Sentences with phrase «discriminatory acts as»

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, there has to be an actual discriminatory act (such as refusing housing or services), it is not enough to express an opinion or use wrong pronouns.

«We write to you as the only openly LGBT members of the New York State Legislature to urge you to immediately sign an Executive Order barring state - funded travel to the state of Indiana, in light of its discriminatory new law, the so - called «Religious Freedom Restoration Act» (RFRA), signed into law last week by Governor Mike Pence,» the letter said.

70 However, this has been construed non-substantively and claims by individuals or groups, claims against governments who remain inactive and claims against private parties have been regarded as impermissible.71 Nevertheless, the CEDAW committee has finally recognized violence against women as a type of sex discrimination, thus making states accountable for «private acts» if they fail to prevent, investigate or punish discriminatory acts of violence.72

Additionally, as 90 % of students attending charter schools are students of color, and the New York Charter Schools Act directly targets populations that tend to be overwhelmingly comprised of minorities, the Plaintiffs also allege that the funding scheme has a disproportionate and discriminatory impact on minority students.

We successfully advocated for the 2011 Student Safety Act and the 2013 Community Safety Act to draw attention to inequities in school discipline and end discriminatory police profiling, as well as the 2016 ban on suspensions of students in kindergarten through 2nd grade.

Also, the District of Columbia Human Rights Act, approved December 13, 1977 (DC Law 2 - 38; DC Official Code § 2 - 1402.11 (2006), as amended) states the following: Pertinent section of DC Code § 2 - 1402.11: It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice to do any of the following acts, wholly or partially for a discriminatory reason based upon the actual or perceived: race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, family responsibilities, genetic information, disability, matriculation, or political affiliation of any individual.

Additionally, as 90 % of students attending charter schools are students of color, and the New York Charter Schools Act directly targets populations that tend to be overwhelmingly comprised of minorities, the Plaintiffs also alleged that the funding scheme has a disproportionate and discriminatory impact on minority students.

An individual's PII enters the iComplaints system when that person files an informal or formal EEO complaint, is a witness to an alleged discriminatory act, or has been named as committing an alleged discriminatory act.

-- For purposes of paragraph (2)(C), in determining whether a first or subsequent violation has occurred, a determination in a single action, by judgment or settlement, that the covered entity has engaged in more than one discriminatory act shall be counted as a single violation.

Act as public educators and advocates for appropriate use of service dogs, with particular focus on psychiatric service dog partnership, which is often less - familiar and subject to discriminatory practice

This legislative response was designed as a way to protect the people; however, over time many have come to see this Parliamentary Act as being discriminatory and ineffective.

The test to determine discriminatory conduct, in this case direct age discrimination, is set out in reg 3 of the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 (SI 2006/1031)(which is now repealed and set out in s 13 (1) and (2) of the Equality Act 2010): «For the purposes of these Regulations, a person («A») discriminates against another person («B») if, on the grounds of B's age, A treats B less favourably than he treats or would treat other persons,... and A can not show the treatment or, as the case may be, provision, criterion or practice to be a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim.»

As you may recall, in a 5 - 4 decision back in 2007, the Supreme Court ruled that Ledbetter's claim against her employer for paying her less than her male counterparts because of her gender was time barred because her present lower pay arose out of salary decisions made years earlier, well outside of the 180 - day statute of limitations for discriminatory employment practices under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.

The revised Act appears to treat the erection of an inaccessible building as a potentially discriminatory practice, subject to the bona fide justification defence in section 14 (g) and to the defence that the structure is in conformity with a plan approved by the Commission pursuant to section 15.1.

The key substantive sections of the Act are sections 5 to 13 which set out «discriminatory practices» in a number of areas such as «services», «accommodation» and «employment».

The Act may also be viewed as a much narrower remedial measure — one designed to grant relief to the specific minority business enterprises that have been denied access to public contracts by discriminatory practices.

The court's order (released today) regards the South Carolina law as «not [having] a discriminatory retrogressive effect,» and that the Act «allows citizens with non-photo voter registration cards to still vote without a photo ID so long as they state the reason for not having obtained one.»

Quoting Paul: «As with hostile work environment sexual harassment claims, individual pay decisions by themselves do not have the obvious discriminatory intent that discrete acts such as terminations or failures to promote do.&raquAs with hostile work environment sexual harassment claims, individual pay decisions by themselves do not have the obvious discriminatory intent that discrete acts such as terminations or failures to promote do.&raquas terminations or failures to promote do.»

As California Labor and Employment Lawyers, we boast an extensive knowledge of the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), and other state and federal laws that protect employees who have either suffered or witnessed workplace harassment and discriminatory practices and have been retaliated against.

Recent examples include defending against a civil RICO claim, allegations of discriminatory lending practices under the Fair Housing Act and Equal Credit Opportunity Act, breach of fiduciary duty claims, and insurance coverage claims, as well as prosecuting a breach of construction contract claim and various tort and contract claims related to a real estate dispute.

On November 16, 2011, the commission tabled a legal opinion (in French) demanding that Revenu Québec amend section 1029.8.116.16 of the Taxation Act to eliminate the obligation to register for direct deposit as a condition to obtain the solidarity tax credit, as this measure is discriminatory and infringes the right to equality under the Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms.

The Tribunal can impose other sanctions such as making available on the first reasonable occasion, the rights, privileges, or opportunities denied as a result of discriminatory practice, and compensatory damages of various forms (a list of possible remedies is enumerated at s. 53 (2) of the Canadian Human Rights Act, R.S.C., 1985, c. H - 6).

the regime was indirectly discriminatory as it disadvantaged those claimants with protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010 («EqA»); and

Aside from the Indian Act which I continue to believe is Canada's most discriminatory legislation (it is pretty hard to argue that the Indian Act's legislative purpose was anything other than to contain and control the Indian peoples of Canada — of course, this is a conversation for a different day), I can think of no other provincial or federal legislation that is as overtly discriminatory as Bill 62.

