Sentences with phrase «advisory opinions given»

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Given the lack of any clearance system, the publication of advisory panel decisions, including dissenting opinions, is particularly necessary to assist taxpayers and their advisers.

She said it would be a conflict of interest to subject the board to an audit of the comptroller because the board is intended to give advisory opinions to all county officers, including him.

Schopf said he will honor the board's advisory opinion that he should not represent clients ticketed for town code violations; much of his practice deals with those given loose dog, or dangerous dog citations.

He also had been chairman of the Suffolk County Planning Commission, which gives advisory opinions to towns on certain development projects.

In an advisory opinion sought by the Talk of the Sound and published on June 10, 2010, the New York State Committee on Open Government has informed the City Council of New Rochelle that the given reason for going into executive session is not valid.

«The bill simply said that parents could petition the school district, if their school received an F, to give an advisory opinion about which alternative the district would embrace.

Once the advisory board votes and gives its own opinion, the issue will then go before the State Board of Education for a final decision.

The opinion given by the panel is made in a purely advisory capacity.

The ad hoc advisory opinions and actual disciplinary decisions widely used to address emerging technology and social media tend to give general guidance on application of existing rules to broad topics of social media use.

On the other hand, in the rare instances where this provision would not apply and the ECtHR would be asked to give an advisory opinion nonetheless, such an opinion — if the ECtHR accepted to give it — would by definition be confined to «questions of principle relating to the interpretation or application of the rights and freedoms defined in the Convention or the protocols thereto».

Article 34 provides that «any court or tribunal in an EFTA State» «may, if it considers it necessary to enable it to give judgment, request the EFTA Court to give» an advisory opinion on the interpretation of the EEA Agreement.

Insofar as provided in this Treaty, the European Parliament shall participate in the process leading up to the adoption of Community acts by exercising its powers under the procedures laid down in Articles 251 and 252 and by giving its assent or delivering advisory opinions.

I have now re-read the Supreme Court's work in Gall, and I am intrigued by a weighty question left unaddressed by the majority opinion — namely, how much weight can and should the guidelines be given in a post-Booker advisory sentencing system.

We can not give either legal advice or a binding advisory opinion.

First, the assumption by commenters that an advisory opinion would establish what law applied in a given situation and thereby simplify the task of ascertaining what legal requirements apply to a covered entity or entities is incorrect.