Sentences with phrase «constitutional protections for»

New Jersey's highest court has considered whether state constitutional protections for free speech apply to a private homeowners» association enforcement of its rules and regulations against fellow homeowners.

Many of these states even include greater state constitutional protections for a woman's right to choose than the federal Constitution.

The wealthy can access a vigorous adversary system replete with constitutional protections for defendants.

We would do well to pursue constitutional protections for those with disabilities so truly all can benefit from America's commitment to freedom and equal opportunity for all.

Similarly, there is little, if any, constitutional protections for a teacher advocating opting out while off duty.

@Avi it is not necessary to look at the 14th amendment; constitutional protections for non-citizens go back at least to the bill of rights, which also use the words «person» and «people» rather than «citizen.»

The criminal code bill, which the parliament approved in August and President Bidhya Devi Bhandari signed last Monday, establishes further constitutional protections for Hinduism (which 80 % of the population practices) by restricting religious conversion and «hurting of religious sentiment,» or blasphemy.

Religious freedom allows space and Constitutional protections for mainstream believers to counter violent extremists.

But some of Lawrence's reasoning cuts much more broadly suggesting there is a constitutional protection for all noncommercial private sex between consenting adults — a rule that, for example, would seem to declare incest between adult family members a right.

Although initial provisions of the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 affirmed constitutional protection for the practice of Native traditional beliefs, those basic rights continue to be threatened by legal challenges to the American Indian Freedom of Religion Act of 1978.

Arthur's «Federalist» would provide constitutional protection for those who would commit infanticide or euthanasia under the rubric of governmental neutrality.

The current bill would change a constitutional protection for public workers that their pension «shall not be diminished or impaired.»

In Illinois, another state with a constitutional protection for government - worker pensions, the governor recently signed legislation that would raise the retirement age for mid-career workers and reduce cost - of - living adjustments for all workers who have not yet retired.

Florida is one of only five states with a constitutional protection for collective bargaining rights, though the language is strangely ambiguous.

The commission, a 37 - member group that meets every 20 years to consider changes to the state constitution, has been holding a series of public hearings on the school plan and other proposals, including one to provide constitutional protection for affirmative action programs.

It is my hope that the Florida legislature and Governor Crist will pursue constitutional protection for school choice.

In my view it does, for many of the same reasons that support constitutional protection for solicitor - client privilege.

One possibly significant difference between lawnmowers and guns is that there is no constitutional protection for lawnmower ownership.

Unions still enjoy widespread public support, enjoy stable funding under the Rand formula, and have constitutional protection for their direct involvement in political activities.

I just noticed that a blog post of mine on Slaw about Ron Livingston was cited in an article by Rebecca Phillips in the Fall 2010 issue of the Campbell Law Review, Constitutional Protection for Nonmedia Defendants: Should There be a Distinction Between You and Larry King?

For example, the American Revolution was not held to invalidate private debts owed to British debtors (indeed, the U.S. Constitution was designed with constitutional protection for foreign creditors), but I am relatively confident that ISIS does not allow creditors from Syria or Iraq to enforce private debt obligations in the territory that it controls.

PPFA and pro-choice supporters from the Washington, DC, area are celebrating the anniversary of constitutional protection for using birth control with an event on Massachusetts Avenue outside of DC's Union Station.

Not exact matches

Such Constitutional protections have ensured that federal programs such as Medicare, the Veteran Administration's TRICARE system (which provides benefits for active duty members of the military and their families), and the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) apply the same rules to everyone they cover.

Since his last re-election, Clarke has openly supported Republican causes on local and national right - wing media outlets; proudly trumpets on official Milwaukee County letterhead his 2013 award from the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, whose leader suggested using women and children as human shields during Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy's standoff with federal agents; accused Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele of having «penis envy» and being on heroin when crafting the county budget and needing to be drug tested; blasted Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm and Chief Judge Jeffrey Kremers for being «soft on crime»; provided minimal protection for President Obama during his 2012 visit; employs former Scott Walker spokeswoman Fran McLaughlin, who was given criminal immunity over her role in Walker's mixing of campaign and county business; and created pro-gun public service announcements.

While I don't object to a constitutional amendment that would extend special protection to unborn persons - especially since such an amendment would presumably lodge protection for the unborn beyond the discretion of partisan courts, and also dispose of any potential problems with respect to state action - such an amendment is constitutionally superfluous.

