Sentences with phrase «civil union law»

Five years later, there is still no civil union law.

[182] He also called for creation of an ombudsman (public advocate) to ensure compliance with the state's existing civil union law.

From same - sex marriages to civil union laws in different states and property laws and prenuptial agreements, there is a lot to know.

Eight states (see sidebar) have civil union laws, and another eight states have domestic partnership statutes.

Not exact matches

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 companies join gay - rights and human rights groups as well as the American Civil Liberties Union in attacking the law over its broad language, which could be used by business owners to use religious objections to deny same - sex couples wedding.

Individuals in other arrangements, such as civil unions, registered domestic partnerships, or other similar arrangements, that aren't recognized as a valid marriage under relevant state law won't be treated as married or as spouses as defined in this policy for federal tax purposes.

Individuals in other arrangements, such as civil unions, registered domestic partnerships, or other similar arrangements, that are treated as spouses under the applicable state law, will each be treated as a spouse as defined in this policy for state law purposes.

However, individuals in other arrangements, such as civil unions, registered domestic partnerships, or other similar arrangements, that are not recognized as marriage under the relevant state law, will not be treated as married or as spouses as defined in this policy for federal tax purposes.

One example is Huntsman, who while governor of Utah signed a law introducing civil unions for gay couples.

Considering the fact that a majority of Americans support change in law to allow for gay marriages, civil unions, etc., I would say that Driscoll's supporters are «small but loud».

The new law allowing «civil unions» in the State of Vermont is not being neutral.

Contracting a new union, even if it is recognised by civil law, adds to the gravity of the rupture: the remarried spouse is then in a situation of public and permanent adultery.»

Having uncovered the data of the natural law and the data of Revelation, we come full circle and consider again the question of civil unions for homosexual persons.

have you ever wonder why the Gov. / when Dems had full control, did not change the law by dropping the word marriage?Just say if any two people joining in a civil union can have all the rights the Gov allow.

In European Union law, civil law of most member states and judge - made law in the United States, the right to marry has been «modernized» so as to include partnerships and same - sex unions.

If the union meets the requirements under the law, they can be eligible for recognition as a civil marriage.

Groomed by the American system for some job like the one he holds — high school at Roxbury Latin, undergrad at Yale (and president of Yale's prestigious Political Union in his last year there), law school at Harvard — he belongs to a type of quiet and careful civil servant that Caesar Augustus would have recognized.

They also have a hard time with not endorsing gay marriage and will lie and say that civil unions do nt provide them the same protection which is a lie and some states do in fact have these laws on the books.

They there would have to be laws for disolving civil unions - similar to divorce.

The sticker is a bit tattered, since it goes back to the controversy about «civil unions» — the Vermont law passed in 2000 establishing various legal equivalencies to marital rights for gay and lesbian couples.

The author is in favor of «civil union» as a concept more in keeping with our restrained sense of law and less tilted toward the equating of gay and heterosexual unions.

Is America now more morally sensitive, more well structured in its laws and practices insofar as it accepts publicly avowed homosexual behavior; constructs laws that protect homosexuals from the criminal penalties formally attached to homosexual acts; and allows for civil unions or even gay marriages?

Thus I remain in favor of «civil union» as a concept more in keeping with our restrained sense of law and less tilted toward the equating of gay and heterosexual unions.

In so far as that is the dominant view of law in America, «gay marriage» says nothing about the morality of homosexuality one way or the other, it simply guarantees that all «domestic partnerships» (an alternative term considered for «civil unions») are treated equally.

The problem is that a civil union in the eyes of the law does not bring the same legal benefits.

Whether you enact a thousand laws banning Gay Marriage, civil unions, domestic partnershps, etc, we'll still form our households, our families.

If Christian fascists win, then «labor unions, civil - rights laws and public schools will be abolished.

NC voters your anti-gay amendment will go farther than any other bigot law has gone, making even civil unions and domestic partnerships illegal.

But as more states pass civil - union and same - sex marriage laws, he acknowledges a need for gay - marriage...

