Sentences with phrase «amendments to the law on»

First, a lot of time has been devoted to a referendum on the amendments to the law on archives and archival material.

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While US officials say it's integral to national security, citing its use in disrupting a terrorist plot to blow up the New York City subway system in 2009, privacy rights advocates worry the law oversteps its bounds and infringes on Americans» Fourth amendment rights.

According to Abdo of the ACLU, Apple has a claim based on the Fifth Amendment too: it could argue that the process would deprive it of liberty without due process of law.

Although the Bush administration issued new regulations relating to the Second Amendment rights of law - abiding citizens in units of the National Park System and National Wildlife Refuge System that went into effect on January 9, 2009 --

An analysis by University of Chicago Law School economists David S. Evans, Howard Chang, and Steven Joyce entitled «The Impact of the U.S. Debit Card Interchange Fee Regulation on Consumer Welfare: An Event Study Analysis» quantifies just how much consumers are expected to lose, rather than gain, from The Durbin amendment.

Supporters of the Second Amendment gathered at state capitals and in city centers on Saturday, hoping to counter hundreds of thousands who rallied for stricter gun laws.

When a corporate charter is alleged to contain a restriction on the fundamental electoral rights of stockholders under default provisions of law ---- such as the right of a majority of the shares to elect new directors or enact a charter amendment — it has been said that the restriction must be «clear and unambiguous» to be enforceable.

In addition, we intend to post on our website all disclosures that are required by law or Nasdaq stock market listing standards concerning any amendments to, or waivers from, any provision of the code.

A call for comment over the summer from both Industry Canada and the Canadian Radio - television and Telecommunications Commission (enforcement of the law is shared by the CRTC, Competition Bureau, and Privacy Commissioner of Canada) generated dozens of responses, most of which begin by congratulating the government on passing anti-spam legislation and then proceeded to urge significant amendments.

The Washington State Senate today passed a proposed crowdfunding law with a 46 - 2 vote, as House Bill 2023 now moves back to the House for a vote on amendments.

Former member of the Council of the Corporate Section of the Delaware State Bar Association, charged with proposing annual amendments to the Delaware General Corporation Law on behalf of the Delaware State Bar Association

The consultation that Switzerland's Federal Council ordered for the review of its three proposed amendments to banking laws will end on May 8, 2017.

On July 21, 2017, Delaware Governor John C. Carney Jr. signed an amendment to the Delaware General Corporation Law (DGCL) that expressly permits Delaware companies to create and maintain corporate records, including stock ledgers, on a blockchaiOn July 21, 2017, Delaware Governor John C. Carney Jr. signed an amendment to the Delaware General Corporation Law (DGCL) that expressly permits Delaware companies to create and maintain corporate records, including stock ledgers, on a blockchaion a blockchain.

And should the Supreme Court be unwise enough to impose same - sex marriage on the whole country, the decision will be greeted not like Loving v. Virginia (overturning antimiscegenation laws in 1967), as an achievement of obvious justice, but like Roe v. Wade, with a tireless movement dedicated to overturning its obvious injustice, and a reinvigorated effort to pass a federal marriage amendment.

The religious among us keep trying to chip away at the separation of church and state by making people recite the pledge of allegiance with the God clause, installing religious symbols and displays on public property, holding prayer breakfasts for politicians, berating the removal of prayer in public schools, trying to pass laws limiting women's access to birth control, and trying to get an amendment passed outlawing abortion (since in their view God creates a soul the moment a sperm enters an egg).

If that were the case, no federal law or amendment to the const!tution would have any bearng on any state, so be completely pointless.

In Smith, the Court interpreted its First Amendment decisions as holding «that the right of free exercise does not relieve an individual of the obligation to comply with a «valid and neutral law of general applicability on the ground that the law proscribes (or prescribes) conduct that his religion prescribes (or proscribes)»» (id.

The anti-abortion amendment being voted on this week in the state could restrict in vitro procedures, and the Carpenters are worried that if they wait too long to add to their family, they may end up breaking the law.

The judge didn't need to at all go on about Shariah law, but even then he still wasn't trampeling any 1st amendment rights.

It goes on to call for recognizing the legitimacy of a religious worldview «as a basis for socially significant action (including those taken by state) and as an essential factor which should influence the development (amendment) of international law and the work of international organizations.»

Gradually that tie has largely gone, but the christians in the USA at least want to impose their religion on the rest of us despite the First Amendment: biblical texts on public buildings, their god on the currency, their religious beliefs to be law, christian prayer at public events, etc..

The amendment would require Oklahoma courts to «rely on federal and state law when deciding cases» and «forbids courts from considering or using» either international law or Islamic religious law, known as Sharia, which the amendment defined as being based on the Quran and the teachings of the Prophet Mohammed.

On May 16, 2012, in response to a lawsuit filed by journalist Chris Hedges, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Wolf and others, [16] United States District Judge Katherine B. Forrest ruled the indefinite detention section of the law (1021) likely violates the 1st and 5th Amendments and issued a preliminary injunction preventing the US government from enforcing it.

Proposition 14 was a proposed constitutional amendment placed on tlie ballot by real - estate leaders, designed to repeal an existing open - housing law and to prevent any future Legislature from passing such a law.

Theism or atheism is in no way connected to one's believe on the 2nd amendment or gun laws.

Dana, I don't NEED to spend my time here on this board arguing over con law, either, but the 1st Amendment protects my ability to do it.

