Sentences with phrase «federal statutes passed»

Federal statutes passed after 1985 are cited as SC for the Statutes of Canada.

The New Jersey Megan's Law serves as a model for sex offender disclosure laws, including the federal statute passed earlier this year requiring all states to enact disclosure measures.

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Even though we are likely a long way from comprehensive federal virtual currency legislation, it is promising for the virtual currency and blockchain community that legislators are signaling bi-partisan efforts to pass statutes to ensure that consumers obtain the full benefit of these innovations.

The report consists of an an analysis of a database of 135 localities that have enacted rules for drone use, a breakdown of drone - related statutes in states that have passed legislation governing the use of unmanned aircraft, and a brief discussion of the federal government's regulations for drone use and its position on the enactment of local legislation and rules.

The rule of law, he has argued, demands that we be bound by the text of the law» not by evolving social standards, not even by some elusive authorial intent, but by the actual words of the Constitution and of the statutes passed by state and federal legislatures.

Given that a state statute like the one passed in Florida can overcome another state statute, and that no federal law in place currently prohibits the imposition of this age limit; the absence of a constitutional limitation preventing a twenty - one year old age limit to buy guns means that the law is constitutional and valid.

Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Limitation — Vote Passed (218 - 210, 6 Not Voting) The House passed a bill that would limit to $ 250,000 the non-economic damages that can be awarded in a medical malpractice lawsuit in which the plaintiff's health care was paid for in whole or in part via a federal program, subsidy or tax benefit, and would establish a statute of limitations for initiating such lawsuits of either three years following the plaintiff's injury, or one year after the plaintiff discovers such injury, whichever occurs Passed (218 - 210, 6 Not Voting) The House passed a bill that would limit to $ 250,000 the non-economic damages that can be awarded in a medical malpractice lawsuit in which the plaintiff's health care was paid for in whole or in part via a federal program, subsidy or tax benefit, and would establish a statute of limitations for initiating such lawsuits of either three years following the plaintiff's injury, or one year after the plaintiff discovers such injury, whichever occurs passed a bill that would limit to $ 250,000 the non-economic damages that can be awarded in a medical malpractice lawsuit in which the plaintiff's health care was paid for in whole or in part via a federal program, subsidy or tax benefit, and would establish a statute of limitations for initiating such lawsuits of either three years following the plaintiff's injury, or one year after the plaintiff discovers such injury, whichever occurs first.

When the bill passed the Senate, a Cuomo spokesman said the administration would review the legislation in the context of implementing the Compassionate Care Act and complying with existing federal statutes.

Beyond these federal efforts, a handful of states have also attempted to clamp down on fraud in internet dating: new york has passed a consumer protection statute to regulate internet dating sites.

Friends of Animals is calling on the U.S. House of Representatives to pass a federal animal cruelty statute aimed at ending crushing, a heinous act in which animals are tortured and maimed.

The Legislature passed a bill similar to AB684 last year but Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed it, saying that «under current federal statutes there is no definition of «industrial hemp,» nor is there a distinction between cannabis plants based on THC content.

In 2008 Parliament passed the Statutes Repeal Act, aimed at clearing out those portions of federal legislation that have passed, assented to, but not declared in force for, effectively, a decade.

At issue in both is the federal law banning «partial birth abortion,» which Congress passed in the wake of the Court's 2000 decision Stenberg v. Carhart, which struck down a similar statute in Nebraska because it failed to include an exception that would allow the procedure if needed to protect the health of the mother.

On the applicability of Blakely to the federal sentencing guidelines: The logic of the SG's argument now seems to be that applying Blakely to the guidelines would essentially convert all guideline enhancement into elements, which is constitutionally problematic because only Congress can pass criminal statutes that create elements.

In Nigeria's case, the existing federal statute (the Arbitration and Conciliation Act (Cap A19, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004)-RRB- is based on the Model Law, but there is a generally held view among arbitral practitioners that the present law (which is a re-enactment of a piece of legislation passed in 1988) does not meet modern best practice standards.

The federal statute in question, the Locomotive Inspection Act (LIA), 49 U.S.C. § 20701 et seq., was passed by Congress in 1915.

This allows me to have immediate access to all Federal and Provincial Statutes and the regulations passed under each piece of legislation.

These most recent laws, regulations, and legislative proposals come against the backdrop of decades of privacy - enhancing statutes passed at the federal level to enact safeguards in fields ranging from government data files to video rental records.

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.

The federal Statutes Repeal Act S.C. 2008, c. 20 sweeps up behind our legislators, killing off statutes that were passed and assented to nine years or more ago but that were never proclaimed iStatutes Repeal Act S.C. 2008, c. 20 sweeps up behind our legislators, killing off statutes that were passed and assented to nine years or more ago but that were never proclaimed istatutes that were passed and assented to nine years or more ago but that were never proclaimed in force.

PIPEDA — we call it — is enforced by the federal Privacy Commissioner then, British Columbia, Alberta and Quebec have each passed their own privacy statutes.

Even in 1913, it was «well settled that the state may not, under the guise of exercising its police power or otherwise,... enact legislation in conflict with the statutes of Congress passed for the regulation of the subject, and if it does, to the extent that the state law interferes with or frustrates the operation of the acts of Congress, its provisions must yield to the superior Federal power given to Congress by the Constitution.»

In reaching this conclusion, the en banc court looked to the FTC Act's text, the meaning of «common carrier» according to the courts around the time the statute was passed in 1914, decades of judicial interpretation, the expertise of the FTC and Federal Communications Commission («FCC»), and legislative history.