Sentences with phrase «decade old law»

Admittedly, President Obama and Administrator McCarthy should not bear the full burden of blame when much of what needs fixing requires amendment of four - decade old laws that were not written with the 21st century in mind.

Currently there are plans for 25 Liquified Natural Gas export terminals in the US, and the American Petroleum Institute is spending millions of dollars to undo a decades old law that prohibits the export of crude oil.

Not exact matches

A decades - old law gives the Marshals Service, which is part of the Department of Justice, primary responsibility for disposing of items seized by other federal law - enforcement agencies.

A coalition of conservative states historically opposed to the Affordable Care Act is suing the Trump administration in a move to end the nearly - decade old health law following last year's repeal of Obamacare's individual insurance mandate.

Thom, a lifelong resident of Edmonton Strathcona who practices family law in Old Strathcona, has been a community volunteer and a conservative political activist for more than three decades.

Even If the due - process provision calls on the court to protect rights recognized by tradition or widespread consensus, there is a problem with Roe: it involved neither Antiabortion laws were decades old, and although a few states had partly decriminalized abortion, Roe went much further and struck down laws in virtually every state.

(a) Philosophical preoccupation with the various types of cultural activities on an idealistic basis (Johann Gottfried Herder, G. W. F. Hegel, Johann Gustav Droysen, Hermann Steinthal, Wilhelm Wundt); (b) legal studies (Aemilius Ludwig, Richter, Rudolf Sohm, Otto Gierke); (c) philology and archeology, both stimulated by the romantic movement of the first decades of the nineteenth century; (d) economic theory and history (Karl Marx, Lorenz von Stein, Heinrich von Treitschke, Wilhelm Roscher, Adolf Wagner, Gustav Schmoller, Ferdinand Tonnies); (e) ethnological research (Friedrich Ratzel, Adolf Bastian, Rudolf Steinmetz, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Hermann Steinthal, Richard Thurnwald, Alfred Vierkandt, P. Wilhelm Schmidt), on the one hand; and historical and systematical work in theology (church history, canonical law — Kirchenrecht), systematic theology (Schleiermacher, Richard Rothe), and philosophy of religion, on the other, prepared the way during the nineteenth century for the following era to define the task of a sociology of religion and to organize the material gathered by these pursuits.7 The names of Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, Werner Sombart, and Georg Simmel — all students of the above - mentioned older scholars — stand out.

Top Democrats in Albany still won't tell survivors where they can stand on the decade - old effort to reform the state's statute of limitations law on child sex abuse claims.

Plot: The film set in post-WWII Germany and focuses on a warcrime trial of the former lover of a law student Michael Berg nearly a decade after his affair with the older woman ended.

English votes for English laws offered the solution to a decades - old conundrum in British politics, but — as Hugh McLachlan argued recently — restricting voting and scrutiny rights in this way can throw up other paradoxes.

The Environmental Advocates of New York on Friday called on the state's elected leaders to use $ 117 million in settlement money from Volkswagen to implement a decade - old law aimed at reducing diesel emissions in New York.

DeFrancisco says the state Legislature did change the law, although the changes do not allow lawsuits over decades - old sexual abuse cases.

Republican spokeswoman Kelly Cummings referenced a decades - old case of Democratic freshman Marc Panepinto for an election - law violation.

He also said the state's decades - old Olivieri Law could be used.

The NYPD says state legislators are playing with danger trying to relax a decades - old law governing gravity knives.

NYC Council members are expected to introduce legislation today that would significantly change how the NYPD uses the decades - old nuisance abatement law against homes and businesses cops say have been used as dens of crime.

CENTRAL HARLEM — After more than a decade of unsuccessful attempts by lawmakers and juvenile justice advocates, Gov. Andrew Cuomo officially signed a bill into law Monday that would prevent all 16 - and 17 - year - olds from automatically being charged as adults in New York, no matter the crime.

Civil rights groups, including the Legal Aid Society and tghe New York Civil Liberties Union, have criticized de Blasio, a Democrat, for interpreting the state's decades - old police - officer - secrecy law, known as 50 - a of the Civil Rights Law, more strictly than any mayor in histolaw, known as 50 - a of the Civil Rights Law, more strictly than any mayor in histoLaw, more strictly than any mayor in history.

NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton defended his department's decision to cut off public access to officers» personnel data, saying that the decades - old practice of disclosing that information was a «lapse in oversight on our part» and violated state law.

Trump dismissed a published copy of an IRS filing that showed he used the U.S. tax code to take a nearly $ 1 billion operating loss in 1995, saying the news media is «obsessed» with a decades» old return and that he, in fact, «brilliantly used the law» to salvage his real estate empire.

The U.S. Justice Department has released a trove of decades - old internal legal memos concluding the President should be legally barred from appointing a relative to a position in the White House, shedding new light on just how sharp a departure the department's more recent interpretation of federal law under the Trump administration compares to past practice.

While the law passed unanimously, there have been doubts about the new rules, replacing a code three - decades old.

Some council progressives are also looking to repeal a decades - old rent control law that Republicans — and a wide array of more moderate Democrats — want to keep in place.

One of the great ironies of those historic housing patterns in Miami is that for decades under Jim Crow, laws and zoning restricted black people to parts of the urban core, an older part of the community that sits on relatively higher ground along a limestone ridge that runs like a topographic stripe down the eastern coast of South Florida.

Whereas on her wedding reception at Taj Mahal she wore decades old gharara of her mother - in - law.

Researchers looking to tap into the treasure troves of long - term student - achievement data that states and districts are starting to pile up say their efforts are increasingly running up against a decades - old federal law designed to protect student privacy.

It is for all these reasons and more that President Barack Obama signed the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010 on December 13, 2010, a law that will not only change the nutritional guidelines of the 65 - year - old National School Lunch Program, but will also provide the program's first noninflationary budget increase in more than three decades; a total of $ 4.5 billion over 10 years, which includes an additional 6 cents per meal, per child.

Such a holding would, in effect, suspend a four - decades - old state law and there is little doubt that litigation would follow — even as the U.S. Supreme Court is once again weighing whether race can be used as a factor in university admissions.

Leading Democratic legislators have also said one of their priorities will be to enact a new, revamped charter - school law to replace one that is now nearly two decades old.

Ruling in Vergara v. California, Treu struck down five decades - old California laws governing teacher tenure and other job protections on the grounds that they violate the state's constitution.

In Spite of Massachusetts» Decade - Old English - Only Law, Two - Way Bilingual Programs Demonstrate Promise and Enjoy Enduring Popularity by Susan Eaton (2012)

The NHSC's ruling today takes some wind out of the sails of the Florida School Boards Association (FSBA), which is inexplicably suing the Sunshine State over its more - than - decade - old scholarship tax credit law, in a complaint that mirrors the legal reasoning of the NH petitioners.

Obama used the White House speech to announce that he and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan would roll back certain accountability requirements of NCLB, a decade - old bipartisan education law that has been up for re-authorization since 2007.

At the heart of such a legal argument is the extent to which the U.S. Department of Education can allow states to deviate from elements of the decade - old law.

The No Child Left Behind Act is a much - maligned decade - old federal education law that called for regular standardized tests, disaggregation of testing data by racial subgroup, and increasing sanctions for states that fail to meet proficiency standards leading up to a requirement of about 100 percent proficiency by 2014.

The decades - old provision of the state's open records law is now troubling some Democratic lawmakers after voucher school lobbying group School Choice Wisconsin sought student information from about 30 Wisconsin school districts for marketing purposes.

Noting that the issue is still not resolved, The Detroit News reports that the RPM Act «would put in law the decades - old intent of Congress to exclude off - road vehicles from federal emissions regulations.»

This law is an update to a decades - old law called the Lang Llaw is an update to a decades - old law called the Lang Llaw called the Lang LawLaw.

But despite the decades - old consumer protection law, which guarantees consumers the right to get legitimate errors off their reports, Sharma fell through the credit reporting system's cracks.