Amazingly, some extraordinarily courageous individuals (initially Arnold himself, journalists David Quinn and Breda O'Brien, the Iona Institute; later on, John Waters, retired Regius Professor of Laws at Trinity College Dublin, William Binchy and the distinguished historian Prof. John A. Murphy; the gay campaigners for a «No» vote, Paddy Manning and Keith Mills, deserve special mention) did succeed in making a difference to the eventual numbers, although not the outcome: in the early Spring, polls indicated that 17 percent of the electorate would vote against the amendment, but by the time the actual referendum came around, 38 percent were indicating a «No» vote, and that was the eventual outcome.

And, indeed, this was done in the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit that declared the Washington State law prohibiting physician - assisted suicide to be unconstitutional on the grounds that it violated the guarantee of personal liberty in the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.

The right - wing faction has promoted the school prayer amendment to the Consitituion and similar initiatives to declare America a «Christian nation;» it is workingintently to bring about a constitutional convention at which its representatives could propose curtailments of various freedoms; is drafting laws to confer official favor on specific religious establishments.

This right - wing faction has promoted the school prayer amendment to the Constitution and similar initiatives to declare America a «Christian nation»; it is working intently to bring about a constitutional convention at which its representatives could propose curtailments of various freedoms, is drafting laws to confer official favor on specific religious establishments.

They have the law on their side to join, but the first amendment offers them no protection from the groups stated thoughts and beliefs.

Here are some details about that November 2004 ballot proposal: 1) there was already in place a Utah law strictly banning same - sex marriage, which I fully supported; 2) all three candidates for the office of attorney general of Utah (the chief law - enforcement officer in the state) opposed the amendment, including the LDS (Mormon) Republican incumbent, Mark Shurtleff, mostly because they considered it a poorly drafted amendment; 3) I refused to endorse the amendment, but I did not urge people to vote «no»; 4) the leadership of the LDS Church, which has a record for being as strongly opposed to same - sex marriage as the Catholic Church, did not issue a statement urging its members to vote one way or the other; 5) inasmuch as two thirds of Utahans belong to the LDS Church, this means that the leadership of at least 80 percent of Utah churchgoers did not urge a «yes» vote on the amendment.

The evangelical - moralist sector has gained access to the White House, the Supreme Court, the Congress; it has a near - monopoly on mass media religion news, popular religion, the production of religious celebrities; it makes clear its positions on what it calls social issues, and is engaged in calling for constitutional amendments and new laws and in protests in the public squares.

If the electorate vote to repeal the Eighth Amendment, any draft legislation would only become law if the Dail voted for it, and that is not a foregone conclusion given the Fine Gael coalition is a minority administration and TDs will vote on conscience.

For another, the Fourteenth amendment to the Constiitution hinges principally on the natural law concept of the rights of man.

Some of the transcripts are now available from the Senate's inquiry into the «impacts of supermarket price decisions on the dairy industry» (naturally Frank Zumbo used the opportunity to once again rave about the Birdsville amendment on predatory pricing - he doesn't fail to mention he drafted it, amongst other things (such as a purported need for price discrimination laws and proposing an office of the Australian small business and farming commissioner)-RRB-.

Although it focused on amendments relating to the Australian Consumer Law, if passed, it would also have introduced amendments to s 5 of the Act relating to the requirement for private parties to obtain ministerial consent.

In her home state of Texas, the government legislature actually passed a «safe cupcake amendment» (a.k.a. Lauren's Law) to protect the right of parents to bring in sweets on their kids» birthdays.

Yunusa said the bill on the amendment had been sent to the Nigerian Law Reforms Commission for further contributions.

The amendment to the civil liberties policy motion read: «The protection of freedom of expression, by reforming the libel laws in England and Wales to ensure a better balance is provided between free speech, responsible journalism, scientific discourse and the public interest on one hand and powerful corporations, wealthy individuals and vested interests on the other.»

The prime minister's attitude has been to take it on the chin; in last year's Queen's Speech debate, for example, he claimed he was «relaxed» about the amendment calling for an EU referendum law.

For context, the Trans - Pacific Partnership (TPP) is an international trade agreement being negotiated between 12 countries including the U.S., and Fast Track, also called the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), is a proposed U.S. law that would allow the President to get an international trade agreement such as TPP ratified by Congress using a simplified procedure (no amendments being allowed, and a time limit on deliberations).

Cuomo has called for closing the LLC loophole in campaign finance law as well as an agreement on requiring officials convicted of corruption to surrender their pensions through a constitutional amendment.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is not part of the constitution... So the law, if enacted, may be in violation of the CRA, but unless that act is adopted as an amendment to the constitution then it would not be unconstitutional based on that law.

Although we do not undertake an exhaustive historical analysis today of the full scope of the Second Amendment, nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms.

For some context, the NRA is suing Florida on the grounds that the new law, which raises the minimum age to 21 from 18 to purchase a firearm, violates the 2nd and 14th amendment.

... To deny this fundamental freedom on so unsupportable a basis as the racial classifications embodied in these statutes, classifications so directly subversive of the principle of equality at the heart of the Fourteenth Amendment, is surely to deprive all the State's citizens of liberty without due process of laTo deny this fundamental freedom on so unsupportable a basis as the racial classifications embodied in these statutes, classifications so directly subversive of the principle of equality at the heart of the Fourteenth Amendment, is surely to deprive all the State's citizens of liberty without due process of lato deprive all the State's citizens of liberty without due process of law.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie on Monday said it was unlikely Democratic lawmakers will take up changes to the SAFE Act, calling amendments to the gun control law in his chamber «challenging.»

Brooklyn, NY Members of the Executive Committee of the Kings County Democratic Party voted on Tuesday night to make final amendments to their by - laws to incorporate major changes to the way the party does business.

Without coming to agreement on how to proceed, legislative leaders considered several legal options, including passing statutes to delay the implementation of Goodridge, a strategy outlined by Mary Ann Glendon of Harvard Law School, until a referendum on a constitutional amendment could be held in November 2006.