Sentences with phrase «because of a court case»

Because of a court case in Louisiana that expressly forbid Biblical Creationism being taught in school science classes, the wording changed and the authors removed references to catastrophism, a world - wide flood, a recent inception of the earth or life, the concept of kinds, or any concepts from Genesis.

The Research Foundation itself is subject to FOIL because of a court case filed against the sprawling, multi-billion dollar foundation by the Times Union.

Not exact matches

Additionally, courts have dismissed cases arising out of the recall because the plaintiff could not establish that she purchased a defective package.

The case is important for small business owners, because it appears to increase the scope of the Supreme Court decision in the Hobby Lobby case.

If the case went to court, the veterans stood a real chance of losing, because science at that time had not found a strong correlation between Agent Orange and the illnesses afflicting the veterans.

And I learned about the wristband, and I decided, yeah, this isn't going to end too well, so I should proceed with a court case instead of trying to reason with the district because they were not listening at all.

In some cases it has to remove content because of a court order, but in other cases it will remove even relatively inoffensive images and posts — such as pictures of women breast - feeding their children, for example — because it breaches the site's community standards, or because someone complains about the content.

That was a big deal, legally speaking, because gender stereotyping was key to one of the biggest Supreme Court cases upholding federal anti-discrimination laws, involving a woman's inability to make partner at the former accounting firm Price Waterhouse.

«The court rejected (the plaintiff's) theory that the newspaper's publication violated her right to privacy because her post to MySpace was made virtually to everyone with an internet connection,» Zaller wrote in a blog post two years ago, asserting the case could apply to situations of employees posting on social media.

Despite criticism that the plate was religious in nature, a court case ruled that the plate could stay because removing it would have impeded upon the freedom of speech.

This decision probably shouldn't have been a surprise, because it basically said that the court's 2010 decision in the Citizens United case, upholding the right of corporations to spend money in federal elections, applies to the states as well.

Europe's second - highest court has rejected a request from the U.S. government to intervene in Apple's challenge against an EU order to pay back taxes of up to 13 billion euros ($ 15.3 billion) because it failed to prove a direct interest in the outcome of the case.

«Because Congress did not have a «strong basis of evidence» upon which to conclude that DoD was a passive participant in pervasive, nationwide racial discrimination — at least not on the evidence produced by DoD and relied on by the district court in this case — the statute fails strict scrutiny,» the decision stated.

While predatory pricing technically remains illegal, it is extremely difficult to win predatory pricing claims because courts now require proof that the alleged predator would be able to raise prices and recoup its losses.405 Revising predatory pricing doctrine to reflect the economics of platform markets, where firms can sink money for years given unlimited investor backing, would require abandoning the recoupment requirement in cases of below - cost pricing by dominant platforms.

In this case, its invocation of Aereo might be particularly corrosive because CBS has helped lead the charge against Aereo in the courts.

The company was hauled into Canadian court because of hyped - up claims, like «bottled water is the most environmentally responsible consumer product in the world» - a classic and transparent case of greenwashing.

As my PaidContent colleague Jeff John Roberts reported last month, Harris» attempt to have this court order struck down failed for a somewhat unusual reason: namely, the judge hearing the case decided that Harris did not have any legal interest in the tweets he sent, because such rights only apply to things a user actually owns — and users do not own their tweets for the purposes of the U.S. Constitution.

Investigators in the Aaron Hernandez murder case searched a Bristol storage unit rented in the name of his fiancee, Shayanna Jenkins, because they believed she made «overt attempts to hide evidence... and to hinder and mislead» the investigation, according to court documents released Friday.

I think the Supreme Court of Canada would deal with it [quickly], because I don't think the law is very complicated in this case.

In cases where a startup is courted with an early - exit opportunity, it's because competitive pressures in their market space are demanding consolidation, economies of scale, or accelerated R&D.

Not as an act of kindness from the administration but because the pace of removals is limited by the court system, which can only process so many cases per year.

Employees who refuse to work on their sabbath have been the principal beneficiaries of this rule (in another case a worker lost his job in a brass mill because he refused to help manufacture tank turrets) The Oregon courts followed these cases and awarded unemployment compensation to Smith and Black.

A long line of Supreme Court cases holds that states must pay unemployment compensation to employees who lose their jobs because of their religious beliefs.

World Watch Monitor reports that Bibi's attorney Naeem Shakir challenged the testimony of the women who feuded with Bibi, arguing to the appellate court that their testimony had been hearsay because the complainant in the case had not heards Bibi's words himself.

This kind of thread is important because it is freeing, it shines light, it makes that which is already public (court cases, conferences, etc.) into a really open discussion that really does matter.

The High Court case was related to an immigration dispute involving a Nigerian man who argued that he should not be deported because the unborn child being carried by his Irish partner had multiple rights, including the right to the company of its father.

