Sentences with phrase «court case law»

In addition, although the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms does not list sexual orientation as a ground under Section 15, Supreme Court case law has firmly established it as an analogous ground deserving protection on the same level as religion, race, gender and other grounds.

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First, our amazing librarians conducted a great deal of painstaking research to identify all known sources of reported U.S. state and federal court case law.

The utter confusion to which recent Supreme Court case law leads was recently demonstrated in Alberta (Health Sciences Association) v Siksika Health Services, 2016 CanLII 104568 (AB LRB), The Board finds that the service offered is the exercise of a treaty right, but even that doesn't make the activity federal.

Both sides will adopt legislation to ensure this, and on the EU side the Court of Justice will be the final authority, as it will be EU law, while UK courts will be required to interpret the UK law in the light of Court case law, and will even have the possibility to refer questions for up to eight years.

The collection is a result of years monitoring court cases law and administrative actions which directly affect CCSA members and the charter school movement in general.

Not exact matches

Oliver Ireland, a partner at the law firm Morrison Foerster, said the Trump administration may wait until after the court weighs in on whether to review the PHH case again.

These cases show that the courts need to bring common sense back into this area of the law.

Next week, the Supreme Court will hear arguments for two cases that will decide whether your business is equivalent to a person, and whether companies can also seek exemptions from federal law based on religious beliefs.

Because the case was tied up in court for years, he said, the narrative from the Democratic side ended up being about how unfair and difficult the law made it for many to vote.

Unlike Hobby Lobby, where the High Court ruled narrowly to allow for - profit companies to exempt themselves from aspects of the health - care law for religious reasons, the latest cases deal with broader elements that underpin the ACA.

«There are going to be tough questions on both sides, questions the Supreme Court has not directly answered before in cases, that this court may not hesitate to stay clear of,» says Adam Winkler, a professor of constitutional law at University of California, Los AngCourt has not directly answered before in cases, that this court may not hesitate to stay clear of,» says Adam Winkler, a professor of constitutional law at University of California, Los Angcourt may not hesitate to stay clear of,» says Adam Winkler, a professor of constitutional law at University of California, Los Angeles.

Lower courts let stand previous case law that allow public unions to do so.

The U.S. has strict laws that punish misrepresenting the truth about people in public forums, but a new case before the Supreme Court could make even presenting innocuous, but mistaken information a punitive offense.

«On a general level, there can be practical barriers to pursuit of a criminal case, such as the victim company's fear of embarrassment, reputational damage, or the perceived risk — real or not — that their trade secrets will be exposed in a court proceeding,» said Brooke French, shareholder at law firm Carlton Fields.

Consequently, there are very few cases that have actually gone to litigation regarding social media and the law (many have been settled outside of court).

The cases involve the use of a landmark voting rights law that led to the election of African - Americans across the South and Supreme Court decisions that limited the use of race to draw electoral maps.

Both have databases of statutes, case law, court dockets, legal articles, and other materials built up over decades.

The law also requires a civilian review when commanders decline to prosecute, requires dishonourable discharge or dismissal for those convicted, eliminate the statute of limitations for courts - martial in rape and sexual assault cases and criminalizes retaliation against victims who report an assault.

As a result, the Supreme Court is spending the anniversary hearing the fourth challenge to the law in as many years, in a case called Zubik v. Burwell.

In a one - sentence order, the court said it would decide a case brought by conservative challengers of the law.

That was a big deal, legally speaking, because gender stereotyping was key to one of the biggest Supreme Court cases upholding federal anti-discrimination laws, involving a woman's inability to make partner at the former accounting firm Price Waterhouse.

7th US Circuit Court of Appeals nominee Amy Coney Barrett, a Notre Dame law professor, was questioned intensely about her Catholic faith as a result of past writings expressing her beliefs on whether Catholic judges should recuse themselves from death - penalty cases if they believed they would be unable to impartially uphold the law, writing that — in limited situations — judges should step back in cases that conflict with their personal conscience.

But as law professor Eugene Volokh notes, the First Amendment argument is a strong one, and the Supreme Court would likely hear the case since it involves striking down a federal statute.

