Sentences with phrase «people say a law»

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«The high - level women I talk to very consistently say they spend a lot more time than their male colleagues did getting to know people, getting to know about their personal lives,» law professor Joan C. Williams tells Fortune, seconding the idea.

«It's indicative of the progress that LGBT people have made, both in terms of social acceptance so there are more LGBT people willing to live openly, and developments in the law,» she said.

He's also stuck his neck out on LGBTQ issues, pushing fellow business leaders to take a stand against laws in the state of Indiana that critics say discriminate against gay and transgender people.

A furor has erupted over an Indiana law that opponents say could give businesses the right to refuse service to gay people.

Although the law would allow people to grow up to four plants at home, Bourque, who represents 125,000 real estate brokers, said there's no limit on plant size, meaning growers could raise giant plants that produce 5 kilograms (11 pounds) of grass a year, increasing the risk to homes and health.

A furor erupted over an Indiana law that some say could allow businesses to refuse service to gay people, NBC reports.

«It's OK to exclude people who can't follow the law and their oaths as jurors, but you can't say that anyone with qualms about capital punishment is ineligible,» Richard Re, an assistant law professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, told Business Insider in an email.

«The benefits of payroll automation are that you know you're paying people accurately, you know that you're in compliance with the law in paying overtime correctly, and that you can also include in these systems the ability to track issues, such as how often people are late,» Finch says.

The agency has issued subpoenas to firms and individuals behind specific offerings that it believes might be breaking the law, said the person who asked not to be named because the investigations aren't public.

Foreign companies operating in China «should respect China's sovereignty and territorial integrity, abide by China's laws and respect Chinese people's national feelings,» Lu said.

Expanding a broad crackdown on fraudulent initial coin offerings, U.S. regulators have sent a number of subpoenas to firms they suspect might be violating securities laws, said a person with direct knowledge of the matter.

(As the Fourteenth Amendment says, «nor shall any State... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.»)

The law of averages says most people worked on a farm.

«One issue that comes up a lot is people's incorporating open source software or other people's software into their own products or web sites,» says Juetten, a CPA who also has a law degree.

It's good to give employees these options because «one thing you don't want to do is require people to report only to their supervisors, because unfortunately that may be the person who they have a complaint about,» says Lisa Guerin, an attorney specializing in employment law and the author of The Essential Guide to Workplace Investigations: How to Handle Employee Complaints & Problems.

For instance, «someone has to pay for a mover and cough up the security deposit because you're not necessarily going to get it back from the original apartment if the other person is staying,» says Wynne Whitman, attorney at the law firm Schenck, Price, Smith & King, LLP and coauthor of Shacking Up: The Smart Girl's Guide to Living in Sin Without Getting Burned.

«Let's face it: The reason why so many people come to America is because we are a nation of laws, and Texas is doing its part to keep it that way,» Abbott said in the Associated Press.

«You're basically inviting people to become out of compliance with the law, and that's never a good place to be,» he said.

«The president's health isn't only of importance to the president but to all of us, so we do expect presidents to reveal information that other people don't have to, just like their financial information,» said David Orentlicher, co-director of the health law program at University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

«So many political people have gone on trade missions to say, «Come do business here,»» says Stephen Green, a partner at Toronto immigration law firm Green and Spiegel.

«The battleground has shifted to the legal courts and the court of public opinion,» he said, referring to lawsuits filed by tribes and an effort planned by the Lakota People's Law Project to rally lawmakers and others in Washington, D.C., to their cause.

The suit, brought by three ex-sex workers, a client, and the Erotic Service Providers Legal, Educational and Research Project, says California's current laws violate the rights of people to engage in consensual sex.

The events will be timed to coincide with filing deadlines and other opportunities to highlight how the law is affecting people, officials said.

«The larger exemption provides a lot of planning opportunities for people who own businesses or other assets that they expect to go up in value,» said Michelle Canerday, head of the private client group in Chicago for law firm Nixon Peabody.

A shooter opened fire at Fort Lauderdale - Hollywood International Airport in Florida earlier on Friday, killing five people and wounding multiple others, law enforcement officials said.

