The appeal cited the Kahane Chai Legal Defense Fund, a special fund licensed by the Treasury Department specifically for their legal appeal, and administered by Kach and Kahane Chai counsel Kenneth Klein, in a call for donations for " other legal battles.

Brian Raum, counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian conservative legal organization representing the Camp Meeting Association, argued that " disaster relief is available to anyone " in defending the use of public funds to repair the Great Auditorium when it was damaged in an hurricane.

Vance was general counsel of the Defense Department and then the Secretary of the Army during the John F. Kennedy administration.

Defense counsel may challenge evidence presented by the prosecution or present exculpatory evidence and argue on behalf of their client.

In 1981, after Ronald Reagan took office, she joined the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund ( LDF ) as an assistant counsel, eventually becoming head of its Voting Rights project.

* Reginald Denny – Defense counsel Phillips

The late former U. S. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger was general counsel for Bechtel in the late 1970s.

The largest association of defense counsel is the Defense Research Institute ( the " Voice of the Defense Bar "), while the largest association of plaintiffs ' counsel is the American Association for Justice ( formerly Association of Trial Lawyers of America ).

Defense counsel do not send the letter to be nice.

Boorda, the ( then ) Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, made a policy statement to the House Committee on Armed Services on behalf of OSD and OMB: “ Within the Department of Defense, the general counsel has determined that the Pueblo crew does not, under the current statute, qualify for the POW medal … Additionally, persons detained by governments with which the United States is not engaged actively in armed conflict are not eligible for the POW medal.

She served in that position until moving over to the Executive Branch of government where she served as special counsel to the Department of Defense, and as Deputy Secretary of the Cabinet, both positions in the Carter Administration.

Punahou students appear across the political spectrum, from Ronald Reagan's " favorite economist " and former ENRON board member Wendy Lee Gramm (' 62 ); Ryan Henry (' 68 ) and Robert Silberman (' 75 ), Deputy Under Secretary of Defense and Assistant Secretary of the Army, respectively, for George H. W. Bush ; to centrist Ray Schoenke (' 59 *), a former Democratic candidate for Maryland Governor who founded the American Hunters and Shooters Association ( an alternative to the National Rifle Association ); to Jerry Berman (' 58 ), chief counsel of the ACLU.

Following a clerkship with Supreme Court Justice Byron White, Kendall spent five years as an associate counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, focusing on criminal defense practice, handling high-profile death penalty cases including Coker v. Georgia and the death penalty appeals of John Arthur Spenkelink and Gary Gilmore.

The 21 June 2004 issue of Newsweek stated that the Bybee Memo, a 2002 legal memorandum drafted by former OLC lawyer John Yoo that described what sort of interrogation tactics against suspected terrorists or terrorist affiliates the George W. Bush administration would consider legal, was " prompted by CIA questions about what to do with a top Qaeda captive, Abu Zubaydah, who had turned uncooperative ... and was drafted after White House meetings convened by George W. Bush's chief counsel, Alberto Gonzales, along with Defense Department general counsel William Haynes and David Addington, Vice President Dick Cheney's counsel, who discussed specific interrogation techniques ", citing " a source familiar with the discussions ".

Marshall — working as special counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund — determined that the first course of action should be a publicity campaign mounted with the aim of gathering public support for the release of the men.

In the early 1980s he worked in private law, including volunteer counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.

From 1981 to 1986, he was a volunteer counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.

Defense counsel objected to the admission of the wife's statement, on the ground that Mr. Crawford would be unable to confront ( i. e. cross-examine ) Mrs. Crawford on her statement without waiving spousal privilege, and that this would be a violation of the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment.

Returning to the United States in 1969, he became first assistant counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund in New York City.

BMEWS intelligence is simultaneously flashed to NORAD ( North American Air Defense Command ) in Colorado Springs, Colorado, for interpretation ; ;

For a time it appeared that a common European army might be created, but the project for a European Defense Community was rejected by the French National Assembly in 1954.

-- Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara has asked Congress for authority and funds to build fallout shelters costing about 200 million dollars.

Civil Defense has far to go and many problems to solve, but is it not in the best spirit of our pioneer tradition to be not only willing, but prepared to care for our own families and help our neighbors in any disaster -- storm, flood, accident or even war??

The Merchant Marine is the `` Fourth Arm of Defense '', for a strong and effective American Merchant Marine is essential to the economy and security of our Nation.

-- About 30% of the expenditures for the Department of Defense in 1961 are for military personnel costs, including pay for active, reserve, and retired military personnel.

-- Approximately 45% of the expenditures for the Department of Defense are for procurement, research, development, and construction programs.

