Sentences with phrase «against public policy on»

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Conservatives are deeply aggrieved by Supreme Court decisions in the past 30 years that have struck down laws against abortion, laws on homosexuality and certain laws and policies promoting religion in the public square.

In any case, the argument against Christian majoritarianism influencing public policy rests more on respect for minority feelings than on the alleged disintegration of the majority.

seem to want to mold public policy based on the rantings of fictional characters created by a hypocrite who railed against socialist and collectivist principles and then collected her Medicare and Social Security benefits later in life, can we also consider alternatives?

To suggest, then, that religious believers (much less majorities who, qua majorities, also have a second claim on shaping public policy) are «wards» depending on the Constitution for their religious freedom and its scope is, to use Posner and Segall's words against them, «to turn the Constitution upside down when it comes to government and religion.»

Seeking public demonstration or posts on Facebook as the only avenues we take against policies we disagree with is insufficient.

On June 28th, the U.S. Supreme Court — in a bitterly divided 5 — 4 vote — upheld a public university's right to enforce an «all - comers» antidiscrimination policy against a student group affiliated with the Christian Legal Society (CLS).

In Clegg's characterisation of not making public disagreements as the pukka thing to do, for example, he seems oblivious to how Lib Dems are going to campaign against those policies that they do disagree with when they have been silent on them for five years.

The report centred on the fact that a report produced by the think tank «Centre for policy studies» has shown it says how litigation against public bodies such as the NHS is «ingrained in the national psyche as a warped form of normal behaviour».

After moving last month against former President Obama's efforts to limit fossil fuel exploration and combat climate change, Trump will complete his effort to overturn environmental policy this week, signing two executive orders to expand offshore drilling and roll back conservation on public lands.

Dr. Rosa's election is an indication of how much both politicians and the public have turned against the policies promoted by Dr. Tisch, including the evaluation of teachers on the basis of state test scores.

Chief lobbyist Pascal Kerneis told a meeting on EU investment policy in 2011: «Industry will oppose any deal in which investment protection is traded off against public policy objectives, including human and labour rights.»

And we are also aware that George, bereft of any meaningful policies on how to bring development to the Awutu Senya West constituency, is resorting to personal attacks against the hardworking Hannah Tetteh all with an aim to court public disaffection for her.

The vote — an abrupt about - face in policies pushed by Cuomo and the Regents in recent years — was the latest in a series of state responses to rising public opposition against Albany's direction on school curricula, testing and educator evaluations.

Hogan has always limited his public discourse to Maryland issues and ran on a strictly fiscal policy issue, and not making any moves against social policies that were enacted by the previous administration).

Under Theresa May's leadership, the Conservative party has turned its back on urban and suburban areas by pursuing policies and public spending decisions that discriminate against our cities and towns.

And whilst Fianna Fail's vote had marginally recovered from their last general election collapse as a result of their own austerity policies and the catastrophic economic situation which saw the public pay the price for the bank bailouts, the population were clearly not returning in significant numbers, and on the contrary were turning against the right wing establishment parties.

Public Advocate Letitia James, a Democrat running for reelection, squared off against her Republican opponent, J.C. Polanco, in a friendly yet competitive debate on Monday that highlighted substantive differences, and some shared opinions, between the two candidates on a range of policy issues.

The guidelines on political endorsements include an exception allowing district attorneys to speak out against people or policies that «undermine public safety.»

More substantively, Bawumia has been the NPP campaign's leading voice on the economy, economic policy, and public finance and has also led the charge against the project - related corruption and cronyism in the Mahama administration.

In 1976, the AAAS Board and Council jointly created a permanent Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility to develop policies and procedures to protect scientists, engineers and health care professionals against infringements of scientific freedom and responsibility, to monitor policies and actions taken by governments that might affect their professional rights and duties, and to promote attention to scientific freedom and responsibility within AAAS, its affiliated societies, and the general public.

