In my class action practice, I was appointed lead counsel in complex §1983 class defense of Texas Department of Criminal Justice, after class certification and denial of State's motion for judgment were already complete. I prepared and defended depositions of senior executives..…
“I advocated violent self-defense because I don’t really think you can have a defense against violent racists and against terrorists unless you are prepared to meet violence with violence, and my policy was to meet violence with violence,” said Williams, a forefather..…
Ali put the point more directly: 'I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong.' When confronted by white students justifying the war as a defense of democracy, one newsreel shows him replying, 'I'm not going to help nobody get something Negroes don't have. ..…
Projection of conscience is another form of defense, one which may be linked to the making of false accusations, personal or political... ..…
The defense establishment of Israel disagrees with your statement’s implicatures. Your statement implies that: . 1 Hamas first attacked Israel and therefore Hamas is to blame for the 3 major Israeli operations against Gaza(2008/9 Cast Lead, 2012 Pillar of Defense, 2014 Protective..…
The government pleaded the political question doctrine and courts refused to confront the One might say, defense of these decisions, that review of the decisions to commit troops Vietnam would indeed involve the in set of factual and legal inquiries that could be termed outside judicial..…
When asked about his initial impressions of the trial, Chapman said, “I think the jury selection was very lopsided. ... One of the tactics used by the Van Dyke defense has been to portray McDonald as having been an “out of control” teen. . ..…
Earlier on Tuesday, Russia's Defense Ministry announced in statement that one of its frigates in Mediterranean had fired salvo of Kalibr cruise missiles at gathering of Daesh militants near Dayr al-Zawr.. ..…
The person was sitting near me, and I remember getting off the bus. No one came to my defense and I did not expect anyone to come to my defense. ... I don’t wear the niqab anymore. … I heard a woman took a bus and she wore niqab and got attacked. ..…
“The results are very, very good,” Trump said, fresh off a phone conversation with Secretary of Defense James Mattis. “I just wanted to let everyone know.” . The rare remarks, which appeared to be unscripted, were in contrast with Washington’s claims that its more than 5,000 troops..…
This won’t stop unless Muslim leaders in those countries speak out in defense of the critics. ... No one deserves to be physically harmed — much less brutally slaughtered — for anything they say or think. ..…
Decisions involving self-defense are made and with imperfect information, Marshall Project noted. 1 percent of all such homicides were justified, as opposed to 6 percent of situations where white person took the life of Black man — factor of six. ..…
Data from the Department of National Defense indicate only one soldier has been convicted of an extrajudicial killing since 2001. ..…
My defense was that I never said Gaunt was a role model. He wasn’t; he was an anti-hero from the get-go. . ..…
The US, Britain and France rushed to his defense in one of the stormiest council sessions in weeks after Churkin accused O'Brien of failing to recognize that Russia and Syria had declared a humanitarian pause. . ... I need to see what our Defense Ministry is going to..…
Faced with this, it is completely understandable why people would take up arms in self-defense. ... So popular self-defense was one development. The other was rank-and-file soldiers defecting from the regime to join the revolution. ..…
statement by Counterman's wife that she awakened him after the fire began - supporting his contention that one of the boys must have started the fire - was whited out from papers handed to defense attorneys before the trial.. ..…
And liberal justices, usually more inclined to favor national power, rose to the state tribunal's defense. . At one point, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, a leader of the bloc of justices who favor state sovereignty, accused the state court of having changed Florida presidential election..…
Fitzgerald was well-known to colleagues, defense lawyers and others long before he brought criminal charges against I. ... In the Plame case, the FBI official said, Fitzgerald's attention to such evidentiary details could mean the difference between an airtight criminal prosecution and..…
It is unparalleled in African history to have another people rise to the defense of one of us.” . ..…
Michigan is also one of 18 states with self-defense laws that give greater leeway to homeowners who shoot in self-defense if they believe they are being burglarized. . ... “I think we’re seeing fewer instances in which people are claiming self-defense that really..…
“This could be the precipitating event: the emerging Sunni-Shia civil war coupled with the sale of advanced Russian air defense systems to Iran,” said one defense analyst. ..…
By raising the wage to $9.50, and making sure that it keeps up with the cost of food, rent and gas, my kids and I will be better off. Peggy Flanagan, Executive Director of Children's Defense Fund and Co-Chair of the Raise Wage Coalition, labor and nonprofit groups, her personal..…
This was not the moment for Reagan to announce his Strategic Defense Initiative in contravention of ABM Treaty of 1972, one of the cornerstones of stability. ..…
Key quote from President Obama: ” I told you I was against the Defense — so-called Defense of Marriage Act. ... I told you I was against the Defense — so-called Defense of Marriage Act. ..…
People who say violence against civilians in defense of one’s religion is rarely or never justified vastly outnumber those who say it is sometimes or often justified. But substantial minorities (20% or more) in many countries say violence against civilians in defense of..…
For the better part of decade, our troops and their families have served tour risking and often giving their lives for the defense of our freedom and security. And more than one million who have served in both wars have now finished their service and joined the proud ranks of America's..…
With one hand, Sessions has become the standard-bearer of the administration's defense of liberty, arguing in case after case that person's held religious beliefs entitle them to exemption from laws that conflict with those beliefs. ..…
The second question is that on September 26th, US Department of Defense said that one of its bomber had again flown over the South China Sea and US Defense Secretary James Mattis said that it was what the US had been doing for decades and it would not escalate tensions between the..…
Chen’s decision to advance the lawsuit comes one day after U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told a group of cadets in Virginia that “the jury is still out” on whether women can successfully serve in infantry roles. . ..…