Sentences with phrase «basic fairness to»

The Groups believe independent oversight is the only way to guarantee basic fairness to state vendors, including MWBE firms and small businesses.

Preserving the deduction of state and local taxes is not a partisan issue, but about basic fairness to states like New York, Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan said Wednesday in a statement.

Not exact matches

«Too often, consumers don't have the basic facts they need to assess the fairness, integrity, and security of these trading platforms,» said Schneiderman in a statement.

«After the way he was treated by this president, after some of the names that this president has besmirched his reputation with, just seems in basic fairness he gets to tell his side of the story to the American public, and I hope he'll be as forthcoming as possible.»

«The question is one of basic fairness, and working to create a tax code that doesn't penalize frugality, saving and investment.»

Yet too often, consumers don't have the basic facts they need to assess the fairness, integrity, and security of these trading platforms,» the Attorney General stated in the release.

In judging it, however, we need to consider the bill's basic fairness.

According to the principles of American tradition and of basic fairness, such public institutions should not give the impression that some one religion is the established religion of the country, and therefore superior to all others...

What most impressed him about the issues raised by the study, Inbar said, is the need to think about «basic fairness.»

It's the basic principle of fairness and respect for the rules of the game itself, as opposed to The Shield.

The PRC obviously wants to pick a fight with the Major League Baseball Players Association, and it doesn't want anyone with a sense of fairness in the way of reopening the Basic Agreement and / or locking out the players next spring.

This is totally normal and unsurprising at this age (It actually is basic problem - solving) Thoughts of fairness, sharing, and ownership don't enter the toddler's mind - those concepts need to be learned and practiced and develop with maturity and guidance.

The second, Republican Economy in Practice, looks at application around the globe, including contributions on cooperatives, sovereign wealth funds, basic income, tax fairness and green solutions and discusses how to develop these models at scale.

A new «politics of limits» that brings us «back to basics» and a sense of fairness not felt since war rationing may help us reconnect with what's really important once again.

A policy which disproportionately affects ethnic minorities, LGBT people, women, the disabled and those living in less affluent areas is not only an affront to basic principles of fairness and social justice but also exacerbates the inequality crisis which continues to worsen across the UK.

«I look forward to the day when New York and all states accept this basic principle of fairness.

«New Yorkers with disabilities have fought for years to secure basic fairness in transportation.

Absent a national law and with consideration for small businesses to prevent staffing shortages, this should be adopted as a matter of basic fairness.

If therefore the Nigerian media now tend to stress local differences more than «national unity», it is simply because too many issues are yet unsettled — most of these issues bordering on basic justice, fairness and equity.

«Let me make the basic argument of fairness he seems to miss,» Cameron adds.

«No matter what party they belong to, young Americans believe in basic fairness and equality,» said Brian Ellner, who is overseeing the Human Rights Campaign's bid to legalize same - sex marriage in New York.

We have to balance higher contributions with basic fairness.»

Declaring himself commited to «basic fairness and basic justice,» Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday announced he would establish a «public sector minimum wage» of $ 15 an hour for state employees.

The increase to $ 8.50 per hour offers a basic measure of economic fairness, supporters say, while critics contend it will hurt small - business operators and discourage hiring.

The county needs to remember that «basic fairness» is a two - way street, and that city and town taxpayers are also county taxpayers and voters, something we seem to be forgetting here.

If the purpose is to ensure that potential teachers have basic characteristics like honesty or fairness, existing standards such as university honor codes in higher education should suffice.

Too often we are getting poor tests which are misused to test things not taught and to punish the children attending inferior schools, violating basic concepts of fairness and civil rights.»

Basic fairness dictates that public funds should follow the students to the schools that are best able to provide a quality education, whether they are traditional public schools or public charter schools.

Starting with the basic psychometrics, and moving onto the (entire) lack of research in support of using more «off - the - shelf» tests to help alleviate issues with fairness, would be the (easy) approach to take in a court of law as, really, doing any of this is entirely wrong.

