Sentences with phrase «common issues of law»

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In an email to Fortune, Wu added that common law property rules mean that the newly issued Bitcoin Cash belongs to the Coinbase customers in the same way a newborn calf belongs to the owner of a cow.

If you remove the need to income split by taxing the family unit of those in married or living common - law relationships and then adopt a flat tax for everyone — say 20 % — there really is no need for small business to incorporate, except for perhaps liability issues.

Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

Many of these rules come about via statute while others emerge from the courts in the resolution of common law issues, in particular issues of tort.

A few days after a state audit criticized a long - used Syracuse hiring practice to get around civil service laws, the Common Council probed the issue, but councilors came down more on the side of the mayor's office than the auditors.

«The fact of the matter is that this common sense legislation has the support of the overwhelming majority of Hudson Valley residents who understand that codifying the over 40 year old Roe v. Wade decision into state law should not be a controversial issue.

All three cases involved a common issue — a new definition by the Supreme Court requiring a formal exercise of government power rather than just a meeting or phone call to prove a quid pro quo bribery scheme under the federal law prohibiting «honest services fraud.»

«His work on behalf of New York's families to protect health care, fight for women, protect our environment, and support common sense gun laws is inspiring, and I look forward to continuing to work together on the issues that matter to Westchester residents,» said Latimer.

The candidate promises to hit D.C. with a head full of steam to tackle issues important to the district such as the controversial RLUIPA religious land use law, Common Core, health care and what he calls HUD overreach.

Early voting as allowed by 37 other states, reform of New York's archaic election laws, allowing victims of sexual abuse cases to reopen their cases and sue their abusers, common sense reforms to New York's gun laws, so many issues on the table that need to be addressed.

LaValle said in the remaining weeks of session, the Senate GOP will «focus» on issues including renewal of New York City's rent laws, and changes to the controversial Common Core learning standards and related standardized tests.

The 80 minutes of occasionally spirited argument at the high court this morning focused on the two main issues in the greenhouse gas litigation: For the case to go forward, the plaintiffs must prove that the case has legal standing (they must show that the court is the right venue for resolving this dispute), and that the common law definition of nuisance can support suits over greenhouse gases.

In the remainder of this report, we provide results from our survey on a number of key issues: awareness of and compliance with the new law, the identification of common measures used to place students, and the use of evaluation measures for district placement policies.

Just last week, Malloy's Interim Commissioner of Education, Dianna R. Wentzell, issued a directive to all local school superintendents informing them that the Common Core SBAC testing program was mandatory and that, «These laws do not provide a provision for parent's to «opt - out» their children from the taking these tests.»

WASHINGTON — The health care law may be Republicans» favorite weapon against Democrats this year, but there is another issue roiling their party and shaping the establishment - versus - grass - roots divide ahead of the 2016 presidential primaries: the Common Core.

NJ EXCEL, therefore, emphasizes the study and analysis of topics and authentic educational issues within local district and school contexts, and within the broader context of the state's Strategic Plan for Improving Education in New Jersey, the New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, Common Core / PARCC, relevant state laws, policies, and initiatives.

Initiatives have been floated on a range of issues, including authorizing more charter schools, opting out of Common Core and overhauling public records laws.

Numerous questions about the impact of the new law remain but on the opt - out issue it appears that Congress will require states to notify parents about the Common Core Testing scheme but will continue to require that states mandate that 95 % of students participate in the destructive tests — «or else.»

Thus concludes this series on multi-state taxation issues of same - sex couples who move from a community property state to a common - law state.

Many common stocks issued today do not have par values; those that do (usually only in jurisdictions where par values are required by law) have extremely low par values (often the smallest unit of currency in circulation), for example a penny (USD$ 0.01) par value on a stock issued at USD$ 25.00 / share.

The G7 leaders agreed to jointly take a leading role in international efforts to address pressing issues, such as downside risk for the global economy and challenges to the international order through unilateral actions, as a group guided by common values and principles, including freedom, democracy, the rule of law and respect for human rights.

The other issues in Rio are mostly trouble for an American president, having to do with foreign assistance, inequitable distribution of wealth and power, oceans (the United States is still blocked from ratifying the Law of the Sea treaty by a small Senate bloc) and efforts to find common approaches to conserving global assets like the planet's biological diversity — a fight far beyond the power of a single leader to sway.

Carriage Horses, Animal Abuse, and A Little Perspective Rachel writes, «The incident has much in common with recent events in Ohio, where dozens of exotic animals (some of them endangered species) were killed last week... There's talk of fixing the nation's laws to prevent issues with exotic animals in the first place, but individuals also need to take responsibility for their own actions — for example, does buying a baby monkey to live with you in a Louisiana home really seem like a good idea?»

By contrast, the view of the Advocate General (AG) appears much more in line with the traditional philosophy of mutual trust in the EU context: even if Member States have discretion about the means to execute the sentences delivered by their courts and even if EU law does not oblige a Member State to issue an EAW in order to prevent impunity, Advocate General Jääskinen recalls that «the principle that every penalty must be executed forms part of the rule of law» whose respect is a common feature to all the Member States of the Union (§ 102, referring to the opinion of the AG).

