Sentences with phrase «against judicial powers»

Speaking to Accra - based Joy FM, Sefa Kayi said politicians who do wrong with impunity incite ordinary Ghanaians against judicial powers of state.

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By selling the bonds to Monaco, investors were trying to get around the 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which says, «The judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by citizens of another state, or by citizens or subjects of any foreign state.»

... (Morsi) formally gave himself open - ended powers to make decrees that are immune from judicial oversight (therefore barring any legal recourse against them), giving himself license to do pretty much anything else he pleases in the name of national security.

He has a proper understanding of the appropriate tension between the executive and the judiciary and he's got a good record fighting against cuts to citizen's legal powers, such as on judicial review and legal aid.

«I do not think that the defendant is a sitting judge having been suspended, I thereby agree that prosecution can not be brought until the NJC exercises its disciplinary powers against a judicial officer.

One week after announcing they were exploring the option of requesting a judicial injunction, Assemblyman Ronald Castorina and Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis filed a brief against the city, arguing that expunging the files of the IDNYC program would violate the state's Freedom of Information Law — which explicitly forbids the destruction of documents «with intent to prevent public inspection» — and would overstep the city's legal powers.

Acting for hydroelectric power operators and developers in judicial review proceedings against the Environment Agency arising from abstraction licensing decisions.

Whereas the sources of Ofsted and the secretary of state's powers make their decisions plainly amenable to judicial review by Shoesmith, it is less clear that judicial review is available as a remedy against her employer.

An application for judicial review was filed Sept. 1 with the Divisional Court of the Ontario Superior Court on behalf of all members of the Anishinaabe Nation in Treaty 3 against the Ontario minister of Energy and the Ontario Power Authority.

UNISON applied for a judicial review of the Fees Order and argued that it was not a lawful exercise of the Lord Chancellor's statutory powers because the fees interfered unjustifiably with the right of access to justice under the common law and EU law, frustrated the operation of legislation granting employment rights, and discriminated unlawfully against women and other protected groups.

«The Committee's review of Judge Roberts's writings and public statements, however, has raised concerns about the impact of Judge Roberts's judicial philosophy in three broad areas essential to women's rights: (1) the use of state and federal power, (2) laws that have a substantial impact on women, and (3) federal laws intended to protect against discrimination based on sex.»

The fourth edition covers: Fair procedures including the rule against bias and audi alteram partem; Review of discretionary powers, with the doctrines of reasonableness and proportionality and the impact of constitutional rights; Judicial review practice -LSB-...] Read more

It is alleged by the defendant in error in this case that the plea to the jurisdiction was a sufficient plea; that it shows, on inspection of its allegations, confessed by the demurrer, that the plaintiff was not a citizen of the State of Missouri; that, upon this record, it must appear to this court that the case was not within the judicial power of the United States as defined and granted by the Constitution, because it was not a suit by a citizen of one State against a citizen of another State.

The U.S. Supreme Court, in Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. v. Haeger, No. 15 - 1406 (SCOTUS April 18, 2017), clarified the standard to be used by district judges in imposing «inherent power of the court to control judicial process» sanctions as far as setting an appropriate amount of sanctions, reversing a $ 2.7 million sanctions award in favor of plaintiff and against defendant Goodyear after a case was settled.

It is, however, a sufficient answer to say that our Constitution most certainly contemplates, in another branch of the cases enumerated, the maintaining a jurisdiction against a State, as defendant; this is unequivocally asserted when the judicial power of the United States is extended to controversies between two or more States; for there, a State must, of necessity, be a defendant.

The Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State.

Arguably, if the power given to police to obtain personal information without a warrant or judicial oversight is contrary to section 8 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which guarantees that everyone has the right to be secure against unreasonable search or seizure.

The Administrative Court has granted an application for judicial review brought by Drax Power Ltd against the Department for Energy and Climate Change («DECC»).

And the separation of judicial power guards against unlawfulness in the exercise of legislative and executive power.