Sentences with phrase «contract law in your state»

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ny disputes relating to this agreement or your use of the Information, whether sounding in contract, tort, statute or otherwise, shall be governed by the laws of the State of New York and shall be subject

You agree that any disputes relating to this agreement or your use of the Information, whether sounding in contract, tort, statute or otherwise, shall be governed by the laws of the State of New York and shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the State of New York located in the City and County of New York, Borough of Manhattan.

After the Supreme Court in 1911 struck down the form of resale price maintenance enabled by fair trade laws, 59 Congress in 1937 carved out an exception for state fair trade laws through the Miller - Tydings Act.60 When the Supreme Court in 1951 ruled that producers could enforce minimum prices only against those retailers that had signed contracts agreeing to do so, 61 Congress responded with a law making minimum prices enforceable against nonsigners too.62

These contract disputes are based on state law and properly belong in the state courts.»

Effective January 1, 2013, Insurance Law § 2612 also requires a health insurer, as defined in that section, to accommodate a reasonable request made by a person covered by an insurance policy or contract to receive communications of claim - related information by alternative means or at alternative locations if the person clearly states that disclosure of the information could endanger the person.

Regarding Roger Scruton's quarrel with Paul Griffiths about the relation of marriage to the state, Lord Stowell's analysis in Dalrymple v Dalrymple seems very apposite: Marriage in its origin is a contract of natural law; it may exist between two individuals of different sexes although....

Recently, an Islamist group in the Syrian opposition, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), captured the town of Raqqa and imposed on its Christian inhabitants the dhimma, the notional contract that governs relations with Christians in classical Islamic law.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

There are three main grounds on which nullity can be based and they are given in Canon 1095 of the Code of Canon Law, which states that the following are incapable of contracting marriage:

The clandestinely married did have the same civil - law rights as the licitly married — whatever that happened to entail in a given legal regime — but that was because the state recognized the capacity of the Church to arbitrate questions of contracting marriage.

Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»

Of course you are dealing with employment laws across different states and different countries and to try to police legally something like that, it was agreed in the room that all the lawyers in the world couldn't come up with a contract to police it.

Many employers in these states, as well as in others where this sort of open sale and use is still against the law, simply decided to turn a blind eye to marijuana testing, opting instead for clear clauses in contracts that stipulate that employees may not show up for work under the influence.

there is NO guarantee of ANY particular degree of openness (aside from some contracts in some states that are, allegedly, enforceable in a court of law).

Pieces of official evidence seen by Citi News show that state officials of both the Transport and Finance Ministries broke a number of national laws in their supervision of the 3.6 million Ghana cedis bus branding contract executed by Smarttys.

Sean Coffey and his former law firm made big campaign contributions to pension fund powerbrokers — including $ 16,000 to disgraced former state Comptroller Alan Hevesi — and supposedly landed big contracts in return.

The threshold in state law for an interest in a public contract is when an investor owns 5 percent or more of the company involved, according to Ohio Ethics Commission Director Paul Nick.

His signs loan contracts on behalf of the state, his daughters, brother and nephews have taken over the oil industry, his nephew has been offered of lucrative contract to review all contracts signed under the previous administration, his former wife appointed appointed an ambassador, his «Nigerian in laws» have been offered juicy contracts etc..

Ruskin Moscou Faltischek, a Uniondale law firm that employed state Sen. Dean Skelos, who resigned as majority leader this year after he was charged in a federal corruption case, also received three outside counsel contracts within the range just below the approval threshold: for $ 24,000, $ 24,900 and $ 25,000.

In 2011, along with the legislature, he approved a law to bar the state comptroller from auditing any contracts signed by SUNY, CUNY and their related entities.

In 2011, along with the Legislature, he approved a law to bar the state comptroller from auditing any contracts signed by SUNY, CUNY and their related entities.

Politically connected vendors with contracts just below the approval threshold include former Republican state Sen. Michael Balboni's consulting company, which received a $ 24,500 deal in 2011, and a law firm that employed Mangano before he took office in 2010.

However, the law contains 17 exemptions, including for people who are «engaged in drafting, advising clients on or rendering opinions» on legislation, procurement contracts or other matters «when such professional services are not otherwise connected with state or municipal legislative or executive action» as well as communications after a procurement contract has been tentatively awarded.

And last week, the leader of Ontario vowed to push a law that could restrict New York companies from bidding on billions of dollars of government contracts in that Canadian province in retaliation for a «Buy American» program signed two months ago by Gov. Andrew Cuomo for major state road and bridge projects.

Unless stated in a bi-lateral executed contract, there is no evidence that you are obligated to comply with any law.

The diversity officer will be in charge of ensuring the state complies with all laws and regulations covering contracts with MWBE firms.

Mulgrew also reported on State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia's decision to invoke the state's new receivership law this November to give the Buffalo schools superintendent special powers to bypass the union contract in five schools designated as «persistently struggling» by the sState Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia's decision to invoke the state's new receivership law this November to give the Buffalo schools superintendent special powers to bypass the union contract in five schools designated as «persistently struggling» by the sstate's new receivership law this November to give the Buffalo schools superintendent special powers to bypass the union contract in five schools designated as «persistently struggling» by the statestate.

