Sentences with phrase «by earlier laws»

Oakland's decision to drive equity into the marijuana legislation assures minority ownership and seeks to compensate for discrimination against those affected by earlier laws.

Not exact matches

That injustice has become even more glaring as legal marijuana spawns an above - board industry that could grow to $ 50 billion within a decade, but which does not appear poised to benefit the very minorities who were so abused by earlier drug laws.

Nevertheless, the sites described by The Intercept and Inc. expose the limits of campaign finance laws passed in an earlier era of media, before anyone anticipated the rise of platforms like Facebook.

Chief executive from 1993 to 2002, and chairman from 2002 till early last year, Piëch, now 78, infused VW with an ambition and drive that made the most of its political heft, presiding over a culture that was, if not above the law, then not above stretching it, by many accounts.

After the Freedom Act became law in early June, the agency was granted a 180 - day grace period to get its affairs in order before putting an end to the bulk phone metadata collection program authorized by a particular portion — Section 215 — of the Patriot Act.

Early on Thursday, U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang issued a nationwide preliminary injunction in a similar case in Maryland brought by refugee resettlement agencies represented by the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Immigration Law Center.

The bill will be merged with two information - sharing bills that were passed earlier this year by the House of Representatives, then sent to President Obama to be signed into law.

A new law, which was passed by the State Legislature and signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo earlier this fall, will take effect next month,

That's according to an executive employer survey report published by the employment law firm Littler and Mendelson earlier in July.

A new law, which was passed by the State Legislature and signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo earlier this fall, will take effect next month, establishing a formula for maintenance, or alimony, payments in New York.

Google partnered with law firm Perkins Coie to get the information for the new in - depth search tool, which lets users sort by state for info on ID requirements, deadlines, mail - in ballots, and early voting.

Two earlier efforts were struck down by the courts as lacking adequate backing in law, until the most recent 2015 plan was upheld last year.

Earlier this year, the Ohio Supreme Court agreed to hear a case challenging the use of the mortgage law by a payday lender named Cashland.

After all, Wallace had been founded 51 years earlier by Watts's father - in - law.

Earlier this month, Reuters reported that the only law firm in North Korea set up by a foreigner, Hay, Kalb & Associates, will suspend operations.

Texan regulators have had a lot on their plate: in addition to the filing against Bitconnect in early January by state officials, the state's banking commission also clamped down on AriseBank, for violating the law and using the term «bank» in its name, when it was not registered to do so.

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That seems doomed to fail, as more than a century of case law dating back to the early days of the railroad suggests that provincial measures that directly thwart interprovincial infrastructure may be overruled by federal jurisdiction using 92 (10)(c) and this would be a prime example of when it should be (and has historically) been used.

In Europe, the market's development has been hampered by a hodgepodge of national bankruptcy laws, and investor sentiment that has not fully recovered from the sovereign debt crises early this decade, according to Oh.

Most of the discussion about the 100 % exclusion of capital gains from the sale of «qualified small business» stock, extended now by the new tax law for stock purchased prior to January 1, 2012, has been about the enticement it represents for angels and other early - stage venture investors to fund more startups.

Before earning her law degree at the University of Calgary, Edmonton - born Marilyn Burns began undergraduate studies by correspondence at Athabasca University, making ends meet delivering newspapers in the early morning hours so she could stay home with her children.

From those sources, we developed a set of standard templates for use under Canadian law; they largely reflect the «vanilla - preferred» terms being employed by early - stage incubators and investors in the US.

As the federal Conservative Party led by Prime Minister Stephen Harper taught Canadians earlier this year, fixed election date laws are merely a suggestion.

With the tax cut, which would cost about $ 1.8 trillion after interest costs, debt would instead reach 97 percent of GDP in 2027 and equal the size of the economy by 2028, four years earlier than current law.

Earlier, Russian sources reported that following the presentation of a drafted invoice to place laws on the utilization of cryptocurrency, an inventory of accredited cryptocurrency buying and selling platforms is being developed by the Russian Ministry of Finance.

In the 50's, 60's, and earlier, black folks were forbidden, by law, in various states from marrying white folks.

However, work by Richard C. Tolman in 1934 showed that these early attempts failed because of the entropy problem: according to the Second Law of Thermodynamics, entropy can only increase.

In the early 2000s, the Church lobbied successfully for a law returning church property that had been confiscated by the Soviet state.

A book called Disinformation, co-written by General Pacepa and the American professor of law Ronald Rychlak (best known for his book Hitler, the War and the Pope, a well - researched defence of Pius XII's record during the Second World War), which spells out these revelations at greater length, is «dubious at best» — or at least, the bits written by Pacepa are: the reviewer NCR admits that «what Rychlak contributes, drawn from his earlier work on Pope Pius, appears solid».

