Sentences with phrase «violate civil rights»
A number of demand letters, which include the threat of litigation, have been sent to NAR members alleging that their real estate websites violate the civil rights of individuals with disabilities.
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Instead of being punished for misconduct with methods that can be harmful to their social, emotional, and academic development — and even violate their civil rights — students in schools that implement SWPBIS, restorative practices, and trauma - sensitive strategies will feel safe and supported.
«reach the constitutional question whether Congress has the power to make municipalities liable for acts of its officers that violate the civil rights of individuals.»
They add that checkpoints do not violate civil rights because citizens are only detained briefly and strict guidelines govern what police may and may not do in connection with the checkpoints.
Last month, a California judge in Vergara v. State of California ruled that teacher tenure laws deprive students of their right to an education under the state Constitution and violate their civil rights.
The Greater Hartford branch of the NAACP is calling on city leaders to reject proposals that would close North End schools, saying the plans violate the civil rights of black and Latino students in the city.
In that guidance the administration made clear to schools: These big disparities violate civil rights law and will not be tolerated.
The NAACP said that closing schools in Hartford's North End would violate the civil rights of Black and Hispanic students.
Instead of being punished for misconduct with methods that can be harmful to their social, emotional, and academic development — and even violate their civil rights — students in schools that implement SWPBIS, restorative practices, and trauma - sensitive strategies will feel safe and supported.
The basic - skills test required of California teachers does not violate the civil rights of minority test - takers, a federal judge ruled last week.
And the NAACP's New York chapter sent a letter to the State Gaming Commission chairman, Mark Gearan, saying to consider the Southern Tier and not other parts of the state may violate civil rights.
ALBANY — The president of the NAACP's New York chapter believes a tentative plan by the state casino siting board to consider new casino bids only in the Southern Tier may violate civil rights laws.
It is in unjust and I am concerned that it may violate civil rights laws,» Dukes said in a letter to the Gaming Commission chairman Mark Gearan and site selection board chairman Kevin Law.
Leroy Gadsden, head of the Jamaica NAACP, said the task force's proposal to create an additional Senate seat upstate would violate the civil rights of black downstate voters who are Democratic, because upstate would have an additional elected official, who was likely to be a Republican and white.
The Justice Department argued that it violated the Civil Rights Act, putting the state at risk of losing more than $ 1 billion in federal funding.
Civil lawyers for Zachary Cruz accused the Broward Sheriff's Office, prosecutors and the courts of «torturing» the teen and violating his civil rights «and engaging in an extortive campaign of intimidation because of the identity of his brother,» according to a press release.
The president and CEO of a group suing Broward officials for violating the civil rights of Zachary Cruz, brother of the Parkland school shooter, called on Broward Sheriff Scott Israel to resign Thursday.
And we were told George Bush was «spying» on all of us and violating our civil rights.
Logically, it is difficult to see why the gay rights agenda should stop at the door of the church; churches have already been sued for violating the civil rights of members censured for practicing homosexual sodomy.
The grand jury charged Slager, according to the Post and Courier, with «violating civil rights law and misleading investigators in Walter Scott's death.»
If no error, then segregating restrooms based on obvious anatomical differences can not violate a civil right, for no deeper gender reality obtains to offend.
If there is an inherent «right to marriage» for same - sex couples, religious groups that refuse to marry gay couples are violating their civil rights, which in turn could lead to a repeal of the churches» tax exempt status» or a complete overturn in our law and culture of the religious understanding of marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
New York state will file an amicus brief in support of overturning a North Carolina law that critics say violates the civil rights of LGBT people by prohibiting municipalities from issuing ordinances that allow transgender people to use the bathroom of the gender they identify with.
Burke pleaded guilty in February to violating the civil rights of a Smithtown man and then orchestrating a departmental cover - up of the crime.
«It's repugnant to me that we need the Trump Administration to come to New York City and tell us we're violating civil rights on Rikers Island, or for the Trump Administration to come into the New York City Housing Authority and say, «You're mistreating people and you're incompetent in your management,»» Cuomo said.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says the «No Haitians» ad violated civil rights laws.
NEW YORK CITY — The New York City - based FBI team investigating if police violated the civil rights of Eric Garner has been replaced by a Washington - D.
It violated the civil rights of those who were stopped.
James Burke, the former Suffolk police chief of department, pleaded guilty to violating the civil rights of a Smithtown man and then orchestrating a departmental cover - up of the crime, at federal court in Central Islip on Friday, Feb. 26, 2016.
Burke, a longtime Spota protégé, already has been convicted of violating the civil rights of Christopher Loeb, now 29, of Smithtown, by assaulting him and then obstructing justice by taking part, with other police officers, in a cover - up of the initial attack.
Federal prosecutors say a former Buffalo jail attendant has pleaded guilty to violating the civil rights of an inmate who was beaten while handcuffed.
Austin Harig, the former student who narrowly lost a race to then - board member Carl P. Paladino, claims his arrests in 2016 and 11 days in jail time violated his civil rights.
The suit contends the company and its founders violated the civil rights and human rights of their employees and the state's business laws.
Dixie is one of three African - American vendors who have accused Antonacci of violating their civil rights.
Three months after the incident, the Dexters sued officers Mahar and Vella, along with Miner and Fowler, in a federal lawsuit claiming that police had used excessive force and violated their civil rights.
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Mr. Burke was later arrested and pleaded guilty to violating the civil rights of a man who allegedly broke into his department vehicle.
In the 2016 federal lawsuit, Antonacci is accused of violating the civil rights of three county contractors.
They accused the comptroller of violating their civil rights by creating an intimidating work environment.
THE BRONX — The U.S. Attorney's Office will review whether police officer Richard Haste violated the civil rights of the unarmed Ramarley Graham when he fatally shot the teen in the bathroom of his own home last year.
In the 1974 Lau decision, the U.S. Supreme Court held that failing to provide services for students learning English violated the Civil Rights Act.
The legal complaint, filed on one young woman's behalf by the Southern Poverty Law Center (splc) in Montgomery, seeks an injunction to set up monitored standards of the programs at the facility, on the grounds that it is violating the civil rights of the residents.
The former student says the school violated her civil rights by failing to protect her from sexual assault in a «hypersexualized environment» where older students scored points for having sex with younger ones.
They have been cited for abusive discipline practices, such as suspending 5 - year - olds and violating the civil rights of students with disabilities, failing to serve needy populations, such as English Language Learners and students with disabilities, and even financial fraud, mismanagement and self - dealing scandals.
LOS ANGELES — A California judge ruled Tuesday that teacher tenure laws deprived students of their right to an education under the State Constitution and violated their civil rights.
In the Vergara case, bankrolled by Silicon Valley elites, a state judge effectively invalidated California's teacher tenure rule as violating the civil rights of poor students, who can not have bad teachers jettisoned from their classrooms.
This raises questions about whether charter schools may be violating civil rights law by not reporting the data on whom they exclude from school on disciplinary grounds.
The Texas energy giant accused Massachusetts AG Maura Tracy Healey of violating its civil rights in federal court Wednesday.
In civil suits filed against the judges, lawyers are seeking to recover monetary damages on behalf of the children and their families, alleging that the judges violated their civil rights.
The boy's lawyers argued that child welfare authorities who were monitoring the home violated his civil rights by failing to protect him from his father.