The unexpended balance of each appropriation, less the commitments outstanding at the close of the fiscal year for which it was made, shall lapse at the close of such fiscal year; provided that nothing herein contained shall be construed to require the lapsing of appropriations which may be or are required to be made for an indefinite period or which include state refunds, allocations or grants applicable to said appropriations pursuant to any other provisions of law; and provided further that nothing herein shall be construed to prevent the making of appropriations or contracts for the construction of permanent public improvements or works not to be completed during the fiscal year, or the acquisition of property therefor, or the establishment of bond or capital accounts, sinking funds or reserve funds, and each such appropriation, account or fund shall continue in force until the purpose for which it was made shall have been accomplished or shall have been abandoned by a two thirds vote of the County Legislature.

Stringer, however, contends that neither the city nor the state is specifically bound by any existing human rights law not to discriminate in contracting and procurement.

The Empire Center and local taxpayer groups said the state needs to give districts greater leverage in negotiating teacher contracts by amending a law that deals with pay scales and benefits.

He added in the letter that if the dorm had been considered a government project at the time, a design / build contract «would have not been allowed by the competitive bidding laws» of the state.

Under New York State law, union employees continue to receive step (wage) increases and benefits as outlined in the expired contract.

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.

In a stalemate that could ultimately test the Taylor Law, Buffalo teachers, working under what could be the longest expired school contract in state history, are close to exhausting all of their options for mediatioIn a stalemate that could ultimately test the Taylor Law, Buffalo teachers, working under what could be the longest expired school contract in state history, are close to exhausting all of their options for mediatioin state history, are close to exhausting all of their options for mediation.

In what could be a test of the Taylor Law, Buffalo teachers, working under what could be the longest expired school contract in state history, are close to exhausting all of their options for mediatioIn what could be a test of the Taylor Law, Buffalo teachers, working under what could be the longest expired school contract in state history, are close to exhausting all of their options for mediatioin state history, are close to exhausting all of their options for mediation.

In 2011 Cuomo and the legislature passed a law to stop the state comptroller from reviewing contracts for economic development projects that are now the focus of a federal probe by Bharara's office.

Suddenly, adjustments to the law restricting eligibility for preferences in awarding state contracts smacks of a different policy — affirmative action for the well - connected.

By James Briggs The state Building Commission on Wednesday acknowledged it has lacked consistency in overseeing a state contracting law.

Article 15 - A, signed into law in July 1988, approved the creation of an Office — now Division — of Minority and Women's Business Development to encourage employment and business opportunities on state contracts for minorities and women.

The groups said there should be stricter laws against pay to play, where companies with business before government, or in competition for state contracts, would be restricted from giving large campaign contributions to politicians.

But the construction portion of the project, estimated to be 90 percent of the $ 12 million cost, is contingent on a change in state law to allow municipalities to use special «design - build» contracts, in which the design and construction phases are awarded to one company, rather than in separate bids as is typical in large public works projects.

Article 15 - A of New York State Executive Law, § § 310 - 318 (Participation by Minority Group Members and Women with Respect to State Contracts), was enacted July 19, 1988 and amended in 2011 to promote economic opportunities and equality of employment for minority group members and women in State contracting activities.

In 2007, the General Assembly passed a law solidifying the board's powers to oversee and audit state procurement efforts as part of a clean - contracting law.

The legislature passed nearly all of those recommendations, which included the creation of a more powerful ethics commission, mandatory ethics training, anti-nepotism laws and greater transparency in state contracts.

She rattled off her accomplishments such as serving as a counsel to the Black and Puerto Rican Caucus in Albany where she said they rewrote Article 15A of the state of New York to promote diversity in the contracts in the state and her work in drafting Local Law 1 — a law that governs the city's MWBE program — while serving as councilwoman in BrooklLaw 1 — a law that governs the city's MWBE program — while serving as councilwoman in Brookllaw that governs the city's MWBE program — while serving as councilwoman in Brooklyn.

It is ordered that on and after January 1, 2015, all Erie County offices, departments and administrative units, including but not limited to the Division of Purchase, fully implement a requirement in all bids, requests for proposals and other contract solicitations that the contractor submit an Erie County Equal Pay Certification which certifies the contractor's compliance with Federal Equal Pay Law and New York State Equal Pay Law (together, the «Equal Pay Laws»).

Democratic County Executive Mark Poloncarz issued a statement after the meeting, once again criticizing the bill, which would require the county to purchase American - made products for contracts of $ 10,000 or more, for being ambiguous and, in his and the county attorney's opinion, illegal under state procurement laws.

The suits claim the state violated CSEA - represented employees» constitutional rights to freedom of speech, freedom of association, due process and equal protection of the law when, during contract negotiations, it threatened to and did in fact, lay off CSEA represented workers, while sparing all management employees and political appointees.

Democrats have collected $ 3.8 million in that account, much of it from executives of firms that have contracts with the state, who are banned under state law from contributing to state campaigns.

Since passage of the original law in 2006 it has since been determined some, but not all, contractors and subcontractors to Erie County construction contracts are taking advantage of a loophole in the original law to not have in place New York State Certified Worker Training programs that actually graduate apprentices from such programs.