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The report by the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), titled "Seeking Full Inclusion," offers a summary of incidents and experiences of anti-Muslim violence, discrimination and harassment reported to the group during the 2008 calendar year. It also examines the use of Islamophobic rhetoric in the 2008 presidential election and highlights a number of issues of concern to the American Muslim community, including watch lists, surveillance of mosques and new FBI guidelines that allow religious and ethnic profiling.
CAIR and its affiliate chapters nationwide processed a total of 2,728 incidents in 2008. That figure represents a three percent increase in reported cases from 2007 (2,652 reports) and an 11 percent increase over cases reported in 2006 (2,467 reports). ...
... this week by a prominent national Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization shows an increase...
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... Race-Conscious Concerns About the Form of Civil Rights Interventions D. Transporting the Logic of ... More Perfect Union," Philadelphia, March 18, 2008 (206) . At a crucial juncture in his campaign for ...
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... roughly $5 million recovered in 2007 and 2008 to more than $1 billion in recoveries in 2009 and ... and is applying heavier penalties in its civil enforcement actions.2 In addition, where allegatio...
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... by threatening with incarceration for civil contemptthose who are (1) subject to a child suppo... contempt hearing tookplace on January 3, 2008. Turner and Rogers were present, each without rep... IIIjudicial power extends only to actual "cases" and "controversies"); Alvarez v. Smith, 558 U. S.... proceedings leading to loss of parental rights, the Court wrote that the "pre-eminent generaliza...
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... process from a military regime to a civilian-led multi-party coalition, these Western observers... Bhutto and the elections on 18 February 2008 which led to the subsequent installation of a civi... political leaders from charges in cases of corruption and paved the way for the return of ...
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... means of the production and allocation of rights, making peace ultimately an act, not only of autho...." (27) The peace Rousseau speaks of is the "civil peace," as he names it in the same passage; namely... of liberal peace have mostly treated cases of longstanding, well-established states; conseque...3 (2008): 623-640 (an article that, developing the idea ea...
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.... Background - findings at trial . The cases centre on a 2001 ASX press release by James Hardie... evidentiary and procedural approach to civil proceedings of this type was key to its conclusion... with by the Securities Commission under the 2008 additions to the Securities Markets Act 1988, whic...
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Economies that score well on the ease of keep courts efficient by introducing case management, strict procedural time limits and specialized commercial courts or e-courts; by streamlining appeals; and by making enforcement of judgments faster and cheaper (table 10.1).
Most reforms took place in Eastern Europe and Central Asia- in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Romania. Among OECD high-income economies, Austria, Belgium and Portugal reformed. In Africa, Mozambique and Rwanda did. In South Asia, Bhutan was the only economy that improved its courts in 2007/08. In East Asia, China was the only reformer. The Middle East and North Africa had no reforms.
In Rwanda specialized commercial courts started operating in May 2008. Thre...
... afford to relax, because they know their cases will be resolved expeditiously. In Singapore it ta... Reforms in other areas, such as creditors' rights, help increase bank lending only if contracts can ..., a commercial division of the Skopje civil court started operating in November 2007, after in...
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... use the term human dignity when deciding cases about freedom of speech, reproductive rights, raci... right to marry, not just enter into civil unions, because exclusion from the institution of ...2008), superseded by constitutional amendment, CAL. CON...
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... in an official capacity as bearers of rights and entitlements, as embedded in social and politi... pro tanto reason to reduce them in such cases. . The first, normative claim reflects an ideal th... representation or suffer from exclusion in civil society. At least prima facie, this state of affai.... Fraser, Nancy 2008. "Abnormal Justice," Critical Inquiry 34: 393-422....