Sentences with phrase «equal application of the law»

«If he moves forward with this cruel action, New York State will sue to protect the «dreamers» and the state's sovereign interest in the fair and equal application of the law,» Cuomo said.

Although our system of government demands the equal application of the law, Connecticut's State Board of Education and Stefan Pryor, the State's Commissioner of Education, recently revealed that there are actually two standards, one that applies to Connecticut's district public schools and a very different standard that applies to the state's charter schools.

It also leads to expensive lawsuits launched by those who value equal application of the law.

One of the most important roles of the law is the equal application of the law to all.

There must be a fairness and an equal application of the law to both parties.»

Not exact matches

Broad in its application, the Fourteenth Amendment promised due process and «the equal protection of the laws» for all American citizens.

Lottery Information: Charter School Law states that if the number of completed New Hampshire applications submitted to a charter school exceeds the capacity of the school, eligible applicants must have a fair and equal chance of being admitted through a lottery.

Whenever an action has been commenced in any court of the United States seeking relief from the denial of equal protection of the laws under the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution on account of race, color, religion, or national origin, the Attorney General for or in the name of the United States may intervene in such action upon timely application if the Attorney General certifies that the case is of general public importance.

The statement shall include descriptions of the time periods generally required for processing of mortgage applications, the notices required by Massachusetts law and by the Federal Equal Credit Opportunity Act.

At the time of application, the amount of educational debt based on loans from commercial and government lending institutions, as well as university or other private institutional loans associated with law school and undergraduate educational debts must be greater than or equal to the amount of the LRAP grant.

This issue is not so much about federal regulations or inconsistencies between state laws and RESPA so much as is about HUD recognizing agency representation for the borrower as a compensable service, fair and equal application of RESPA to all costs (including borrower's broker), and a formal acknowledgment that some brokers are intermediaries that sell access to money while others are fiduciaries.

To the extent that the presumption of advancement is applied differently between traditional marriages, common law relationships, and same - sex marriages, the continued application of the presumption of advancement is incoherent with the legislative objective of putting all such unions or marriages on an equal footing.

-- Whether the case is interprovincial or international in nature, and comity and the standards of jurisdiction, recognition and enforcement prevailing elsewhere are relevant considerations, not as independent factors having more or less equal weight with the others, but as general principles of private international law that bear upon the interpretation and application of the real and substantial connection test.

Their law school must be an Equal Justice Works member law school at the time of application.

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Consequently, it was recognised that where there are fundamental differences between a majority population and minority groups or Indigenous peoples, mere equal treatment before the law (through the application of general laws to their particular circumstances) will result in a failure to protect their fundamental human rights.