31.5 The Chief Commissioner may establish such advisory groups as he or she considers appropriate to advise the Commission about the elimination of discriminatory practices that infringe rights under this Act.

The factum points out, as the SCC noted in the BCCT case, a regulator can discipline any individual who «who acts in a discriminatory manner.

As public positions like these, which are viewed by various groups in society as discriminatory or hateful, are potentially not only contrary to the Statement of Principles that lawyers will be required to adopt, but also a breach of their existing obligations under the Rules of Professional Conduct, the Law Society should immediately take steps to investigate and, if necessary, publicly censure the lawyers cited above for their failure to advance the administration of justice by joining other MPs of good will in voting to condemn the hateful acts of certain members of the publiAs public positions like these, which are viewed by various groups in society as discriminatory or hateful, are potentially not only contrary to the Statement of Principles that lawyers will be required to adopt, but also a breach of their existing obligations under the Rules of Professional Conduct, the Law Society should immediately take steps to investigate and, if necessary, publicly censure the lawyers cited above for their failure to advance the administration of justice by joining other MPs of good will in voting to condemn the hateful acts of certain members of the publias discriminatory or hateful, are potentially not only contrary to the Statement of Principles that lawyers will be required to adopt, but also a breach of their existing obligations under the Rules of Professional Conduct, the Law Society should immediately take steps to investigate and, if necessary, publicly censure the lawyers cited above for their failure to advance the administration of justice by joining other MPs of good will in voting to condemn the hateful acts of certain members of the public.

As discussed previously s47B of the amended NTA is an example of a provision which does seek to undo the discriminatory practices, upheld by the common law, of the past extinguishment of native title by inconsistent acts of the Crown.

One of the effects of the High Court rejecting terra nullius in Mabo (No. 2) as a past discriminatory practice, and recognising native title as a pre-existing right was that acts of dispossession which failed to recognise the procedural or substantive rights of native title holders were, after the implementation of the Racial Discrimination Act (Cth)(RDA) in 1975, unlawful.

The legislative effect of the ruling has been that a federal government is able to implement racially discriminatory laws under s51 (xxvi) through clear and unambiguous legislation — such as the packages above and the direct references to suspension of the Racial Discrimination Act.

Calling the Affordable Care Act «the greatest advance in women's health in a generation,» Planned Parenthood said the law will provide access to birth control and cancer screenings without co-pays, guaranteed direct access to OB / GYN providers without referrals, and an end to discriminatory practices against women, such as charging women higher premiums and denying coverage for «pre-existing conditions.»

The validation provisions of the NTA validate acts otherwise invalid as a result of the RDA and prescribe the effect that such discriminatory acts will have on native title.

There would appear to be, at the very least at the moral and political level, a positive responsibility on governments to safeguard and protect Indigenous land rights against discriminatory acts or legislation as a matter of trust.

Chapter 5 of the Report assesses the ways in which the implementation of the 1998 amendments to the Native Title Act have borne out the findings of the CERD Committee in 1999 and 2000 that the Act as amended is discriminatory of Aboriginal people.

The Court found that the discriminatory operation of the Mining Act lay in the failure in the legislation creating the rights to confer a right to compensation to native title holders for the appropriation of their property in the same way compensation was provided to other owners and occupiers of the land for the loss and damage they suffered as a result of mining.

It provides that a court can not grant orders on the grounds that the corporation is acting in a way that is oppressive to the members as a whole or oppressive to, or discriminatory against, a member or members if the action is done in good faith with the belief that it is necessary to ensure that the corporation complies with obligations under the Native Title Act.

The Commission recommends that the Government take steps to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the Australian Constitution; remove the discriminatory section 25 of the Constitution and replace it with a clause guaranteeing equality before the law; reform the Native Title Act to address measures that have been found to be racially discriminatory; [19] provide reparations to Indigenous communities for harm resulting from past child removal practices; and take measures to protect and promote Indigenous cultural and intellectual property, connection to traditional land through homelands and outstations, as well as the use of increasingly threatened languages, including through support for bilingual education programs.

Thus, Miami argued that the banks» discriminatory practices caused the harm as required by the Fair Housing Act.

Shouldn't this be great since the primary purposes of the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) are to help authorities monitor discriminatory and predatory lending practices, as well as to ensure government resources are allocated properly to enforcement?

To suggest that a brokerage could avoid the risk of anti-competitive behavior because of the nature of the brokerages business model, is a contradiction, but in my opinion, it is also to suggest that the Competition Bureau of Canada engages in discriminatory behavior as it relates to the application of the Competition Act.

The court held that a real estate company that managed an apartment building was liable for the discriminatory acts of a janitor who was acting as its subagent.

In most cases a landlord does not need to give their tenant a reason to vacate as long as they are not acting on discriminatory motives or as an act of retaliation.

Fair Housing Act As a member you agree not to post, email, or otherwise make available content that violates the Fair Housing Act by stating, in any notice or ad for the sale or rental of any dwelling, a discriminatory preference based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status or handicap (or violates any state or local law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of these or other characteristics).

Such assumptions may not be accurate, unfortunately, and could be seen as discriminatory under the Fair Housing Act.

Owners of buildings designed for occupancy by up to four families are exempt from the Fair Housing Act as long as they live in one of the rental units and do not use any discriminatory advertising.