Sentences with phrase «than the court system»

This power of exposure is a far more effective deterrent in many countries, including our own, than the court systems that deliver judgment and not necessarily justice.
Mandatory arbitration is an increasingly popular provision in loan agreements that requires parties to resolve disputes through an arbitrator, rather than the court system.
In this way, mediation can be more efficient and effective, in both cost and results, than the court system.
These methods are often faster and less costly than the court system, as matters can often be resolved within weeks or months rather than years.
With a little help, parents can handle their separations better than the court system.

Not exact matches

According to a report in Friday's New York Times, some of Apple's top encryption engineers have threatened to resist — or even to quit — rather than comply with a court order to disable the iPhone security system they created.
More than 25 years later, the logic behind Chapter 19 still applies; the U.S. court system remains expensive, slow and unreliable when it comes to objectivity.
Rather than scrap Nafta's arbitration tribunals, regarded by some free - trade critics as secretive bodies that give private corporations unbridled power to challenge foreign governments outside the court system, the letter proposed to «maintain and seek to improve procedures» for settling disputes.
The rich and powerful have a tighter control over our society, government and its foreign policy, both political parties, business and finance, the health industry, the educational system, the media, and the courts than ever before.
you can have a court system that is supposed to deal non-violently with solutions to these dillimmas but mostely it is entertainment and laughable in it's core justice to begin with humans are human so how does the newer muslim prophet propose to become more than human in response to violence and as a tool for enactment for change — if necessary?
The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).
It seems every second solicitor has been lamenting the lack of cases making their way through the court system as the big end of town attempt to use funds to further business rather than feed lawyers.
The criminal Justice system has it flaws but it a lot more reliable than the court of public opinion
Under the current system only a court can impose a penalty of more than three points for a speeding offence.
«It was, I think, far broader than anyone could have ever imagined and that's why it's up to the court system,» she said.
The original suit in this matter was the first modern - day Native American land claim litigated in the federal court system rather than before the Indian Claims Commission.
Lowell, who represented Williams's former company in the McDonnell case, said prosecutors would now have to decide in the cases of Menendez and others «whether the allegations go to what the Supreme Court said was the public official's authority to act, and to be doing more than what is the typical, expected constituent service that our system depends on.»
Claims by the Secretary of State for Wales that the current devolution settlement does not need major changes are misguided and could help to entrench an unsatisfactory system in place where the courts become the final arbiter of laws rather than the electorate, the Welsh Liberal Democrats Assembly Member, Peter Black has said.
Converting to being an independent state would be much harder than joining the EU once it achieved independence status and it worked out all of the necessary «divorce» arrangements with the U.K. And, that job would be made easier than it might be by its already substantial legal autonomy with its own legal system (except for the U.K. Supreme Court), its own legislature, etc..
- Administering the New York State and Local Retirement System for public employees, with more than one million members, retirees and beneficiaries and more than 3,000 employers; - Acting as sole trustee of the $ 129 billion Common Retirement Fund, one of the largest institutional investors in the world; - Maintaining the State's accounting system and administering the State's $ 12.6 billion payroll; - Issuing reports on State finances; - Managing the State's assets and issuing debt; - Reviewing State contracts and payments before they are issued; - Conducting audits of State agencies and public benefit corporations; - Overseeing the fiscal affairs of local governments, including New York City; - Overseeing the Justice Court Fund and the Oil Spill Fund Acting as custodian of more than $ 9 billion in abandoned property and restoring unclaimed funds to their rightful oSystem for public employees, with more than one million members, retirees and beneficiaries and more than 3,000 employers; - Acting as sole trustee of the $ 129 billion Common Retirement Fund, one of the largest institutional investors in the world; - Maintaining the State's accounting system and administering the State's $ 12.6 billion payroll; - Issuing reports on State finances; - Managing the State's assets and issuing debt; - Reviewing State contracts and payments before they are issued; - Conducting audits of State agencies and public benefit corporations; - Overseeing the fiscal affairs of local governments, including New York City; - Overseeing the Justice Court Fund and the Oil Spill Fund Acting as custodian of more than $ 9 billion in abandoned property and restoring unclaimed funds to their rightful osystem and administering the State's $ 12.6 billion payroll; - Issuing reports on State finances; - Managing the State's assets and issuing debt; - Reviewing State contracts and payments before they are issued; - Conducting audits of State agencies and public benefit corporations; - Overseeing the fiscal affairs of local governments, including New York City; - Overseeing the Justice Court Fund and the Oil Spill Fund Acting as custodian of more than $ 9 billion in abandoned property and restoring unclaimed funds to their rightful owners;
«Today's layoff and displacement notices to more than 600 employees of the New York State Unified Court System are a direct consequence of bad choices in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's state budget.
«Homelessness can happen to anyone, there must be other ways to assist those who are street homeless rather than through the court system,» he said.
Question: Eighteen months ago, the Town Board authorized spending $ 36,000 on an audit of its Justice Court system after it was learned that a now - former clerk had stolen more than $ 230,000 from the town's bail fund.
«What was witnessed in the vile video... is a humiliating and insulting attack on the more than 50 years of progress that this nation has made since the Civil Rights movement,» Espaillat and Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. wrote to the New York court system's attorney grievance committee.
This neighborhood is more than just the court system and stadium — it's a community that is thriving with a transit rich corridor,» said Jose Rodriguez, District Manager of Community Board # 4.
ALBANY, NY (05/18/2011)(readMedia)-- «Today's layoff and displacement notices to more than 600 employees of the New York State Unified Court System are a direct consequence of bad choices in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's state budget.
