Sentences with phrase «court holding the state»

Seven months after the Kentucky supreme court held the state's entire school system unconstitutional, a task force is moving toward adoption of a comprehensive reform plan that, supporters say, could propel the state to the forefront of educational innovation.

The Court held the state constitution requires «public schools provide their students with an education suitable to give them the opportunity to be responsible citizens able to participate fully in democratic institutions, such as jury service and voting, and to prepare them to progress to institutions of higher education, or to attain productive employment and otherwise to contribute to the state's economy.»

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In 1981, the United States Supreme Court held in a case named Plyler v. Doe that states must provide public education to undocumented alien children to the same extent they provide public education to citStates Supreme Court held in a case named Plyler v. Doe that states must provide public education to undocumented alien children to the same extent they provide public education to citstates must provide public education to undocumented alien children to the same extent they provide public education to citizens.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- In a landmark ruling for non-traditional families in New York, the state's highest court on Tuesday held a person need not have a biological or adoptive relationship with a child to be considered a parent.

The ruling marks the second time the high court has rendered an opinion in the case, in which the state is seeking to hold Greenberg accountable for sham transactions at the insurer.

A federal judge ordered that Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach be held in contempt of court, and Senator Bernie Sanders referenced rapper Cardi B in a tweet.

A preliminary injunction against Zillow and one of its chief execs, Errol Samuelson, is set to lift on March 22, but a Washington state Superior Court judge has ordered an investigation into whether Zillow and Samuelson should be held in contempt for violating the injunction.

The Commerce Clause allows Congress the power «to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes,» which was later held by courts to include «the channels of commerce, the instrumentalities of commerce, and action that substantially affects interstate commerce.»

«The New York State Court of Appeals, the state's highest court, has reaffirmed the long - standing legal practice and widely held understanding of the application of the Rent Stabilization Law's vacancy decontrol provisions,» REBNY's president John Banks said in a stateState Court of Appeals, the state's highest court, has reaffirmed the long - standing legal practice and widely held understanding of the application of the Rent Stabilization Law's vacancy decontrol provisions,» REBNY's president John Banks said in a stateCourt of Appeals, the state's highest court, has reaffirmed the long - standing legal practice and widely held understanding of the application of the Rent Stabilization Law's vacancy decontrol provisions,» REBNY's president John Banks said in a statestate's highest court, has reaffirmed the long - standing legal practice and widely held understanding of the application of the Rent Stabilization Law's vacancy decontrol provisions,» REBNY's president John Banks said in a statecourt, has reaffirmed the long - standing legal practice and widely held understanding of the application of the Rent Stabilization Law's vacancy decontrol provisions,» REBNY's president John Banks said in a statement.

The lawsuit filed in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, seeks to set aside and hold unlawful the Environmental Protection Agency's effort to weaken the existing clean car rules.

A Howard County District Court judge ordered Dominique Davon McDonald, 21, held without bail after a deputy state's attorney argued he...

Investing in an American company like Uber, however, could run counter to Saudi Arabia's threat to sell off investments in the United States, issued during discussion about a bill in Congress that would allow the kingdom to be held responsible in American courts for any role in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Would a contract stating you have to believe in the tooth fairy hold up in court?

A district court has held that a 2007 law amending the Texas Pledge of Allegiance to include the phrase «one state under God» does not violate the Establishment Clause.

In Rosenberger v. the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia it reviewed a decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit which had held that though the University (a state entity) could fund....

But to its astonishment, the VHA hospital was held by the court to be a governmental body - a quasi-public institution or «state actor» in constitutional lingo.

In several states you can not be an atheist and hold elected office, and in one state, Arkansas, an atheist's testimony is invalid in court.

Scalia, the most conservative of the activist Roberts court once wrote in Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith: «We have never held that an individual's religious beliefs excuse him from compliance with an otherwise valid law prohibiting conduct that the State is free to regulate.»

But — as one court recently held — if a student hands another student a piece of paper stating that «if any man is in Christ he is a new creature,» that act violates the principle of separation of church and state.

A long line of Supreme Court cases holds that states must pay unemployment compensation to employees who lose their jobs because of their religious beliefs.

The United States Supreme Court denied an appeal Tuesday from Bishop Harry Jackson to hold a ballot initiative in the District of Columbia that would, if approved, have overturned the District's same - sex marriage policy.

Ever since 1947, when the Supreme Court first applied the First Amendment's establishment clause to the states in Everson v. Board of Education, the court has held that government must be neutral on matters of reliCourt first applied the First Amendment's establishment clause to the states in Everson v. Board of Education, the court has held that government must be neutral on matters of relicourt has held that government must be neutral on matters of religion.

In executing the laws of the United States, he treated people of African descent as citizens in open defiance of the Court's holding.

This became painfully clear in 1996 when the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of the Alaska Supreme Court's Swanner decision, which held that the state's interest in preventing discrimination against unmarried heterosexual couples is sufficiently great that it trumps the objections of landlords who believe they are forbidden by God to permit «fornication» on their property.

This happened, for example, when the Supreme Court of the United States, in a ruling that helped to precipitate the Civil War, held in Dred Scott v. Sandford that blacks were noncitizens» and, for all practical purposes, nonpersons» possessed of no rights that white people must respect.