(Exodus 19:12 - 14) Repeatedly in the early laws the command to observe some negative taboo was reinforced by the penalties of violated holiness — «Ye shall be holy men unto me: therefore ye shall not eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field.»

A similar revulsion was recorded even earlier by the imperial Roman poet Virgil, who depicted an episode of the Roman civil wars as a victory of human law and ordinary human beings over «every kind of monstrous god and barking Anubis too.»

We can sense something of the early Christian understanding of the eschatological meaning of the new covenant by noting the words of Paul, who, while speaking of the old covenant as a law of death and condemnation, rejoices that the glory of the new covenant so surpasses the glory of the old that the old covenant now has no glory at all:

The Western Wall is one of Judaism's holiest sites and President Donald Trump made a historic visit to it earlier today, flanked by his senior advisor and son - in - law Jared Kushner...

The earliest laws in the New World included witchcraft as one of the crimes punishable by death.

In fact it is more likely that evolution can continue indefinitely (within the parameters established by the laws of thermodynamics), and for all we know, the present moment may still be very early in the full unfolding of the universe.

When the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the Rabbinical Assembly of the Conservative movement within Judaism issued guidelines for homosexual marriage by a vote of thirteen in favor, none opposed, and one abstention earlier this year, a Gentile friend of mine e-mailed me....

We don't live by the laws that were set out in the earlier parts of the bible, we live by the principals we learn from the bible.

In the early centuries of the church, the Roman Empire also had it's banners and seals, and Roman Citizens were required by law to swear fealty to Caesar by stating some sort of Pledge of Allegiance to one of his banners or seals.

Amazingly, some extraordinarily courageous individuals (initially Arnold himself, journalists David Quinn and Breda O'Brien, the Iona Institute; later on, John Waters, retired Regius Professor of Laws at Trinity College Dublin, William Binchy and the distinguished historian Prof. John A. Murphy; the gay campaigners for a «No» vote, Paddy Manning and Keith Mills, deserve special mention) did succeed in making a difference to the eventual numbers, although not the outcome: in the early Spring, polls indicated that 17 percent of the electorate would vote against the amendment, but by the time the actual referendum came around, 38 percent were indicating a «No» vote, and that was the eventual outcome.

@David Johnson «It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.»

They were accustomed, he discovered, to meet on a fixed day very early in the morning, to sing hymns responsively to Christ «as to a god,» and to bind themselves by a solemn oath, not (as he had apparently expected) to some nefarious crime, but to keep the moral law: not to rob or steal, not to commit adultery, not to defraud.

Only when man's laws conflict with God's as when early Christians were ordered by Jewish and Roman courts to stop preaching about Christ did they refuse.

This helps explain the cautious approach to natural law by key figures in the early days of the Protestant Reformation and the more severe reaction of Karl Barth and his followers in the twentieth century.

He is specifically cited in Reformation arguments, especially by Calvin, and both Luther and Calvin recognized that the themes they emphasized as the essential gospel had been stressed earlier by Augustine: the universality and depth of the problem of sin; the consequent incapacity of even the «best» persons to follow the law commanding inward love, the possibility of salvation — of escaping condemnation and of gaining blessedness — through God's grace alone.

«It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.»

Does religion (equated by Justice Kennedy in an earlier case with the belief that «an ethic and a morality which transcends human invention» exists) have any role to play in the law?

As early as 554 A.D., priests who disclosed confessions were severely punished (William Harold Tiemann and John C. Bush, The Right to Silence: Privileged Communications and the Law [Abingdon, 1983], p. 35) By the close of the ninth century, priests revealing the matter of a confession were deposed and exiled for life (p. 36) In the Catholic tradition, confession is seen as a sacrament that conveys grace.

Luther and the earliest Lutherans wavered in their reliance on the gospel and began to rule the church by Law and lLaw and lawlaw.

He would provide a profile of the early Church which was «a religious communion claiming a divine commission, and holding all other religious bodies around it heretical or infidel, a sort of secret society binding its members together by influence and engagement, spread over the whole world, a natural enemy to governments, intolerant and capable of dividing families and breaking laws.

It is increasingly clear that Deuteronomy and the Priestly writings contain at least some material much older than is indicated by the usual dating of the documents.9 Increasingly, too, it would appear that scholars are disposed to accept the substantial reliability of the persistent tradition which sees Moses as a lawgiver.10 That law was an early and significant aspect of Israelite culture is further attested not only by ancient Near Eastern parallels but even more strikingly in the life, the work and the character of the first three great names in Israel's national history: Moses, Samuel and Elijah.