Tillery plans to relocate Diggy in order to comply with the city's breed discrimination laws, but an online petition with over 59,000 signatures is fighting — for Diggy's sake as well as actual pit bulls everywhere — to overturn the decades - old ban.

curated by David Hunt 2005 NAPOLI PRESENTE Posizioni e Prospettive dell - Arte Contemporarea, PAN Contemporary Art Museum, Naples Italy (Oct) Wish, COCA Center of Contemporary Art, Seattle WA (Sept) Only Skin Deep: Chancing Visions of the American Self, San Diego Museum of Art and Museum of Photographic Arts, CA, curated by Coco Fusco (catalogue) Crossings: 10 artists from Kaohsiung & Chicago Chicago Cultural Center (July), Museum of Fine Art, Kaohsiung, Taiwan (Nov), co-curated by Greg Knight & Tseng Fangling International Biennale of Contemporary Art 2005, Prague (May - Sept) In Search of a Continuous Present curated by Lynne Warren, MCA Chicago Not Too Loose and Not Too Tight, DCKT Contemporary, New York 2004 Only Skin Deep: Chancing Visions of the American Self, Seattle Art Museum, WA curated by Coco Fusco (catalogue) A Perfect Union... More or Less, Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago curated by Hamza Walker About Face: Photographic Portraits from the Collection, Art Institute of Chicago Common Ground: Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art, Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC Inside Out: Portrait Photographs from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum, NY The Perfect Number, 404contemporanea, Naples, Italy 2003 Only Skin Deep: Chancing Visions of the American Self, ICP New York curated by Coco Fusco (catalogue) The Squared Circle: Boxing in Contemporary Art, Walker Art Center Minneapolis curated by Olukemi Ilesanmi A Century of Collection: African American Art, Art Institute of Chicago curated by Daniel Schulman 2002 Manumission Papers, Sunrise Museum, Charleston, WV Cut, Pulled, Colored, and Burnt, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL curated by Michael Rooks 2001 Freestyle, Studio Museum in Harlem, NY curated by Thelma Golden Bastard (son of hot sauce), Law Office, Chicago IL Musings: Contemporizing Tradition Gallery 312, Chicago, IL curated by Kathryn Hixson and Nathan Mason 2000 A Decade of Acquisitions, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI 1999 Seeing In the Dark, G.R. N'Namdi Gallery, Birmingham, MI, Chicago, IL New Artists, Old Techniques, Schneider Gallery, Chicago, IL

The attack is on a decades - old law called the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act, or PURPA — a law that has paved the way for policies that have brought renewable energy into the mainstream in the United States.

Funding threatens decades - old common - law prohibitions against maintenance and champerty — i.e., the buying and selling of lawsuits.

Although only a few decades old, listening to today's Conservatives one might think the Charter was crafted in some law school ivory tower and imposed by judicial fiat onto an unsuspecting Parliament.

The recent Law Society of BC Report on the Retention of Women in Law Task Force notes as follows: • Women have been entering the legal profession in BC in numbers equal to or greater than men for more than a decade, yet represent only about 34 % of all practicing lawyers in the province and only about 29 % of lawyers in full - time private practice; and • the legal profession in BC is aging and there will be a net reduction in the number of practicing lawyers — a looming shortage — as older lawyers retire without a corresponding increase in younger lawyers joining the profession.

While this is true (old law can be bad law) the «up - to - date» mantra is usually interpreted as dependence on insanely expensive looseleaf texts, a publishing format that has dominated in Canada for decades but was long - ago superseded by advances in information technologies and social media as well as the free law movement.

It was the judges and lawyers who had to throw out three decades of established case law and start over again; it seemed to me that my clients had very little knowledge of the old Family Relations Act and therefore had nothing to relearn when separating.

If an old statute is still on the books but hasn't been enforced for decades, must judges treat it as valid law?

We have had distant early warnings of this for well over a decade, and if you doubt that — or even if you don't — I invite you to read The New York Times» coverage of Lord, Day, & Lord's closing its doors in 1994 (with the pithy headline / diagnosis: «Oldest Law Firm is Courtly, Loyal, and Defunct»).

As much as I enjoy the visceral impact of a stroll through the stacks at a law library and the serendipity of opening a dusty old law report to find something of use (or at least interest), my practical experience over the past decade in the quasi-legal administrative world of telecommunications policy has allowed me to conduct primary research nearly exclusively through digital sources — and mostly free ones at that.