Sentences with phrase «equal protection provisions»

The statute setting a $ 400,000 limit on noneconomic damages awards in health care liability actions violated the right to a jury trial and equal protection provisions of the State Constitution.

If Scalia, Thomas et al believe that corporations are entitled to First Amendments freedom of speech rights then I ask why, under Fourteenth Amendments Equal Protection provisions they do not pay taxes at the same rate that I pay?

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's board voted at a leadership retreat in Miami on Saturday to back a resolution supporting marriage equality, calling the position consistent with the equal protection provision of the US constitution.

Gresham asked Attorney General Robert Cooper whether the current statutes or state law in effect prior to July 1, 2011 governing permanent employment violate students» rights to a free education under the equal protection provisions of the Tennessee or U.S. Constitution.

Because education is a fundamental interest under the California Constitution, the statutes that dictate this unequal, arbitrary result violate the equal protection provisions of the California Constitution.»

A $ 350,000 cap was enacted in 1995, which with inflation adjustments rose to $ 445,775 before it was struck down by the state Supreme Court in 2005 as being arbitrary and violating the equal protection provision of the state constitution.

The court, after surveying the extensive evidentiary record from the trial court indicating that homosexual parents are in no way inferior to heterosexual ones, concluded that there was no rational basis for the statute and that it therefore violated the equal protection provision of the Florida Constitution.