They were asked what types of guns they owned; reasons for ownership (protection, recreation, as collector's items); their attitudes on gun policies, such as bans, arming teachers and violence against the government; and the sources of violence, ranging from God's absence in public schools to media violence to insufficient mental health screening and background checks.

This has yet to happen openly on the Internet, although such accusations have been leveled against China, Russia and other nations, says Chris Bronk, an information technology policy research fellow at Rice University's James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy in Houston and a former U.S. State Department dippolicy research fellow at Rice University's James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy in Houston and a former U.S. State Department dipPolicy in Houston and a former U.S. State Department diplomat.

Existing literature on infectious disease policy, ethics, and law, outside the context of genomics, describes the potential for stigmatization of individuals or subpopulations, the challenge of balancing individual interests and protections (for example, privacy, autonomy, freedom of movement) against risks of harm to others and to public health, issues of justice, and employer or health professional obligations [27], [28].

Some things we might do if we got desperate enough: scrub greenhouse gasses from the atmosphere technologically, geo - engineering to create cooling effects to offset greenhouse heating, [SLIDE 42] lots of adaptation policies, cropping patterns, heat drought and salt - resistant crops, strengthen public health and environmental engineering defenses against tropical disease, new water projects for flood control and drought management, dyke storm surge barriers, avoiding further development on flood plains in near sea level.

The key bulwarks against this kind of mission creep are, first, a definitive, public statement from the President - elect on the administration's position on Uncle Sam's role in schools; and, second, absent that, education officials» deep familiarity with today's policy issues and ability to apply conservative principles to them.

I'm not arguing against the free market, per se, but arguing that there are some types of contracts that should not be valid on a public policy basis.

Animal Haven will not retaliate against an employee who in good faith, has made a protest or raised a complaint against some practice of Animal Haven, or of another individual or entity with whom Animal Haven has a business relationship, on the basis of a reasonable belief that the practice is in violation of law, or a clear mandate of public policy.

Little Shelter will not retaliate against an employee who, in good faith, has made a protest or raised a complaint against some practice of Little Shelter, or of another individual or entity with whom Little Shelter had a business relationship, on the basisof a reasonable belief that the practice is in violation of law or a clear mandate of public policy.

But judges often refuse to enforce dead owners» requests that their pets be euthanized, on the grounds that those requests are «against public policy or unethical,» says Gerry W. Beyer, a professor at Texas Tech University School of Law who recently posted a short analysis of these kinds of cases on his blog.

This is especially true for solar PV, where in Germany and Spain FIT payments have caused serious energy policy turmoil, and in the US, where net metering policies have caused public utility backlash against PV deployment in states like Arizona and California (a result of utilities being forced to pay 15 - 30ckWh for PV electricity instead of purchasing on the wholesale markets for 4 - 6c / kWh).

Check out (and give feedback) on the effort to provide objective principles for scientific forecasting and to audit against them at: Public Policy Forecasting.

(See, for example, Ethical Issues Entailed By Economic Arguments Against Climate Change Policies, The original organizations that sought to undermine public support on climate policies by exaggerating scientific uncertainty have expanded to include ideological think tanks, front groups, Astroturf groups (i.e., groups organized by industry that pretend to be a legitimate grassroots organization), and PR firm led caPolicies, The original organizations that sought to undermine public support on climate policies by exaggerating scientific uncertainty have expanded to include ideological think tanks, front groups, Astroturf groups (i.e., groups organized by industry that pretend to be a legitimate grassroots organization), and PR firm led capolicies by exaggerating scientific uncertainty have expanded to include ideological think tanks, front groups, Astroturf groups (i.e., groups organized by industry that pretend to be a legitimate grassroots organization), and PR firm led campaigns.

Scientists have always been engaged in > politics, sometimes for good (advocating vaccination campaigns against > smallpox, for example) and sometimes for ill (arguing for the improvement > of > the «white» race by eugenics), but scientists have had their «meddling» > fingers in politics for centuries, maybe millennia, without any lasting > ill > effects on our current ability to investigate the workings of the world or > > to influence the development of public policy today.

