Sentences with phrase «by supreme courts»

«If a timely agreement can not be reached on a common regulator, the government will propose legislation to carry out its regulatory responsibilities consistent with the decision rendered by the Supreme Court of Canada,» the budget states.

401 (k) programs, as well as health insurance, life insurance, and family - leave benefits, will all be affected by the Supreme Court ruling.

The ruling is currently being examined by the Supreme Court.

Wheeler's decision also flies in the face of a legal precedent set by the Supreme Court in 2005, notes Downes.

The oldest law school in Canada, McGill, ranks just under U of T. Its highly regarded law journal is cited by The Supreme Court of Canada more often than any other university - affiliated journal, and McGill law graduates regularly make up a quarter of The Supreme Court's annual clerkships.

Would the world's most valuable company, if ordered by the Supreme Court to hand over its crown jewels, comply and then go out of business?

The prosecutor declined to bring charges, explaining that he could not prove «the officers acted outside the constitutional boundaries set forth by the Supreme Court.»

Obama's healthcare reform has been cemented by the Supreme Court.

Three independent delegates have been chosen to reassess the state government's Roe 8 highway extension project, which was knocked back by the Supreme Court in December.

The act attempted to restore some of the rights of religious practitioners that had been limited by a 1990 Supreme Court Decision, but a 1997 decision by the Supreme Court kept the Act from being applied to the federal government.

That argument was put to an end last spring by the Supreme Court of Canada.

Under the pleadings standard set forth by the Supreme Court in Ashcroft v. Iqbal, a complaint must contain sufficient factual matter, which if accepted as true, states a «claim to relief that is plausible on its face.»

A victory in the case, though, would potentially set up a conflict among federal judges that ultimately would have to be worked out by the Supreme Court.

For precisely the same reasons that I found your statement to be laughable, the government must insure that mechanisms are put in place to insure that the actual persons granted free speech rights by the Supreme Court (the owners of the corporations) are the ones actually exercising their new rights instead of having those rights stolen by fat - cat executives and self - appointed boards.

While Jesner suggests that five justices likely would rule that the federal courts should not recognize an ATS cause of action against American corporations for their overseas activities, several federal appeals courts have exhibited little willingness to limit the scope of ATS liability unless directly ordered to do so by the Supreme Court.

While the failure to cite the relevant literature criticizing Marshall / Bernard is notable, it may make the Tsilhqot» in Nation decision stronger as the reasoning is from «first principles» — as defined by the Supreme Court of Canada.

Liberal MLA Mary Polak (Langley) was instrumental as a Surrey School Board trustee in banning gay - positive books from Surrey Schools: The book ban was later struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada which said «instead of proceeding on the basis of respect for all types of families, the Board proceeded on an exclusionary philosophy, acting on the concern of certain parents about the morality of same - sex relationships, without considering the interest of same - sex parented families and the children who belong to them in receiving equal recognition and respect in the school system.»

It's easier for old debt to haunt Americans seeking refuge in bankruptcy, thanks to a recent ruling by the Supreme Court.

Departing Washington less than three hours after he was confirmed by the Senate and sworn - in Thursday by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, a fellow Italian - American, Pompeo rushed to Joint Base Andrews.

A close connection has assuredly existed between the amount of discretionary authority actually exercised by the Supreme Court and the difficulty of amending the Constitution....

Dr. Ceaser is right that the question of whether the mandate is constitutional has not at all been settled by the Supreme Court.

If the GOP would quit trying to take away women's rights (as confirmed by the Supreme Court) and concentrate on FREEDOM for all, the party would gain more votes from women than they would lose from evangelicals who must have other concerns that are just as important as taking away a woman's right to chose.

Amid the flurry of essays on religious liberty occasioned by the Supreme Court's hearing arguments in the Hobby Lobby case, these two sentences from Rick Warren's otherwise excellent op - ed in the Washington Post stood out to me:

But it is now being continually altered by the Supreme Court in illegitimate ways, and by the other branches in duplicitous or hard - to - check ways.

