Sentences with phrase «abrogate states»

Although the Congress can abrogate states» 11th Amendment immunity from suits in federal courts, it must do so «in unmistakably clear language,» Maria Parisi - Vickers, an assistant commonwealth attorney general, told the Justices.

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The absence of proper consumer protection was a major contributing factor to the present financial meltdown, for «it has now become clear that abrogating sound state laws, particularly regarding consumer protection, created opportunity for regulatory arbitrage that resulted in a regulatory «race - to - the - bottom.

Had the pope either quoted Familiaris Consortio § 84 in full, or clearly stated that the Communion prohibition in that paragraph is abrogated, nobody would have been able to misunderstand his teaching.

No state or person could abrogate these.

Mr. Samuel Aye Paye, Chairman of the Roads and Safety Committee, stated that the committee recommended legislation's green lighting because abrogating the law which was signed in 2016 may have ended up forcing government to pay a judgement debt.

On Tuesday, indigenes of Okerenkoko Federated Community, Delta State, stormed Government House, Asaba, protesting the alleged plan to abrogate the university.

After the first military coup of 1966 and under the short - lived administration of the then Head of State General Aguiyi Ironsi, Decree 34 of 1966 was promulgated abrogating the federal system of government and substituting same with unitary system of government.

As a quid pro quo to the Power Authority taking care of George's friends and family club members, George, his oversight committee, looked the other way and abrogated his responsibility to not only the taxpayers of his district but to all Western New Yorkers by letting the Cuomo / Silver progressive establishment cartel, in two successive budget bills in 2011 and 2012, sweep $ 600,000,000 from the bank account of the Power Authority to the General Fund of the State of New York — monies that should have been used for the economic benefit of Western New Yorkers.

Lawyers for Minnesota's public - employee unions say that state's law, passed last December to help close a $ 312 - million budget deficit, is unconstitutional because it abrogates the workers» constitutional claims to contract and equal - protection rights.

Nothing in this paragraph abrogates other applicable provisions of state or federal law providing payment of death benefits.

Thanks to McDonnell's poor leadership on the education front, the state continually abrogates its responsibility to help every child get the learning they need to be the future taxpayers and economic players the Dominion State (and the nation) needs in an increasingly knowledge - based fustate continually abrogates its responsibility to help every child get the learning they need to be the future taxpayers and economic players the Dominion State (and the nation) needs in an increasingly knowledge - based fuState (and the nation) needs in an increasingly knowledge - based future.

The Goodreads license grant includes the term «non-exclusive»; the Amazon terms of use don't use that phrase, but since they don't explicitly state «exclusive,» I don't believe the Amazon terms of use abrogate your right to publish and use your content as you wish elsewhere.

I cackle malevolently, wickedly, at the fact that the United States chose not to abrogate its sovereignty to an organ controlled by the declining Europeans.

The court distinguished the recent Supreme Court's decision in Crawford v. Metro Gov» t of Nashville and Davidson County, Tenn., 129 SCt 846 (2009), (which abrogated the 6th Circuit's view that the opposition clause required active, consistent behavior), by stating that Crawford involved involuntary testimony while Thompson did not engage in any protected activity.

There is no express indication in the PHA that Parliament intended the provisions of the PHA to abrogate the rights conferred by article 10, or to change the law of defamation, which is, by necessary implication, involved in any consideration of the scope of the legitimate restrictions which may be placed by a contracting state on the rights conferred by article 10.

He pointed me to an amendment to the California Family Code that expressly stated it was intended to abrogate a particular opinion.

A state's right to use its the police power shouldn't be abrogated because Gonzalez wants executions where he doesn't deserve them.

A treaty, including one between the United States and a Native American tribe, is treated as a contract between two sovereign nations, and it can only be abrogated by acts of Congress.

It states «nothing contained in this Resolution abrogates in any manner existing ABA policy prohibiting non lawyer ownership of law firms.»

Stating that the determination of the validity of a claim of privilege is a role reserved to the courts, the Supreme Court reiterated its view that solicitor - client privilege must be as close to absolute as possible and may be abrogated by Parliament in legislation only where done so explicitly.

If I were a jurist trying a case dealing with such issues, I would nullify any statute that misleads the public into thinking that the state can abrogate a right by turning it into a privilege.

In Ohio, and I presume Virginia as well, the state has plenary power to legislate, and statutes always and forever abrogate the common law unless they violate the state or federal constitution.

Whether it be the one year statute of limitations on RESPA violations (most laws have a 6 year statute of limitations) or states that legalized the price fixing of buyer broker fees, the fact is that there are an unreasonably large number of anti-consumer laws that serve to abrogate common law rights and manipulate licensing and regulatory laws to protect brokerage firms from consumer legal actions.