«The task force is more than justified, more than earns its keep and plays a vital role in keeping the system on its toes,» said former Family Court Judge Gregory J. Blass, who chaired the task force until it ended in 2011.
Our parliamentary system may have taken more than 600 years of continuous development and reform, but as it functions today, it offers a perfect platform for further reforms and is the highest court of appeal for perceived injustice.
He conceded that the process would be arduous and could take more than a decade if conditions in the court system did not improve, or if crime on the streets did not continue its decades - long downward trajectory.
However, the site, which was launched by former county boss turned Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie «more than five years ago,» according to Filius, is not particularly designed to court new talent or explain the county committee system.
More than anything else; Family Court deals primarily with child support and juvenile offenders not yet under the jurisdiction of the adult criminal justice system.
Absence of leadership from the administration on this issue, once again, has the city; s homeless policies shaped more by the court system rather than through collaboration and partnership with stakeholders,» Palma said.
«The highest court may be divided today, but our hearts and hope across the country continue to be united around one simple truth: our immigration law system is broken and we are going to need more than executive orders,» said Councilman Carlos Menchaca, who chairs the City Council's immigration committee.
The court agreed, ruling that the NMFS erred by focusing on watershed systems rather than individual streams.
As attorney general, Pruitt in 2013 filed a friend of the court brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in which he argued the EPA ignored the risks that gasoline with more than 10 percent ethanol can pose to cars» fuel systems as well as the RFS requirement's possible effect on food prcourt brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in which he argued the EPA ignored the risks that gasoline with more than 10 percent ethanol can pose to cars» fuel systems as well as the RFS requirement's possible effect on food prCourt in which he argued the EPA ignored the risks that gasoline with more than 10 percent ethanol can pose to cars» fuel systems as well as the RFS requirement's possible effect on food prices.
Sussell said that arrestees cited to the traditional system typically were ordered to report to the court more than a month after a citation was issued.
Considering that if you spread the area of your digestive system out, it would more than cover a tennis court, it's time to pay this part of the body some due respect!
A U.S. appellate court ruled that the FTC has the authority to sue Wyndham Hotels for allowing hackers to steal more than 600K customers» data from its computer systems in 2008 and 2009, leading to more than $ 10 million in fraudulent charges.
Women receive far more messages than men do - it's the universal courting system of all time.
Katja's rage (she dresses in black, but more like a punk ninja than a widow) is such that she's not likely to get everything she wants from the legal system — she describes much of what goes on in court as «chitchat» (the movie mixes English with subtitled German).
In Bush v. Holmes (2006), the state supreme court struck down Florida's Opportunity Scholarship Program, a small voucher program serving fewer than 800 students, on the grounds that it fell afoul of the state constitution's «uniformity» clause, which allegedly prevents the state from funding any program outside of or «parallel» to the public school system.
But the 82 - year - old retired school administrator — whose 1977 move to charge the families of undocumented children here $ 1,000 per student to attend public schools sparked a federal lawsuit — has more than made his peace with the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling against him and the school system in Plyler v. Doe.
Funds and property seized by the state from convicted drug dealers must go to local school systems rather than law - enforcement agencies, the North Carolina Supreme Court has ruled.
Any future challenge to the new funding system — which was hammered out by legislators in a special session last summer — will now have to be made in district court, a more time - consuming process than going directly to the supreme court, Mr. Goetz...
After more than a year of inaction, Boston educational and political leaders, led by Mayor Raymond L. Flynn, are moving toward developing a new student - assignment plan to replace the controversial system imposed by a federal - court order in the 1970's.
Now, rather than being able hide from their about - face on the critical issue of school funding, Governor Malloy and Attorney General Jepsen will be facing a court trial on Malloy's failure to deal with Connecticut's unconstitutional school funding system right in the middle of the election.
Alabama also enacted tuition grant state laws permitting students to use vouchers at private schools in the mid-1950s, while also enacting nullification statutes against court desegregation mandates and altering its teacher tenure laws to allow the firing of teachers who supported desegregation.50 Alabama's tuition grant laws would also come before the court, with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama declaring in Lee v. Macon County Board of Education vouchers to be «nothing more than a sham established for the purpose of financing with state funds a white school system.&rcourt desegregation mandates and altering its teacher tenure laws to allow the firing of teachers who supported desegregation.50 Alabama's tuition grant laws would also come before the court, with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama declaring in Lee v. Macon County Board of Education vouchers to be «nothing more than a sham established for the purpose of financing with state funds a white school system.&rcourt, with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama declaring in Lee v. Macon County Board of Education vouchers to be «nothing more than a sham established for the purpose of financing with state funds a white school system.&rCourt for the Middle District of Alabama declaring in Lee v. Macon County Board of Education vouchers to be «nothing more than a sham established for the purpose of financing with state funds a white school system
For Justin Perry, all of this — the landmark court case that dismantled Charlotte - Mecklenburg Schools» (CMS) diversity - friendly school assignments at the turn of the century, the bitter wringing of hands that followed and, today, a school system seemingly more stratified than any other in North Carolina — began for him 17 years ago, in front of Charlotte's austere district courthouse on a spring day.
In declaring Connecticut's school funding system unconstitutional, Hartford Superior Court Judge Thomas Moukawsher pronounced universally glowing teacher evaluations «uselessly perfect» and called the state's poor school rating system «little more than cotton candy in a rainstorm.»
A second legislative proposal to preserve Washington's charter schools emerged Thursday, with its authors promising to reconstitute even more of the system invalidated by the State Supreme Court than another bill filed earlier this week.
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