He is a litigator specializing in securities law, public policy relating to national security, and public interest law.
It faced a slew of public interest law suits and underwent frequent design changes both before and after construction began.
She took a Skadden fellowship to do public interest law.
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He graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Brown University and cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center, where he was also named a Public Interest Law Scholar.
The Thomas More Law Center and the Society of Americans for National Existence are public interest law firms litigating in areas to defend the Judeo-Christian foundations of this country and its national sovereignty.
The Institute for Justice, a nonprofit, public interest law firm, has found that in recent years local governments have taken or threatened to take by force more than 10, 000 homes or small businesses to further private economic development.
The challenge was brought by the Thomas More Law Center (TMLC), a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and co-counsel David Yerushalmi, on behalf of Kevin Murray, a Marine Corps veteran of the Iraqi War.
The Institute for Justice--a public-interest law firm that fights to protect free speech--is challenging laws in several states that effectively inhibit free speech in this way.
The payments give authorities an "improper profit incentive" to seize assets, says Scott Bullock of the Institute for Justice, a libertarian public-interest law firm in Arlington, Va.
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Nine state supreme courts and 44 state legislatures subsequently strengthened criteria for allowing eminent domain, according to the Institute for Justice, a public-interest law firm focused on property rights.
Five former clients of the Council on American- Islamic Relations (CAIR) have filed two separate lawsuits in federal court alleging criminal fraud and breach of fiduciary duty against CAIR, a self-described Muslim public interest civil rights law firm.
The Institute for Justice, a nonprofit, public-interest-group law firm, recently released a report, "Public Power, Private Gain, " that documents how extensive the abuse of condemnation powers has become.
In 1986, in one of his last crusades as cofounder and chief of the Center for Law in the Public Interest, he played a key role in pushing passage of the whistleblower law, which made it easier to prove wrongdoing and lifted informants' payoff to as much as 30% of the booty.
Some would say that there is a public-interest justification in the exposure of law-breaking of any kind by a public figure, which Mr Dallaglio certainly is.
It is the second legal challenge by law firm Public Interest Lawyers, which is representing the Iraqis.
The law languished for a century until it was revived in 1986 by Senator Grassley and John Phillips of the Center for Law in the Public Interest, the lawyer who later went into private practice to pursue whistleblower cases.
But, unlike the United States' supposedly much tougher Freedom of Information Act, most of the exemptions in the British law are subject to a public interest test.
Journalists must be supported in their mission to sustain informed public debate in the interest of democracy and rule of law.
Where there is a sufficiency of evidence in law and it is in the public interest to take action then the Crown will do so.
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The measure Schumer is proposing says that in civil and criminal cases, "a judge would have to conduct a balancing test that would weigh the public interest in the free flow of information against the needs of law enforcement, " said Schumer spokesman Brian Fallon.
Sources who give journalists details of corruption or wrongdoing are traditionally protected by law, if the story is in the public's interest.
Some attorneys and law students worry that paying corporate attorneys to work in public interest firms may displace those who actually wanted to work in the public sector in the first place.
The new law also specifies that anyone can be refused a passport for "reasons of public interest", and dissidents suspect that will mean them.
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It can also refer to the ideas underpinning Islamic finance (which eschews interest) and, most significantly for public policy, to a form of family law.
It seems to me the public policy behind effective enforcement of the open meeting law is so strong that it does outweigh the interest, at least at this time, which may exist in favor of sustaining the validity of the law.
Under the law, a government appointed "media council" has the power to impose fines for violating "public interest, public morals or order".
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