Sentences with phrase «decisions make new law»

These Court decisions make new law that are precedents in later judicial reviews.

Not exact matches

For the unaware victim, the new law does conceivably open up to legal scrutiny management decisions made long ago.

Westfield Valley Fair Mall is just a case study in what hard decisions businesses across the country will soon be forced to make as new minimum wage laws take effect.

The new law, rather than seeking to harmonize international taxation (which could decrease the outsized role of tax in decision - making), instead casts the United States as Rocky making a comeback in the global fight for capital investment.

They involve new laws and policies, radical changes in mentalities and lifestyles, codes of conduct for businesses and institutions, changes in the content of curricula and textbooks, new norms and decision - making methods in politics, health care and education systems, new strategic priorities for international cooperation, radically new approaches to development, fundamental transformation of democratic principles and mechanisms - a new social ethos imposed on all.

A new Associated Press - Gfk poll, released on July 18, reveals that the Supreme Court's recent 5 - 4 decision to make same - sex marriage a constitutional right has not solved the deeper debate in this country, contrary to the media assertion that this is settled «law» and that everybody needs to....

Decisions had to be made from time to time as to where or when services of the church would be held; the church needed to be told of the impending visit of an apostle, or of some prophet or teacher from abroad; a question has been raised as to the good faith of one of these visitors, and there must be some discussion of the point and a decision on it; a fellow Christian from another church is on a journey and needs hospitality; a member of the local congregation planning to visit a church abroad needs a letter of introduction to that church, which someone must be authorized to provide; a serious dispute about property rights or some other legal matter has arisen between two of the brothers and the church must name someone to help them settle the issue or must in some other way deal with it; a new local magistrate has begun to prosecute Christians for violating the law against unlicensed assembly, and consideration must be given to ways and means of meeting this crisis; charges have been brought against one of the members by another member, and these must be investigated and perhaps some disciplinary action taken; one of the members has died, and the church is called on for some special action in behalf of his family in the emergency; differences of opinion exist in the church on certain questions of morals or belief (such as marriage and divorce, or the resurrection), differences which local prophets and teachers are apparently unable to compose, and a letter must be written to the apostle — who will write this letter and what exactly will it say?

«Given this decision, the NYS Board of Elections should immediately clarify its website to make apparent New York City's primacy on election law.

Many gay couples don't know that New York law now allows them the same rights as spouses get for hospital visitations and making medical decisions.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, the only one left standing of the «three men in a room» who made every major decision on New York's laws and budgets in January, praised the verdict and like Bharara and others in Albany said it should spur ethics reforms.

New York City is flouting a state law that requires unpaid members of policymaking boards and commissions to file financial - disclosure statements — an ethics breach that allows officials on some powerful panels to make decisions without any sunlight on potential conflicts of interest.

If the GOP health care proposal becomes law — and that's a big if — state legislators would be forced to make hugely costly and politically perilous decisions about the future of health care for millions of New Yorkers.

She noted a 2003/4 review of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) 2000, which «concluded that it was not the right time to change the law and that the impact of new technology needed to be properly considered and factored into the decision making process».

Notwithstanding these petitions, this Court can not make new law based upon a political party's agenda,» Richmond County Supreme Court Judge Phil Minardo wrote in a 19 - page decision issued Friday.

The new poll comes in the aftermath of Brewer's decision to enact a controversial immigration bill into state law making it a crime to be in the country illegally.»

ALBANY, NY (05/28/2010)(readMedia)-- «Today's decision is a victory for the rule of law in New York and should make it clear that no governor can run roughshod over people's rights.

The GOP this year is banking on a large upstate turn out, counting on anger over Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 2013 gun control law known as the SAFE Act, as well his the delay on making a decision over hydrofracking, as key issues that will bring voters outside of New York City to the polls.

During his time at the Pride Agenda he has been actively involved with the passage of dozens of laws, ordinances, regulations and Executive Orders on the state and local level affecting New York's LGBT community, including statewide measures like: the Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimination Act; the Hate Crimes Act of 2000; making the state's 9/11 relief inclusive of same - sex couples; guaranteeing domestic partners hospital visitation, legal authority over a loved one's bodily remains, access to Family Court and medical decision making authority; prohibiting discrimination on the basis of gender identity and expression in state employment; and securing over $ 50 million of funding for LGBT health and human services.

At a meeting in September, the chairman of the location board, Kevin Law, said that Atlantic City's decline was one of many factors the state considered as it reviewed the bidders» applications, and that deciding whether or not to grant a license in Orange County — close to New York City — was the «biggest challenge» the state faced in the decision - making process.

About this time last year, August 7, 2014, Mayor de Blasio announced a public - private partnership that would allow the City to «unlock and analyze municipal decision - making information» from the City Record and publish the record online while signing new legislation into law.

To vote on new laws, thousands of Greek men had a direct say: decisions would be made by an estimate of the hands raised in meetings of the Assembly of the demos (the people) that would be attended by thousands.

