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His presentation topics include attachment and parenting plans, attorney - expert relationships, constitutional issues in child protection cases, and paradigm shifts in child custody policy.

The particular grounds for this conclusion are set out with respect to particular constitutional issues in the responses below.

This latter causation issue may be marginally relevant to the constitutional issues in this case.

Scott MacLatchie Discusses Constitutional Issues in Police - Public Interactions at DRI Civil Rights and Governmental Tort Liability Seminar

He also has successfully briefed numerous 42 U.S.C. section 1942 and other constitutional issues in California and Oregon.

However, the worry was that the Government could simply concede the case on the merits and avoid having to argue the constitutional issues in court.

Paul Fraidenburgh discusses «Constitutional Issues in Business Litigation» at the meeting of the Pacific Legal Scholars in Stockton, California

There are several constitutional issues in question here.

The 52 - year - old Takoma Park resident, who is a professor at American University Washington College of Law, has focused his energy on a number of civil rights and constitutional issues in both the academic and legislative arenas, including marijuana legalization, campaign finance, and voting rights.

In this blog post, I distil some of the constitutional issues in the party manifestos of the three largest parties in Westminster in the last parliament: the Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats (if there's time, I will do another post on the smaller parties» proposals).

Although the Court in Oakes dealt with a similar constitutional issue in 1986, there were no indication that less harmful means could achieve the same goal here.

The key constitutional issue in this regard was therefore always going to concern the degree of oversight and control exercisable by Parliament over the exercise of these powers.

Not exact matches

Former Attorney General Eric Holder, who served in the Obama administration, said Thursday night that if Trump tried to «define or constrain» Mueller's investigation, it would create «issues of constitutional and criminal dimension.»

Many provinces have intervened in the case against Comeau, while a team of lawyers with an interest in the constitutional issues offered to represent him for free, and the Canadian Constitution Foundation volunteered its assistance.

[105] On January 8, 2008, to address ongoing structural budget issues, Governor Corzine proposed a four - part proposal including an overall reduction in spending, a constitutional amendment to require more voter approval for state borrowing, an executive order prohibiting the use of one - time revenues to balance the budget and a controversial plan to raise some $ 38 billion by leasing the Garden State Parkway, the New Jersey Turnpike, and other toll roads for at least 75 years to a new public benefit corporation that could sell bonds secured by future tolls, which it would be allowed to raise by 50 % plus inflation every four years beginning in 2010.

What measures would pass constitutional muster with the Second Amendment in place, especially given that even the Republican - backed gun access / school safety bill passed in Tallahassee is now the subject of a lawsuit issued by the NRA?

One might have thought that that would be the end of the matter, but instead Burnaby commenced this action in the Supreme Court of British Columbia seeking a declaration (at para 13) «that the National Energy Board does not have the constitutional jurisdiction to issue an order to the City of Burnaby that directs or limits the City of Burnaby in the enforcement of its bylaws.»

«As with many constitutional issues, the devil is going to be in the details and how it's implemented and enforced.»

The success of the concurrent delegations was an excellent example of how Canada can capitalize on some of its constitutional similarities with India — in this case, the devolution of power over issues such as education and national - resource management to the provinces — in order to improve relations for Canada as a whole.

Attempts to curtail the sale of liquor also diverged from traditional means of regulating vice in ways that raised troubling constitutional issues.

In general, based on the 2003 interview, it doesn't look like Santorum knows how to talk or think about this issue very well; he doesn't, for example, appear to know how to distinguish the three levels of the right to privacy debate: a) the natural rights level, b) the Constitutional level, and c) the plain - old law level, state and federal.

The Jacksonian / FDR threat, in effect, is to have the constitutional issue resolved by a decisive election.

The symbolic nature of the struggle is stated succinctly in Roman's discussion of the 1917 constitutional congress: «Although other arguments were also used against the clergy, the issue returned time and again to the saving and the building of the nation and to destroying the ideological domination of the church» (italics added).55 Article 3.

One of the most serious issues in constitutional discourse was the virtue of the people, since constitutional law would be effective only if citizens respected it.

Ironically, the 2016 — 2017 Supreme Court roundup also appearing in the October issue of First Things («A Less Corrupt Term») quotes Justice Samuel Alito saying of the Court's majority opinion on same - sex marriage that it «evidences... the deep and perhaps irremediable corruption of our legal culture's conception of constitutional interpretation.»

(This assumption is shared by virtually all persons quoted in the press on this issue: members of Congress, leaders of civil rights organizations, church leaders, experts on constitutional law, etc..

As I see the matter, there is not in fact any constitutional issue at stake.

