Sentences with phrase «under military law»

Any person charged with an offence has the right... (f) except in the case of an offence under military law tried before a military tribunal, to the benefit of trial by jury where the maximum punishment for the offence is imprisonment for five years or a more severe punishment;

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Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 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and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.

I accept that military action, under international law and as a genuine last resort, is in some circumstances necessary.

His situation was even worse since he couldn't appeal the conviction — Thailand remains under martial law following 2014's military coup.

«It is possible, I suppose, to imagine an extraordinary circumstance in which it would be necessary and appropriate under the Constitution and applicable laws... for the President to authorize the military to use lethal force within the territory of the United States,» he wrote.

Under federal law, the shooter shouldn't have been able to buy a gun because he'd been convicted in military court of assaulting his spouse and their child while in the Air Force.

As one trade expert has noted, Canada is defined under American law as part of the US military - industrial complex for national security purposes.

Under federal law, Kelley shouldn't have been able to buy a gun because he'd been convicted in military court of assaulting his spouse and their child while in the Air Force.

The crime of blasphemy was enshrined into Pakistani law under British rule, but strengthened during the years of military dictator Muhammad Zia - ul - Haq.

Is beheading journalists and military and leaving thier bodies to rot in the street permissible under Christain Law?

Manning was convicted under the Uniform Code of Military Justice in a general Courts Martial, not in the Federal Court of law.

It is not normally considered proper under international law principles to unilaterally militarily «liberate» territory under control of another sovereign state, without the endorsement and military involvement of a legitimate claimant to that territory (outside the context of an ongoing international war that has been in progress since the imminent aftermath of the legitimate claimant's loss of control, and even then, conferral with a government in exile and local insurgents is expected).

A third party country that uses force in territory controlled by another sovereign state, without the express or implied consent of a sovereign state with a legitimate claim to that territory, is an illegal aggressor under international law, rather than a participant in a collective security effort which international law recognizes as a legitimate reason to use military force.

In your example, the Fort Hood shooting, there was no «armed conflict» that the military personnel involved were party to as far as the definition under international law goes.

«It is outrageous that our Afghanistan veterans and those who have fought in other recent conflicts are not eligible for this military service credit in New York State under current law.»

It is possible, I suppose, to imagine an extraordinary circumstance in which it would be necessary and appropriate under the Constitution and applicable laws of the United States for the President to authorize the military to use lethal force within the territory of the United States.

Cameroon teachers on strike in battle over English or French Cameroonian forces have cracked down on protests in the English - speaking region that erupted last October, beating and arresting protesters, some of whom face the death penalty in military courts — under the same anti-terrorism law used to prosecute the journalist Ahmed Abba.

Four elected representatives of Crown Heights filed a Freedom of Information Law FOIL request to the city's Economic Development Corporation on Thursday to see the financials for the renovation of the vacant former military facility, which has been under city control since 2013.

Under current law, [state and local government] employees are eligible to purchase credited pension service time for up to three years of military service, providing they were in the military during the World War II, Korean War and Vietnam eras, or served in specified theaters of combat operations in Grenada, Panama or the Middle East since the 1980s.

Other absentee voters not in the military overseas will get their absentee ballots «as soon as practicable» under state law.

American citizens who are overseas, including active members of the military, are covered by the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act that, among other things, provides for a Federal Write - In Absentee Ballot which may be used in place of absentee ballots provided under state laws.

Under the Law of the Sea, the position taken by the U.S. and many other nations is that the military can collect data within a country's EEZ without the permission of that country, because it is a military survey.

By law, tequila can only be made from A. tequilana «Weber Blue,» a cultivar named after a French military physician and part - time botanist who was sent to Mexico under Napoleon III.

An «active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran» means a veteran who served on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service during a war, or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized under the laws administered by the Department of Defense.

A «disabled veteran» is one of the following: a veteran of the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service who is entitled to compensation (or who but for the receipt of military retired pay would be entitled to compensation) under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; or a person who was discharged or released from active duty because of a service - connected disability.

A used sUA or UA is an unmanned aircraft that has been registered or operated as a civil, public, or military aircraft under the laws of the U.S or another country.

As used in this paragraph, a «Covered Borrower» means any person who, at the time such person becomes obligated on a loan transaction or establishes an account for consumer credit, satisfies the requirements under any one or more of the following classifications, or is otherwise under applicable laws deemed to be a «Covered Borrower» under the Military Lending Act, 10 U.S. Code Section 987: (a) An active duty member of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force or Coast Guard, or a person serving on active Guard and Reserve duty (a person described in this clause (a) of the definition of «Covered Borrower» is hereinafter referred to as a «Service Member»); or (b) Any of the following persons, relative to a Service Member: (1) The spouse; (2) A child under the age of 21; or (3) If dependent on the Service Member for more than one half of such person's support, any one or more of the following persons: (i) A child under the age of 23 enrolled in a full time course of study at an institution of higher learning; (ii) A child of any age incapable of self support due to a mental or physical incapacity that occurred before attaining age 23 while such person was dependent on the Service Member; (iii) Any unmarried person placed in legal custody of the Service Member who resides with such Service Member unless separated by military service or to receive institutional care or under other circumstances covered by Regulation; or (iv) A parent or parent - in - law residing in the Service Member's hoMilitary Lending Act, 10 U.S. Code Section 987: (a) An active duty member of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force or Coast Guard, or a person serving on active Guard and Reserve duty (a person described in this clause (a) of the definition of «Covered Borrower» is hereinafter referred to as a «Service Member»); or (b) Any of the following persons, relative to a Service Member: (1) The spouse; (2) A child under the age of 21; or (3) If dependent on the Service Member for more than one half of such person's support, any one or more of the following persons: (i) A child under the age of 23 enrolled in a full time course of study at an institution of higher learning; (ii) A child of any age incapable of self support due to a mental or physical incapacity that occurred before attaining age 23 while such person was dependent on the Service Member; (iii) Any unmarried person placed in legal custody of the Service Member who resides with such Service Member unless separated by military service or to receive institutional care or under other circumstances covered by Regulation; or (iv) A parent or parent - in - law residing in the Service Member's homilitary service or to receive institutional care or under other circumstances covered by Regulation; or (iv) A parent or parent - in - law residing in the Service Member's household.