Although it is unlikely that rDLPFC will enter the textbooks as the seat of the law in the brain, this intriguing new study by Buckholtz underscores the role of this region in high - level cognitive processes in general, and judgment and decision - making in particular.

New insights about the brain are changing the way the law handles cases related to adolescent decision making, the effects of drugs on the brain, memory and lie detection, and states of consciousness, among others.

The demographic and political characteristics of a state and character of the state law authorizing charter schools undoubtedly matter in some way for the fate of charter schools in a state, but most decisions about charter school formation and attendance are made within school districts — by founders who decide to start a new school, by authorizers who empower them to do so, and, ultimately, by parents who decide to enroll their students.

Though the decision received wide coverage (per above) and throws New York school districts a curve (they are supposed to have an evaluation policy in place by September 1), it's not clear that the decision will have any major implications for other states that are considering linking teacher evaluations to test scores (except as inducement to make sure their regulations correspond to their laws).

A series of provisions in the new education law encourage the use of evidence to inform the kinds of decisions states are now empowered to make.

On top of his own policies, Trump will also have to deal with education - related decisions made under President Barack Obama, including the implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act — the new federal law set to replace No Child Left Behind at the beginning of next school year.

By tightly prescribing the definition of adequate yearly progress that states must adopt, the new law eliminates most of the difficult design decisions states must make.

New education funding laws REQUIRE genuine family engagement in decision - making, and shared leadership practices.

Supporters of the new law hope that districts will apply the same principles of fairness and objectivity they will implement for 9th grade under the new law in whatever grades placement decisions are made.

Although school districts are not required to make any immediate decisions, the new law gives them options.

The New York Times has called education savings accounts a «redefinition of public education» and the Wall Street Journal has praised them for «empowering parents to make decisions» about their children's education.4 In 2011, Arizona became the first state to enact an ESA law.

U.S. Rep. John Kline predicts the new Republican - controlled Congress will act quickly next year to dismantle the troubled No Child Left Behind law that dictates how students and schools are evaluated and transfer education decision - making to states and local school districts.

Many will have very tough decisions to make in meeting the requirements and expectations of the new school financing law, implementing multiple new academic standards, preparing for a new state assessment in math and English language arts and balancing the requests of their many stakeholders (parent groups, teacher bargaining units, community and business leaders).

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), however, returns decision making back to local educators, parents, and communities, which is why these stakeholders are getting involved in helping to implement the new education law.

However, a new bill in the Legislature would change the law to give schools the power to take into account factors besides seniority, such as a teacher's performance, when making layoff decisions.

The new Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) is intended to significantly shift authority and decision - making to the state and local level compared with the No Child Left Behind Law it replaced.

In announcing Wednesday's decision, the Madison Prep board said the state's new collective bargaining law made the school district and teachers union inflexible about how to pay for employing teachers for longer school days and a longer school year, among other issues.

And speaking to some of the nuances and complexities of the new law, the decision did not go well for the high - profile district that has made teacher quality a centerpiece of its reforms.

The attempted takeover was made possible by a highly disputed new law called Parent Trigger, which allows half - or - more of parents at any failing school (as designated by the U.S. Department of Education) to make major decisions about its future.

But as we think about the fact that we have a new law of the land in the United States called the Every Student Succeeds Act and we have a new secretary of education and in the state levels we have approximately 27 or 28 new state chiefs and we have new legislative people, there are some opportunities for you as panelists to think about what's the one thing that you would want to say to a policymaker that has decision - making authority about things that you feel are important?

Based on new state law, all school districts are precluded from making hiring decisions based solely on seniority; thus decisions will be made based on evaluations.»

Recognizing this, our federal legislators overwhelming passed a new bi-partisan education law, the Every Student Succeeds Act, that gave decision - making authority back to the states signaling that individual states could better determine how to address their own educational needs.

A new Utah law that would have made state board of education elections partisan beginning in 2018 was overturned in a court decision that ruled the change violated the state constitution.

And the recently passed Tax Cuts and Jobs Act makes the decision even more complicated, as tax rates will be changing from year to year as the new law is fully implemented.

How the new tax law affects consumer decision - making will depend heavily on individual circumstances.

It's time to STOP attacking those involved in animal enterprises, whether a small breeder or large, educate the public and * help them * make wise decisions and take care of the animals they have, and enforce animal welfare laws where necessary, instead of creating onerous new ones.

A few weeks ago, just after the new state dog law went into effect, Pennsylvania dog breeder Marcus Lantz made what he said was a simple business decision.

So, it's a Good Thing for political decisions to be made by unaccountable bodies, without either debate or due democratic process, if it will lead to a reduction in CO2 — because «scientists say so» — but it's «undemocratic» to loosen planning law (if that is what is being proposed) so that new houses and civil infrastructure can be built without interruption from organisations such as itself.

This brief comes off the back of a new Columbia Law School report showing that unless the governance structure and transparency of ICAO's decision making process are significantly improved to allow public scrutiny, the aviation scheme risks poor quality and illegitimacy.