Among the issues addressed are constitutional changes in Muslim - majority countries and the increasing adoption and enforcement of anti-blasphemy laws around the world.

Two centuries of judicial interpretation of the United States Constitution have demonstrated that when the Supreme Court veers off course in a particular case or series of cases, continued constitutional litigation over the issue involved serves to correct their heading.

The evangelical - moralist sector has gained access to the White House, the Supreme Court, the Congress; it has a near - monopoly on mass media religion news, popular religion, the production of religious celebrities; it makes clear its positions on what it calls social issues, and is engaged in calling for constitutional amendments and new laws and in protests in the public squares.

There is very little about the free - exercise clause in Hamburger's book, and the seeming equation of the disestablishment / separation issue with «American religious freedom» more generally seems to leave out one half of a complex and at - least - two - sided constitutional reality.

More recently, Billy Graham has weighed in on hot - button issues, including supporting North Carolina's constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, which voters passed earlier this year.

In developing his notion of «curricular neutrality,» Nord takes on issues of linguistics and philosophy, but his main concern is the constitutional law produced by the Supreme Court's decisions on church and state.

(10) While this «Position paper» (and others since issued) does not hold the constitutional status of the Statement of Fundamental Truths approved by the AGs highest body, the biennial General Council in session (typically four to nine thousand voters), the paper does bear the approval of the (roughly two hundred man - no women) General and Executive Presbyteries all of whom are elected by General Council membership.

The issue in Bowers was the constitutionality of a Georgia law that made sodomy a crime: Did Georgia have the constitutional power to enact such a law?

Each concerned a growingly contentious issue in politics, each sought to take it out of politics by deciding it judicially on constitutional grounds, and each did so by basing the decision on the due process clause of the Constitution.

The last hour has seen the political and constitutional reform committee issue a report complaining that the government's ignoring its recommendations about going to war; Labour have put out a line on the strikes, saying they're «usually a sign of failure»; and the Institute for Government is telling us that Whitehall is leading the way in headcount reductions, with an overall reduction of 8.4 % since the comprehensive spending review in October last year.

A senator said: «What I know is that the National Assembly leadership is very interested in having all issues relating to constitutional amendments sorted out and concluded very early in 2017.

The fundamental issue is how are people to be re-engaged in politics and what role do constitutional changes play in re-energizing the political process.

No doubt, there should be a thorough parliamentary debate on the issue, but instead of forcing a decision in this parliament, which could well be as controversial and divisive as the ill - fated referendum, I strongly agree with Nick Clegg that by far the best and most dignified way out of the current mess would be to ask the people in the proper constitutional way by calling an snap general election:

We are at a «constitutional moment» said White; an exceptional historical period when normal politics is superseded by the need for «We, the people» to address fundamental issues about the content and distribution of rights in society and the basic nature of government.

However, on the same day, the judges on the Ninth Circuit Court, which upheld the first TRO in February, issued an opinion1 that the revised Executive Order is constitutional.

Based on all of that, it was quickly recognized, both in comments and in that email group, that the obvious choice to target for a «hold» was Dodd, who had made constitutional and oversight issues the centerpiece of his presidential campaign.

From Harold Wilson in 1975 opting for a referendum to quell internal disquiet in the Labour Party, to Tony Blair's pledge on the single currency and the constitutional treaty as gambits to close down the European issue for an election but to encourage conflict within the Conservatives, EU referendum commitments have been driven largely by British politics.

Contemporary organised demand for constitutional reform traces back to the late 1970s, yet even before then, isolated intellectuals — «a voice crying in the wilderness» — had tried to make an issue out of a written constitution for Britain that would include a Bill of Rights.

The Irish Government has still to respond on these later reports, but already it is clear that the Convention recommendations on many matters will lead to the holding of referendums on specific issues in 2015; and we are likely to see real and significant constitutional change made as a result.

Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins did not praise the constitutional amendment that would codify the Roe v. Wade decision in state law as backed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday, indicating more urgency was needed on the issue.

Importantly, none of this is a constitutional issue, except in state run universities, because private institutions can restrict speech if they want.

«This issue has zero to do with birth control, which is easily available, and everything to do with Senator Gillibrand's doctrinaire liberal agenda, which is in direct contradiction to our Constitutional freedoms.»

In addition to the six specified issues discussed above, the Convention was given the power to consider and report on any other relevant constitutional amendments — and has been given two further weekends in February 2014 to deal with other issueIn addition to the six specified issues discussed above, the Convention was given the power to consider and report on any other relevant constitutional amendments — and has been given two further weekends in February 2014 to deal with other issuein February 2014 to deal with other issues.