Sentences with phrase «enforcing federal laws prohibiting»

While eight US states and the District of Columbia have voted to legalise recreational marijuana, the White House has hinted that the Department of Justice will do more to enforce federal laws prohibiting recreational marijuana, raising concerns over how Canada's approach will coexist with a potential crackdown south of the border.

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the Government agency that enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination, and how criminal background checks could be a discriminatory hiring barrier.

When asked about the 2012 list, Rosen said he expects the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)-- the agency of the U.S. Government that enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination — to give extra scrutiny to the use of criminal background checks.

On April 25, 2012, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)-- the agency that enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination — approved an updated «Enforcement Guidance on the Consideration of Arrest and Conviction Records in Employment Decisions Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.»

Not exact matches

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler said in a letter to Sessions that Oregon state law dating back to 1987 prohibits state and local police from enforcing federal immigration law.

And because individual states could still prohibit marijuana locally, Booker's bill would also incentivize states to change their marijuana laws by withholding federal funding from any states that have enforced laws against the drug in ways that disproportionately affect low - income citizens and people of color.

The Federal Trade Commission monitors advertising and marketing to prohibit unfair or deceptive practices and enforce truth - in - advertising laws.

The bill would prohibit states from creating or enforcing gun control laws that are stricter than federal laws.

Or fifty years later, in Runyon v McClary (1976), the Court ruled that the racially - discriminatory admissions policy of a private school in Virginia violated federal laws that hearkened back to the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which «prohibits racial discrimination in the making and enforcing of private contracts.»

The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) OCR enforces several Federal civil rights laws that prohibit discrimination in programs or activities that receive Federal financial assistance from the Department of Education.

OCR's mission is to ensure equal access to education and promote educational excellence throughout the nation through the vigorous enforcement of civil rights OCR is responsible for enforcing federal civil rights laws that prohibit discrimination by educational institutions on the basis of disability, race, color, national origin, sex, and age, as well as the Boy Scouts of America Equal Access Act of 2001.

DOCR enforces federal civil rights laws and regulations that prohibit various forms of discrimination in federally operated and assisted transportation programs.

Federal law prohibits lenders from enforcing a due on sale clause in regard to transfers to a living trust.

The EEOC's job is to enforce Federal laws that prohibiting employee and applicant discrimination, management harassment, denial of reasonable workplace accommodations and retaliation due to complaints.

Provided security presence, enforced federal and local law regarding prohibited items and provided protection as circumstances dictated.