Legal in sentence

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These are the descendants of Hans Frank who was Hitler's personal legal advisor and governor general of occupied Poland.

We conventionally divide space into private and public realms, and we know these legal distinctions very well because we've become experts at protecting our private property and private space.

But the reach of the criminal legal system has grown too enormous, and the numbers have just too large.

I have watched as questions of justice were subsumed by questions of money, calling into question the legitimacy of the entire American legal system.

Over the past 10 years, we have been paying bails for low-income residents of New York City, and what we have learned has exploded our ideas of why people come back to court and how the criminal legal system itself is operated.

We want to take our proven, revolving bail-fund model that we built in the Bronx and spread it across America, attacking the front end of the legal system before incarceration begins.

These are passionate, dedicated advocates from local communities, many of whom were formerly incarcerated themselves, who will pay bails and support clients while their cases are going through the legal system, providing them with whatever resources and support they may need.

Let me give you just one example of the way a legal environment can make a positive difference.

Where the legal environment allows for harm reduction the results are striking.

Because civil society is key to raising awareness among vulnerable groups of their legal rights.

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.

And his first hire was a legal services attorney to represent the patients.

This isn't just about North Carolina; all those states that were clear, it's legal.

The second chapter consists of a complicated legal proceeding known as a state habeas corpus appeal.

The third chapter is an even more complicated legal proceeding known as a federal habeas corpus proceeding.

So what all of these death row inmates had to do was rely on volunteer lawyers to handle their legal proceedings.

I won't talk today about reforming the legal system.

I mean, they took — They had a technology disruption, and rather than taking a business model innovation to correspond to that, they took and sought a legal solution and the industry that brought you Elvis and the Beatles is now suing children and is in danger of collapse.

Now, two weeks ago, that dream took a step forward, when the state of Nevada granted Google's self-driving car the very first license for an autonomous vehicle, clearly establishing that it's legal for them to test it on the roads in Nevada.

We simply cannot tolerate GPS jammers and spoofers, and yet, given the lack of effective legal means for protecting our privacy from the GPS dot, can you really blame people for wanting to turn them on, for wanting to use them?

This is when a social movement can create lasting legal change.

Not only can the police fail to respond, but she will be left without any legal remedy if preventable harm occurs as a result.

From the Women's March to the Me Too movement, we have the growing political will of the people necessary to create lasting, legal change.

Would a young and inexperienced Apple have survived the legal assault from a much larger and more mature company like Xerox?

We've got laws that fundamentally treat creative works as property, plus massive rewards or settlements in infringement cases, plus huge legal fees to protect yourself in court, plus cognitive biases against perceived loss.

First, it would be to understand that it could be considered a cooperative, and this is a thought from the Brazilian legal scholar Roberto Mangabeira Unger.

There was no legal precedent, no cultural precedent, no technical way of doing this.

It's paying a tribute to the wonderful typewriter that my mother used to type on all the time as a legal secretary.

Beyond these technical solutions, our work at the Georgetown Climate Center with communities encourages them to look at what existing legal and policy tools are available and to consider how they can accommodate change.

"Stationarity" is the notion that we can anticipate the future based on the past, and plan accordingly, and this principle governs much of our engineering, our design of critical infrastructure, city water systems, building codes, even water rights and other legal precedents.

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