Sentences with phrase «as legal persons»

Interestingly, though, other linguistic versions of the TFEU (such as the French and the Dutch one) use the term «persons», a concept that can clearly refer to natural as well as legal persons.

Animal Rights is a philosophy that advocates animals should be viewed as legal persons, not property, and that they should not be used in any way.

The words «writ of habeas corpus» have been struck out, suggesting that the court has made no decision on whether Hercules and Leo — two research chimpanzees at Stony Brook University in New York — deserve to be treated as legal persons.

In a decision that seems to recognize chimpanzees as legal persons for the first time, a New York judge today granted a pair of Stony Brook University lab animals the right to have their day in court.

In The Rights of Man... And Beast, Charles Siebert reports on the American lawyer Steven Wise, who has been advocating in defense of animal welfare for decades and who recently argued in court that a chimpanzee should have standing as a legal person to sue his captor.

If the corporate veil distinguishes a corporation as a legal person separate from the shareholders in said corporation, what do you call it when an individual exists as an investment opportunity as an IPO like a company?

As a legal person that is form and function of what we do, and it's embedded in almost everything, every decision we help make for our organizations.

Because the Crown serves as the concept of the state in Canada and the Canadian state is the legal person called Her Majesty in Right of Canada, [22] stating that Canada and the United Kingdom have the same Sovereign as a legal person, or that Canada and the United Kingdom are under a common Crown, implies that the two countries are not separate and distinct sovereign states.

Not exact matches

On Tuesday, Mississippi governor Phil Bryant signed legislation known as HB 1523, making it legal for businesses and religious organizations to deny services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in that state.

On September 10th of this year I spent an entire day in California State Prison at the California City Correctional Facility with people who had committed felonies and worked with them on business plans to help them create legal enterprise upon their release as part of Defy Ventures 6 - month training program.

His status as a mere witness is all the more reason to go in prepared through legal counsel — «even if you're telling a story about ice cream, because these are some of the most irresponsible people on earth,» he said, referring to Congress.

• Speaking of Time's Up... Attorney Tina Tchen, who Bloomberg describes as «arguably the most well - connected person working in women's rights today, thanks to her six years as an assistant to President Barack Obama and as first lady Michelle Obama's chief of staff,» talks about why it was so important that Time's Up include a legal defense fund: «The fastest way to make sure that someone isn't getting bullied by a lawyer for someone rich and powerful is to make sure that person has a lawyer, too.»

But in other cases, it is more illuminating to think of which legal protections are necessary to protect the rights of persons who make use of the corporation as a way to carry out their own objectives.

«We know that people who choose beer when they become of legal drinking age are two times more likely to continue drinking beer throughout their lifetime, and as an organization, we have an opportunity to regain ground with this group,» said David Kroll, MillerCoors» chief marketing officer, in a statement.

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That bill would provide legal protections to «Dreamers,» the hundreds of thousands of undocumented people who came to the United States as children and have established roots.

As inclusion the list is not typically disclosed, pursuing legal challenges to be removed from the list is notoriously difficult — even though the FBI is meant to remove people from the list in a timely manner if its investigations are concluded without finding guilt.

Not having legal recognition means non-binary people must constantly live as someone they are not.»

«That is why we have committed to reviewing the Gender Recognition Act to look at ways of streamlining and demedicalising the process for changing a person's legal gender, as well as reviewing gender markers in official documents.

And they have also tended to allow religious excuses to free people from certain legal claims, such as might arise in jurisdictions with broad protections against discrimination, including minorities such as LGBT people.

But as people with experience solving complex problems, leading complex organizations and coping with regulatory and legal issues, they have a valid and vital perspective to express on matters of politics and public policy.

As long as people have a right to freedom of speech, businesses are free to sell whatever is still legaAs long as people have a right to freedom of speech, businesses are free to sell whatever is still legaas people have a right to freedom of speech, businesses are free to sell whatever is still legal.

In order for bitcoin to be a real currency, Adeney claims, it must be three things: easy and frictionless for trading between people, widely accepted as a legal tender for all debts (both public and private) and stable in terms of value.

According to a person with knowledge of the matter, Mueller's team has requested to interview Mark Corallo, who served as the Trump legal team spokesman until July 2017.

While specific churches (notably the Santo Daime) have been granted legal permission to use ayahuasca as a holy sacrament in the U.S.A., many people prefer to experience the medicine in Peru or Brazil instead.

While some addictions, such as to drug and alcohol, are easier to recognize (and be videotaped) by those close to the afflicted person, problem gambling usually comes to light when financial and legal issues arise.

The results of Uber's legal battle could reshape the sharing economy, which is built around Internet companies that serve as marketplaces matching people who provide a service with others looking to pay for it.

California, with its population of more than 38 million people, is now «the new epicenter of the legal cannabis industry,» she said, adding, «As both the oldest medical cannabis state and the largest cannabis consumer population, sales in California are projected to dwarf those of any other market.

