Sentences with phrase «clear legislative intent»

The Second Circuit upheld the District Court decision, holding that «[n] othing in the False Claims Act evinces a clear legislative intent to pre-empt state statutes and rules that regulate an attorney's disclosure of client confidences.»

The point is that the presumption of expertise should be rebuttable with clear legislative intent in the form of statutory language.

Not exact matches

Still, Ms. Mark - Viverito's 52 - minute speech amounted to a clear statement of legislative intent, with the speaker outlining more than two dozen policy ideas aimed at helping less affluent New Yorkers.

Can the legislative intent be any more clear?

Even though thousands of voters were clear in their message to Lansing on several extreme legislative efforts in the November election and during December's lame duck session, a force in Lansing is intent on -LSB-...]

Without a clear and unequivocal expression of legislative intent, it's not open to the courts to depart from a recognized common law rule in this regard.

Section 41 itself made it clear that only joint inventors could benefit and not contributors, that was the very legislative intent of the statute.

The difference there, however, is that legislative intent is clear; in the present case, the appellant seemed to be taking advantage of a lack of clarity in the Cpc.

Statutes purporting to set aside privilege will be «interpreted restrictively» and the legislative intent must be «clear and unambiguous» (at para 28); an inference is not sufficient.

And this ups the interpretive ante quite nicely, making clear for those who pursue legislative intent what the anti-gay purpose is, and declaring by (necessary?)