Sentences with phrase «allowed by precedent»

No invisible fence or shock collar is allowed by precedent.

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They don't work within traditional boundaries or allow themselves to be confined by precedent.

While it is anxious not to set a precedent, and allow Assange to remain a fugitive in London in defiance of a European arrest warrant, it is also bound by the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations — a treaty which (in contrast to the treaty on diplomatic asylum) does enjoy widespread support as a core piece of the legal architecture governing modern diplomacy.

U.S. Senate Republicans deployed the so - called «nuclear option» and changed longstanding rules to clear the way for the confirmation of Judge Neil Gorsuch to serve on the Supreme Court, bypassing a precedent - breaking Democratic filibuster by allowing the nomination to go forward on a simple majority vote.

He explained that, government would be setting a precedent that will be at odds with the New Patriotic Party government's efforts at decentralization, by allowing Parliament to quash bye - laws enacted...

There is precedent, he noted, pointing to largely successful efforts by NGOs to preserve South American rainforests by purchasing their development rights and allowing the native trees to stand.

Rather than abide by the precedent of Regents v. Bakke (1978), which allowed for affirmative action within certain constraints, Scalia expressed categorical opposition to race - based affirmative action.

Josh Viertel, president of Slow Food USA, adds that by allowing fast food corporations to vie for contracts in school cafeterias — the only place on campus that many students interact with food — educators are setting a dangerous precedent.

Janus targets a 40 - year - old precedent set by Abood v. Detroit Board of Education, which permits allowing agency fees as a means to avoid a «free rider» problem: non-union members benefiting from union representation in contract negotiations, but not paying for that service.

«It's important to guard against any precedent that would allow a school district to be found deliberately indifferent if bullying or harassment by others continues, despite a district's efforts to address reported misconduct,» said Thomas J. Gentzel, Executive Director, National School Boards Association.

Because MI selection is currently handled by the lender as part of the primary market process, the IMAGIN program sets a precedent of allowing the GSEs to participate in primary market activities while also putting the taxpayer at greater risk by circumventing the high capital and regulatory standards that MIs are held to today.

After a precedent was set by the Supreme Court, federal law doesn't allow student loan debt to be discharged in bankruptcy, although other forms of outstanding debt such as credit cards have the potential for discharge in bankruptcy.

The court was concerned that the UK policy set the threshold so high against the applicants from the outset «that it did not allow a balancing of the competing individual and public interests and a proportionality test by the secretary of state or by the domestic courts» because the applicants had to demonstrate as a condition precedent to the application of the policy, that the deprivation of artificial insemination facilities might prevent conception altogether.

Developed by the firm's head of research and development, Orlando Conetta, it guides lawyers through tasks by bringing in documents, templates and information on legal precedents, such as by allowing lawyers to assess legal risks against consistent, detailed criteria set centrally.

If this precedent is upheld by the Supreme Court, then they will be opening a Pandora's Box which will allow the KBA to inject itself in to every case coming before any judge.

«I am just stumped by it because the precedents at the national level and in Iowa do not indicate that this particular case rose to the level of allowing prior restraint.»

The relevant costs were allowed in Wiseman, precedent being provided by Hamlin v Great Northern Rly Co (1856) 1 H & N 408, 26 LJ Ex 20 and Woodger v Great Western Rly Co (1867) LR 2 CP 318, 36 LJCP 177.

Curtis Properties Corp. v. Greif Companies (212 A.D. 2d 259)- lease; exclusive agency agreement; written commission agreement terminated; recovery allowed under quantum meruit for implied contract; commission entitlement under implied contract where broker brought parties together; party may not frustrate the performance of an agreement by bringing about the failure of a condition precedent; court will not imply exclusive right to deal absent express language.