POLS 3130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7-8: Microsoft Onenote, Ower, Justiciability
11 Dec 2015
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Canadian civil liberties association (ccla) & women"s legal education and action fund (leaf) are frequent interest group participants before the court. Ig"s often do not care about the individuals involved in court but the ramifications of the court"s decisions. Other notable ig"s include: assembly of first nations, canadian bankers association, canadian labour. Congress (clc), criminal lawyers association, canadian medical association, evangelical fellowship of. Mostly participate in supreme court cases, lower-case presence rare. Litigation most straightforward process to seek policy-change or to stop a change from taking place. Political disadvantage theory: ig"s litigate because they"re unable to penetrate other branches of government and therefore choose litigation over operating through legislators. Naacp (national association for the advancement of colored people) [of the usa] wanted to end segregation but would not have been able to achieve significant gains if they had gone through the state legislatures or congress.