In those cases the court deferred to the judgment of the Air Force that the free - exercise claim of a Jewish officer who wore his yarmulke on duty could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of correctional authorities that the free - exercise claim of a Black Muslim to attend Friday afternoon religious services could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service that building a logging road through a national forest was necessary despite the damage to religious practices of Native American tribes in that area; it deferred to the Internal Revenue Service's ruling that Bob Jones University was not entitled to tax exemption because of its religiously motivated rule against interracial dating and marriage on campus; it deferred to the judgment of the secretary of labor that a religious community must pay its members the minimum wage for work they performed in the group's business although the members said they had religious objections to being paid for their work.

It requires more government departments (the DEA), more police, more court cases, more social services (because you have to do something with the children of the parents you arrest), and more prisons with all the staff required to run them.

Although a theory of religious freedom is plainly necessary to the proper function of the state (because its courts must decide actual cases), a theory of religious freedom may be unnecessary to, and might even prove dangerous to, religion itself.

In Vermont, the federal court is now hearing a case in which a man is refusing to enroll in Vermont Health Connect, a state exchange, because a portion of his premium paid for abortion services and this violates his religious convictions.

Absent such a change in canon law, a bishop seeking to dismiss a priest will have to convince a canon court that the case warrants dismissal, and thus the zero tolerance policy amounts to nothing more than a declaration by the bishops that, because in their view all cases of sexual abuse warrant dismissal from the clerical state, they intend to seek this penalty in all cases.

''... Just at the time we were settling the case with Coles amongst a lot of publicity we instituted against Woolworths who we allege — because it's before the court — we allege were doing the same thing.

If you are one of over 60 per cent of people who buy certified organic food because it's been grown free of genetically modified material, rest assured the outcome of the Western Australian court case shouldn't undermine your confidence in certified organic produce.

Because it is difficult to prescribe such minimum standards, the law prohibits unconscionable conduct, leaving it to the courts to determine in a given case whether the conduct fails to conform to the dictates of good conscience.

The Supreme Court is expected to rule on two landmark cases impacting same - sex couples this week and their ability to marry (I am loathe to call it same - sex marriage or gay marriage because it's just marriage, no different than anyone else's marriage; the people in it just happen to be of the same sex).

The courts are not always good at distinguishing between preventable and unavoidable deaths.14 If doctors say no to intervention and things go wrong, professionals» defensive behaviour will rise further.15 Few cases that reach the courts are brought because of «unnecessary intervention.»

Because a rebuttable joint interest is presumed to be in the best interests of the child (ren), the Court will consider joint custody in most every case.

But the park district contends in its petition filed Friday with the Illinois Appellate Court that the statute of limitations does not apply to this case because the transfer was illegal, and that Glenview and Northbrook would not suffer harm if they gave the land back, according to spokesmen for Friedman & Holtz, a Chicago law firm representing the Northfield Park District.

And going to court, even in the case you get a lawyer, is a complete waste of money, because they will not pay a penny.

My case was widely reported because it was the first time that the British Court of Appeal had accepted that British relocation law relegated the harm done to children.

That's why Palmyra Island is the only remaining «incorporated» U.S. Territory (under the doctrine of the Supreme Court's «Insular Cases» decided after the Spanish - American War), because the Territory of Hawaii had been officially incorporated.

Some NPP people are married to NDC people, so we can not be disclosing those who [appealed], but it is true they appealed for me to drop the case because Dr Bawumia would not be able to produce any evidence, it would be too much of an embarrassment but I insisted on going to court due to the possible repercussions of his action».

This, according to them was because «the issue that came before the Supreme Court was simply constitutional interpretation so for (with all respect) the learned judge (Justice Jones Dotse) to go beyond the constitutional interpretation and then decide that the applicant had no contract with the government and therefore the applicant had no case and that the applicant had formed an alliance to create, loot and share was beyond what was before the business of the Supreme Court.»

It means, in a finely balance case, a GAAR Panel or court might be more lenient towards the taxpayer because of the harsh consequences of the 60 per cent of the tax at stake penalty.

«It isn't just his personal misconduct, it's the way he conducted himself as attorney general — the cases he brought to extort people... Because of the scandal that surrounded him, people forget the case he brought against (former NYSE head) Dick Grasso was thrown out of court.

In papers submitted by the UK Government last year in the case and seen by the BHA, the Government attempted to argue that there is no breach of EU law because «if a teacher brought a claim against a school (on the basis that the school, as an employer, had discriminated against them in their remuneration, for example), then the court or tribunal would consider the legislation in this wider context.

«The imposition of such automatic penalties could have the consequences of making the courts less receptive to arguments that the GAAR applies, because in marginal cases they may consider the imposition of such penalties to be unfair.

A spokesman for the Home Office said that they believed the deadline for Qatada to appeal his case had passed, saying that he had «no right to request to refer the case to the grand chamber [of the court] because the three - month deadline passed at midnight on Monday».

Any sentence imposed by the court should not be seen as an attempt by judges to muzzle journalists because freedom must go with exercising responsibility which was lacking in the case of Montie FM 3.

The conviction was one of the most touted victories of former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's anti-corruption campaign, but the outcome was known to be in doubt because of the Supreme Court decision in a case involving former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, which followed Silver's trial.