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Dr. Parveen Chopra
first Asian-American awarded prestigious
LIBERTY BELL AWARD
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Supreme Court justice Hon. Ira Warshawsky, Chair of the Law Day 2010 Committee, and Hon. Judge Susan Katz - Richman conferred upon Dr. Praveen Chopra the Liberty Bell Award. This award was given at the Nassau County Bar Associations' annual function on April 29, 2010.
This largest suburban bar association in America boasts almost seven
thousand very active attorneys at their Domus headquarters in Mineola,
New York.
Dr. Parveen Chopra, a well known American Civil and Human Rights leader,
is the first Asian American in the United States to be honored with
this prestigious Liberty Bell Award. Over fifty highly accomplished and
acclaimed judges from various U.S. Federal Supreme, Criminal, Family,
County, and District Courts attended this function, in addition to numerous
representatives from hundreds of powerful law firms.
Honorable Judge Susan Katz Richman, Dr. Parveen Chopra (Liberty Bell Award Winner), Mrs. Usha Chopra ( Past President IALI)
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The prestigious Liberty Bell Award
honors an individual or organization whose community service advances
and strengthens the American system of freedom under law. Specifically:
promoting better understanding of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights; encouraging greater respect for law and the courts; stimulating a deeper sense of individual responsibility so that citizens recognize their duties as well as their rights; contributing to the effective functioning of institutions of government; and fostering a better understanding and appreciation of the rule of law.
Dr. Parveen Chopra being presented the prestigious Liberty Bell Award by Honorable Judge Susan Katz Richman (sitting 3rd from left) and Dr. Parveen Chopra with his wife Mrs. Usha Chopra (standing 1st row 3rd from left). Others in the picture are too numerous to list here.
| While accepting the Liberty Bell Award Dr. Parveen Chopra said that he was humbled and thankful to the Nassau County Bar Association Executive Committee
and the many learned, well known and acclaimed Judges and experts of
jurisprudence who were present there. He said the prestigious award has
its roots in the Declaration of Independence whose chief author was President Thomas Jefferson who on July 4, 1776 declared, "We
hold these truths to be self evident. That all men are created equal;
that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights;
that among these are life, liberty and pursuit of happiness." It was President Woodrow Wilson who said on July 4, 1914, at the beginning of World War I that "Liberty
does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists
in the translation of those declarations into definite actions."
Dr. Chopra said it is the honorable judges and police officers with the
support of members of the bar that uphold the civil rights of a common
man in America on a daily basis. It is this liberty, freedom of action,
right to speech, right of assembly, right not to be discriminated
against based on age, sex, race, color, creed, marital status, national
origin or disability as well as right to equality of opportunity that
have made this nation of ours a magnet country in the world.
Honorable
Judge John Marks, Chief Supervising Judge of Supreme Court Honorable
Anthony Marano, Dr. Parveen Chopra (Liberty Bell Award Winner), Mrs.
Usha Chopra (Past President IALI) Ishar Singh Bindra (Chair of Sikhism
studies at Hofstra University), Sikh leader Darshan S. Bagga
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