Sentences with phrase «enacted as an amendment»

Not exact matches

When a corporate charter is alleged to contain a restriction on the fundamental electoral rights of stockholders under default provisions of law ---- such as the right of a majority of the shares to elect new directors or enact a charter amendment — it has been said that the restriction must be «clear and unambiguous» to be enforceable.

Because the Supreme Court's decision relied on on interpretation of the RFRA and not the First Amendment itself, Congress, by enacting legislation such as the bill offered by Murray and Udall, could override the court's ruling and guarantee women the same level of comprehensive health care coverage available to men.

It has severely limited affirmative action as a remedy for past discrimination against minorities, even though the post-Civil War Congress that passed the Fourteenth Amendment also enacted race - targeted benefits for black soldiers, schools and relief agencies.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is not part of the constitution... So the law, if enacted, may be in violation of the CRA, but unless that act is adopted as an amendment to the constitution then it would not be unconstitutional based on that law.

When you're exercising power over others by enacting legislation, or ratifying treaties that have the same authority as Constitutional amendments, or the Justices who interpret the Constitution, we're not talking about your personal rights anymore.

Normally, that by itself, should shield any one of the states which enacted Traditional Marriage protections against interlopers entering the state and demanding that their fake Sodomite «marriage» be recognized as valid, but in this day and age of a runaway judiciary, it is best that we somehow pass a Constitutional Amendment defining Traditional Marriage and / or slapping the hands of rogue jurists away from the issue altogether.

In his originating summons, Ajibola sought for 13 reliefs and these include a declaration that the «State of Osun Local Government Areas (creation and administration) Law, 2015» and «State of Osun Local Government Areas (creation and administration) amendment (No. 1) Law, 2017» having been enacted by the legislative body that is not known to the constitution and for the State not known to the 1999 constitution, and having been assented to by the governor in that manner, they are as such illegal and unconstitutional.

State officials have taken a big step in the fight against public corruption, as the Legislature has approved a proposal to enact a constitutional amendment that would strip taxpayer - funded pensions from state and local leaders who commit felonies in connection with their office.

But it would take an amendment to the state constitution to withhold pension checks from officials — such as Silver — who joined the system before the law was enacted in November 2011.

The subject of the movie is lobbying in Washington, D.C.. It's specifically about the political battle between those who believe that there is room within the Constitution to enact regulations on the ownership of firearms and those who take the final four words of the Second Amendment — «shall not be infringed» — as the only language in it that really matters.

The first such amendments were enacted in the late 19th century, when the public schools functioned as de facto nondenominational Protestant schools.

Congress enacted VARA as an amendment to the United States Copyright Act of 1976, and it brought the United States into line with much of Europe, which had for years protected artists» moral rights.

The scientific consensus is that pollution controls enacted through the Clean Air Act Amendments in the 1990s and other measures have helped decrease the acidity of rain by approximately 60 percent to less harmful levels, as reflected in data gathered nationwide and by UD researchers in Lewes, Del., as part of a longstanding study.

In both cases, bankruptcy lawyers challenged the constitutionality of bankruptcy law amendments enacted as part of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005.

There is nothing unconstitutional about such a law although if you owned something at the time that the law was enacted and had to give up ownership as a result of the law, you might be entitled to compensation under the 5th Amendment eminent domain provisions.

The most effective solution to this problem is to enact federal legislation, such as the BRIDGE Act, a bill with broad bipartisan support in Congress, with an amendment that would extend DACA protections until comprehensive immigration reform is enacted.

«Those who try to paint Alito as hostile to women's interests for this are either distorting his record or misunderstanding the law,» blogs UW professor Ann Althouse, who on Monday blogged this rave review of Alito's opinion on whether Congress has the power under the 14th Amendment to enact the Family Medical Leave Act (Chittister v. Department of community and Economic Development).

42 The parties agree that any amendments agreed to by the parties in paragraph 41 shall have the same force and effect as if enacted by the Legislature and are in substitution for the provisions of this Act or any schedule made pursuant to this Act.

The CWA was originally enacted as the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (FWPCA) Amendments of 1972 but was renamed «The Clean Water Act» following amendmentAmendments of 1972 but was renamed «The Clean Water Act» following amendmentsamendments in 1977.

An Act to improve access to justice by amending the Solicitors Act to permit contingency fees in certain circumstances, to modernize and reform the law as it relates to limitation periods by enacting a new Limitations Act and making related amendments to other statutes, and to make changes with respect to the governance of the public accounting profession by amending the Public Accountancy Act

As was common at the time, the Legislative Assembly of Ontario enacted similar provisions in Canada, adopting the qualified privilege in The Newspaper Libel Act, 1882, and introducing special notice provisions for newspapers in the 1887 amendments.

As previously reported, amendments to the PIPEDA enacted by the Digital Privacy Act...

35 U.S.C. § 271 (g) was enacted in 1988 as part of the Process Patents Amendments Act to address instances where would - be infringers were avoiding infringement liability by using...

I recently went to the e-laws website which I use quite often and looked up the Human Rights Code Amendment Act in the source law: public statutes as enacted.

In my Native Title Report 2007, I voiced my concerns over the impacts on the human rights of Indigenous peoples under the amendments to the native title system as enacted in 2007.

In relation to the first point, the government's representative emphasised to the CERD Committee when he appeared before it in March 1999 that the government's purpose in enacting the validation, confirmation and primary production upgrade provisions as well as the amendments to the right to negotiate provisions was legitimate in that it sought to balance a range of interests affected by the legislation using proportionate means to do so.

The short timeframes allowed for consultations gave the appearance that the Australian Government believed that the Amendment Bill (No 2) should be enacted as a matter of urgency.

Illinois recently enacted amendments to the license law requiring that brokers under exclusive brokerage agreements provide such services as presenting offers, assisting in negotiating offers, and answering questions about offers and counteroffers.

137.3 (1) The contraventions designated by regulation under section 56 (1)[designated contraventions and penalty amounts], as that section read immediately before the coming into force of this section, are deemed to have been designated by the superintendent, by rule, under section 56 (1) as enacted by the Miscellaneous Statutes (Housing Priority Initiatives) Amendment Act, 2016.

(3) The council members of the former council who were appointed under section 74 (1)(b)[council membership], as that section read immediately before the coming into force of this section, continue to hold office under section 74 (1) as enacted by the Miscellaneous Statutes (Housing Priority Initiatives) Amendment Act, 2016.