receive from serving on a jury is subject to income tax, too.

those who suffer from delusional thinking should be prohibited from voting, serving on a jury, holding public office, purchasing or owning firearms or teaching public school....

John Kennedy repeatedly appointed segregationist judges to the federal bench in the South, and the civil rights case that Robert Kennedy most vigorously prosecuted involved charges brought against Albany, Georgia, activists for violating the rights of a white storeowner by boycotting his business because he had served on a jury that cleared the sheriff who had shot a black man three times in the neck at point - blank range.

(CNN)- They didn't serve on the jury, weren't plaintiffs in the case, nor did they watch in the courtroom.

those who suffer from delusional thinking should be prohibited from voting, serving on a jury, running for or holding public office, purchasing or owning firearms or teaching public school....

they just shouldn't be allowed to vote, serve on a jury, hold public office, purchase or own firearms, teach public school, or have contact with children under the age of 18.

mentally ill, delusional people who believe in the existence of gods should be prohibited from voting, serving on a jury, running for or holding any public office, purchasing or owning firearms, teaching public school, or having any contact with children under the age of 18.

it is interesting to note that the constitutions in a number of states prohibit atheists from running for public office, or serving on juries... etc...

Not necessarily, but marriage hasn't been all that great for women — for many years our husbands could legally beat and rape us (both are still allowed elsewhere in the world), and it wasn't until the 1960s that we could have credit cards in our own name, serve on a jury or attend an Ivy League university.

Ten states allow nursing mothers to be excused from serving on a jury.

«We are sort of the vanguard and protector of a lot of things that could happen in the state of New York like allowing illegal immigrants to get college tuition, allowing people to serve on juries, allowing people to serve on juries who have no legal status here.»

Prior Court of Appeals rulings maintain that all schools in the state need to prepare youngsters to be effective citizens with the ability to vote and serve on a jury.

«It would not only allow illegal immigrants to vote and run for office in state and local elections, it would allow them to get driver's licenses, serve on juries, and become eligible for Medicaid.»

«Whether it's voting to give free college tuition to illegals or allowing his campaign to be completely taken over by groups pushing for the passage of legislation that would give illegals the right to vote in our elections and serve on our juries, Todd Kaminsky has consistently put the «rights» of illegal immigrants ahead of the rights of law - abiding Long Island taxpayers and their families.

Republicans, meanwhile, hammered Kaminsky for votes on measures that included enhancing the rights of undocumented workers when it came to voting, serving on juries and receiving welfare benefits.

The pardon would not expunge a felon's record nor would it restore other rights stripped from them, such as the right to serve on a jury.

«The Senate Democrats are even sponsoring a bill that would grant illegal immigrants the right to vote and serve on juries,» the document continues.

But when it comes to doing his civic duty by serving on a jury, Heastie, now one of the most powerful politicians in the state, has been less than accountable, according to court records.

The local court system is reaching out to the community to help get more African Americans to serve on jury duty.

Imagine you are serving on a jury: the defendant is charged with murder, but he also suffers from a brain tumor that causes erratic behavior.

The Postdoctoral Scholar shall provide the University with a copy of the summons to serve on jury duty prior to the date (s) on which such service is expected.

When Annie is called to serve on a jury for the murder trial of a major mobster, she welcomes the distraction from the isolation of her creative life.

Fox Searchlight has announced that «Stoker» has been given a March 1, 2013 release date and we're willing to bet that the likelihood of a fall premiere at Venice — where he won an award for «Sympathy For Lady Vengeance» in 2005 and served on the jury in 2006 — is looking stronger and stronger.

2015: The famously outspoken (and occasionally bratty) Canadian director Xavier Dolan has been competing at Cannes since he was a teenager, so it's natural that the festival asked him to serve on the jury two years ago.

Fremaux also said that Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev, who was in competition at Cannes last year with «Loveless,» will serve on the jury this year.

It was while serving on that jury last year that I came to fall in love with this festival.

She's back at the festival a year after serving on the jury, this time earning raves for work in her fourth collaboration with her friend Sofia Coppola.

During her tenure at the Institute, she has represented Sundance internationally by serving on juries, speaking on panels, and working to cultivate relationships with film commissions, industry, and artists around the world.

Alongside her academic work, Rich has been International Curator for the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival; has served on juries at the Sundance, Toronto, San Francisco, Oberhausen, Havana, Sydney, and Guadalajara film festivals; and is a member of the advisory board of the Provincetown Film Festival and previously of the Sundance Selection Committee.

To the right of the podium is director Asif Kapadia, who served on the jury for the World Cinema Documentary competition.

The most recent addition to his series is Chilean director Marcela Said's 2013 narrative feature debut, The Summer of Flying Fish, which he first discovered while serving on a jury at a film festival.

He's served on juries for Hot Docs, Reel Asian, Canada's Top Ten and the Toronto Jewish Film Festival.

He wanted more after serving on the jury for the 2010 Cannes Competition with president Tim Burton, Kate Beckinsale, and composer Alexandre Desplat, among others

One of the founders of the St. Louis International Film Festival, she continues to serve on juries.

«The Distinguished Citizen» Comedies don't get nearly enough respect come awards time, which is one reason I was delighted to serve on the jury of this year's Monte Carlo Comedy Film Festival, where we honored this brilliant send - up of a self - important expat author (Oscar Martínez, who won best actor in Venice).

By 1930 (except in some particulars in a very few backward states) women had been given equal legal rights with men to vote, to hold office, to serve on juries, to control their own property, and to be guardians of their own children.

Did you serve on a jury in 2013?

The Game Awards could have asked 10,000 women to serve on its jury for all we know, but it was content to move forward with only one on the panel.

From the National Portrait Gallery, Chief Curator Brandon Brame Fortune, and Dorothy Moss, associate curator of painting and sculpture, also served on the jury.

She served on the jury for the inaugural OGR Award in Turin (2017).

She is also currently serving on the jury for the Turner Prize 2013.

He has served on juries at New York Live Arts (2011 and 2012), Art Matters (2012 and 2014) and the Pew Center for Art and Heritage.

She has participated in panel discussions and served on juries at the National Endowment for the Arts, Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, Rhode Island School of Design, Baruch College, and Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts; and lectured at the Drew University, University of Oregon in Eugene, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, New York University, and The Cleveland Institute of Art.

In addition to having served on the Jury of the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015, Beckwith frequently contributes to numerous publications such as Frieze and Parkett Magazine.

Old enough to join the army, vote, serve on a jury, go to the prom, and, we even think we can adopt a child now.

In 1965, then Tate Director Alan Bowness was invited to serve on the jury of the Instituto Torquato di Tella directed by Jorge Romero Brest in Buenos Aires.

She has also served on jury panels for SOHO20's Residency Lab and + / - Project Space open calls.

He also serves on the jury of the Europa Nostra Awards, also known as the European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage.