Sentences with phrase «decency laws»

Also, be aware that indecent behaviour including mooning or wearing offensive fancy dress costumes could be deemed to be against decency laws.

Synopsis: Pursued by opponents who say his «Hustler» magazine breaks decency laws, pornographer Larry Flynt (Woody Harrelson) hires lawyer Alan Isaacman (Edward Norton) to help fight his legal battles.

Not exact matches

Habits — the right ones — wield positive results because certain laws in human nature are reciprocal: being trustworthy builds trust, keeping promises builds integrity, selflessness builds service, kindness builds decency.

Another option would be to revisit Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a 1996 law that provides immunity from liability to online platforms for content generated by its users.

It should give one pause, however, that Abraham Lincoln was quite comfortable with the idea that law is a business as well as a profession, and that his idea of virtue in a lawyer was not much different from common decency in any other occupation.

More and more laws get passed to allow atrocious things but punish goodness and decency.

But on the side of the goal of «every unborn child protected in law and welcomed in life» is moral truth, and what we must hope is the enduring, if sometimes inarticulate, decency of most Americans.

Yes, there should be laws to enforce human decency and peace, but we can not force anyone to worship a particular God or ascribe a particular set of beliefs.

Anyone who must study the laws, so they can take their actions beyond decency and yell, «you can't stop me, it's my right to do this,» doesn't deserve the protection of those rights.

Since people generally lack common sense, common decency, or the desire for the common good, laws are created to keep us all in line and in check.

The law, order, generosity, peace and common decency that previously characterised many communities in South Africa were attributed to an unwavering commitment to the philosophy of ubuntu.

Show the world America upholds the law and rejects these foul violations of human rights and decency.

As a people, we do not wish to suffer under the law as institutionalized injustice that stands in the way of justice and decency.

The opinion was of a kind we are used to seeing by now from Justice Kennedy: long on windy rhetoric about «dignity» and ad hominem attacks on the basic human decency of the law's defenders, and short on actual coherent legal reasoning from recognizable constitutional principles.

«While it may not be a violation of the law - it may be an act of free speech - it certainly violates our sense of decency,» she added about the Florida event.

Wars are fought with increasing disrespect for international law established for protection of the civilian population, and war preparations are made with the same disrespect for international law and plain decency.

We all have to be painfully aware that as much as we have laws protecting rightful employment and decency in workplace, in any «though» economic times the simple fact that there are 100s if not 1000s vying for your job does lead to predatory behaviour by companies.

Since he's said his new show, Extreme Parenting, will incorporate not just extended breast - feeding but other «untraditional» and «extreme» parenting practices, he'd be wise to check out advice columnist Emily Yoffe's response to a mom whose mother - in - law crossed the decency line.

The onus is on his medical team to divulge, with requisite tact and decency, according to the laws of the land, and the dictates of their profession.

Mustapha urged families and faith - based Organisations to synergise to keep the nation's children on the path of decency, respect for law and proper upbringing for the good of the country.

Elected houses have to pander to the public, the public are generally stupid; in return for a vote politicians set aside all petty considerations (like the law, morality, basic human decency and common sense) and pass stupid, kneejerk, dangerous laws (the only people to disagree with Her Majesty's government passing dangerous laws in the name of anti-terrorism were a bunch of out - of - touch 90 - year - old judges, who have been replaced by a tame political supreme court).

«The US administration has shown a consistent disregard for the Geneva Conventions and basic principles of law, human rights and decency,» says Irene Khan, Amnesty International's secretary general.

Women should wear whatever they want as long as they are not breaking any laws regarding decency and it is appropriate for their job or the occasion.

In recent months similar cases have been dismissed in courts in California and Texas against MySpace.com and Craiglist.com using the Communications Decency Act, a law which protects forum providers on the Internet against legal claims arising from posts made by third parties.

In particular, certain countries have strict laws regarding decency and conduct, and older pupils in particular may, in all innocence, fall foul of these laws.

But it was in early 2009 while watching Les Miserable's — a story about a hero on the right side of human decency but the wrong side of the law — that Khan was inspired to write about his homeland.

While there are certainly those that operate ethically and professionally, the industry has been tarnished by those that operate without decency and regularly violate laws pertaining to debt collection.

It is a shame we have to have a law to enforce common sense and decency.

If they choose to campaign on an «issue» with scant regard to logic, common sense or (very often) common decency, that's up to them — as long as they don't break the law.

Godwin is well known for his work in Internet law and was one of the counsel of record in the seminal 1997 case, Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union, in which the Supreme Court struck down portions of the Communications Decency Act.

In the interim, the legislature had changed its laws, making Wilson's crime a misdemeanor - and the Georgia Court found that the changes reflected evolving standards of decency.

Under these circumstances, he is taking advantage of [plaintiff's] counsel's mistake in precisely the manner that is disfavored by law, to say nothing of common decency.

One example of legal marketing that probably pushed the bounds of decency was the law firm of Joe Moss and Jay Lawrence Friedheim, a stand - up comedian turned lawyer and later Republican candidate for the Hawaiian legislature.

The common law abuse of process doctrine is designed to protect the fundamental principles of justice that underlie the community's sense of fair play and decency.

In that case, where the defendants had been convicted on two counts of conspiracy to corrupt public morals and conspiracy to outrage public decency in respect of the publication of a magazine which contained advertisements inviting readers to engage in homosexual acts, the House of Lords was split about whether a common law offence of conspiracy to outrage public decency existed.

The blog post does not include the court documents but says that is based on the grounds that the AG's threats «represent an unconstitutional prior restraint on free speech and are clearly barred by federal law,» to wit, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

It was contended on behalf of the appellant that the law relating to the offence of outraging public decency had developed in such a way that the offence was confined to those instances where the necessary lewd act had been witnessed by at least one person, and the public nature of the offence was only satisfied if, in addition, at least one other person either had or could have seen the act.

«Sometimes the law can't be foller'd no way,» said Pa. «Not in decency, anyways.

And former Kozinski law clerk Circuit Judge Sandra S. Ikuta issued an opinion concurring in part (and by implication dissenting in part) in which she makes clear that, in her view, the Communications Decency Act should protect the web site from all claims asserted under the Fair Housing Act that are based on information supplied by the web site's users.

California law defines «outrageous» behavior to mean «conduct so extreme that it goes beyond all possible bounds of decency.»

Yet it seems that, on such situations, governments are yet to provide a compelling reason for online censorship laws other than for common «decency».

has introduced H.R. 1865, Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act of 2017 that would amend Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act — the law that shields Backpage from accountability for its ongoing abuses.

His practice also includes counseling clients on First Amendment interests, copyright laws, and e-commerce laws such as the Digital Rights Act and the Communications Decency Act.

They provide quality service, great decency, and clearly have a command of the areas of law in which they practice.

In practice, courts have tended to focus on the outrageousness element, the one most susceptible to determination as a matter of law (see, Restatement [Second] of Torts § 46, comment h; Givelber, The Right to Minimum Social Decency and the Limits of Evenhandedness: Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress by Outrageous Conduct [«Social Decency»], 82 Colum L Rev 42, 42 - 43 [1982]-RRB-.

ELITE LAW SCHOOLS BAND TOGETHER AND DEMAND DECENCY FROM BIGLAW: They want to know if firms are forcing summers into binding arbitration and nondisclosure agreements.

Also, the law appears in direct conflict with 47 U.S.C. 230, a provision in the federal Communications Decency Act which provides intermediaries such as blogs, social networking sites and online publications with immunity from any legal obligations regarding the comments of downstream users.

It goes on to state that «foremost among our recommendations is a new Workplace Rights Act, to herald a new era of workplace decency and compliance with the law.»

The two person rule in respect of establishing the public element of the offence of outraging public decency contrary to the common law can be satisfied if there were two or more people present who were capable of seeing the nature of the act, even if they did not actually see it.

The defendant was subsequently convicted of committing an act of outraging public decency contrary to the common law.