Sentences with phrase «supreme court decreed»

Also, the Supreme Court decreed its clearly controversial decision would not serve as precedent.

Not exact matches

A 1992 Supreme Court ruling decreed that online vendors can sell goods without collecting sales tax, as long as they don't have a physical location in a given state.

At the same time, euthanasia and assisted - suicide practices in the Netherlands have so detached that society from true humanism that their supreme courts issued decrees allowing access to assisted suicide to both the mentally ill and depressed.

One saw evidence of this, for example, when the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decreed that when religious counseling is informed even in part by secular psychology, it ceases to be religious and is entitled to no free - exercise protection.

First, as Ms. Benshoof notes, the Supreme Court has decreed that customary international law is enforceable in U.S. Courts.

Finally, the Supreme Court, responding to one of many state appeals, decreed in 1995 by a 5 — 4 vote that Judge Clark could not impose a program of magnet schools to attract white students from the suburbs.

Will a state supreme court, as part of its remedy in a fiscal equity lawsuit, decree that all children be given a choice of any school, public or private, with the state paying the cost?

Despite the delay in the approval of the consent decree by the Supreme Court of the State of New York, we are proceeding with these changes now, in the spirit of moving forward together into this new chapter for Cooper Union.

Today, the Supreme Court of the State of New York approved the consent decree that was agreed to by the New York State Attorney General, The Cooper Union, the Board of Trustees and the Committee to Save Cooper Union in September.

On Monday, September 14th, 2015 a Consent Decree between the Office of the NY State Attorney General, the Board of Trustees, and the Committee to Save Cooper Union (CSCU) was presented to NY Supreme Court Justice Nancy Bannon, intended to bring to a close the lawsuit that was filed over a year ago.

We are pleased to announce that the Free Education Committee («FEC») of The Cooper Union Board of Trustees held its first meeting on January 12, in order to organize for the work it is to undertake pursuant to the consent decree that was approved by the New York State Supreme Court.

However, the consent decree was not approved by the New York State Supreme Court until December 16, 2015.

[17] A consent decree brokered by the New York Attorney General in New York Supreme Court, and finalized in 2015, required the establishment of a Free Education Committee with the responsibility to present a strategic plan, no later than January 15, 2018, for consideration by the school's Board of Trustees, who would then vote on it at their Board meeting in March 2018, to allow the school to return to a sustainable tuition - free model.

Years of fighting and court appeals on Exxon's part finally concluded with a U.S. Supreme Court decision in 2008 that found that Exxon only had to pay $ 507.5 million of the original 1994 court decree for $ 5 billion in punitive damcourt appeals on Exxon's part finally concluded with a U.S. Supreme Court decision in 2008 that found that Exxon only had to pay $ 507.5 million of the original 1994 court decree for $ 5 billion in punitive damCourt decision in 2008 that found that Exxon only had to pay $ 507.5 million of the original 1994 court decree for $ 5 billion in punitive damcourt decree for $ 5 billion in punitive damages.

But for now, that's the arena in which the Supreme Court has decreed the struggle will take place.

This places them at some risk in case the Supreme Court ultimately sides with EPA since EPA can do nasty things to states that defy its decrees, such as cutting off their Federal highway funding.

Since then, she's appealed and the Decree Nisi was denied again by the High Court and the Court of Appeal, but she was given permission to appeal to the Supreme Court.

LBW readers already know that in November 2009, the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia decreed that the «Happy Gilmore» golf shot is a breach of the standard of care required of a golfer playing on a course with other golfers.

Instead the rights it decrees would be transferred into British law and applied by the Supreme Court.

In that decision, Supreme Court Justice Pierre - Basile Mignault found that the section merely barred the levying of customs duties on goods moving between provinces, writing that «the object of section 121 was not to decree that all articles of the growth, produce or manufacture of any of the provinces should be admitted into the others, but merely to secure that they should be admitted «free,» that is to say without any tax or duty imposed as a condition of their admission.

