Sentences with phrase «acts constitutionality»

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Amid the countdown this week toward a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, a battle has escalated about funding for a small business lobby group.

The class action suit, which seeks to determine the constitutionality of Obamacare, formally known as the Affordable Care Act, or ACA, is being led by the National Federation of Independent Businesses.

In the latest stage of the provincial government's battle against the proposed Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, it has asked the BC Court of Appeal to review four pages of proposed legislation that would amend the Environmental Management Act and address questions about the amendments's constitutionality.

On March 26, the Supreme Court will weigh the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act (which forbids the federal government from recognizing same - sex marriages).

This separation makes possible the system of «checks and balances,» in which the deliberative decisions of the Congress are checked by the President; the actions of the President and his officers are in turn tested, challenged, and confirmed by the Congress; and the constitutionality of the acts of both the legislative and the executive branches is checked by the judiciary.

February 23, 2011: President Obama announced that the federal government would no longer defend the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act.

Sandford (whose name was actually Sanford), acting on behalf of his sister who was Dred Scott's owner, injected into the litigation the question whether any black person, free or slave, could be a citizen of the United States, and he directly challenged the constitutionality of the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which forbade slavery in the Louisiana Territory north of latitude 36 ° 30».

Her over 20 years of practice as an attorney includes serving as litigation coordinator for the Women Against Abuse Legal Center in Philadelphia, and on Planned Parenthood's trial team in its challenge to the constitutionality of the Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act.

Meanwhile down in D.C., the US Supreme Court might rule today on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act.

A week earlier, on Dec. 7, the U.S. Supreme Court announced the justices will be hearing Windsor's challenge to the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), as well as a challenge to California's Proposition 8 marriage amendment.

«Right now, the Supreme Court is preparing to decide on the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act.

March 21, 2013 (readMedia)-- The New York State Rifle & Pistol Association filed suit today in federal court challenging the constitutionality of the so - called SAFE Act.

BY BILL LOVE and ROBIN FORST Members of the Lower Manhattan Democrats (L.M.D.) were thrilled by the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act — the centerpiece legislation of Barack Obama's first term as president.

Here's an interesting piece of trivia pointed out to me by a reader: Attorney Michael Carvin, who argued for the challengers during this week's marathon oral arguments on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act before the U.S. Supreme Court has a connection to the Senate Republicans.

Meanwhile, a U.S. appeals court in New York is set to take its turn today at considering the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act, a federal law restricting the recognition of same - sex unions that has already been struck down in several other places.

WASHINGTON, DC — Candidates and leaders of the Green Party of the United States expressed hope that the Supreme Court will strike down the «individual mandate» section of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) when the court issues a ruling on its constitutionality in late March.

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about a federal appeals court upholding the constitutionality of the SAFE Act as well as Connecticut's post-Newtown gun control law, Uber fighting to bring ride sharing into the Capital Region, and New Yorkers found to overwhelmingly prefer dogs to cats.

Linda Door protested outside the U.S. Supreme Court as it began hearing arguments on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act in March 2012.

A decade after Massachusetts passed its charter school law as part of the Education Reform Act of 1993, city officials in North Adams, Massachusetts, sued the state Department of Education, challenging the constitutionality of charter schools.

The high court last week heard arguments in the case, a challenge to the constitutionality of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998.

The Minnesota Federation of Teachers is expected to file suit this month in federal court challenging the constitutionality of the law — called the «Postsecondary Enrollment Options Act» — because it permits state payments to church - related colleges.

As the Martin Act is rarely used, Constitutional scholars have questioned both its validity and its Constitutionality.

In 2010, after the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United decision, WTP / ATP successfully challenged the constitutionality of the Montana Corrupt Practices Act of 1912, which prohibited independent political expenditures by corporations.»

As the conservative writer Charles Krauthammer explained, this is the reason Roberts voted to uphold the constitutionality of the Affordable Health Care Act or Obamacare, because he didn't want the judgement to be seen as another Bush v Gore.

On Feb. 23, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the Obama administration would no longer defend the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act in cases pending in federal court.

