The American Association for Justice (AAJ), formerly the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA) is a nonprofit advocacy and lobbying organization for plaintiff's lawyers in the United States. AAJ's stated mission is to "promote a fair and effective justice system." Focused on opposing tort reform, the organization is one of the Democratic Party's most influential political allies.
In 1946, a group of plaintiffs' attorneys involved in workers' compensation litigation founded the National Association of Claimants' Compensation Attorneys (NACCA). As their work broadened beyond workers' compensation, in 1960 the NACCA changed its name to the National Association of Claimants' Counsel of America, and four years later, to the American Trial Lawyers Association. In 1972, these groups merged as the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA). In 1977, ATLA's headquarters moved from Boston to Washington, D.C.
In 2006, ATLA became the American Association for Justice (AAJ). Around the same time, a group of attorneys quietly began forming a competitor organization to AAJ. The competitor organization called itself The American Trial Lawyers Association, or TheATLA. TheATLA solicited thousands of AAJ's members to join. AAJ filed suit to force TheATLA to drop the name, arguing it was confusing AAJ members and infringing a trademark held by AAJ.
A trial is the presentation of information in a formal setting, usually a court.
Trial may also refer to:
Trial is the eighteenth studio album by Japanese alternative rock band The Pillows. It was released on January 18, 2012.
All songs written and composed by The Pillows.
Cycle or cyclic may refer to:
Cycle is an album by Paul Horn which was originally released on the RCA Victor label in 1965.
The Allmusic site awarded the album 2 stars stating: "One can hear hints of Paul Horn's future directions on this obscure LP. ...so this is not an album for everyone."Cycle, credited to The Paul Horn Quintet, was nonetheless nominated for a 1965 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Album, Small Ensemble.
Within three years, Horn would abandon jazz altogether to work on atmospheric mood music".
All compositions by Paul Horn except as indicated
In graph theory, there are several different types of object called cycles, principally a closed walk and a simple cycle; also, e.g., an element of the cycle space of the graph.
A closed walk consists of a sequence of vertices starting and ending at the same vertex, with each two consecutive vertices in the sequence adjacent to each other in the graph. In a directed graph, each edge must be traversed by the walk consistently with its direction: the edge must be oriented from the earlier of two consecutive vertices to the later of the two vertices in the sequence. The choice of starting vertex is not important: traversing the same cyclic sequence of edges from different starting vertices produces the same closed walk.
A simple cycle may be defined either as a closed walk with no repetitions of vertices and edges allowed, other than the repetition of the starting and ending vertex, or as the set of edges in such a walk. The two definitions are equivalent in directed graphs, where simple cycles are also called directed cycles: the cyclic sequence of vertices and edges in a walk is completely determined by the set of edges that it uses. In undirected graphs the set of edges of a cycle can be traversed by a walk in either of two directions, giving two possible directed cycles for every undirected cycle. (For closed walks more generally, in directed or undirected graphs, the multiset of edges does not unambiguously determine the vertex ordering.) A circuit can be a closed walk allowing repetitions of vertices but not edges; however, it can also be a simple cycle, so explicit definition is recommended when it is used.
Why do we accept violence in the name of tradition?
Break out of this cycle of cruelty
Deception and domination walk together hand in hand
I won't take part anymore
When the answer is right before our eyes
How could we let ourselves become so fucking blind
To the need for a commitment to compassion?
We cut our own throats when we live without respect for life
It's coming around...
All our excuses are just conditioning
Forced into our minds passed down long enough
That we've turned away from all rationality
The slaughter of the innocents goes unmentioned
While murder is condemned everyday
The screams of the tortured are ignored or accepted
But never questioned
Is this how we're to live in this world?
Face the truth: man did not weave the web of life,
He is merely a strand in it-
Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself...
A violent hand has assumed control to satisfy demand
Providing us with what we're made to think we need to survive
And while we thrive on ignorance... indifference... the blood flows
We've got to make the choice to realize
These lives mean so much more
Break out of the cycle
In the midst of chaos we have no explanation
And exploitation with no consideration is our crime
In the age of progress and unrestrained advancement
We demand respect for those