Sentences with phrase «assert states rights»

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The filing goes on to say that on December 2, Brown's lawyers stated that unless Snapchat took legal action to protect its confidentiality agreements, Brown would continue to «assert a unilateral right to publicly disclose, without any notice or meet and confer, literally every scrap of confidential information designated by Snapchat.»

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been speaking with world leaders including UN Secretary General Ban - ki Moon, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and US Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs John Kerry and asserting Israel's right to defend itself against incessant rocket attacks and terrorist infiltrations which no country can be expected to suffer without responding.

A number of dictatorial countries» including some that Freedom House has ranked among the worst violators of human rights» flatly asserted that individual rights must remain subservient to those of the state, a stipulation that, if accepted, would effectively strip the individual citizen of his rights.

Bruce A. Ackerman, in Social Justice in the Liberal State (Yale University Press, 1980), arguing for an astringently secular, rational model, is faithful to the framers at least in the proposition that «nobody has the right to vindicate political authority by asserting a privileged insight into the moral universe which is denied to the rest of us.»

He recognizes that he is addressing mainly the Catholic situation in the United States, and even that from his Irish - American perspective, but he believes that his core argument about the Catholic imagination and its cultural potency has wider application, and I expect he is right about that, although in this book it is asserted rather than demonstrated.

«These writers,» said Coleman, «also asserted that there were institutions in society outside the government which stood between the individual and the state, and which did not derive their right to exist from the state.

Dating from a sermon preached by John Keble in the university church in 1833, the Oxford Movement boldly asserted the right of the Church of England to a life of its own associated with but not dominated by the State.

The judicial minimalism enforcing abstract individual rights that Sehat thinks would protect religious liberty is a fantasy; in an empty public square, the state inevitably will assert its own beliefs.

As you correctly state, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights asserts that Article 1 All peoples have the right of self - determination.

In this sense, there is no need to assert a «human right to food» because the ability to appropriate resources from nature which are in a state of unappropriated is self - evident.

But the state should assert the rights of people in Britain, gay or straight, men or women, to be treated equally and well.

These states assert that they «have a vital interest in protecting the First Amendment rights of public employees, and in the fiscal health of state and local governments.»

Asserting that the primates» relatively high intelligence entitles them to legal rights, the Nonhuman Rights Project went to court in three places in New York State inrights, the Nonhuman Rights Project went to court in three places in New York State inRights Project went to court in three places in New York State in 2013.

«We have to talk about foreign policy that is grounded in the nation state, but a foreign policy that also gives the rights of others around the world,» he asserted.

«We have to walk a fine line here because we want to budget only revenues that we realistically expect to obtain during the year in question and we assert, as does the state of New York, our right to receive our legitimate share of the Seneca revenues,» he said.

A man who donated sperm to a married lesbian couple has no right to demand a genetic test to assert his claim to be their child's father, a state appeals court determined, overturning the determination of a Family Court judge in the Southern Tier.

Given that, as a demonstrator, you feel you are simply asserting your democratic rights, to be given the message that the state sees your activity as akin to criminal activity is incredibly demeaning and degrading.

A state senator in Georgia who is running for governor is asserting his stance on gun rights by giving away a bump stock «to one lucky winner» in the aftermath of the Las Vegas mass shooting.

Speaking to reporters outside his office, Sheldon Silver, the Assembly speaker, asserted that the governor had the right to manage the size of the state workforce and that «he doesn't need the Legislature to authorize anything.»

Although many lab chiefs are humane and generous mentors, and most are at least fair and reasonable, some, as anguished tales make plain, comport themselves as workplace tyrants whose workers fear that they would jeopardize their professional futures — and often their right to remain in the United States — by asserting their workplace rights.

I really like what you've acquired right here, really like what you are stating and the way in which in which you assert it.

Plaintiffs» equal protection claims assert that the Challenged Statutes violate their fundamental rights to equality of education by adversely affecting the quality of the education they are afforded by the state.»

Despite America's long and sordid history of extreme inequity in schooling and in spite of dramatic continuing disparities in educational quality, states» rights advocates assert the federal government isn't needed to monitor or assure educational quality and equity.

They do so today for countless purposes, typically to claim a right to free and edgy speech on T - shirts or banners under the First Amendment, to assert rights to education of the handicapped under the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, and to ask for more school spending under state constitutional provisions that are said to guarantee an equitable or an adequate education.

Attendees also excoriated DeVos for asserting at her confirmation hearing that states should have the right to choose whether to enforce the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), a piece of legislation that allows students with disabilities to receive an education tailored to their needs.

Each state sets its own laws governing teacher tenure, dismissal and layoff policies, and the rights the students assert are given under the state constitution, so similar efforts will come in state courts.

By choosing to send their kids to private schools, parents assert their right to be in control of their upbringing — the way it had been for time immemorial until the 19th Century, when the state began to supplant parents as «professional experts.»

In 2014, the Community Legal Aid Society and the American Civil Liberties Union brought a complaint to the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights that asserted that the charter schools of Delaware were resegregating the state's schools by race and by disability.

