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In 1997, when New Yorkers decisively defeated a constitutionally mandated ballot proposition to convene what would have been the state's fourth consti...
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DETROIT, March 1, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Albert Garrett, President of Michigan Council 25 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), AFL-CIO, issued the following statement:
On February 25, 2011, Judge Phyllis C. McMillan of the Oakland County Circuit Court issued her decision in Boadway et. al. v. Oakland County Road Commission et. al. The Court found that the Oakland County Road Commission violated Michael Boadway's Constitutional right to Due Process when it terminated his employment and never provided him the opportunity for a hearing so that he could tell his side of the story," stated Garrett. "Mr. Boadway worked for the Road Commission for 26 years and by all accounts was a stellar employee.
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[320 U.S.App.D.C. 388] Petitions for Review of an Order of the Federal Communications Commission.
Andrew J. Schwartzman, Washington, DC, with whom Gi...
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SALT LAKE CITY -- What a difference a few years, and a change in personalities, can mean to state law.
Wednesday, the House passed a bill, already approved in the Senate, that would let the governor, Senate president or House speaker request that the Constitutional Revision Commission review a constitutional amendment after it had already passed in the Legislature.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Sunni Arab members of a committee drafting Iraq's new constitution ended their boycott Monday, six days after jeopardizing the credibility of the nascent political process by walking out in protest over the assassinations of two fellow Sunni constitution framers.
Their decision to return eased the threat that the country's new constitution would be a product of only two of three major Iraqi ethnic and religious groups. Leaving out the Sunni Arabs, who form the core of the insurgency, would dim hopes for a political exit from the incessant violence gripping the country.
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In February, the Pennsylvania Bar Association announced the creation of the PBA Constitutional Review Commission, cog it with conducting a thorough review of the state's constitution and making recommendations to improve the structure and operation of government in the commonwealth. First up, Dr. G. Terry Madonna.
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The partisan legislative maneuvering over Arizona's redistricting process may be over for now, but the arguments lived on as Republican and Democratic leaders spent more than two hours on Wednesday making their cases to the remapping commission.
Senate Majority Leader Andy Biggs, who co-chaired a joint legislative committee on redistricting, told the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission that its draft maps were full of "constitutional deficiencies" and said the panel should restart the process.
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News Advisory:
to Denounce "Political Prosecution" by Nicaraguan National Assembly and Judiciary before the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR)
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For more than 40 years, the 13-member Judicial Nominating Commission has reviewed and vetted candidates for Oklahoma's judiciary. The commission, created under a constitutional amendment in 1967, was designed to remove politics - as much as possible - from the selection of justices and judges for state courts.
Over the course of its existence, the JNC has reviewed and vetted thousands of applicants. Those applications were taken, the applicants were reviewed and vetted and then, after the commission finished the vetting process, it forwarded its top three choices to the governor, who made a final decision.
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Gigi B. Sohn, Washington, DC, argued the cause, for petitioners. With her on the briefs was Andrew Jay Schwartzman, Washington, DC.
James M. Carr, Co...