Technicians in the military or naval service of the United States, United States Department of Agriculture, the United States Veterans Administration or the United States Public Health Service, in the practice of such technical procedures in obedience to the requirements of the laws of the United States, while engaged in the performance of the actual duties prescribed under the appropriate statutes of the United States;

The court was asked whether military commissions could hear charges that weren't defined as war crimes under international law when the defendant was accused of committing them.

The government of Israel as an occupying state has no legal authority at law to throttle the Palestinian people and destroy the foundations of the Palestinian State under military occupation.

As summarized by the SCOTUS Blog, in a 5 - 3 the Court held that President Bush did not have authority to set up the tribunals at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and found the commissions illegal under both military justice law and the Geneva conventions.

On other issues: Both Democrats support the federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), hate crimes legislation, coverage for domestic partners under the Family and Medical Leave Act, equal treatment of gay couples under tax laws, and repeal of the military's «Don't Ask, Don't Tell» policy.

Tuckers Solicitors Military Law & Courts Martial Department specialises in providing legal advice and representation to members of the Army, Navy and the Air Force, where they have been charged with an offence under Service Law.

Clients routinely turn to us for reliable counsel regarding their obligations and employee rights for leave under the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), ADA, Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA), and other military leave laws, as well as state worker's compensation laws.

«The offences cognizable by military commissions may thus be classed as follows: (1) Crimes and statutory offences cognizable by State or U.S. courts, and which would properly be tried by such courts if open and acting; (2) Violations of the laws and usages of war cognizable by military tribunals only; (3) Breaches of military orders or regulations for which offenders are not legally triable by court - martial under the Articles of War.»

2011), the Arizona Court of Appeals discussed whether the law also prohibited a divorce court from considering military disability pay awarded under other provisions of federal law.

That law prohibits Arizona trial courts from considering certain military disability benefits: those awarded under title 38 United States Code chapter 11.

They are also illegal under the Convention Against Torture of 1984, to which the United States is a signatory, and illegal under the War Crimes Act of 1996 (though the Military Commissions Act of 2006 makes an attempt to shield those who applied the «alternative set of procedures» from legal consequences under this law).

Under what conditions can a branch of the military (excluding the Coast Guard for technical reasons) be used in an active role in law enforcement operations domestically in the United States?

Restriction on direct participation by military personnel The Secretary of Defense shall prescribe such regulations as may be necessary to ensure that any activity (including the provision of any equipment or facility or the assignment or detail of any personnel) under this chapter does not include or permit direct participation by a member of the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps in a search, seizure, arrest, or other similar activity unless participation in such activity by such member is otherwise authorized by law.

Although the government once held the position that conspiracy is an offense under the international law of war, the government eventually switched legal theories and argued that conspiracy is a domestic law offense triable before a military commission.

The Secretary believes that this exemption is warranted because application of the rule could have the unintended effect of impeding or frustrating the conduct of such activities, such as interfering with the ability of military command authorities to obtain protected health information on prisoners of war, refugees, or detainees for whom they are responsible under international law.

As should be clear from the excerpt below, my own view is that the jurisdiction of military commissions is limited to international offenses under the law of war.

Thus, under the final rule, a covered entity that is a component of DOD or the Department of Transportation may disclose to DVA the protected health information of an Armed Forces member upon separation or discharge from military service for the purpose of a determination by DVA of the individual's eligibility for or entitlement to benefits under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

When the United States Court of Military Commission Review considered Bahlul in 2011 it did not consider the ex post facto issue sustainable, as they considered the accused's conduct an offense under the law of armed conflict.

Federal law does make it a crime and authorize indefinite detention or death under military discretion, for being a member of certain terrorist organizations identified in the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) since the United States has declared war on those organimilitary discretion, for being a member of certain terrorist organizations identified in the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) since the United States has declared war on those organiMilitary Force (AUMF) since the United States has declared war on those organizations.

Today's report concludes that the military's actions were justified under international law, which starkly contrasts the findings of the United Nations Human Rights Council on September 27, 2010, which stated,

Instead of placing faith in the decisions made by a few military planners within the Pentagon about the feasibility of autonomous weapons, we need an open debate within the Obama administration and within the international community as to whether prohibitions on autonomous offensive weapons are implicit under existing international humanitarian law.

Cameron released a document that not only articulates the strategic necessity for military action against ISIS, but also outlines the Cameron administration's legal position regarding the legality of the proposed strikes under international law.

Under New Hampshire law, divisible property includes employment benefits, pensions, retirement plans, military retirement and veterans» disability benefits.