As a national coalition of advocacy and education organizations across 29 states and Washington D.C. working to dismantle the school - to - prison pipeline, DSC strongly asserts that Mr. Marcus» background and his testimony during his confirmation hearing reveal that he is unfit to carry out the responsibilities of the Office for Civil Rights, which is responsible for enforcing federal civil rights laws in our nation's scRights, which is responsible for enforcing federal civil rights laws in our nation's scrights laws in our nation's schools.

Each Member hereby explicitly waives any and all rights to bring or assert any such claim after that stated time period.

Asserting that anthropogenic climate change poses an existential threat to our nations, our cultures and to our way of life, and thereby undermines the internationally protected human rights of our people — including the right to sustainable development, right to life, the right to self - determination and the right of a people not to be deprived of its own means of subsistence, as well as principles of international law that oblige all states to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction or control do not cause damage to the environment of other states or of areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction;

Sophie says: «In our civil rights case, titled Juliana, et al. v. United States, et al. and available at ourchildrenstrust.org, we assert that the government is violating our constitutional right to life, liberty and property by approving emissions of fatally high levels of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, despite being aware of its damaging effects.

For example, in Colorado civil cases, some of the more common grounds for an award of attorneys» fees to a defending party are: (a) a two - sided contractual fee shifting term, (b) dismissal of the case before filing an answer for failure to state a claim when tort claims were asserted, (c) a determination that the suit was groundless, frivolous or vexatious, (d) violation of certain rules relating to disclosure of information to the other party, (e) a statutory fee shifting provision in the case of a claim based upon a statutorily created right which is present in some statutes but not others.

It will be a declaration, in my deliberate judgment, that the sovereign power of the people of the United States and Union must hereafter remain incapable of action over territory to which their rights in full dominion have been asserted with the most rigorous authority, and bow to a jurisdiction hitherto unknown, unacknowledged by any department of the government, denied by all through all time, unclaimed till now, and now declared to have been called into exercise not by any change in our Constitution, the laws of the Union or the States, but preexistent and paramount over the supreme law of the land.

For instance, in Evans, McLachlin J. for the majority stated at page 305 «a person who does not understand his or her right can not be expected to assert it.»

In particular, in firmly rejecting the idea that statutory duties can create independent rights at common law, Lord Reed closes off one route by which claimants might assert state actors have obligations to those harmed by the actors» careless conduct.

[54] Of course, unlike state supreme courts, if any of these bodies did attempt to assert their authority in this manner, it would not go unchallenged: the bar, and notably the ABA, has on a number of occasions formally challenged the right of any governmental body, other than state supreme courts, to attempt to regulate lawyers in any manner.

While we will be featuring posts over the coming days on this award that dissect and analyze the award, its international legal significance, and its larger geopolitical consequences for all claimants to the South China Sea dispute and third - party actors (such as the United States), for now, a close read of all 479 pages of this arbitral award reveals it to be an extremely rich and fertile piece of international jurisprudence, one that will certainly have far - ranging doctrinal impacts as an international judicial decision that is also an authoritative subsidiary means for determination of the international law rules under UNCLOS, especially on questions such as the: 1) normative weight of «historic rights» and differentiating the same from «historic title» and «historic rights short of sovereignty», and clarifying what could still possibly amount to historic rights that States could still validly assert within the UNCLOS treaty regime;

The Task Force published its study in September 2003, and its findings included that the state's most vulnerable populations were «systematically denied the ability to assert and enforce fundamental legal rights, and forced to live with the consequences.»

State laws may also be used to protect employees» personnel files and records and to assert workers» rights in cases involving discrimination, retaliation, and wrongful termination.

For example, a counterargument might be asserted that it is state supreme courts that have the de jure right to regulate legal services, and at any moment they could simply choose to exercise greater oversight over the work of the ABA and state and local bar associations.

If you need assistance asserting your right to benefits, the knowledgeable Orange County workers» compensation lawyers at Howard Law, P.C., can help you aggressively pursue the benefits to which you may be entitled under state law.

It is important to bear in mind that petitioner asserts no right to absolute immunity from state investigation, and no right to disregard Alabama's laws.

Not surprisingly, animals have never been considered persons for the purposes of habeas corpus relief, nor have they been explicitly considered as persons or entities capable of asserting rights for the purpose of state or federal law.

To this end, the Bill defines the concept of accommodation, asserts that the government will make any compromise to respect the right to equality between women and men and the principle of religious neutrality of the state, and provides that an accommodation can not be granted if it imposes an undue hardship on the government department or agency.

Beyond the differences of strictly legal issues and methods, there is a single theme: that, as a matter of political morality, a state that purports to respect and even to create rights must not prevent citizens from asserting them.

The majority is right that there can not be a Rule of Law if people can not assert their rights in court, and that «[i] f people can not challenge government actions in court, individuals can not hold the state to account — the government will be, or be seen to be, above the law» (par.

In that book, Bork subscribed to the interpretation of constitutional historian Russell Caplan, who asserted that this Amendment was meant to ensure that the federal Bill of Rights would not affect provisions in state law that restrain state governments.

Comment: One commenter asked us to delete our standard for deceased individuals, asserting that the deceased have no constitutional right to privacy and state laws are sufficient to maintain protections for protected health information about deceased individuals.