• After its nomination for best picture, the Center for Constitutional Rights, a legal advocacy organization, released a statement in protest.

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  • According to the Innocence Project, a legal advocacy group, about 75% of false convictions that are later overturned are based on faulty eyewitness testimony.

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  • The not-for-profits are supposed to use the money to provide free domestic violence legal advocacy, assistance, or services to married or formerly married victims of domestic violence related to order of protection proceedings, dissolution of marriage proceedings, declaration of invalidity of marriage, etc, etc.

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  • Among the professors were Herbert W. Titus, a Vice-Presidential candidate of the far-right U.S. Taxpayers Party (now called the Constitution Party), and John Whitehead, who started the Rutherford Institute, a conservative legal-advocacy group.

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  • If they are legal then the advocacy of them, the showing of them on a website, the management of the showing of them, all of these are simple free speech issues.

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  • In a 2012 study of single motherhood in the United States, the advocacy group Legal Momentum found that three-quarters of homeless families are headed by a single mother.

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  • "If you look like a man and you live your life like a man, you should be able to use a man's bathroom, " said Dru Levasseur, a transgender rights lawyer for the advocacy group Lambda Legal.

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  • Through the work of a citywide coalition of community, advocacy, and legal groups, MRNY and our allies have won new legislation to limit ICE's involvement in NYC corrections facilities and to prevent local law enforcement agencies from spending millions of city taxpayer dollars to hold individuals at ICE's behest.

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  • Lambda Legal, a national gay-rights advocacy group, agreed to represent them as a means both of directly challenging Bowers v.

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  • Those potentially infringing videos are the real subject of Viacom's lawsuit, according to Ken Boehm, an attorney and president of the National Legal and Policy Center, an ethics advocacy group.

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  • Some advocacy groups, such as the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, say they are ready to sue states that don't incorporate Hispanic growth into their new legislative districts.

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  • Founded in 1977, WLF is more committed than ever to continuous advocacy for a sound free market economy, a reasonable legal system, competent and accountable government, and a strong national defense.

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  • UNESCO's unique role within the UN family of preserving the universal heritage of humankind begins at the highest legal and intergovernmental levels, descending through the practical and technical levels, down to grass-roots advocacy and hands-on fieldwork.

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  • Nancy Koenigsberg, the legal director of Disability Rights New Mexico, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, one of many patient advocacy groups that argued for stricter oversight of ECT devices in the lead-up to last week's meeting, says her organization was "pleased" with the outcome.

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  • The complaints are the latest in a series of legal actions taken against U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Border Patrol from immigrant advocacy groups, who have long sought to reform the agency's conduct on the southern and northern border.

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