Not exact matches
«This morning, following the re-opening, we were notified
of a deed
by the
court of Florence requesting the immediate closure
of BitGrail and this situation will persist until a
decision is made
by the
courts, about the precautionary suspension request made
by the Bonelli
law office on behalf
of a client.»
Not one executive
of any major Wall Street firm that caused the financial crash in 2008 through fraudulent activities was prosecuted
by the U.S. Justice Department — which was headed at the time
by law partners from Covington & Burling — the Big Tobacco
law firm that was singled out in a Federal
Court decision for hiding the deadly effects
of cigarette smoke for decades.
Mexico's Supreme
Court upholds a
law in the state
of Baja California that states life begins at conception, in a
decision hailed
by anti-abortion campaigners.
We are ruled
by words ¯ words
of encouragement, words
of persuasion, and words that end up being
laws, regulations, and
court decisions.
Diocesan lawyers filed a lawsuit in U.S. District
Court in Hartford May 29 asking that a
decision by the Connecticut Office
of State Ethics determining the Bridgeport Diocese was subject to
laws governing lobbying organizations be overturned.
Lively, with representation
by Liberty Counsel (an evangelical legal organization), responded that in both the U.S. and Uganda he exercised constitutionally protected speech rights; that he opposes violence and neither committed nor plotted any; that Uganda did not in fact pass a proposed draconian anti-gay
law, and that in any case Uganda's political institutions, instead
of himself, are responsible for its political
decisions; and that the
court lacks jurisdiction and the plaintiffs lack standing.
In developing his notion
of «curricular neutrality,» Nord takes on issues
of linguistics and philosophy, but his main concern is the constitutional
law produced
by the Supreme
Court's
decisions on church and state.
Actually, after this rather stupid
decision by our Supreme
Court that now invokes religion into the basics
of secular
law, yes... I am sad.
While we are pleased that the District
Court found us likely to succeed on several of our claims, we are nevertheless disappointed by the court's ultimate decision to deny our Motion for Preliminary Injunction to block the implementation of the Vermont GMO labelin
Court found us likely to succeed on several
of our claims, we are nevertheless disappointed
by the
court's ultimate decision to deny our Motion for Preliminary Injunction to block the implementation of the Vermont GMO labelin
court's ultimate
decision to deny our Motion for Preliminary Injunction to block the implementation
of the Vermont GMO labeling
law
Under District
of Columbia
law, custody
of any child (ren)
of the marriage may be granted jointly or to either parent
by court decision (order).
Under Maryland
law, custody
of any child (ren)
of the marriage may be granted jointly or to either parent
by court decision (order).
The Supreme
Court's
decision not to hear the Friends» appeal is an affirmation
of the
law and the process
by which park districts may deem land unusable and sell it, Bush said.
Since Bolling v. Sharpe, a Supreme
Court decisions that came out the same day as Brown v. Board
of Education, the 5th amendment's Due Process clause has been interpreted
by the
courts to also imply a guarantee
of equal protection under federal
law.
Since the Supreme
Court has now prevented itself from acknowledging the question
of whether Barack H. Obama is or is not an Article II «natural born citizen» based on the Kenyan / British citizenship
of Barack Obama's father at the time
of his birth (irrespective
of whether Barack Obama is deemed a «citizen» born in Hawaii or otherwise) as a prerequisite to qualifying to serve as President
of the United States under the Constitution — the
Court having done so at least three times and counting, first before the Nov 4 general election and twice before the Dec 15 vote
of the College
of Electors — it would seem appropriate, if not necessary, for all Executive Branch departments and agencies to secure advance formal advice from the United States Department
of Justice Office
of Legal Counsel as to how to respond to expected inquiries from federal employees who are pledged to «support and defend the Constitution
of the United States» as to whether they are governed
by laws, regulations, orders and directives issued under Mr. Obama during such periods that said employees,
by the weight
of existing legal authority and prior to a
decision by the Supreme
Court, believe in good faith that Mr. Obama is not an Article II «natural born citizen».
· Amend The Penal
Law To Prohibit Undisclosed Self - Dealing
By Public Officials: To address the Supreme Court's decision in Skilling, which severely hampered the federal government's ability to prosecute cases involving deprivation of «honest services» by public officials, New York State should enact a felony - level crime of «Undisclosed Self - Dealing» to target public officials who further their own financial self - interest while purporting to be acting on behalf of their constituents or government employe
By Public Officials: To address the Supreme
Court's
decision in Skilling, which severely hampered the federal government's ability to prosecute cases involving deprivation
of «honest services»
by public officials, New York State should enact a felony - level crime of «Undisclosed Self - Dealing» to target public officials who further their own financial self - interest while purporting to be acting on behalf of their constituents or government employe
by public officials, New York State should enact a felony - level crime
of «Undisclosed Self - Dealing» to target public officials who further their own financial self - interest while purporting to be acting on behalf
of their constituents or government employer.
He said that from the apex
court's
decision, the Constitution could not be amended
by «mere» pronouncement
of a
court of law.
«It is not clear beyond a reasonable doubt that a rational jury would have reached the same conclusion if properly instructed, as is required
by the
law for the verdict to stand,» Jose Cabranes
of the Second Circuit
Court of Appeals
decision said in his
decision.
Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville), the driving force behind passage
of the landmark Buster's felony animal cruelty
law to protect people and pets, today is blasting the shocking
decision by Nassau County Supreme
Court Judge Angelo Delligatti to free a convicted animal torturer potentially putting public safety and the well being
of companion animals at risk.
In its
decision regarding Silver's case, the appeals
court ruled in 2017 that the definition of official corruption provided to the jurors differed from the one used by the U.S. Supreme Court when it overturned the corruption conviction of former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, and so it was possible the jury could have ruled differently had it been instructed on the updated definition of the
court ruled in 2017 that the definition
of official corruption provided to the jurors differed from the one used
by the U.S. Supreme
Court when it overturned the corruption conviction of former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, and so it was possible the jury could have ruled differently had it been instructed on the updated definition of the
Court when it overturned the corruption conviction
of former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, and so it was possible the jury could have ruled differently had it been instructed on the updated definition
of the
law.
Interestingly enough, because in the US you have the right to appeal to a higher
court if you don't like the
decision of a lower
court, many times states will find very popular gun control bills struck down
by a Federal
court who tells them that in the pure legal sense, their gun control
laws are unconstitutional.
«Yesterday's ruling was a landmark ruling that tells about the fact that our
courts are working, rule
of law is part
of our lives and that our democracy is alive and kicking and that at any point in time we can be confident that we have a
court to rely on and that when people feel aggrieved
by decisions by an arm
of government or a constitutional body, they can always appeal and have hearing and sometimes can have their grievances addressed in their favour.
«The Kenyan people,
by this vote, have moved to strengthen the frontiers
of their democracy, and it is my hope that, regardless
of the
decision taken
by Kenya's Supreme
Court, the delivery
of progress and prosperity to the Kenyan people will continue in a process
of national reconciliation and in conditions
of freedom and the rule
of law to the benefit
of the welfare and stability
of the Kenyan nation.»
In the same manner, the National Assembly whose
law can be struck down
by the
court on the basis that it is unconstitutional can also amend a law later to override the decision of the Supreme Court as they did in the onshore / offshore oil
court on the basis that it is unconstitutional can also amend a
law later to override the
decision of the Supreme
Court as they did in the onshore / offshore oil
Court as they did in the onshore / offshore oil case.
By so doing, he is making himself a superintendent and overseer and an appellate
court over
decisions of a
court of competent jurisdiction which under a constitutional democracy like ours and under the rule
of law can never be possible.»
According to the
Court of Appeal, Metuh and his company failed to first obtain the leave of either the trial court or the appellate court before filing a notice of appeal as required by the constitution when filing an appeal against an interlocutory decision, on the grounds of mixed law and f
Court of Appeal, Metuh and his company failed to first obtain the leave
of either the trial
court or the appellate court before filing a notice of appeal as required by the constitution when filing an appeal against an interlocutory decision, on the grounds of mixed law and f
court or the appellate
court before filing a notice of appeal as required by the constitution when filing an appeal against an interlocutory decision, on the grounds of mixed law and f
court before filing a notice
of appeal as required
by the constitution when filing an appeal against an interlocutory
decision, on the grounds
of mixed
law and facts.
If the Supreme
Court wasn't functional for an extended period then various different and contradictory
decisions made
by the appeals
courts would build up and there would be different «
laws of the land» in each federal judicial district.
That ruling, he adds, is «a
decision of the
court itself», meaning judges -
by the
law of precedent - are required to follow it.
As such, any cases that are brought to Federal Judiciary will be tried
by lower Federal judges (circuit
courts I assume) and then the circuit
court decision on the case will be the
law of the land until (at some point in indeterminate future) SCOTUS is re-constituted and overturns one
of those
decisions.
But the mayor appears to have benefited from a high burden
of proof for federal corruption cases — made higher
by a recent U.S. Supreme
Court decision — and from the legal advice
of his campaign attorney, who structured the Senate contributions to conform to the letter, if not the spirit,
of state fundraising
laws.
On Friday, High
Court Judge, Eric Kyei Baffour «quashed» a
decision by the Electoral Commission in which it rejected the presidential nomination papers
of Dr. Nduom and ordered the Commission to restore the rights given the presidential aspirant
by law to amend and alter the nomination forms.
The Assembly passed the latest version
of the Reproductive Health Act, which codifies the protections
of the high
court's Roe v. Wade
decisions in state
law, Tuesday evening
by a 96 - 46 vote.