Some view this task as a matter of basic fairness and equity — assuring that all students have the opportunity to compete on a level playing field — while Read more about Call for Nominations: Harold W. McGraw, Jr..

«It comes down to basic fairness.»

«Charter schools are asking for basic fairness when it comes to educating their public school students and a system that forces schools to take funds out of the classroom to pay rent is clearly one that is broken,» said James Merriman, CEO of the New York City Charter School Center.

A statement on the Leeds City Council website by Councillor Judith Blake said: «We do not feel this basic principle of fairness has been adhered to in this case and will be looking with colleagues nationally at the possibility of raising a legal challenge to ensure Ofqual and the government put this right.»

A statement on the council's website said: «We do not feel this basic principle of fairness has been adhered to in this case and will be looking with colleagues nationally at the possibility of raising a legal challenge to ensure Ofqual and the government put this right.»

In fairness, the Nexus 7 also includes built in GPS for the basic cost, whereas you've got to pay for the LTE feature on the Mini.

Anything else, Apple insists, could be considered «overreaching» and «establish a vague new compliance regime — applicable only to Apple — with intrusive oversight lasting for ten years, going far beyond the legal issues in this case, injuring competition and consumers, and violating basic principles of fairness and due process.»

The Department's actions violate law and are contrary to basic principles of fairness and deeply damaging to the critical public service missions of these plaintiffs and the ABA.

We tried to design this program with fairness in mind, so we created a basic system where the amount of money you get scales upward with the difficulty of the indivdiual cat.

With the administration now claiming that Dakota Access» already - completed environmental review must start again from square one, a move - the - goalposts campaign is plain for all to see — and with it an assault on basic fairness that could have dire consequences for our country for years to come.

As indicated, the ingredients of the basic requirement of procedural fairness (that a person has a fair opportunity to address the issues and the case against him) will vary having regard to the circumstances.

The judge will be ruling on whether certain of the banks» basic and historic personal account contractual terms (as with the current contracts) are susceptible to the test of fairness but not void as penalties.

[63] In summary, having regard to the over-arching policy that the material - contribution test is available only when a denial of liability under the but - for test would offend basic notions of fairness and justice, I agree with the following statement made by Professor Knutsen in setting out his conclusions (at 187):

In terms of procedural fairness, the conduct of the Tribunal «must be sufficiently serious to offend our most basic notions of morality and justice» and judicial intervention is only warranted when «the Tribunal's conduct is so serious that it can not be condoned under the law of the enforcing State» (para 65).

I recently heard a respected lawyer comment that if the legal profession allows disputes to be resolved outside of traditional legal systems, then we can not ensure that proper attention will be paid to basic legal principles of fairness, justice and the rule of law.

Where these two requirements are satisfied, liability may be imposed even though the «but for» test is not satisfied, as it otherwise would offend basic notions of fairness and justice to deny liability by the rigid application of the «but for» test.

In the same book, Farrow makes a number of arguments against what he refers to as the privatization of civil justice, such as the impoverishment of common law when cases are removed from the public system (this dovetails with Simpson's work), the use of a private (thus, confidential) system to circumvent public policies, public accountability, and basic notions of procedural fairness, and the shielding from the public of transactions that would not withstand public scrutiny.

In such cases, plaintiffs are permitted to «jump the evidentiary gap»... That is because to deny liability «would offend basic notions of fairness and justice».14

These rights represent basic principles of fairness in our society and protect us as individuals to live our lives free from oppression.

With respect to (1), the ONCA noted that «[t] o require a party to plead «material facts» before financial disclosure would run contrary to the way family litigation is conducted, contrary to the family rules and contrary to basic fairness.»

Unjust enrichment requires a plaintiff to show a defendant retained a benefit to plaintiff's detriment and that the retention of the benefit violates basic principles of fairness.