«Supreme Court to Rule on Constitutionality of «Stolen Valor Act» Main WSJ Law Blog: Ashby Jones Moves On, Joe Palazzolo Moves In»

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in the case of U.S. v. Alvarez, which presents the question of the constitutionality of the «Stolen Valor Act.»

Instead, the constitutionality of provincial laws is to be resolved pursuant to the aboriginal rights framework under s 35 of the Constitution Act 1982 and R v Sparrow, [1990] 1 SCR 1075 (Tsilhqot» in at paras 139, 151).

In another lawsuit, he challenges the constitutionality of the federal Violence Against Women Act, alleging that the law «was created by feminist organizations to provide alien wives alleging abuse a fast track to permanent residency by violating the U.S. Constitutional rights of citizen husbands.»

In both cases, bankruptcy lawyers challenged the constitutionality of bankruptcy law amendments enacted as part of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005.

The Government has stated that it may refer the Act to the Supreme Court of Canada for its opinion on its constitutionality.

Ct.), Linda Rothstein and Rob Centa acted for the College of Nurses of Ontario in successfully defending the constitutionality of legislation mandating the revocation of a health practitioner's licence where the practitioner sexually abused a patient.

Yesterday, the Supreme Court considered the constitutionality of the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003, according to this article, Supreme Court Justices Have Pointed Abortion Discourse (AP 11/8/06).

The ACLU had asked the court to provide it with information about wiretapping cases brought under the recent FISA Amendments Act of 2008 and to allow it to participate in any cases that question the act's constitutionaliAct of 2008 and to allow it to participate in any cases that question the act's constitutionaliact's constitutionality.

The applicants have challenged the constitutionality of the National Defence Act and the jurisdiction of the court martial in such circumstances.

Most observers expect the question of the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act to return to the Court.

v. Holder, the Supreme Court today declined to address the constitutionality of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, keeping the law alive for a future challenge, reports Tony Mauro at The National Law Journal.

The Chief Justice This appeal concerns the constitutionality of s. 8 of the Narcotic Control Act, R.S.C. 1970, c. N ‑ 1.

Back in pre-history (2003 or thereabouts), the federal «Wise Persons» Committee» commissioned not one, but three separate opinions from Bay Street firms on the constitutionality of a proposed federal Canadian Securities Act.

Richardson and Kulbashian are currently appealing the decision on the grounds of error in judgement, as well as challenging the constitutionality of section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act.

While, in Street, the Court strains to avoid the crucial constitutional question, here it summarily treats the constitutionality of a major provision of the Social Security Act when, given the Court's interpretation of the legislative materials, that provision is not at issue.

The Court's decision should not be taken as a definitive assessment of the constitutionality of that section, nor that of its successor, section 27 of the Responsible Energy Development Act, SA 2012, c R - 17.3.

Andrew has acted as counsel on two occasions for litigants who have challenged the constitutionality of section 31 of Ontario's Family Law Act regarding child support for adult children of unmarried parents.

The Constitutional Court has also held that the constitutionality of legal acts (or parts thereof), which have not been harmonised with the Constitution by passing a new legal act by the corresponding law - making subject, which would amend, in the opinion of that law - making subject, the legal act (or part thereof) that was not in conformity with the Constitution, and which have not been recognised as no longer valid, may be verified by conducting constitutional control.

In 2010, Québec initiated a reference to its Court of Appeal regarding the constitutionality of the Assisted Human Reproduction Act, SC 2004, c 2.

Of note was the fact that Ernst had not sought to challenge the constitutionality of section 43 of the ERCA itself; notice of constitutional question had not been given to the Attorneys General of Alberta and Canada, as required by section 24 of the Judicature Act, RSA 2000, c J - 2 (2013 ABQB 537 at para 89).

The case challenged the constitutionality of section 5 (3)(a)(i)(D) of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, which created a mandatory minimum jail sentence of one year for drug trafficking in certain situations.

In a development that should surprise no one, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review the constitutionality of President Barack Obama's signature policy achievement, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — aka Obamacare.

At issue was the constitutionality of the Alberta Family Law Act and Family Law Relations Act.

As for other instances where the Public Works Protection Act could be applied, the Court of Appeal in Campanella justified the constitutionality of courthouse searches because there were large signs to alert the public of the fact that searches were taking place.