Diller took over and the two uber-moguls crafted an agreement giving Diller the proxy rights to vote Liberty Media's controlling shares until Diller quit or died.
Local officials argued that there was no evidence of a "systematic campaign of voting discrimination" in Shelby or any current "defiance" or resistance to ensuring the rights of minorities to vote.
Barry Goldwater broke the Democrats' hold on the South, using his decision to vote against the civil-rights act to win the 1964 presidential vote in five southern states.
Women have been denied basic rights to drive and vote for so long that some conservative elements are likely to continue opposing modernization and change.
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The UK has been on a collision course with the European Court of Human Rights since it ruled in 2005 that it was a breach of human rights to deny prisoners a vote.
The bill introduced in the Wisconsin state legislature that would strip state employee unions of their collective bargaining rights, require members to vote to organize every year, allow members to avoid paying dues and put pay raises to a public vote, represents the opening salvo of the final battle in the war against unions in America.
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They have civil rights - including the right to vote and run for the Knesset of course - but many still feel marginalised or excluded.
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These tiny white pups were being given out all morning by animal rights campaigners to persuade people to vote for a European Union ban on the commercial trade in seal parts.
Recently, the administration has taken steps to encourage fast and easy unionization by not requiring a majority of workers to vote, cutting times for company responses and limiting company rights to respond to unionization efforts.
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Parliament is expected to reconvene in February, the rights group said, after which it could decide to table a vote.
They won in the lower courts, but today the Supreme Court, by a 6-to-3 vote, ruled that the federal government was within its rights to prosecute them and other medical marijuana users.
Washington joins Maryland, Maine and Minnesota as the next round of states that will put the civil rights of some of their citizens to a vote.
There was this sense shortly after June 17th when same-sex couples could begin marrying and did began marrying that no one would vote to take away rights that were clearly established.
When minority shareholders are legally protected, as they are in Sweden, with strong rights to block certain decisions with a minority vote at shareholders' meetings, it becomes more advantageous to have large owners nominate the directors.
Second Amendment supporters are in no mood to give those who would deny them their rights a pass and will vote in the next election in the same united way they responded to the insult leveled at them by the organizers of the Harrisburg show.
Last month, Catholics induced Muslims in Hamtramck to vote down a gay-rights ordinance.
So it is not that surprising that this Thursday the government will stick two legislative fingers at the European Court of Human Rights and say no to giving convicted prisoners the vote.
Our constitutional republic respects minority rights. 60% of the population cannot vote to enslave the other 40%.
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Since 1913 more than 180 senators have been appointed by governors, according to Fair Vote, a voting-rights advocacy group.
He also said Jews would be "crazy" to vote for Jackson during the civil rights leader's 1988 presidential campaign.
As a result, Viviette Applewhite will, effectively, lose her most precious of the rights held by American citizens the right to vote.
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But nonetheless, human-rights groups were quick to denounce Thursday's parliamentary vote as a cynical ploy by politicians to rein in Spain's crusading judiciary.
The European Court this week ruled that denying Franco Scoppola, a convicted murderer in Italy, the right to vote did not breach his human rights.
We like the Constitution when it can be used to endorse life the way we think it ought to be and we ignore it, or vote against it when the Bill of Rights or the various amendments challenge our world view or force us to make accommodations -- however big or small -- for others.
In 1966, the year after the Voting Rights Act was passed, 6 million blacks were registered to vote.
Since he became prime minister five years ago, he has done rather well with the Kurds, persuading a lot of them to vote for him and steadily widening their rights, though he has been making hostile noises towards them of late.
But the resolution isn't binding, and a similar vote at the Human Rights Council last year failed to break the impasse between the U.S. and Sri Lanka.
But the resolution is not binding, and a similar vote at the Human Rights Council last year failed to break the impasse between the U.S. and Sri Lanka.
If deputies approve the nomination at their meeting on 26 September, Mr Mulkerrin will have the same rights and duties as ordinary members, other than the right to vote.
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