Sentences with phrase «amendments to the law prohibiting»
It upheld 1988 amendments to the law prohibiting conduct contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
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The city's law prohibiting employers from asking candidates to reveal their past salaries violates the First Amendment's free - speech clause, ruled U.S. District Judge Mitchell S. Goldberg.
Rights have limits: The First Amendment prohibits laws abridging freedom of speech, but courts have not protected falsely shouting fire in a crowded theater or inciting to riot.
Constitutional Amendment 1: «Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances»
As a Christian from the South, I've always felt that the biggest threat to my 1st Amendment rights, «Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,» was the far right / conservative christians.
The words of the First Amendment would seem to apply: Congress shall make no law «prohibiting the free exercise [of religion].»
Almost immediately, challenges to state laws and constitutional amendments prohibiting same - sex marriages erupted.
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.
This is clear from the First Amendment to the Federal Constitution, in which the Congress is denied the power to make any «laws respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.»
Lets look at the 1st amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Due to what the First Amendment of the U.S. Consti - tution states, «Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;» it shouldn't matter what their religion is.
Something I haven't seen anybody mention before is that even though the government does establish nor prohibits religion (Establishment Clause and Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment,) the system of laws can inadvertently end up being setup to practically prohibit being a Christian by the advocacy of certain groups who go above and beyond to have the courts rule in such matters.
The third decision concerned a 1992 statewide referendum in which the voters in Colorado adopted an amendment, known as Amendment 2, to their constitution prohibiting laws that make homosexual orientation, conduct, and relationships the bases of special entitlements to minority status, quota preferences, and claims to discriamendment, known as Amendment 2, to their constitution prohibiting laws that make homosexual orientation, conduct, and relationships the bases of special entitlements to minority status, quota preferences, and claims to discriAmendment 2, to their constitution prohibiting laws that make homosexual orientation, conduct, and relationships the bases of special entitlements to minority status, quota preferences, and claims to discrimination.
The first amendment to the constitution contains these words: «Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.»
B Fisse and C Beaton - Wells, «The Competition and Consumer Amendment Bill (No. 1)(Exposure Draft): A Problematic Attempt to Prohibit Information Disclosure» (2011) 39 (1) Australian Business Law Review (February)
B Fisse and C Beaton - Wells, «The Competition and Consumer Amendment Bill (No. 1)(Exposure Draft): A Problematic Attempt to Prohibit Information Disclosure» (2011) 39 (1) Australian Business Law Review
The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States provides (among other things) that «Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press...»
They argued that NIH's July guidelines implementing an order from President Barack Obama to lift limits on hESC research violated the Dickey - Wicker Amendment, a law that prohibits federal funding for «research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed.»
Such conduct shall include, but is not limited to, threats, intimidation or abuse based on a person's actual or perceived race, color, weight, national origin, ethnic group, religion, religious practice, disability, sexual orientation, gender, or sex; provided that nothing in this subdivision shall be construed to prohibit a denial of admission into, or exclusion from, a course of instruction based on a person's gender that would be permissible under Education Law sections 3201 - a or 2854 (2)(a) and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (20 U.S.C. section 1681, et seq.), or to prohibit, as discrimination based on disability, actions that would be permissible under section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses: The religion clauses of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: «Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.»
That would seem to raise constitutional problems because the U.S. Supreme Court has interpreted the Free Exercise Clause in the First Amendment to the Constitution to prohibit the government from enacting laws that discriminate against any religious group or activity.
On this day fifty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed this landmark piece of federal legislation that prohibited racial discrimination in voting and outlawed pernicious state and local laws put in place to frustrate the intent of the 15th Amendment, particularly with regard to African - American voting rights.
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The amendment seeks to prohibit laws in Missouri that restrict industrialized agriculture and factory farms, including the «farming» of dogs in puppy mills.
Delegate Cheryl Glenn will introduce an amendment to the state's proposed dangerous dog law this week that would prohibit municipalities from banning or regulating dogs based on their breed.
Because of concerns about legitimate First Amendment rights to public records, the statutes typically prohibit the sites from charging photo removal fees or law enforcement agencies from providing photos to sites that charge such fees.
Justice Scalia wrote the majority decision, in which it was decided that a California law prohibiting the sale or rental of «violent video games» to minors is invalid as violating the first amendment protecting freedom of speech.
Even a very incomplete list gives an impression of the large number of significant opinions he has written: seminal administrative law cases such as Chevron v. NRDC and Massachusetts v. EPA, the intellectual property case Sony Corp v. Universal City Studios (which made clear that making individual videotapes of television programs did not constitute copyright infringement), important war on terror precedents such as Rasul v. Bush and Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, important criminal law cases such as Padilla v. Kentucky (holding that defense counsel must inform the defendant if a guilty plea carries a risk of deportation) and Atkins v. Virginia (which reversed precedent to hold it was unconstitutional to impose capital punishment on the mentally retarded), and of course Apprendi v. New Jersey (which revolutionized criminal sentencing by holding that the Sixth Amendment right to jury trial prohibited judges from enhancing criminal sentences beyond statutory maximums based on facts other than those decided by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt).
The government is prohibited by the first amendment from creating a law which gives preference to one religion over another.
(A) Subject to the Clinical Laboratory Improvements Amendments of 1988, 42 U.S.C. 263a, to the extent the provision of access to the individual would be prohibited by law; or