As Attorney General, he is the chief law enforcement officer of the state and his office represents Wyoming in all criminal appeals and civil suits before state and federal courts.
They may receive payment under federal or state civil rights and compensation statutes or under the common law of false imprisonment.
After three years at Legal Services, Justice Graves entered private practice, focusing primarily on civil matters in state and federal court.
For now, workers who are bullied based on their race, gender, nationality, or religion may sue under applicable Federal or State civil rights laws.
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The requirement for all Federal and State Civil officers to give their solemn and binding Oath is established in Article VI, Section 1, Clause 4.
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Prior to the auction sale, the Government of Mongolia sought, and was granted, by a Texas State Civil District Judge, a Temporary Restraining Order prohibiting the auctioning, sale, release or transfer of Lenny.
The legislature passed a bill that would have provided that qualified users, providers and health care professionals shall not be arrested, prosecuted or subject to other criminal sanctions or civil consequences under state law, so long as certain criteria are met.
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In 2001, he served as deputy justice minister in the interim government that followed the fall of President Alberto Fujimori and received the Order of the State Civil Service for his services to the nation in working on a strategy to battle corruption.
Implied private rights of action have been such a problem at the state level that civil justice reform advocates have encouraged legislatures to enact statutes that require more transparency when new state laws are passed.
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There will likely be civil lawsuits that Penn State will have no choice but to settle.
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The mayor declared a curfew and state of civil emergency, and the National Guard was called in.
The answer from the most senior civil servant in the state was simple.
Last year, a civil filing by the state against BP said the company's "poor maintenance practices" have resulted in several spills since 2006.
And in Colorado a measure to legalise civil unions in a state that made gay marriage illegal in 2006 was prevented from coming to a vote in the state legislature.
With the aim to ensure national and government endorsement to the National Youth Policy, this conference will more specifically review the participatory process based on partnership between the United Nations, civil society and the State.
But she had previously been in a civil union with someone else in Vermont, which had never been dissolved because California wasn't recognizing the other state's civil unions at that time.
The couple were joined in a civil union in Vermont in 2000, shortly after the state passed the nation's first civil-union law.
Lynch said last week he did not think the law is necessary because the state already recognizes civil unions.
Mr Singh was the food and civil supplies minister in the state government.
And he publicly threatened criminal action to force Merrill into a civil settlement--despite state ethics rules that forbid this kind of leverage.
The oil firm has not agreed with the Justice Department on a separate civil settlement involving federal and state claims of damages to natural resources.
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Whereas civil servants and employees in state-owned firms used to make up nearly 80% of all urban workers, their share is now down to 20%.
The state-court civil caseload increased 4.6% to 18 million cases in 2007, the latest year for which statistics are available, according to the National Center for State Courts.
But what I think that we are seeing here is the evidence of a schism that now exists in the black community between its civil rights leaders and the state community.
When Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant signed the state's voter photo identification measure into law this month, the move harkened back to the type of discrimination Simmons' grandmother and others faced during the tumultuous civil rights era, the state legislator said.
Last May 24, the New York Times did something extraordinary: On the front page, the paper not only ran a photo of a Massachusetts woman in flagrante delicto committing multiple federal and state felonies and civil torts, but also identified her and the scene of the crime.
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Civil unions would no longer be available to same-sex couples as of that date, though the state would continue to recognize existing civil unions.
Since the governor's tax plans for teachers were unveiled last month, the state's school system has been placed under scrutiny after a civil rights' group filed a lawsuit claiming that the state was failing to provide the basic provisions of education.
Civil actions may be initiated under state laws governing theft, violation of privacy and even stalking, experts said.
The third way values civil society, but sees the state as having a valid role in promoting it.
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