Yet another privacy backlash leads Facebook to give people more control over Beacon, before the company ultimately scraps it as part of a legal settlement.

Today, the opportunities for contingent, project - based work are exploding, as is the development of tools that allow people to work independently across industries like software, design, marketing, legal services, architecture, healthcare, and engineering.

Yet the legal review of the trade measure had not been completed and, as of Thursday morning, White House advisers were still discussing various outcomes for tariff levels and which countries could be included, according to people familiar with the deliberations.

While Hong Kong is officially a special administrative region within the People's Republic of China, and has a separate legal and financial system, Beijing sees it as a part of the mainland.

A cynic would likely view and categorize «ëxcessive» executive compensation / remuneration as nothing more than a legal loop hole to what some people (i.e., the Chicago Judge in Conrad Black's case) would.

Backers of the petro could be viewed as extending a line of credit to the Venezuelan government, said a spokesperson who went on to state, «The Venezuelan petro currency could therefore expose US persons to legal risk.»

If your Shares are held in the name of a broker, bank, or other nominee and you want to vote in person, you will need to obtain (and bring with you to the 2015 Annual Shareholders» Meeting) a legal proxy from the record holder of your Shares (who must have been the record holder of your Shares as of the close of business on April 10, 2015) indicating that you were a beneficial owner of Shares as of the close of business on April 10, 2015, as well as the number of Shares of which you were the beneficial owner on the record date, and appointing you as the record holder's proxy to vote the Shares covered by that proxy at the 2015 Annual Shareholders» Meeting.

Uber Technologies Inc.'s net loss widened to $ 1.46 billion in the third quarter, according to people with knowledge of the matter, as the ride - hailing leader struggled to fend off competition, legal challenges and regulatory scrutiny.

Absent such a standard, the shareholder proposal rule becomes nothing less than a species of private eminent domain by which the federal government allows a small minority to appropriate someone else's property — the company is a legal person, after all, and it is the company's proxy statement at issue — for use as a soap - box to disseminate their views.

««Virtual currencies» means a digital representation of value that is neither issued by a central bank or a public authority, not attached to a legally established currency, which does not possess the legal status of currency or money, but is accepted by natural or legal persons as a means of exchange or for other purposes, and can be transferred, stored or traded electronically.

She describes the product as a legal tax loophole that allowed people to invest with minimal risk and high returns.

Corporate personhood is easily ridiculed on late - night television, but as Eric Posner pointed out in Slate, the law often «treats various nonhuman, nonsentient entities as «persons» for certain legal purposes.»

As discussed above, if you are a street name stockholder, you may not vote your shares in person at the Annual Meeting unless you obtain a legal proxy from your broker, bank or other nominee.

People blast Apple (and Microsoft, Google, GE, etc.) as unpatriotic for taking advantage of the legal options available to them.

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Unfortunately, as anyone who's ever gone through the process can attest, mortgages involve pages and pages of legal documentation that can be nearly impossible for most people to comprehend.

The growing legal questions around Mr Cohen's services for Mr Trump come as the lawyer faces a grand - jury investigation being led by federal prosecutors in New York City who are exploring bank fraud, wire fraud or campaign finance charges, according to people familiar with the matter who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.

Mr Giuliani also revealed what legal analysts say might be tantalising leads for investigators, who already were exploring Mr Cohen's business practices and whether any crimes may have been committed as part of a pattern or strategy of paying hush money to keep damaging stories about Mr Trump from appearing when he was a candidate, according to people familiar with the matter.

«As part of the new Regulations, an official joint announcement will be released during the upcoming PBOC press conference making it clear that neither the People's Bank of China nor the Hong Kong Monetary Authority recognises Bitcoin or any other virtual currency as legal tender, thus, making its use as an official currency to settle debts and financial obligations illegaAs part of the new Regulations, an official joint announcement will be released during the upcoming PBOC press conference making it clear that neither the People's Bank of China nor the Hong Kong Monetary Authority recognises Bitcoin or any other virtual currency as legal tender, thus, making its use as an official currency to settle debts and financial obligations illegaas legal tender, thus, making its use as an official currency to settle debts and financial obligations illegaas an official currency to settle debts and financial obligations illegal.

Think of the Daniels - versus - Trump legal battle as, so far, a three - month - long epic saga set in 2018 in, partly, Washington, D.C. — a hard town full of hard people (and a smutty sheriff, so to speak).

On 5 December 2013, the People's Bank of China announced in a press release regarding bitcoin regulation that whilst individuals in China are permitted to freely trade and exchange bitcoins as a commodity, it is prohibited for Chinese financial banks to operate using bitcoins or for bitcoins to be used as legal tender currency, and that entities dealing with bitcoins must track and report suspicious activity to prevent money laundering.

A legal relationship created by the voluntary association of two or more persons to carry on as co-owners of a business for profit.