The phrase
"broad discretion" means having a lot of freedom or flexibility in making decisions or taking actions without strict guidelines or limitations. It implies that the person or authority has the power to decide or do things in a wide range of ways as they see fit.
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-- The governor's proposal to give the health commissioner
broad discretion in determining criteria for value - based purchasing has been cut.
As many have noted, giving district
courts broader discretion to go outside the guidelines will not always benefit defendants.
[34] It is apparent that there is
broad discretion for conducting an analysis of the resources and needs of both the parents and the children.
Further, case law has made it clear that the trial court no longer
has broad discretion in ordering child support.
The trial court judge has
broad discretion in determining whether you have met this requirement.
Managers are
given broad discretion to buy and sell as they so choose, and the State takes no role in those decisions.
Furthermore, the court held that the expression «by all suitable means» clearly «reflects the framers» intent to confer
broad discretion on the Legislature in fulfilling its duty» to promote education.
Specifically, it said, «Use of the phrase «by all suitable means» reflects the framers» intent to
confer broad discretion on the Legislature in fulfilling its duty to promote intellectual, literary, scientific, and other such improvements, and to encourage other methods in addition to the public school system.»
The USPTO justifies redundancy - based denials as an exercise of the agency's
broad discretion whether to grant AIA review petitions.
There are so many factors and the court has given
such broad discretion in parenting time that both states look at a variety of factors, both states look at largely the same factors but make a decision based upon the best interest of children in that fact specific setting.
Granting
parents broad discretion in their educational spending will foster innovation in educational services as entrepreneurs seek new ways of providing value to families.
Moreover, they address far more effectively than proficiency rates the core purposes of ESSA, including incentivizing more effective efforts to educate all children and
providing broad discretion to states in designing their accountability systems.
This decision emphasises that the courts have a very
broad discretion as to the appropriate remedy to be granted in response to a transaction that contravenes s. 423 Insolvency Act 1986.
Delaware courts, as a general matter, have followed this common law rule and allow
judges broad discretion to grant a stay when there is a prior action pending in another state and involving the same parties and issues.
The on - duty doctor was rarely at the correctional facility and
left broad discretion to the on - duty nurses.
But other sections of the legislation shift authority away from Washington: For example, states would
gain broad discretion in setting rules for how school districts evaluate their employees and in dealing with failing schools.
The state's Labor Law gives state agencies and public
authorities broad discretion to require bidders to enter into project labor agreements (PLAs), essentially collective bargaining agreements with groups of labor unions.
The lack of clarity in the legislation further exacerbates its complexity, while granting a
remarkably broad discretion to the Electoral Commission.
And an appeals court or the Supreme Court, said Albany Law School professor Vincent Bonventre, may want to refocus on a law that gives
prosecutors broad discretion to bring cases that may chill standard, legal political conduct — like raising money or, in New York, serving while making outside income, as Silver did.
«Education is fundamentally a state responsibility,» Phillips said, adding that Cuomo «has
really broad discretion» on how to provide for charters.
While agencies (EPA) have
fairly broad discretion in making specific factual determinations, the factual findings can (and usually will) be remanded for further proceedings if the agency failed to follow its own guidelines and procedures to ascertain basic facts.
Until the age of majority, or emancipation by a court of law, parents
enjoy broad discretion over the activities of their children including with whom they can associate.
Though the court should consider the whole picture of your assets and marriage in making its property division, the court has
broad discretion when making its decisions, even regarding the division of inheritances.
BPS has also gone a long way in providing Unlocking Potential
with broad discretion over its staffing and budget policies.
The Virginia statutes on child visitation give the
court broad discretion in ordering visitation for separated parents...
The Supreme Court of Canada rejected the Defendants» constitutional challenge that extradition to the U.S. would violate their rights «to remain in Canada» pursuant to Section 6 (1) of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, affirming previous precedents which hold that the Minister
retains broad discretion to grant the extradition requests of another country:
Administrative officers sometimes have
broad discretion on permits and / or licence application procedures, and this may result in a certain degree of unpredictability.
On the other hand, five Justices argue for
broad discretion for district judges to go outside the Guidelines (on an abuse of discretion standard or even less review).
There are so many factors and the court has given
such broad discretion in parenting time that both states look at a variety of factors, both states look at largely the same factors but make a decision based upon the best interest of children in that fact specific setting.
The final result of this Congressional action was a fair use statute that vested the trier of fact with
broad discretion over the circumstances under which an author's exclusive rights must give way to other societal interests.
The letter encourages the Dept. of Education to adopt Average Scale Scores and Proficiency Index evaluation models which, they argue, «address far more effectively than proficiency rates the core purposes of ESSA, including incentivizing more effective efforts to educate all children and
providing broad discretion to states in designing their accountability systems.»
The judge shall further have
broad discretion as to how the child's desires are to be considered, including through the report of a guardian ad litem.
Parents
have broad discretion with the accounts and use prepaid VISA cards to pay for online classes, textbooks, private school tuition, and other educational materials like science kits and even educational iPad applications.