The Department of Defense appropriation acts for the past several years have contained a rider which limits competitive bidding by firms in other countries on certain military supply items.

In addition to its major effort on fuel cells, Patterson Moos Research Division is continuing to carry on research in other fields, both under contract for the Defense Department, other government agencies and for our own account.

During World War 2, about 7.5 million persons were enrolled in courses organized under two special programs administered by state and local school authorities: ( 1 ) Vocational Education for National Defense, and ( 2 ) War Production Training.

Noting that President Kennedy has handed the Defense Department the major responsibility for the nation's civil defense program, Mr. Hawksley said the federal government would pay half the salary of a full-time local director.

The company has billed the United States Government for $7,500,000 of these expenses under the Defense Department regulation allowing costs of a type generally recognized as ordinary and necessary for the conduct of the contractor's business.

Based on Defense Ministry statistics that had not been released to the public, the Group of Monitoring Compliance with Human Rights in the Army ( GMCHRA ) has recorded the deaths of 76 soldiers to date in non-combat incidents for 2011, and the injury of 91 others.

In March, 2012 the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, ruling in an action brought by the Natural Resources Defense Council and others, ordered the FDA to revoke approvals for the use of antibiotics in livestock which violated FDA regulations.

A 50: 50 mixture of 2, 4, 5-T and 2, 4-D, it was manufactured for the U. S. Department of Defense primarily by Monsanto Corporation and Dow Chemical.

" While Sakharov strongly disagreed with Teller over nuclear testing in the atmosphere and Strategic Defense Initiative, he believed that American academics had been unfair to Teller ’ s resolve to get the H-bomb for the United States since " all steps by the Americans of a temporary or permanent rejection of developing thermonuclear weapons would have been seen either as a clever feint, or as the manifestation of stupidity.

" Comics ,” wrote Capp in 1970, “ can be a combination of the highest quality of art and text, and many of them are .” Capp would produce many giveaway educational comic books and public services pamphlets, spanning several decades, for the Red Cross, the Department of Civil Defense, the Department of the Navy, the U. S. Army, the Anti-Defamation League, the Department of Labor, Community Chest ( a forerunner of United Way ), and the Job Corps.

United States Secretary of Defense | Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen | Cohen presents President Clinton the DoD Medal for Distinguished Public Service.

A group calling itself the " Jewish Armed Resistance Movement " claimed responsibility for the arson attack ; according to the Toronto Sun, the group had ties to the Jewish Defense League and to the extremist group Kahane Chai.

In a letter to the Arizona Daily Sun in July 2002, Renzi said " The only time I have not lived in Arizona is when I served our nation overseas on a Defense Department program, or when I entered law school at age 39 " would be 1997 or 1998.

Furthermore, their execution of their superior's ( the Fallen ) plan to destroy the Sun reveals that numerous Decepticons are present on Earth, which more than justifies the Autobots ' participation in National Defense affairs.

Admiral Trost's decorations and awards include seven Distinguished Service Medals ( two Defense DSMs, three Navy DSMs, one Army DSM, one Air Force DSM ), the Legion of Merit ( three awards ), the Navy Achievement Medal, numerous campaign and service awards, and personal decorations from a number of foreign nations, including Japan's Order of the Rising Sun ( 2nd Class with Gold and Silver Star ) and the Republic of Korea's Order of National Security Merit Gugseon Medal.

Prior to its release, Tiberian Sun was speculated to be a BattleMech-type game: a promotional preview of the game in the ending cut-scenes of the original Command & Conquer shows an experimental battle-walker prototype being field tested by the Global Defense Initiative.

The storyline of Tiberian Sun follows the continuing struggle for world domination between the Global Defense Initiative and the Brotherhood of Nod, as well as the human race's struggle with the relentlessly advancing alien tiberium substance.

Major subjects of Parry's articles and reports on Consortium News include the presidency of George W. Bush, the career of Army general and Bush Secretary of State Colin Powell ( with Norman Solomon ), the October Surprise controversy of the 1980 election, the Nicaraguan contra-cocaine investigation, the efforts to impeach President Clinton, right-wing terrorism in Latin America, the political influence of Sun Myung Moon, mainstream American media imbalance, United States Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, the presidency of Barack Obama, the influence of Sarah Palin, efforts to rewrite history as well as international stories.

In the autumn of 1938, he joined the China Defense League, which had been established by Soong Ching-ling, Sun Yat-sen's widow, for the purpose of publicizing and enlisting international support for the Chinese cause.

Tiberian Sun features three factions, each with its unique strengths and tactics ; the Global Defense Initiative ( GDI ), the Brotherhood of Nod ( Nod ), and The Forgotten ( non-playable, neutral faction of mutated humans who have been physically and mentally affected by the Tiberium toxins ).