Sentences with phrase «also challenged a statute»

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Villaraigosa also fought for teacher tenure reforms, backing the plaintiffs in the Vergara case, which challenged the constitutionality of state tenure and layoff statutes on the grounds that they harmed low - income students.

If First Sale rights, or a similar legal doctrine, is recognised in case law or statute as covering ebook sales, there could be interesting consequences, particularly if DRM is also challenged on similar grounds.

I also want to comment on your statement, «Although organizations like CanLII have done a wonderful job making newer case law accessible and searchable, it can be incredibly challenging for even highly educated laypeople to separate the wheat from the chaff and find relevant case law illuminating and elucidating the text of statute law.»

We also regularly represent insurance companies and industry trade associations in administrative law, constitutional and preemption - based challenges to statutes and regulations at the federal and state levels.

Challenges are often legal in nature — piercing the corporate veil, a statute of limitations, conflict of laws, finding a forum in which to be heard — but increasingly public governance issues and lack of robust regulatory oversight are also on the playing field.

Using that statute to challenge physician non-competes that were signed prior to July 12, 2016 arguably would seek to give the statute improper retroactive effect, and may also run afoul of state and federal constitutional law principles.

The Eleventh Circuit vacated the lower court's opinion, holding that the organization lacked standing because its claim was not redressable, as the organization only challenged the canon, and not a state statute that also allowed a party to disqualify an impartial judge based on the same standard as the canon.

For completeness, plaintiffs also lost their constitutional challenge to the Texas statute capping punitive damages at twice compensatory damages.

We also have significant experience in administrative and other regulatory litigation, including agency rule challenges, regulatory investigations under state and federal false claims acts and unfair trade practice statutes, and defending clients in related individual and class action civil suits.

More than 15 years after Roe, she was also the lead plaintiff in the U.S. Supreme Court case Hodgson v. Minnesota, where she unsuccessfully challenged a parental notification statute that required a teenage girl to notify both parents before getting an abortion.