Search for: "ADVOCATES FOR DISABLED AMERICANS" Results 541 - 560 of 2,088
Sort by Relevance | Sort by Date
RSS Subscribe: 20 results | 100 results
25 Sep 2020, 12:02 pm by Parker Rider-Longmaid
When Justice Ginsburg began her career as an advocate, “the lawbooks of our Nation were rife with overbroad generalizations about the way men and women are” (as she herself wrote in her majority opinion in Sessions v. [read post]
24 Sep 2020, 9:02 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
As an advocate, then judge, and then Justice, she played an enormous role in shaping rights of sex equality under federal constitutional and statutory law. [read post]
24 Sep 2020, 5:25 am by Gregory Forman
Reed, 404 U.S. 71 (1971) Ginsburg advocated a view of the Equal Protection Clause that granted women equality before the law. [read post]
22 Sep 2020, 12:08 pm by Neil Schoenherr
In addition, it has played a key part in successful challenges to discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, race, age and disability. [read post]
21 Sep 2020, 11:49 am by William Ford, Anna Salvatore
Seth Moulton and Jim Banks, who since late 2019 have chaired the House task force examining challenges relating to American defense. [read post]
18 Sep 2020, 2:53 pm by Greg Jordan
The Americans with Disabilities Act, passed in 1990, protects workers who are experiencing disability. [read post]
16 Sep 2020, 9:28 am by ACLU
But there’s still more work to be done to make sure the right to vote applies to everyone, including people with disabilities. [read post]
14 Sep 2020, 11:17 am by William Ford, Tia Sewell
Baxter Military Prize and a one-year membership in the American Society of International Law (ASIL). [read post]
8 Sep 2020, 10:03 am by William Ford, Anna Salvatore
Baxter Military Prize and a one-year membership in the American Society of International Law (ASIL). [read post]
1 Sep 2020, 8:11 am by Anna Salvatore, Tia Sewell
Baxter Military Prize and a one-year membership in the American Society of International Law (ASIL). [read post]
28 Aug 2020, 8:52 am by Kristen Lee
Additionally, voters with disabilities are severely underrepresented in our political system, even though they make up one-sixth of the American electorate. [read post]
24 Aug 2020, 1:51 pm by Anna Salvatore, Tia Sewell
Baxter Military Prize and a one-year membership in the American Society of International Law (ASIL). [read post]
20 Aug 2020, 7:56 am by Paul Rosenzweig
In recent years, two unfortunate trends have converged in cybersecurity—the growth of child pornography distributed online and the proliferation of encryption systems that enable the distribution of all forms of content (both lawful and illicit) in a manner that is inaccessible to service providers and secure from observation and interception by law enforcement. [read post]
19 Aug 2020, 5:01 am by Unknown
Over at Mother Jones, Kevin Drum advocates changes in the way Social Security is funded. [read post]
17 Aug 2020, 11:29 am by Matt Gluck, Tia Sewell
Baxter Military Prize and a one-year membership in the American Society of International Law (ASIL). [read post]
11 Aug 2020, 10:02 am by Alan Z. Rozenshtein
The NRA is neither the KKK nor Al Qaeda: it doesn’t advocate political violence or plot to overthrow the state. [read post]
11 Aug 2020, 6:00 am by Kevin Kaufman
The reduction in investor participation by Fannie and Freddie caused significant funding gaps in many LIHTC projects nationwide.[30] To ameliorate the downturn in investment, Congress enacted two programs as part of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). [read post]
10 Aug 2020, 12:26 am by Beth Van Schaack
 Some key takeaways in the national security and human rights space are outlined below along with some areas where additional attention would be welcome: One Biden’s his core pledges is to advocate for Congress to recognize that the necessary ¾ of the states have ratified the Equal Rights Amendment (the ERA). [read post]
4 Aug 2020, 12:00 pm by John Rubin
We worked on cases to stop sexual abuse of women inmates and a class action under the Americans with Disabilities Act to make sure that inmates with disabilities could earn gain time on an equal footing with other inmates. [read post]