Earlier this year, the Ohio Supreme Court agreed to hear a case challenging the use of the mortgage law by a payday lender named Cashland.

After another lawyer took Cai's case, the original law firm lost in court and was ordered instead to pay $ 27,000 in attorneys fees.

In a recent court case, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Department of Justice is prohibited from using federal funds to prosecute businesses who operate within state laws regarding medical marijcourt case, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Department of Justice is prohibited from using federal funds to prosecute businesses who operate within state laws regarding medical marijCourt of Appeals ruled that the Department of Justice is prohibited from using federal funds to prosecute businesses who operate within state laws regarding medical marijuana.

The judicial system does not track civil cases filed in circuit court by the section of law cited, but he does not remember hearing of any lawsuit based on the disparagement law being filed in circuit court anywhere in South Dakota.

(Chicago constructed this story from thousands of pages of federal court records, police reports, and court testimony from related cases, as well as from official government reports and dozens of interviews with federal and local law enforcement officials and attorneys for some of the defendants; through a spokesman, prosecutors in the Zambada case declined comment.)

While there will be many contentious edge cases to work through, over time blockchains will provide «rule - of - law - as - a-service» as an international, programmable complement to the Delaware Chancery Court.

Last month, the defendants filed a document stamped the «Hawaiian Judiciary Court of the Sovereign,» saying the judge in the Coco Palms case needs to surrender to law enforcement or face «immediate arrest.»

Others, including some gun control and mental health advocates, point to the increasing number of states that allow law enforcement officers or, in some cases, family members or others to petition a court to temporarily take guns from people who pose a danger to themselves or others.

The legal basis for deriving implied powers from the penumbra of other express powers is best seen in Justice Douglas classic opinion in Griswold v. Connecticut.5 In the Griswold case, the United States Supreme Court struck down a Connecticut law prohibiting the use of contraception.

According to law, unless the creditors file a case in the court, they are not allowed to take action against people who have gone bankrupt.

The coalition against the pipeline is already challenging the first permit granted to ETP by the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources with a case filed by the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic, with a court date set for Jan. 4, 2018.

We're now in a court of law with those cases and I'm confident we'll prevail.»

A spokeswoman declined to answer a series of direct questions from CNBC about his case, instead providing a statement from Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department's Tax Division: «Bradley Birkenfeld was afforded due process of law and sentenced by a federal district court after full consideration of all relevant facts and circumstances, including his admission that he advised wealthy UBS clients on how to conceal their assets from the U.S. government,» she said.

The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a case in which a Michigan township changed its zoning laws to prevent a Christian school from entering the community.

If a business is owned by a properly established trust, and it is sued, in most cases the only assets that can be attacked or attached in a court of law are those that are in the trust itself.

The district court identified two irreconcilable lines of Ninth Circuit case law on this issue.

I think the Supreme Court of Canada would deal with it [quickly], because I don't think the law is very complicated in this case.

There are a number of examples in Canadian case law where issuers were attempting to sell «utilities» or something similar to modern day tokens and coins, where the court simply didn't buy the argument.

The Obama administration chose not to ask the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to re-hear a pivotal health reform case Monday, signaling that it's going to ask the Supreme Court to decide whether President Barack Obama's health reform law is constitutional.

And the decisions made in forced arbitration proceedings are final — meaning in most cases they can't be appealed in a court of law.

William Bentley Ball of the Harrisburg, Pa., law firm of Ball, Skelley, Murren & Connell has argued numerous religious freedom cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Judge Rothstein conveniently ignored the fact that virtually all states forbade assisted suicide, either by express statute or well - settled common law precedent» which fact the Supreme Court noted without reservation in the one case it has heard dealing, albeit peripherally, with a so - called «right to die.»

That's how I read the Supreme Court's decision not to hear cases in which lower courts ruled that marriage laws in various states that recognize unions only of a man and a woman are unconstitutional.

Christian bakers found to have breached equality laws by refusing to make a pro-gay marriage cake have lost their case at the Belfast Court of Appeal.

Full of himself, he stepped up when his case was called, and began, as we were taught to do in law school: «May it please the court, my name is Edward R. Lev and I represent the Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago.»