Sentences with phrase «body of federal case»

In fact, this politics in place of law has gone on for so long, that the body of Federal case law is so convoluted and conflicting that now there there is precedent for nearly any outcome.

Not exact matches

In the federal employment anti-discrimination laws, a specific exception exists for religious bodies that discriminate on the basis of religion, and a couple of years ago, in the Hosanna - Tabor case, the Supreme Court held that the Constitution allows religious bodies to discriminate with respect to the employment of ministers.

«There is that banner headline «Dogara sues Oyegun», but when you go to the main body of the story, you will discover that a case has been filed before the Abuja Federal High Court but the Chief Judge of the High Court has not even assigned that case to a judge.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has asked that a federal medical examiner do an autopsy on Brown's body as soon as possible because of «extraordinary circumstances involved in this case and at the request of the Brown family.»

On the other hand, some professional bodies (in this case, the OPDQ — Quebec's dietitians association), states that cholesterol is no longer considered a preoccupation for people's health (that's my translation from the very last paragraph of the following Written observations dated September 2014 filed by the Association in relation to the federal government's proposed modifications to nutritional labels).

This study is a comparative case study of ten elementary, middle, and high schools with strong arts programs and significant numbers of economically disadvantaged students (at least 50 percent of the student body qualifying for the federal free and reduced - price lunch program).

The General Attorney occupation covers professional legal positions involved in preparing cases for trial and / or the trial of cases before a court or an administrative body or persons having quasi-judicial power; rendering legal advice and services with respect to questions, regulations, practices, or other matters falling within the purview of a Federal Government agency (this may include conducting investigations to obtain evidentiary data); preparing interpretative and administrative orders, rules, or regulations to give effect to the provisions of governing statutes or other requirements of law; drafting, negotiating, or examining contracts or other legal documents required by the agency's activities; drafting, preparing formal comments, or otherwise making substantive recommendations with respect to proposed legislation; editing and preparing for publication statutes enacted by Congress, opinions or discussions of a court, commission, or board; drafting and reviewing decisions for consideration and adoption by agency officials.

According to the AP, federal prosecutors are seeing an upswing in cases of online sexual extortion, where «teens who text nude cell phone photos of themselves or show off their bodies on the Internet are being contacted by pornographers who threaten to expose their behavior to friends and family unless they pose for more explicit porn, creating a vicious cycle of exploitation.»

Even Google Scholar — which is completely free — lets you keyword search a large body of federal and state reported cases and filter results by court.

a) There must be a statutory grant of jurisdiction by the federal Parliament; b) There must be an existing body of federal law which is essential to the disposition of the case and which nourishes the statutory grant of jurisdiction; and c) The law on which the case is based must be «a law of Canada» as the phrase is used in section 101 of the Constitution Act, 1867.

His work has also included extensive experience representing clients including independent power producers, local distribution gas utilities, trucking companies, telecommunication companies as well as industrial, commercial and residential ratepayers, before the Louisiana Public Service Commission and other regulatory bodies requiring trials of rate cases and numerous compliant proceedings before state and federal courts.

Did you know that you won't be able to understand the meaning of a statute by the plain meaning of the printed words, but may need to consult the regulations to the statute, the federal or provincial Interpretation Act and an unorganized body of case law?

While it may have made sense for all guidelines to come out at the same time from both federal bodies, Weinrib says it should be viewed as a case of «the more information, the better.»

Generally, in those cases, a legislative body has to authorize the appropriation «voluntarily» from whatever source of funds it choses to impose, and usually, when push comes to shove, state and local governments do pay the judgments they owe (there are limited federal bankruptcy options for municipalities and states), although there are instances of state governments stubbornly refusing to take the actions necessary to comply with court orders directing that public schools be funded for many, many years.

She represented the plaintiffs in a U.S. Supreme Court case on the constitutionality of legislative prayer in local government bodies and drafted briefs on healthcare issues in the federal courts of appeals.

We have tried hundreds of cases before juries and judges, in federal and state courts, administrative bodies such as the Patent and Trademark Office and the International Trade Commission (ITC), Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) and in a myriad of foreign tribunals.

In many cases, his complaints have been successful and a whole body of case law in this area has developed, based on decisions by the agency and the Federal Court.

For example, many are in high dungeon, and will endeavor to use this screw up as a reason to bash the entire Federal Circuit and perhaps to do away with that specialized body altogether with the idea of sending patent cases back to the regional circuits as in days gone past.

While Justice Beaumont has commented that the three year disposition target for native title matters was aspirational rather than mandatory, [16] anecdotal evidence that the Federal Court is generally unwilling to adjourn native title cases suggests that these quantitative performance indicators in fact significantly adversely impact upon the management of native title cases for representative bodies.

The Federal Court should continue to facilitate meetings between representatives from the Aboriginal representative bodies, Federal government, State and Territory governments, Federal Court and National Native Title Tribunal to discuss the expected time frame for resolution of native title claims and ways to manage the cases so as to meet the agreed timetable.

It is laughable to believe that a federal governing body with supposed jurisdiction over the ten of thousands of agents in this country could so easily fall over in the Competition case.