Sentences with phrase «constitutional language rights»

The accused argued that his constitutional language rights were violated because the relevant legislation was not published in French.

This week's summaries concern: Municipal property tax / Admissibility of evidence / Judicial review of administrative board / Constitutional language rights:

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In addition to calling for an inclusion of marriage equality in the Democratic Party platform, the language also backs overturning the Defense of Marriage Act and passing DOMA repeal legislation known as the Respect for Marriage Act in addition to opposing state constitutional amendments aimed at blocking gay couples from marriage rights.

«We have a regulation... where every EU country has the right to notify one official language,» Danuta Hübner, the Polish MEP who heads the European parliament's constitutional affairs committee, told a Brexit press conference yesterday.

Florida is one of only five states with a constitutional protection for collective bargaining rights, though the language is strangely ambiguous.

The language of the bill in general tramples on many constitutional rights in many different ways, as well as allows dogs to be taken and killed off - hand under certain circumstances, regardless as to the actual breed or type of the dog.

In a thoughtful answer to a reader's question related to Roper v. Simmons — namely, why the Missouri Supreme Court invoked the Eighth Amendment, rather than using Missouri's own state constitutional provision of the same language — professor Eugene Volokh weighs in on the effect of 51 bills of rights:

Through an interdisciplinary treatment this book opens new perspectives on the history of Canada's official language communities, the structure of linguistic conflict, legal regulation, constitutional rights, minority language education and linguistic politics.

Carrying more legal weight as a constitutional document than its predecessor, the Charter provides the guaranteed protection of important rights such as freedom of conscience, religion, expression, and association; the democratic right to vote; mobility rights to enter and leave Canada as well as reside anywhere within Canada; legal rights in criminal matters; equality rights against discrimination; and language rights.

The lawyer should be aware of relevant statutory and constitutional law relating to language rights including the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, s. 19 (1) and Part XVII of the Criminal Code regarding language rights in courts under federal jurisdiction and in criminal proceerights including the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, s. 19 (1) and Part XVII of the Criminal Code regarding language rights in courts under federal jurisdiction and in criminal proceeRights and Freedoms, s. 19 (1) and Part XVII of the Criminal Code regarding language rights in courts under federal jurisdiction and in criminal proceerights in courts under federal jurisdiction and in criminal proceedings.

The program provided funding for court cases of national significance that had the potential to advance constitutional language or equality rights.

By analogy, when a state legislature fails to adopt a redistricting plan that complies with the constitution, which is normally a political question, this failure to act allows a federal court to craft a redistricting plan as a remedy for the failure of the legislature to act, in order to protect the constitutional rights of voters and candidates in future elections, even though no express language of the constitution or statute addresses the remedy when a state legislature fails to pass a redistricting plan.

R. v. Caron (G.) et al. 2014 ABCA 71 Constitutional Law — Language rights — General principles — Source of language rights The accused's mother tongue was French.