By holding that the statute did not have an impermissible purpose, that its primary effect was not the advancement of religion, and that it did not require «excessive entanglement» between church and state, the Court sent a signal to the political branches that more creative uses of the structures of civil society (including churches) may now be permissible in the American welfare state.

In 1972, the Supreme Court declared in Wisconsin v. Yoder that the state violates free - exercise rights if it infringes upon a sincerely held religious practice in such a way as to affect its exercise.

A federal judge in Oklahoma has issued an order putting on hold the certification of a ballot measure that forbids state courts from considering or using international laws, as well as Sharia, or Islamic law.

Take Boy Scouts of America v. Dale, in which the Court held it unconstitutional for a state court to force the Boy Scouts to appoint openly homosexual scoutmasCourt held it unconstitutional for a state court to force the Boy Scouts to appoint openly homosexual scoutmascourt to force the Boy Scouts to appoint openly homosexual scoutmasters.

For example, in Kimel v. Board of Regents, the Court held for the fifth time that Congress can not override state sovereign immunity.

If the ominous portents concerning the Supreme Court hold true, the fight for religious liberty will take on added urgency at the state level.

But he was willing to hold — insisted on holding, for plausible reasons — that the role of a referendum proponent does not confer standing to represent the constitutionality of state law in federal court.

Lawyers for Kentucky's Department of Insurance are encouraging a judge to hold Medi - Share, a cost - sharing ministry that helps pay medical bills for Christians who don't smoke or abuse alcohol (among other qualifications), in contempt for continuing to operate in the state more than a year after a circuit court judge ordered the Florida - based group to stop until it meets Kentucky insurance regulations.

When the matter reached the Supreme Court of the United States, Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney, writing for a seven — man majority against two dissenters, accepted Sandford's major contentions, not only sending Scott back into slavery, but holding, in effect, that he had never been free.

Arkansas, Article 19, Section 1: No person who denies the being of a God shall hold any office in the civil departments of this State, nor be competent to testify as a witness in any Court.

This happened, for example, when the Supreme Court of the United States, in a ruling that helped to precipitate the Civil War, held in Dred Scott v. Sandford that blacks were noncitizens — and, for all practical purposes, nonpersons — possessed of no rights that white people must respect.

The Court of Appeals for this Circuit in the Gaidry case took note of these two cases, but held them not reconcilable with the later ruling of the United States Supreme Court in Baglin v. Cusenier, 221 U. S. 680 [1 T. M. Rep. 147], wherein it was held that the fact that the primary meaning of the word «Chartreuse» was geographical did not prevent the acquisition of the exclusive right to its use as the designation of a liqueur made by the monks of the Monastery of La Grande Chartreuse.

She currently serves on The Court of Master Sommeliers, the grading body for aspiring candidates, and also holds the title of Certified Wine Educator, speaking annually at wine conferences and festivals throughout the United States.

In light of the spectrum of interests that the Supreme Court has held specially protected we conclude that the Constitution protects from excessive state interference a woman's decision respecting breastfeeding her child.»

The State Archives of North Carolina holds county records related to bonds, courts, land, marriage, wills and estates, and taxes.

No Supreme Court case has ever held or implied that Congress's Commerce Clause authority is limited to individuals who are presently engaging in an activity involving, or substantially affecting, interstate commerce... if Congress can regulate even instances of purely local conduct that were never intended for, or entered, an interstate market, we think Congress can also regulate instances of ostensible inactivity inside a state.

DiNapoli also noted these are the first agreements from companies among those held by the $ 146.9 billion New York State Common Retirement Fund in the wake of the Supreme Court's 2010 «Citizens United» decision, which greatly expanded the ability of corporations to make political contributions from corporate funds.

Also at 9 a.m., NYC Public Advocate Tish James and Rep. Nydia Velasquez hold a rally with tenants from 83 - 85 Bowery, who are allegedly being illegally threatened with evictions, state Supreme Court steps, 80 Centre St., Manhattan.

On October 25, 2012, the Court of Appeals held in that case that the United States may ban federally licensed firearms dealers from selling handguns to people under age 21, in a similar suit brought by the National Rifle Association.

For example, the majority of the 19th - century courts to consider the question held that prohibitions on carrying concealed weapons were lawful under the Second Amendment or state analogues.

The Supreme Court held that Congress had occupied the field on immigration: Congressional regulation was sufficiently comprehensive that there was no room for states to pass any laws controlling immigrants.

Bruno first held a brief press conference, telling reporters that he is «very unhappy with the result here,» and «very optimistic, as most lawyers in the United States are» that the theft of honest services law under which he was charged will be overturned by the US Supreme Court.

The impasse remains, resulting in the New York's unusual and costly arrangement of holding two party primaries, one mandated by a federal court for U.S. Senate and House party contests in June; state and local primaries still held in September.

At 10:15 a.m., leaders from New York's organized labor movement will hold a news conference as the U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments in Janus v. AFSCME, the latest in a series of attacks by the wealthy and corporate interests against ordinary working people, outside the Senate lounge, 3rd Floor, state Capitol, Albany.

The Industrial Court sitting in Ibadan the Oyo state capital, has held that Secondary School Teachers in Osun state lack power to withdraw their membership from...