Thiel, who also supports the idea of creating autonomous islands on which people could live and create their own laws, said he is in favor of a bi-partisan bill called the «Intimate Privacy Protection Act,» which would make it illegal to distribute explicit private images without a person's consent, and would involve criminal penalties for those who profit from doing so.

«The bottom line is, I see no credible claim by any serious person that that violated the law,» he said on CNN.

On Tuesday, Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said categorically that Trump opposes any path to legal status for the 11 million people in the U.S. illegally — and would instead empower law enforcement to ramp up deportations.

Frazier went straight from Penn State to Harvard Law School, where he says he was one of the few people in his class who had gone to a state university (as opposed to an Ivy League university or one of the more elite private colleges.)

Stonewall said it will lobby the UK Government, devolved administrations, and political parties for recognition and protection of non-binary people in law, as well as appropriate ways to record gender in all official documents.

It's politically risky for the federal government to ride roughshod over state laws voted in by a majority of the people, says William McGrath, a partner at the Washington, D.C. - based Potomac Law Group.

In April, Airbnb said it banned a host on its service after it learned the person refused to rent to a law student at University of California, Los Angeles because of her Asian background.

«He's an extraordinary judge who is scrupulous about getting the law right, and has the courage to do that even when it angers powerful people,» says Minor Myers, a Brooklyn Law School professor who has studied appraisal suilaw right, and has the courage to do that even when it angers powerful people,» says Minor Myers, a Brooklyn Law School professor who has studied appraisal suiLaw School professor who has studied appraisal suits.

«Integrity of the markets, and the willingness of people to invest, are critical to us,» says Harvey J. Goldschmid, a professor of law at Columbia since 1970 and soon to be an SEC commissioner.

Driving fatalities are «the biggest thing that gets people killed in this country and it's been so for a while,» says Laws.

It should be noted that while these local governments have enacted tough laws, «there have been very few cases of people jailed for drone use,» he said.

This is so, the law says, even «without proof that any person has in fact been misled or deceived» by the similarity in names.

The justices said in a 6 - 3 ruling that the subsidies that 8.7 million people currently receive to make insurance affordable do not depend on where they live, under the 2010 health care law.

«Instead of working to protect American families, President Trump's plans put the interest of big - money special interests over people,» said Nat Mund, legislative director of the Southern Environmental Law Center, a Virginia - based advocacy group.

Transgender people also have full rights under Islamic inheritance law, the Tanzeem Ittehad - i - Ummat Pakistan, a little - known clerical body in the eastern city of Lahore, said in its fatwa.

The law, known as Senate Bill 4, is slated to take effect Sept. 1, but has been challenged in court by rights organizations and localities that say the law infringes on local governments» constitutional rights, and will sow fear through immigrant communities by dissuading people from reporting crimes or testifying as witnesses out of fear they will be deported.

«I want it to be healthy and I want it to be upbeat, and I don't want people to feel like it's martial law,» he says.

Said McCain: «I want America's smartest people creating jobs, not wasting their time, energy and capital navigating our incomprehensible tax laws.»

And the CEO of Gen Con, a 50,000 - person gamers» gathering that's reportedly Indianapolis's largest convention in attendance and economic impact, said the law could prompt the group to move the event after 2020, when its contract with the city expires.

«I can be almost anywhere and people will think I'm her,» says Adrian, a partner and litigation specialist at a Toronto law firm.

The group says that the legislation would, for example, allow an evangelical police officer to refuse to patrol a Jewish street festival or «an EMT could claim the law is on his side after refusing service to a dying transgender person in the street.»

Bowman says there's a developing body of case law around people who have claimed personal injury for insurance and then, when they're supposed to be bedridden, have posted photos of themselves doing something physical, like skiing.

«People who managed to get far enough along in the [modification] process, many of them will get a decent payment,» said Alys Cohen of the National Consumer Law Center.

Indiana's law, for example, allows people and businesses to claim exemption based only on the likelihood that their religious freedom could be infringed, said Katherine Franke, a professor of law and director of the Center for Gender and Sexuality at Columbia University, in New York.

Additionally, a NBC News / Wall Street Journal poll found 27 % of people surveyed thought the law was a «good idea,» while 36 % said it was a «bad idea.»