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Along with the common practice areas such as personal injury, criminal and family law, many of the attorneys here specialize in providing legal services for federal regulatory and related issues.

CaseXplorer gives you two options: you can draft your own questions, tailored to the specific facts of your case, or you can select pre-drafted template questions, broken down by area of law, that address some of the most common issues in certain kinds of cases.

As always with our money issue, readers will find the money theme running throughout the magazine from our always popular legal fees survey, «The going rate,» which looks at what lawyers are charging across the country for some of the most common legal work, to our legal reports on M&A and insolvency law.

Because the issue of negligence is grounded in the common law, we can find answers in both case law and the Restatement of Torts.

In a common law system, the courts are the arena in which adjudication on issues of law occurs.

Topics in the 2016 Edition include: Special Considerations in Representing Noncitizen Defendants, Federal Firearms Offenses, International and Foreign Law, Crime in Indian Country, Federal Sex Offenses, Common Constitutional Issues that Arise During Trial, International Border - Crossing Offenses, Mental Health Issues in Federal Criminal Practice, Evidence, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Plea Agreements, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and more!

Common legal issues relate to the amount of payment, wage and hour laws, back salary, employment related injuries, and wrongful termination.

It follows that the issue then becomes whether the exemptions under the Court Rules Act can be interpreted so that they are consistent with the common law right of access to civil justice, which is preserved, as the Attorney General submits, by the Court Rules Act.

David has extensive experience of jurisdictional and choice of law issues under both the common law and European regimes.

The law societies do not give sufficient importance to the interactions among: (1) the problem and its consequences — the thousands of people whose lives have been damaged for lack of affordable legal services provided by competent lawyers; (2) the power of the internet, the social media, and the news media together, to make those consequences into a public and political issue so quickly that there will not be time for the law societies to publish a persuasive response, and which issue will compel government intervention by way of programs on the way to socialized law; (3) the fact that self - regulation of the legal profession has been lost by the law societies in several jurisdictions of the common law world and the U.S; [7] and, (4) the fact that the consequences of the unavailability of legal services at reasonable cost will motivate the many non-lawyer legal service providers to offer legal services that should be provided by lawyers, to people desperate for a lawyer's services that they can not afford.

«There are a lot of different views and not a lot of common law decisions that take a united approach to the issue, which means there is a lot of wiggle room for parties to argue one way or another, and that leads to uncertainty in the law,» he says.

A legal challenge — though not common — in respect of companies merging with another in Cyprus, would be merger control issues regulated by the Control of Concentrations between Undertakings Law of 2014.

Lost, apparently, are citations to cases from other Canadian jurisdictions that address issues of principle, and thereby lost also is the development of a Canadian common law.

These developments illustrate a fundamental issue that most common law jurisdictions will need to address as they turn, increasingly, to consensual dispute resolution («CDR») processes like mediation and JDR in an effort to enhance access to justice in an environment of fiscal restraint.

In a January, 2012 issue of Law Practice Magazine, the American Bar Association indicated that the most common place where attorneys keep passwords is on sticky notes under their keyboards or in their top right - hand drawers.

«The issue of whether common - law copyright today protects email expression turns on whether the Federal Copyright Act preempts common - law copyright.

Often the reporter with the support of the relevant committee will adopt the «better rule» or trending rule rather than the actual majority position of the states on a common law issue.

The question put before the Court was whether competition law applies to such arrangements, which quite clearly have a social aim and seek to address the increasingly common issue of the «false self - employed» in today's society.

Their use of historical 18th century legal materials has expanded beyond the typical view of using historical common law to maintain a conservative legal outlook, and has now covered seemingly every conceivable aspect of American federal court practice that comes under a historical question or issue.

In addition to representing clients in breach - of - contract litigation, Jeff has significant experience counseling clients on contract issues, including on damages, under the common law and Uniform Commercial Code.

Scholars in these fields have brought theories of language, narrative, and storytelling to bear on very practical issues involved in representing clients — and in this endeavor they have found common ground with many other law professors with a broad variety of legal specialties.30 Again, even a cursory review of this vast literature is beyond my scope here, but it is important to note the very promising way that interdisciplinary work has already been providing a quite practical link between theory and practice.

Where claims give rise to «common or related issues of fact or law» the court has the discretionary power to make a GLO to manage the claims governed by the GLO in a co-ordinated fashion.

Without the overall context that a legal education provides, knowing what issues you should be looking for is difficult or impossible, and this is particular true in Anglo - American common law systems, where the law is embedded in an opaque network of appellate cases rather than laid out more or less completely in a carefully organized statute.

The 1999 SCC decision of M&H had already put the issue on the legal radar screen, and while the recognition of same - sex marriage wasn't at issue in that case (it dealt with rights as common law partners), it left little doubt as to where the court would go in the future, if need be.

I think the issue is not one of training, but of understanding that the purpose of a university education and that of a law firm placement are fundamentally different, and legal research needs and experiences have little in common from one environment to the other.