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30 Oct 2009, 11:11 am by Mitch Jackson
The most visible of them came from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. [read post]
27 Oct 2009, 12:53 pm by RiskMetrics Group Blog Team
” Stu Dalheim, director of shareholder advocacy at the Calvert Group, hailed the new bulletin as “a significant validation of shareowner rights. [read post]
24 Oct 2009, 4:26 pm
Those may well be some of the thoughts figuring in the behind-the-scenes discussions now going on at the Solicitor General’s office, as Nov. 2 and other deadlines approach. [read post]
23 Oct 2009, 10:00 am
.; Office of Manhattan Borough President; Urban Justice Center; Mitchell-Lama Residents Coalition, amici curiae. [read post]
22 Oct 2009, 6:30 am
Parents can also turn to other newly-created resources, including District Family Advocates and the Office for Family Engagement and Advocacy which holds events, workshops and training sessions to help educate parents about how to become involved in their schools and taking an active role in their children's education. [read post]
21 Oct 2009, 1:23 pm
Roy, 401 U.S. 265, 272 (1971) (First Amendment "has its fullest and most urgent application precisely to the conduct of campaigns for political office"). [read post]
20 Oct 2009, 5:00 pm by Felicia Curran
Fees from the Fund are distributed to the Department of Insurance and to the District Attorney offices to provide protections for consumers of life insurance and annuity products.AB 215 (Feuer/Smyth): Posting Nursing Home RatingsThis law would require nursing homes to post ratings issued by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in a visible, public location.AB 1457 (Davis): Nursing Home Admission Contracts - Ownership DisclosureThis law would require nursing… [read post]
18 Oct 2009, 9:24 am
The impetus comes from mediators themselves, not a concerned public. [read post]
18 Oct 2009, 1:32 am by Tom Lincoln
_______________________________________________________________________________Afternoon Session (sponsored by the Federal Public Defenders Office):2:00-5:00 p.m. - Deconstructing the Guidelines (How to Get a Better Sentence)The Federal Public Defenders Office is pleased to present Sarah Noonan.Sentencing Resource Counsel for the Federal and Community Defenders.All CJA Panel Members are invited to attend the afternoon session. [read post]
16 Oct 2009, 1:41 pm
In that capacity, she supervises litigation, public education, and organizational work. [read post]
15 Oct 2009, 1:15 pm by Dean
  It also reaches out to community groups to increase public understanding of innocence-related issues. [read post]
15 Oct 2009, 8:50 am
Both cases had been brought by the Alliance Defense Fund, an Arizona-based Christian advocacy outfit that specializes in attacking any laws or government actions that actualize the human rights of gay people. [read post]
15 Oct 2009, 8:00 am by Chris Broussard
2010 Census CampaignTaking Your Advocacy OnlineState Budget Policy and OutreachServe America Act: Expanding Opportunities for NonprofitsPartnering with Public Officials to Get Your Organization/Industry What It NeedsThis year, we're also featuring a Public Policy Plenary discussing the opportunities and challenges for the nonprofit sector during Louisiana's tough financial times. [read post]
14 Oct 2009, 11:22 pm
"It's that contact with these people and his advocacy for these people that put him here today," Fricke said of his client. [read post]
14 Oct 2009, 3:50 pm
"Green Inc. has apparently obtained a memo sent to state farm bureau directors from AFBF public-relations director Don Lipton. [read post]
8 Oct 2009, 7:18 am by Frank O'Donnell, Clean Air Watch
Sean Parnell (R) asked for an exemption for Alaska.Margo Oge, director of the EPA Office of Transportation and Air Quality, said Oct. 6 her office wants to move forward with the emissions limits, saying that they would prevent as many as 33,000 premature deaths each year…David Podratz, manager of the Murphy Oil Refinery in Superior, Wis., told BNA Oct. 7 that he had contacted the office of House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (D-Wis.) to alert him to… [read post]
8 Oct 2009, 4:02 am
By contrast, faulty eyewitnesses, lying informants, junk science, and unethical police, to name a few examples, can crop up in all types of cases.The DNA exonerations open up a valuable window onto the causes of false convictions, the same way a pollster gains insight into public opinion by sampling a small number of voters, etc.. [read post]
7 Oct 2009, 6:59 am
  She's also keeping up her recent advocacy against judicial elections, and told Lat and Hill that "we need to encourage judges and justices, when they speak in public arenas, to talk these matters, and to keep reminding Americans about the importance of an independent judiciary. [read post]
7 Oct 2009, 12:00 am
White, 526 US 559 (1999) (where probable cause existed to believe that an automobile was subject to forfeiture because of previous use in drug trafficking, the 4th Amendment did not require police officers to obtain a warrant before seizing the vehicle from a public place; evidence discovered during a post-seizure inventory was admissible in a subsequent criminal trial);  United States v. [read post]