But then the President
of the Republic
of Ghana, who has sworn a constitutional oath
of office to uphold and defend the Constitution
of Ghana as
by law established, grants an interview to the press after the
decision of the
Court on the same day.
Although the village
of Kiryas Joel was declared unconstitutional
by The US Supreme
Court, former Governor Mario Cuomo and his successors have re-written
laws to bypass the SCOTUS
decision.
Twice, in 2013 and 2014, she voted «nay» or sat out the vote for the 10 - part Women's Equality Act, pushed
by Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo, which would guarantee equal pay for women and strengthen protections for victims
of human trafficking, but also codify into state
law the Roe v. Wade Supreme
Court decision.
Based on the true story that led to the Supreme
Court's historic 1967
decision overturning
laws prohibiting interracial marriage, this beautiful drama helmed
by Jeff Nichols (Take Shelter, Midnight Special) follows Richard and Mildred Loving as they endure the legal battle
of a lifetime to protect their love.
After the Ninth Circuit
Court upheld a ban on «under God» in the Pledge
of Allegiance in 2003, the League's president wrote, «It is up to the teachers in the nine western states affected
by this
decision to break the
law.
Charles Ogletree Jr.
of Harvard
Law School and Kimberly Jenkins Robinson
of the University
of Richmond School
of Law argue that, just as Brown v. Board
of Education (1954) overturned the infamous «separate but equal» standard set
by Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the Supreme
Court should not hesitate to overturn the erroneous Rodriguez
decision.
The supreme
court, in a 6 - to - 3
decision, upheld a county district judge's finding in March 1983 that a group
of parents violated the state's compulsory - attendance
law by sending their children to a school established
by the Calvary Baptist Church in Charles City.
Hence, the lack
of supporting constitutional text, principles
of federalism, and the doctrine
of stare decisis (which lends stability to the
law by encouraging
courts to stand
by their prior
decisions) all militate against the creation
of a federal constitutional right to education or to supposedly equal school funding.
But the Republican governor, who is prohibited
by law from running for a third term, also asked the legislature to concentrate on issues other than just school facilities — a topic that has dominated the legislature since a 2002 Arkansas Supreme
Court decision ordered the state to improve student achievement and the conditions
of schools.
In a 6 - to - 2
decision, the
Court held that such action — whether mandated
by state labor
law or agreed to under a contract — runs afoul
of the Congress's intent to establish the U.S. Postal Service as a monopoly.
The analysis
of Articles
of the ECHR relevant to the issue and particularly Articles 9 (Freedom
of religion) and 2
of Protocol 1 (right to education), the citation
of the related case
law and my personal experience, help me answer whether the right
of a Muslim woman to be educated, work as a teacher, believe and manifest her religious views is being deprived
by her
decision to follow the Islamic dress - code or
by prohibition -
laws passed
by European states and approved
by the European
court of Human rights (ECtHR).
In 2000, a federal district judge ruled that Arizona was violating this relatively obscure
law, both
by not spending enough on its Lau programs — a reference to a Supreme
Court decision of 1974 and regulations
of the federal Office for Civil Rights — and
by failing to provide enough teachers, aides, classrooms, materials, and tutoring.
• Commitment to federal
laws established
by Supreme
Court rulings: OCR's current reading
of its authority under Title IX goes beyond the narrow interpretation adopted
by the Supreme
Court in two
decisions that addressed the sexual harassment issue, even explicitly rejecting the rulings in guidelines issued under the Clinton administration.
The lawsuit is the first
of what many analysts expect will be numerous legal challenges around the country following a landmark
decision in June
by a California Superior
Court judge who struck down the tenure system there as unconstitutional under state
law, saying it unfairly saddled students in high - needs schools with low - performing teachers.
For schools, the
decision signaled that
courts would prefer leaving management
of troubled students to educational professionals as long as they abide
by the
law.
The Education
Law Center is asking the
courts to reverse
decisions by former state Commissioner
of Education David C. Hespe that allowed seven charter schools to boost enrollment
by about 8,500 student in the next five years.
Over time, key
court decisions, as well as later revisions to the federal
law and regulations issued
by federal agencies, have spelled out the rights
of students and the obligations
of school districts.
The federal appeals
court in St. Louis — directly contradicting a two - year - old
decision by its counterpart in Boston — has upheld a Minnesota
law allowing parents
of private - school students to take state income - tax deductions for tuition and other expenses.
The plea
of guilty in any
court, the
decision of guilty
by any
court, the forfeiture
by the teaching certificateholder
of a bond in any
court of law, or the written acknowledgment, duly witnessed,
of offenses listed in subsection (1) to the district school superintendent or a duly appointed representative
of such superintendent or to the district school board shall be prima facie proof
of grounds for revocation
of the certificate as listed in subsection (1) in the absence
of proof
by the certificateholder that the plea
of guilty, forfeiture
of bond, or admission
of guilt was caused
by threats, coercion, or fraudulent means.