Michael J. Perry, a leading legal scholar, argues that judicial review should serve the role of «prophecy,» calling us to a deeper understanding of ourselves through moral exhortation by the Supreme Court.

From such a perspective he argues the now - famous claim that the abortion decision by the Supreme Court was a profoundly antipolitical act.

A Christian disability charity has hailed a ruling by the Supreme Court, which will make taking public transport easier for disabled people, as a victory.

A Christian disability charity has hailed a ruling by the Supreme Court, which will make taking public... More

Mormons do not run religious schools that take public aid from the state, such as secular textbooks, though that is a practice approved by the Supreme Court in states with substantial numbers of parochial schools.

The capstone of the Religious Right's failure was the 2015 legalisation of same - sex marriage by the Supreme Court.

Church - state decisions by the Supreme Court, and by the judiciary more generally, sometimes seem to be aimed at replacing this inconveniently religious people with another people more to its secular fancy.

Conservatives are deeply aggrieved by Supreme Court decisions in the past 30 years that have struck down laws against abortion, laws on homosexuality and certain laws and policies promoting religion in the public square.

The right to an abortion has been established by the Supreme Court, NO case since has swayed the Court to reverse that decision.

Second, Roe also had the effect, surely unforeseen by the Supreme Court, of bringing millions of evangelical Christians into the fight on behalf of unborn life.

As a judge in the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, Gorsuch wrote a concurring opinion supporting Hobby Lobby's contraception mandate exemption — a ruling ultimately upheld by the Supreme Court.

Wilson referenced the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), which was determined by a Supreme Court decision to apply only to the federal government, and not to state or local municipalities (which must pass their own).

Over at No Left Turns, Peter Lawler reminds us that part of the problem with an unrestrained judicial activism is precisely its championing of the ever expanding rights of the Lockean individual — the essential premise of Texas v. Lawrence is that the word «liberty» as used in the Fourteenth Amendment is an indeterminate concept meant to be expanded indefinitely by the Supreme Court.

To even link Atheists «suffering» with the LGBT community whose rights are being determined shortly by the Supreme Court or to African Americans who actually at some point suffered from slavery to....

Similarly, if teachers employed by the public are assigned to teach on parochial school premises, they tend to come under the administrative aegis of the parochial rather than the public school (not that they teach religion, but that they otherwise function to some degree as adjunct faculty, increasing with tax funds the staffing resources of the parochial school — a consideration apparently underlying two 1985 decisions but not well articulated by the Supreme Court)

Should other states have been free similarly to outlaw parochial education until they too had been individually dealt with by the Supreme Court?

And only about one in three know that a public school teacher is allowed to teach a comparative religion class - although nine out of 10 know that teacher isn't allowed by the Supreme Court to lead a class in prayer.

The decision by the Supreme Court has been made already.

The phrase has its roots in a 1919 opinion by Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, but there's a version of it growing increasingly common today: Falsely yelling «hate» in a crowded public square.

U.S. Supreme Court justices, for example, have been called «the nine high priests,» and the sacredness imputed to the Constitution and other artifacts of the legal order are often commented upon.102 No single church evokes the breadth of respect enjoyed by the Supreme Court.

The courts, led by the Supreme Court, may relax their entrenched hostility to religion.

The New England Journal of Medicinei s alarmed by the Supreme Court decision Gonzales vs. Carhart.

A Christian politician has said democratic values in Northern Ireland must be upheld, amid scrutiny by the Supreme Court of the abortion laws.

December's decision by the Supreme Court, against the midwives, served as a crucial indicator of where we stand in relation to upholding the common good.

To the contrary, if tested by the Supreme Court, a direct criminal prohibition against adultery would likely be struck down as unconstitutional, whereas the Court would have no problem in recognizing adultery as a factor towards dissolving a union that was based on fidelity.

Washington (CNN)- A dispute over public prayers at town board meetings will be taken up by the Supreme Court in coming months, another contentious case over the intersection of faith and the public arena.