Sentences with phrase «york under the amendment»

The state's Catholic Bishops on Sunday released a statement expressing concern with the expansion of gambling in New York under the amendment.

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The omnibus extraordinary session package also provides a financial incentives to entice Vernon Downs racino and harness track to remain open; offers $ 55 million in relief for Lake Ontario communities ravaged by flooding; tweaks a law to allow New York City first responders to receive an accidental disability pensions even if they don't receive a federal Social Security disability pension; and creates a 250 - acre forest land bank to allow for certain public utility projects under a constitutional amendment.

Republican Congressman John Faso, in a radio interview Wednesday, said New York could have more flexibility under proposed changes that would eliminate the waiver and amendment process.

In addition to the reductions under the Faso - Collins amendment, both the Senate and House plans would greatly slow the growth of Medicaid spending and would defund Medicaid expansion programs that New York added under Obamacare.

As POLITICO New York has previously reported, the amendments increase the benefit offered under the governor's paid family leave proposal to the state's lowest paid workers, but keep in place a cap on benefits of just over $ 500 per week.

Under the proposal outlined in the 30 - day amendments, New York City would install and operate cameras below 60th Street in Manhattan in order to better enforce «block the box» traffic laws.

Unfortunately, under the so - called reform that the governor extracted as part of the redistricting agreement, the proposed constitutional amendment to change New York's process will do nothing to reform the problem of unequal representation.

Congressman John Faso, who co-sponsored the amendment to take over New York County's Medicaid costs, said in a statement that the ACA has already «failed» and would «collapse under its own weight if nothing is done.»

The final legislation renames the Tappan Zee Bridge after former Gov. Mario Cuomo; provides a financial incentive package to entice Vernon Downs racino and harness track to remain open; offers $ 55 million in relief for Lake Ontario communities ravaged by flooding; tweaks a law to allow New York City first responders to receive an accidental disability pensions even if they don't receive a federal Social Security disability pension; and creates a 250 - acre forest land bank to allow for certain public utility projects under a constitutional amendment.

WASHINGTON — New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who argues her pro-gun stance aims to protect hunters» rights and the Second Amendment, last week said she and her husband, Jonathan, keep two rifles under their bed to protect their upstate home.

WHEREAS, this legislation is viewed by many citizens of the State of New York as being extremely controversial as those citizens view this Legislation as infringing upon their rights guaranteed to them under the second Amendment of the United State Constitution; and

Congressman John Faso, who cosponsored the amendment to take over New York county's Medicaid costs, said in a statement that the ACA has already «failed», and would «collapse under its own weight if nothing is done».

When Representative Gerald B. Solomon, Republican of New York, introduced his amendment making draft registration a criterion for aid under...

The amendment, which was meant to allocate more equitably to states with rural areas, passed was altered so that states such as New York, Ohio, Maryland and others, would not lose funding immediately, as those states would have under the old Burr amendment.

Call of Duty's portrayal of former Panama dictator Manuel Noriega is justified under the First Amendment, according to Activision legal eagle and one - time New York mayor Rudy Giuliani.

New York Times reporter Miller has petitioned for a writ of certiorari, specifically asking about journalists» rights under the First and Fifth Amendments, as well as any common law privileges that would apply under Federal Rule of Evidence 501.

I take leave to say that the New York statute, in the particulars here involved, can not be held to be in conflict with the Fourteenth Amendment without enlarging the scope of the Amendment far beyond its original purpose and without bringing under the supervision of this court matters which have been supposed to belong exclusively to the legislative departments of the several States when exerting their conceded power to guard the health and safety of their citizens by such regulations as they in their wisdom deem best.

That's the case with the recent federal appellate argument over the constitutionality (under the Fourth Amendment) of New York's policy of random searches of bags belonging to passengers traveling on the New York subway system.

Indeed, the status of this topic as free speech that is supposed to be guaranteed under the First Amendment has been upheld by courts more than once: ● in Florida, where a judge affirmed that handing out FIJA brochures regarding jury nullification is legal based on principles of free speech ● in New York, where a federal judge dismissed false jury tampering charges against someone handing out brochures that advocated jury nullification ● in Colorado, where a judge dismissed false jury tampering charges against two people handing out FIJA's educational material on jury nullification

According to Sunstein, the robust protection now afforded to political speech protected as free speech (under the «clear and present danger» test) came about in the «I am your father» decisions of New York Times v. Sullivan (1964) and Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969), revisiting the meaning of the First Amendment and rethinking the law that had come before it.

The Court would recognize no public policy defense under the New York Convention; rejected the argument that a 2008 amendment to the Jones Act changed earlier law; and without explanation

Upper Manhattan Reentry Task Force • New York, NY 09/2010 — 11/2010 Legal Intern, Harlem Community Justice Center Performed legal research and analysis on various issues including parole defined by the New York State Penal Law, parole sentences, parolee's rights under the Fourth Amendment, and parole revocation process.