The Servicemembers Legal Defense Network ( SLDN ) is a non-profit legal services, watchdog, and policy organization founded in the United States in 1993.

The Servicemembers Legal Defense Network originally defined its purpose as bringing an end to the U. S. military's DADT policy, which from 1993 to 2011 prohibited gays, lesbians and bisexuals from serving openly in the military, either by repeal of the statute that enacted it or by winning a judgement against the policy in the courts.

Lady Gaga addresses the crowd at the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network DADT " 4the14K " rally in Portland, Maine, on September 20, 2010.

In response, in January 2011, Servicemembers Legal Defense Network produced its own plan for ending the policy.

* Servicemembers Legal Defense Network official site

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Korb is also a member of the Honorary Board of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, an organization dedicated to ending discrimination against gay and lesbian people serving in the U. S. military, and to repealing the " Don't ask, don't tell " policy.

The Servicemembers Legal Defense Network was a prominent critic of how the policy was implemented, and they demanded to know who, in higher ranks, was responsible for the climate on base.

* Servicemembers ' Legal Defense Network article about the murder

Reports state that over half of US war veterans and active-duty Servicemembers receive health care outside of VA and / or Department of Defense facilities.

" Reports state that over half of US war veterans and active-duty Servicemembers receive health care outside of VA and / or Department of Defense facilities.

The average age of the officers whose names were listed as signing the letter was 74, the oldest was 98, and Servicemembers United noted that " only a small fraction of these officers have even served in the military during the ' Don't Ask, Don't Tell ' period, much less in the 21st century military.

He chaired the Federal Quality Institute in 1991, and was chairman of the Commission on Servicemembers and Veterans Transition Assistance established by Congress in 1996.

Servicemembers using PTDY ( Permissive TDY ) are not charged while on leave but are also not granted travel pay.

In association with the VA's program, the Servicemembers ' Civil Relief Act protects service members from financial woes on their home loan that may occur as a result of active duty commitments, freezing their interest rates at 6 %.

SGLI also offers Family Servicemembers ’ Group Life Insurance ( FSGLI ) for up to $ 100, 000 in coverage for a servicemember ’ s spouse, if the servicemember is on active duty or a member of the Ready Reserve of a uniformed service.

Batie alleged Subway had violated the U. S. Servicemembers Civil Relief Act.

Servicemembers United, a veterans group opposed to DADT, issued a report critical of the letter's legitimacy.

UIU is a member of the Post 9 / 11 GI Bill ’ s Yellow Ribbon Program and works closely with Servicemembers Opportunity Colleges, GoArmyEd, Navy College Program Distance Learning Program, Army National Guard Education Support Program, Coast Guard Institute, and the Air Force AU ABC program.

Servicemembers are sworn-in as citizens aboard the USS Midway ( CV-41 ) | USS Midway in 2009.

Servicemembers in various geographic regions and combat situations often required different subsets of ingredients for food to be considered palatable over long periods.

Excelsior College is a member of the Servicemembers Opportunity Colleges ( SOC ) Consortium of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities.

SOC institutions are dedicated to helping Servicemembers and their families earn college degrees.

The University is a member of the American Association of Higher Education, the Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities, the International Association of Baptist Colleges and Universities, the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities, and the Servicemembers Opportunity Colleges.

Legal action by rival RCA kept commercial use of the system off the air until June 1951, and regular broadcasts only lasted a few months before manufacture of all color television sets was banned by the Office of Defense Mobilization ( ODM ) in October, ostensibly due to the Korean War.

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.

* University of California LLNL Retiree Group ( Legal Defense Fund for UC Retirees from LLNL )

In 2010, Judd signed the Animal Legal Defense Fund's petition to urge Governor Steve Beshear to protect Kentucky's homeless animals through tough enforcement of the state's Humane Shelter Law.

Legal defenses like the Gay Panic Defense allow for more lenient punishments for people accused of beating, torturing, or killing homosexuals because of their orientation.

For example, the Heritage Foundation sees it as threatening national control over domestic policy and the Home School Legal Defense Association ( HSLDA ) argues that the CRC threatens homeschooling.

In 2011, DiCaprio joined the Animal Legal Defense Fund's campaign to free Tony, a tiger who has spent the last decade at the Tiger Truck Stop in Grosse Tete, Louisiana.

The Home School Legal Defense Association was cofounded in 1983 by Michael Farris, who would later establish Patrick Henry College, and Michael Smith.

On May 31, 1961, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund filed suit in the U. S. District Court, alleging that the university had rejected Meredith only because of the color of his skin, as he had a highly successful record.

The Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund ( MALDEF ) opposed.

* Moral Majority Legal Defense Fund – the organization ’ s legal instrument, used primarily to challenge the American Civil Liberties Union and secular humanist issues in court.

Chambers and his founding partners, James E. Ferguson, II and Adam Stein, working with lawyers of the Legal Defense Fund, successfully litigated civil rights cases and helped shape the contours of civil rights law by winning landmark United States Supreme Court rulings in such cases as Swann v. Charlotte Mecklenburg Board of Education, 402 U. S. 1 ( 1971 ), the famous school busing decision, and Griggs v. Duke Power Co. 401 U. S. 424, 91 S. Ct.

Tom Linzey of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund ( CELDF ) is Blaine Township's lawyer.

The NAACP Legal Defense Fund brought the Swann case on behalf of six-year-old James Swann and nine other families, with Julius L. Chambers presenting the case.

The Association, represented throughout by Robert L. Carter of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, responded by moving to dissolve the order on the grounds that its activities within the state did not require its qualification under the statute and that the state's suit was intended to violate its rights to freedom of speech and of assembly as guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States.

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.

He has been honored with awards from the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, the Association for Asian Pacific American Artists, the Museum of Chinese in the Americas, the East West Players, the Organization of Chinese Americans, the Media Action Network for Asian Americans, the Center for Migration Studies, the Asian American Resource Workshop, the China Institute, and the New York Foundation for the Arts.

On July 10, 2007, the Alliance Defense Fund Center for Academic Freedom and the Christian Legal Society filed suit ( Beta Upsilon Chi Upsilon Chapter v. Machen, 586 F. 3d 908, 911-912 ( 11th Cir.

* Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund Special Registration Report

* Christie, The Defense of Necessity Considered from the Legal and Moral Points of View, ( 1999 ) Vol.

Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

In 1971, volunteer lawyers who had worked with the Sierra Club established the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund.

Lambda Legal ( Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund ) is an American civil rights organization that focuses on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender ( LGBT ) communities as well as people living with HIV / AIDS ( PWAs ) through impact litigation, education, and public policy work.