Immigrant rights advocates condemned a decision that they said would plunge thousands of families into uncertainty.
Politicians and civic advocates denounced a decision by the commission earlier this month to protect incumbents from any changes to the term-limits law.
John Paul Stevens, the retired Supreme Court justice, who galvanized immigrant advocates with a decision last year that said lawyers must tell their clients about the deportation consequences of pleading guilty, delivered the keynote address.
Because you've suffered a horrific shock to your body and psyche, I advocate a No-Decision Zone for the first six months.
The use of climate-smart management is advocated as a decision-making framework for managing forested landscapes based on an understanding of landscape vulnerability to future climatic change.
While few free-speech advocates would contest a decision to shut down accounts that openly advocate terrorism or killing, where should the line be drawn?
That hearing, which drew an overflow crowd of doctors, patients, drug company executives and consumer advocates, resulted in a decision to leave the drug on the market, but with the recommendations that it be used only when other therapies did not work, and that its label carry strong warnings about potential liver toxicity and the need for regular blood tests.
Though some advocated simple executions a decision was made instead to send a message about the post-war rule of law.
In the coming weeks, women's health advocates are awaiting a decision on a dispute taken to the FDA that objects to delays in approving a first-of-its-kind treatment for low sexual desire with accompanying distress in women.
The other thing we do is create an office of public advocate to represent the public and privacy interests in particular — and also give the public advocate authority to appeal a decision of the FISA court the advocate feels does not comport with the law or comport with policies.
Humphrey responded by suppressing his dovish instincts about Vietnam and becoming a public advocate for the war — a decision that haunted him.