In 2015 the Supreme Court of Florida issued a decree stating that «robes worn by a judge must be solid black with no embellishment» in response to complaints that some state judges were getting too creative with robe colors and decorations, and that this «could result in uncertainty for those coming before our court» regarding the judge's status or disposiCourt of Florida issued a decree stating that «robes worn by a judge must be solid black with no embellishment» in response to complaints that some state judges were getting too creative with robe colors and decorations, and that this «could result in uncertainty for those coming before our court» regarding the judge's status or disposicourt» regarding the judge's status or disposition.

If the divorcing couple is unable to agree, the property award can be decreed by the Supreme Court within the judgment of divorce.

530, that there will be a decree against the plaintiffs, in order that they may avail themselves of the right secured to them by the constitution and laws, of a revision by the supreme court of the United States; where it is highly proper that this question, depending, as I think it does, mainly upon the constitution of the United States, should be ultimately decided.»

We delve into the detail of the Supreme Court's new mediation regulation and decree and analyse how these hope to improve rates of settlement.

A woman who was refused a decree nisi by the Court of Appeal is attempting to take her battle for a divorce to the Supreme Court.

According to my research, this split between the 2nd and 8th Circuits has not really been decided because the dispute was ended by a consent decree before it could be resolved by the Supreme Court; that decree ordered West to allow competitors to license its page numbers for a stipulated fee.

INTEREST ON JUDGMENTS: Pursuant to the provisions of West Virginia Code 56-6-31, and an Administrative Order of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, please be advised that the interest rate, including pre-judgment interest, for judgments and decrees entered during the year 2018 is 4.5 %.

On January 6th, 2016, different media outlets reported that a certain number of federal courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada, were contesting the issue of a decree (2015 - 1071) stating that procurement for government IT services now needs to go through Shared Services Canada.

Although there has been great debate as to the proper level of administrative independence that is required for courts to comply with the requirements of section 11 d) of the Charter, the Supreme Court's objection to decree 2015 - 1071 seems to implicate that IT procurement falls within the definition of «matters of administration bearing directly on the exercise of [a court's] judicial function», to quote justice Le Dain in ValCourt's objection to decree 2015 - 1071 seems to implicate that IT procurement falls within the definition of «matters of administration bearing directly on the exercise of [a court's] judicial function», to quote justice Le Dain in Valcourt's] judicial function», to quote justice Le Dain in Valente.

On the other hand, new case law of the Federal Supreme Court has clarified the situation with regard to the recognition of foreign bankruptcy decrees.

When dealing with a parenting plan that said the parties would have «equal or approximately equal» residential responsibility, our Supreme Court said that: «in interpreting the meaning of a divorce decree we review the decree de novo, Sommers v. Sommers, 143 N.H. 686, 692 (1999).

(1) An appeal lies from a decree of a court of summary jurisdiction of a State or Territory exercising jurisdiction under this Act to the Family Court or to the Supreme Court of that State or Terricourt of summary jurisdiction of a State or Territory exercising jurisdiction under this Act to the Family Court or to the Supreme Court of that State or TerriCourt or to the Supreme Court of that State or TerriCourt of that State or Territory.

The German supreme court has decided that there should not be a problem if the family courts decree a shared - parenting construct.

(4) The Supreme Court of a State or Territory shall not hear and determine proceedings under this Act instituted in or transferred to that Court otherwise than in accordance with any Proclamation in force under subsection (3), but nothing in this section invalidates a decree made by such a Supreme Court.

(b) a decree of the Supreme Court of a State or Territory made before the commencement of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1959 in the exercise of jurisdiction invested or conferred by the Matrimonial Causes Act 1945, or that Act as amended by the Matrimonial Causes Act 1955, and in force immediately before the commencement of this Act shall continue to have effect throughout Australia; and

«In the legal documents dated August 17, 2012 and signed by New York State Supreme Court Judge Matthew F. Cooper offers details of the divorce decree, including the specifics of the A-list couple's custody agreement with 6 - year - old daughter Suri have emerged.