Sentences with phrase «achieved constitutional protections»

In this episode of the Modern Law Library, professor Adam Winkler, author of We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights, shares what he learned from his investigation into how corporations have achieved constitutional protections ranging from the right to sue and be sued, to individual rights like religious liberty protections and free speech.

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A friend who has been teaching a course on constitutional law for a couple of decades and has achieved a national reputation confided recently that he plans to stop teaching the course; there just isn't any integrity to the subject, and it becomes almost a degrading experience to have to teach, say, equal protection doctrine and pretend that the Court's decisions are the product of any sort of coherent thinking.

Virtually the entire Bill of Rights has now been applied against the states, achieving three revolutionary results at once: 1) The original understanding of federalism has been obliterated, so that the states exercise their power now largely at the sufferance of the Supreme Court; 2) The Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of Section 1 have become a kind of witches» cauldron from which an exotic brew of postmodern nostrums has been fed into the bloodstream of the political culture; 3) The Supreme Court has successfully arrogated to itself more or less exclusive powers of constitutional interpretation.

«The Education Code expressly allows a school district to deviate from... seniority for... purposes of maintaining or achieving compliance with constitutional requirements related to equal protection of the laws,» said the ruling from Judge William F. Highberger.

Just last month, citing a part of the education code that says that a district may deviate from seniority (f) or purposes of maintaining or achieving compliance with constitutional requirements related to equal protection of the laws, Superior Judge William Highberger ruled in favor of the plaintiffs.

This the Court achieved by claiming that the principle of effective judicial protection constitutes a «a general principle of EU law stemming from the constitutional traditions common to the Member States», enshrined in Articles 6 and 13 of the ECHR and «reaffirmed» by Article 47 of the Charter (para. 35).

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