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There are now 22 cities that have Veterans' Courts like this.
It means that violence, the rule of warriors and despotic chiefs, the conditions of camps and warfare, of riot and tyranny, give place to parliaments where laws are made, and independent courts of justice in which over long periods those laws are maintained.
I'm not just talking about laws on the books, but laws as they are enforced on the streets and laws as they are decided in the courts.
And so we need to ensure that these people who are living with HIV or at greatest risk of HIV have access to legal services and they have equal access to the courts.
It was such a great speech that the Athenian law courts let him off.
So this is the discovery of a lost voice from antiquity, speaking to us, not from the grave, because his grave doesn't exist, but from the Athenian law courts.
My kind of eureka moment came a few years later, when I was studying the art of the courts of Northern Europe, and of course it was very much discussed in terms of the paintings and the sculptures and the architecture of the day.
As I speak now, they are before the courts.
Looked first to the courts and the legislatures to try to get them to do something to make the system make more sense.
It failed partly because the courts are too passive, partly because the legislatures are corrupted, by which I don't mean that there's bribery operating to stop real change, but more the economy of influence that governs how Congress functions means that policymakers here will not understand this until it's too late to fix it.
Gay marriage was on the ballot in the form of Proposition 8, and as the election returns started to come in, it became clear that the right for same sex couples to marry, which had recently been granted by the California courts, was going to be taken away.
And as the case wound its way through the lower courts, the Loving case was repeatedly cited as precedent.
It's become the de facto battle for gay equality, and it seems like daily, laws prohibiting it are being challenged in the courts, even in places like Texas and Utah, which no one saw coming.
In 2015, in Quebec province, the courts determined that the tobacco industry was indeed responsible for those health costs, and ordered them to pay 15 billion US dollars.
Now, many things work against system change: politics and politicians, bills and laws, courts and lawsuits, internal politics.
So as a result, I decided to open up a private practice, and I became the first foreigner to litigate in Afghan courts.
And he thought, I have a set of racquetball courts.
A lot of people who work there are members at my courts.
Recently, the Gates Foundation funded a project in the second largest city of the Philippines, where local advocates and local law enforcement were able to transform corrupt police and broken courts so drastically, that in just four short years, they were able to measurably reduce the commercial sexual violence against poor kids by 79 percent.
In the past, there's been a little bit of training of the courts, but they get crappy evidence from the police, or a little police intervention that has to do with narcotics or terrorism but nothing to do with treating the common poor person with excellent law enforcement, so it's about pulling that all together, and you can actually have people in very poor communities experience law enforcement like us, which is imperfect in our own experience, for sure, but boy, is it a great thing to sense that you can call 911 and maybe someone will protect you.
And a legal cause of action is a vehicle that lawyers use to put their arguments in front of courts.
Now, courts and legislatures draw lines all the time.
This branch is comprised of all the courts in the land, from the federal district courts to the U.S. Supreme Court.
These courts interpret our nation's laws and punish those who break them.
The highest court, the Supreme Court, settles disputes among states, hears appeals from state and federal courts, and determines if federal laws are constitutional.
So the bottom line: courts just weren't going to be willing to overturn these patents.
Decision makers and gatekeepers, in courts, in news, in war ... they make mistakes; but that's exactly my point.
Or we have Beatrice Fihn in Europe, who has been campaigning to make nuclear weapons illegal in international courts of law, and just won a big victory at the UN last week.
The people in North Lawndale say the kids are using the courts every day and they even organize tournaments like this one shown here, and once in a while an officer joins in.
And recently they've asked us to expand the courts and build a park on the site.
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