If there is an inherent «right to marriage» for same - sex couples, religious groups that refuse to marry gay couples are violating their civil rights, which in turn could lead to a repeal of the churches» tax exempt status» or a complete overturn in our law and culture of the religious understanding of marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

Throw into the mix all sorts of new ways of partnering — from cohabitation to same - sex civil unions — and already convoluted and outdated family laws are being stretched in ways they can no longer handle, he says.

Diversity of intended parents who pursue surrogacy would be protected by law which recognizes surrogacy for married couples and those in civil unions and domestic partnerships.

For example, several states have laws providing leave for care of partners and children in domestic partnerships and civil unions.

In about 1864 (during American civil war between the Union side and the Confederates), President Abraham Lincoln, through an executive order / decree, suspended the legal «writ of summons», made a law that was back - dated (retrospective effect) and used it to try some detained saboteur suspects, and those convicted were executed within days after the review of the judgment.

Furthermore, it is a matter of religious liberty that the rights of religious groups to perform and recognize these unions not be hampered by civil law.

Also at 1 p.m., the New York Civil Liberties Union presents oral arguments in the Albany County Supreme Court challenging the exclusion of farmworkers from the state labor law that protects employees who organize, Albany County Courthouse, 16 Eagle St., Albany.

With law enforcement officials aggressively pursuing gang members on Long Island after a recent spate of homicides by the transnational gang MS - 13, the American Civil Liberties Union said in a class - action lawsuit on Friday that federal authorities had gone too far.

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The order does not apply to Civil Service and law enforcement employees who belong to county labor unions.

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The New York Farm Bureau's Steve Ammerman said the final straw was when Governor Cuomo decided not to defend the state in a law suit by the New York Civil Liberties Union, which, if successful, will allow farmworkers to unionize.

Senator Andrea Stewart - Cousins will hosted the rally in partnership with other elected officials and community groups throughout Westchester County including the Immigration Justice Clinic at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, the Lower Hudson Valley Chapter of the New York Civil Liberties Union, Cabrini Immigrant Services, Community Voices Heard, the Yonkers Islamic Center, the Muslim American Society of Upper New York, St. Catherine AME Zion Church, Calvary Baptist Church, the Minister's Fellowship Council of White Plains and Vicinity, the Westchester Black Women's Political Caucus, and Temple Beth Shalom in Hastings - on - Hudson.

At a separate news conference in Mineola with law enforcement and civil service unions, Martins, a former state senator from Old Westbury, stood by the mailer and accused Curran of politicizing the issue.

The provision in question (Section 209.4 of the state Civil Service Law, better known as the Taylor Law) provides for compulsory binding «interest arbitration» of contract disputes involving police and firefighter unions.

The foundations of the American Civil Liberties Union and the New York Civil Liberties Union have jointly filed a lawsuit saying an ethics law passed by the Legislature earlier this year violated the First and Fourth amendments.

The New York Civil Liberties Union is suing the Buffalo Police Department over failing to respond to a Freedom of Information Law request.

As the Times Union reported in June, Schwartz was quietly given the power to issue civil subpoenas under the Moreland Act, a century - old law that allows a governor «to examine and investigate the management and affairs of any department, board, bureau or commission of the state.»

Also mounting good campaigns are talented candidates with good ideas like Brian Kavanagh, former chief - of - staff for Council Member Gale Brewer, and aide to former Mayors Ed Koch & David Dinkins; Chris Papajohn who served on the American Civil Liberties Union's committee on disability law when they discovered that U.S. Post Offices are often not accessible to people with disabilities; Gur Tsabar, an aide to Speaker Gifford Miller, is articulate and well - informed on many issues, and authored an editorial in the April 14 Town & Village newspaper about unjust redlining of disabled New Yorkers due to budget concerns; Darren Bloch, a former Con Ed spokesperson who is a member of Community Board 6, is well - versed on housing and homelessness issues.

Co-sponsors of the march also include Desis Rising Up & Moving, MPower Change, African Communities Together, the National Immigration Law Center, 32BJ SEIU, New York City Anti-Violence Project, Jews for Racial Economic Justice, CultureStrike and the New York Civil Liberties Union.