The U.S. Supreme Court will decide before summer the most important education civil rights case since Brown v.
He had obstructed the administration of justice before the United States district court in a civil rights case and before the federal grand jury.
It becomes clear that she understands the significance of these gifts, their evidentiary value in the civil rights case, and the fact that they're under subpoena.
He has denied each element of the obstruction of justice charges, including this allegation, that he encouraged a scheme to conceal evidence in a civil rights case.
In that landmark 1964 civil rights case, the Court ruled that Congress could use its Commerce Clause power to bar discrimination by private businesses such as hotels and restaurants.
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That policy is driven by the same concerns that prompted the Supreme Court in a civil rights-era case, NAACP v.
Federal prosecutors are considering taking on the case as a possible civil-rights violation, and the family have a civil claim against the government for excessive use of force by law-enforcement officials.
Meanwhile, the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) has called for the U.S. Justice Department to open a federal civil rights investigation into the case to determine if this was a hate crime and, if so, to prosecute the young men under federal hate crime laws.
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If allowed to stand, the ruling in the Hedegaard case will be used to abridge fundamental civil rights throughout Europe, and possibly far beyond.
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The suit is similar to one filed in 1997 by black farmers, called the Pigford case, which resulted in a record civil-rights settlement just two years later.
Local civil rights activists were looking for a test case to challenge the bus segregation laws, and that spring lawyers considered having Ms Colvin sue the bus company.
And with all due respect, the foundation of the house of civil rights was never at the core of the Jones case.
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Still, the civil rights leader lauded authorities for filing charges in the case that effectively asserted the victims were targeted due to their race.
Crist made his name in state politics by championing civil rights, opposing federal meddling in the Terri Schiavo case, and, as governor, making the environment a signature issue.
For years before her arrest, Mrs Parks had been active with local civil rights groups, which were looking for a test case to fight the city's segregation laws.
He is a civil rights attorney who was co-counsel in the Rodney King case.
Civil rights activist Al Sharpton, who has championed Bell's case, denounced Thursday's decision as "revenge" by the judge and called on Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco to intervene.
In 1994, when president of the Association of Civil Rights in Israel, the lobby won a landmark Supreme Court case granting same-sex partners of company employees the same benefits as opposite-sex ones.
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Though the case was initiated seven years after the complainant alleged violations of the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1991, the decision came almost ten years after the complaint was filed.
Case in point: a new initiative by a New York City hospital and one of the great civil rights organizations of the 1960s, the Congress of Racial Equality, or CORE.
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