In the same documents, the museum argues that even if constitutional protections apply, «there is no legal authority for the proposition that a museum is prohibited from displaying an item with historical, cultural or artistic significance merely because that item also has religious significance.»

This focus on employees — and not employers — tracks the Supreme Court's original explanation for why we give religious institutions special constitutional protections.

Speech can be regulated only when it directly conflicts with other constitutional conditions of the democratic process — for instance, freedom of religion and assembly, equal protection under the law, and basic rights to life and liberty.

A friend who has been teaching a course on constitutional law for a couple of decades and has achieved a national reputation confided recently that he plans to stop teaching the course; there just isn't any integrity to the subject, and it becomes almost a degrading experience to have to teach, say, equal protection doctrine and pretend that the Court's decisions are the product of any sort of coherent thinking.

The decision on Friday will open marriage legally in the remaining fourteen states, and will give new legal protection for those who got married under court rulings that actually could not be considered truly final until the Supreme Court itself had decided the constitutional question.

America has been remarkably favored — «blessed» if you prefer — by a wise and constitutional policy of non-preferential protection for the free and responsible exercise of religion.

Rather than give for - profit corporations the same religious protections as non-profit corporations, or other persons guaranteed constitutional protection, it would single for - profit companies out to deny them religious exercise.

Such a view of law would permit for - profit corporations to have the moral culpability of criminal convictions, take moral views on a slew of ethical concerns, and let corporations exercise other constitutional guarantees as persons while inexplicably siphoning off only for - profit corporations from religious protection.

To retaliate in such a brutal fashion against people exercising their constitutional right to band together for mutual aid and protection is an assault on all of us.

They said the mayor was taking «contradictory positions» by targeting the tribes while at the same time expressing support for constitutional protections of those looking to build a controversial Islamic center near Ground Zero.

«Mr. Bloomberg's hypocritical support of constitutional protections, only when they don't impact the New York City budget, coupled with his uneducated and uninformed statements on the issue, serve to fan the flames of aggression, and undermine the potential for peaceful resolution of these matters, while perpetuating a long dormant policy of Indian termination which dates back to the days of General Custer's failed battle of Little Bighorn.»

It will provide alternative source of funding for the Nigeria Police Force for the training and retraining of Police personnel, provide the much needed equipment and machineries to improve on Police welfare and efficiency in the discharge of our Constitutional functions of protection of live and property.

A group of constitutional law and government professors have signed on to a letter outlining why they back a constitutional convention, arguing that holding one will positively restructure state government and expand protections for the environment and local governments.

To be sure, there are well - funded efforts advocating around the subject of a constitutional convention, including unions who fear that delegates might revise pension protections for public employees.

«The Constitutional protections afforded the freedom to engage in association by the Independence Party and the Independent Democratic Conference for the advancement of beliefs and ideas through freedom of speech is a core value established by the First Amendment.

But Halloran had never asked for a mistrial, and forcing him to be tried before a different jury created a risk that he might successfully claim violation of his constitutional protection against double jeopardy — being tried twice for the same crime.

Simon Hughes, Liberal Democrat constitutional affairs spokesman and MP for Southwark and Bermondsey, said: «The extra protection which the Met is putting into south London is very welcome.

91 Per David Lammy MP (Parliamentary Under - Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs): «The protection has been given to the Church in Wales, at its request, but the Church of England has said clearly that it does not want it.»

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Cuomo says the proposed constitutional amendment still does not offer enough protections for the drawing of non partisan lines in the future, and he's counting on a yet to be settled accompanying statute to clarify that.

Without this constitutional protection, state and local pension funds could be raided like a piggybank to pay for other obligations.

Labor unions are leading the fight against a New York ballot measure to hold a constitutional convention, arguing that it's just too risky to tinker with the state's governing document and threaten existing protections for worker's compensation, unemployment benefits and collective bargaining.

«An act to provide for the implementation of the constitutional rights to information held by a public institution subject to the exemptions that are necessary and consistent with the protection of the public interest in a democratic society to foster a culture of transparency and accountability in public affairs and to provide for related matters», the Deputy Attorney General submitted.

In the corridors of power even previously sceptical Tories are also muttering that a proper federal, constitutional settlement for the UK could yet be done — incorporating an EVEL (English votes for English laws) solution alongside some hardwired protections for Scotland.

The public relations firms» suit claims the rules violate the First Amendment as well as constitutional due - process protections «by unlawfully subjecting public relations firms like the plaintiffs to a disclosure and punishment regime designed for true lobbyists, when all they are doing is speaking to the press about public issues.