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7 Jun 2023, 8:00 am
“When I was ready to shift back to advocacy from the other side of the bench, I looked for somewhere with both the range of work and the dedication to public service that I found so rewarding during my clerkship. [read post]
1 Nov 2007, 10:05 pm
" The advocacy groups are New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, the New York Immigration Coalition and Make the Road New York. [read post]
16 Feb 2017, 9:52 am
Via AALL: On February 14, 2017 “the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) partnered with OpenTheGovernment.org and more than 60 other public interest groups and associations on a letter to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), asking OMB to issue guidance reminding agencies that they are required under the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.) to give adequate public notice when making significant changes to information on their websites,… [read post]
15 Apr 2024, 6:02 am
By strengthening U.S. public corruption laws to prevent government officials from abusing their public offices for private gain, Congress can help restore public trust in all three branches of government – but most importantly in our Supreme Court. [read post]
5 Apr 2016, 7:23 am
The state needs at least $10 million to properly fund its public defenders, and since last year municipalities can... [read post]
8 May 2006, 10:18 am
[JURIST] The floor of the Afghan parliament has witnessed its first outbreak of violence, with lawmakers physically and verbally assaulting a controversial female legislator who called several of the country's mujahedeen leaders criminals unfit for public office. [read post]
10 Mar 2017, 1:00 am
The IRS yesterday released (IR-2017-56) Program Report and 2017 Publication 4134, Low Income Taxpayer Clinic List: LITC Program Report The Internal Revenue Service’s Low Income Taxpayer Clinic (LITC) Program Office has issued its annual program report, which details how LITCs have provided representation, education, and advocacy for taxpayers who are... [read post]
15 Sep 2011, 2:19 pm
In a 50-page publication titled "Unfinished Business" [report, text; press release], HRW assessed the choice of cases made by the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) [official website] in its first five investigations, claiming that the resulting prosecutions do not go "far enough to ensure that justice... [read post]
25 Mar 2016, 11:23 am
He was convicted on Thursday on charges of insulting the rulers of the country, inciting public opinion, accusing security officers of killing protestors in Awamiyya, ridiculing Islamic religious figures and violating Article 6 of the Anti-Cyber Crime Law.... [read post]
12 Oct 2011, 5:01 am
Judge Rodion Kireyev also barred Tymoshenko from serving public office for three years and ruled in favor of a 1.5 billion hryvnias judgment against her. [read post]
2 Apr 2018, 1:00 am
The IRS has released (IR-2018-75) Program Report and 2018 Publication 4134, Low Income Taxpayer Clinic List: LITC Program Report The Internal Revenue Service’s Low Income Taxpayer Clinic (LITC) Program Office has issued its annual program report, which details how LITCs have provided representation, education, and advocacy for taxpayers who are... [read post]
17 May 2007, 3:03 am
[JURIST] The Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area (LCCR) [advocacy website] filed a lawsuit [complaint, PDF; press release, PDF] against the US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) [official website] Wednesday requesting the public disclosure of a terrorist watch list containing more than 6,000 names. [read post]
30 Jan 2014, 8:21 am
[JURIST] The Office of the Federal Public Defender of Colorado [official website] and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] filed a motion [text, PDF] on behalf of terror suspect Jamshid Muhtorov Wednesday to suppress evidence the National Security Agency (NSA) [official website] obtained from surveillance conducted pursuant to the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 (FAA) [text, PDF]. [read post]
2 Jul 2009, 1:49 am
Human rights groups B'Tselem, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) [advocacy [read post]
2 Feb 2015, 9:59 am
The report claims that the Hungarian government has engaged in "public smearing, criminal investigations, office raids and the seizure of equipment, and a politically motivated audit which could eventually lead to the closure of organizations. [read post]
21 May 2016, 11:03 am
Attorneys for Chelsea Manning, the former military officer who leaked secrets to WikiLeaks [advocacy website], on Thursday, filed a brief [text, PDF] to appeal her 35-year prison term [JURIST report] for violating the Espionage Act. [read post]
21 Mar 2018, 7:44 pm
“The Public Library Association (PLA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), and the ALA Office for Library Advocacy, in partnership with OCLC, today released the report, From Awareness to Funding: Voter Perceptions and Support of Public Libraries in 2018. [read post]
29 Apr 2014, 6:11 pm
This article is about how the efforts of the Maryland correctional officers’ union (they’re represented by AFSCME, the major public employees union) resulted in the passage of the Correctional Officers Bill of Rights, which made it much harder to discipline bad correctional officers — thus reducing C.O.s’ accountability and facilitating brutality and corruption scandals. [read post]
2 May 2011, 2:01 pm
Alan Cote, the lawyer who ran the public records division within the Massachusetts Secretary of State's Office, has died, according to the State House News Service. [read post]
10 May 2016, 9:05 pm
Why the public announcement before the facts come in? [read post]