National Center or Public Policy Research expert on global warming and the ozone layer (1996) Robert Wesson Endowment Fund Fellow (1993 - 4) at Hoover Institution Marshall Institute Expert bio: http://www.marshall.org/experts.php?id=38 A darling of the anti-climate movement, Baliunas has been a central scientist in the fight against action on climate change.

The difficultiy is, of course, that since no general public was ever onsulted about bringing these organisations into existence, and since no general public ever gets any say in any of the appalling policies they emit, it's hard to see how we can get any purchase on the problem — the entire degenerate system has been set up so as to be proof against anything external which might influence it.

However, the case was appealed and while the appeal court ultimately decided that the separation agreement was void as against public policy, it also noted that courts needed to use caution in finding contracts to be void as contrary to public policy so that the doctrine does not «unduly impinge on the basic right to enforce engagements freely and voluntarily made.»

Hogan Lovells head of public law and policy Charles Brasted is acting for Uber on its appeal against Transport for London's (TfL) decision to strip it of its licence to operate in London.

Legal and public policy acceptance or accommodation of these religious symbols depends on a variety of factors, but is most often rooted in a constitutional proportionality test that balances the right to freedom of religion against the possible threat to safety, security and public order.

They did not go on to consider whether a more carefully drafted clause would have been unconscionable or against public policy.

The human rights group says a structured sentencing framework would produce injustice, prevent optimum sentencing outcomes and could even result in an increase in rates of imprisonment: «These proposals go entirely against the prevailing trend of government criminal justice policy in recent years in relation to violent and sexual offences: that is, an emphasis on the individualised risk posed by the individual offender towards a member or members of the public.»

The Court also found that this policy discriminated against refugee claimants on the basis of national origin as it was only refugee claimants from «designated countries» who were denied all health care except care related to public health, such as infectious diseases.

Generally speaking such covenants are considered by the courts as a restraint on trade and, as such, as against public policy.

We successfully struck out a claim brought against our client, Mr Xavier Huertas (a French insolvency practitioner) by Dr Richard Smith who was seeking a declaration in the English Courts that a Judgment obtained by Mr Huertas against him in France should not be recognised or registered in England under the 2001 Brussels Regulation on the ground that it would be manifestly contrary to public policy.

Represented scores of individuals in lawsuits against their former employers regarding claims of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation based on disability, sex, gender, sexual orientation, age, race, and other protected classes and activities in violation of the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), California Family Rights Act (CFRA), Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), American Disabilities Act (ADA), and public policy.

the Russian subsidiary of a major Austrian construction company in the appeal before the Supreme Court against the lower court judgments refusing enforcement of the ICAC award on the grounds of public policy, as the arbitrators allegedly interpreted the underlying contract incorrectly.

Recommended by Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners as a leading junior in Education law, Holly regularly advises on the full range of public and private education law matters, including special educational needs / disability discrimination, educational negligence, Academies, further and higher education issues, local authority policy matters, claims by and against state and independent school, regulatory matters, Ofsted and the OIA.

In line with the Guidelines to EU Policy towards Third Countries on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, EU member states should, through confidential démarches and public statements, urge Egypt to take effective measures against torture and ill - treatment, bring all those responsible for torture and ill - treatment to justice, and provide redress to victims.

Represented large - scale solar companies in securing permits for large - scale, multi-billion-dollar renewable energy projects on public lands; defending against federal and state litigation; and favorably influencing regional and national permitting policies.

I shall then state why, in my view, Article 28 (2) and (3) is to be interpreted as meaning that a Union citizen can not rely on the right to enhanced protection against expulsion under that provision where it is shown that that citizen derives that right from offending conduct constituting a serious disturbance of the public policy of the host Member State.

That right of permanent residence confers on its beneficiary protection against measures of expulsion, which can be taken against him only on serious grounds of public policy or public security.