Sentences with phrase «equal protection issues»

Mr. Seeman also represents clients in cases involving inverse condemnation, easements, restrictive covenants, quiet title actions, First Amendment and equal protection issues, landlord / tenant disputes, and real property tax appeals.

Even if the equal protection issue had been pressed in the Kentucky Supreme Court, it has surely not been pressed here.

Not exact matches

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97 % are either somewhat or very informed of current events and 27 % say that equal rights is the most important issue to them, followed by protection of the environment (19 %) and access to healthcare (14 %).

U.S. District Judge Robert J. Shelby issued a 53 - page ruling Friday saying Utah's law passed by voters in 2004 violates gay and lesbian couples» rights to due process and equal protection under the 14th Amendment.

If the Supreme Court is to be kept from legislating, the key issue in the controversy over the interpretation of section 1 can not be the meaning of «liberty» and «equality» but the meaning of «due process of law» and «the equal protection of the laws.»

It's just not an issue but yes if you want some legal background on Equal Protection when it comes to prosecutions, enjoy it.

The Assembly sponsor of the New York bill, Susan John, says it is an issue of equal protection: «A father can feed his child in public, a mother can't.

In the statement, Smikle pointed reiterated issues Republicans should tackle, including equal pay, Title IX protections for sexual assault on college campuses and abortion rights.

Young said she was proud of the GOP conference's action on a set of women's issues, including increases in public school aid, stronger equal - pay protections and bills to crack down on human trafficking.

She has a long history working with the LGBTQ community on issues ranging from LGBTQ educational programming, securing funding for prominent LGBTQ organizations and initiatives and fighting for equal protections in the workplace.

«There are a series of issues where I am just fundamentally out of line with the current Republican Party in California — reasonable environmental protection, equal rights and marriage equality, immigration,» he said.

on issues like the Gender Expression Non Discrimination Act that would guarantee people of all gender identities equal protection under the law and The DREAM Act, which would provide financial aid to undocumented students looking to attend college.

Providing federal recognition for same sex unions that would enable equal benefits and issuing federal mandates for the protection of LGBTs in the workplace would encourage the younger generation of scientists like Dash, Ventura, and Prescod - Weinstein to participate openly and proudly in the nation's scientific enterprise.

If a teacher sues on the basis that a policy unconstitutionally denies them «substantive due process» or equal protection, a judge will consider their complaint under what's known as a «rational basis analysis,» meaning the judge will look to see if the policy can be shown to have any kind of rational relation to a legitimate government issue.

The U.S. Fair Housing Act of 1968 and its amendments provide protection against discrimination based on race, color, national origin, religion, gender, disability and familial status, but in an announcement on July 2 HUD Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, John Trasvina noted «Our job to prevent and control housing discrimination is not complete until we address 21st Century issues.»

The amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the Civil War.

Though Baby Girl didn't reach constitutional issues, the majority said that if ICWA can disrupt an otherwise settled adoption «solely because an ancestor — even a remote one — was an Indian,» that «would raise equal protection concerns.»

How about First Amendment issues (religion, free speech, etc.) or civil rights issues under the Equal Protection Clause?

Although the issue of gender was not an equal protection claim in Loomis, the court wrote of Compas: «If the inclusion of gender promotes accuracy, it serves the interests of institutions and defendants, rather than a discriminatory purpose.»

Prior to joining Clay Daniel Walton & Adams, Mr. Schwamb was an Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps fellow at the Legal Aid Society of Louisville where he dedicated his practice to assisting low income Veterans with a variety of legal issues including family law, housing, and consumer protection.

On appeal, the Ninth Circuit asked both sides to brief the issue of whether the Supreme Court's decision in the DOMA case, United States v. Windsor, compelled a decision that equal protection prohibited discrimination based on sexual orientation during jury selection.

Windsor, of course, did not expressly announce the level of scrutiny it applied to the equal protection claim at issue in that case, but an express declaration is not necessary.

I think this case presents only a single federal question: did the order of the Maryland Court of Appeals granting a new trial, limited to the issue of punishment, violate petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment right to equal protection?

The Volokh Conspirators are deep into the fine print in their posts on a 43 - page opinion issued yesterday by Judge Joseph Bataillon, a Clinton appointee to the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska, who has struck down a 2000 amendment to the Nebraska Constitution limiting marriage under Nebraska state law to opposite sex relationships (Citizens for Equal Protection v. Bruning).

Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council v Bainbridge [2009] ICR 133 This appeal addressed a number of issues central to equal pay, including the lawfulness of pay protection and the application of the doctrine of res judicata.

These include statutes such as the California Equal Pay Act, the Wage Theft Protection Act of 2011, and the Domestic Worker Bill of Rights, which pertain to issues involving work hours and wages, including meal periods, rest breaks, overtime, and minimum wage.

The lawyers at GPS&L guide clients through structural changes; executive appointments and severances; management of employee relations, and personnel matters; advise and litigate equal employment opportunity and discrimination - based issues; and defend and prosecute claims involving the protection of business assets and reputation.

However, the Court is silent on the strength of the State's interest, apparently leaving this issue, among many others, to the further «litigation [that] will be required to spell out the contours of the Court's equal protection holding today...» Ante at 102 (WHITE, J., concurring).

Even the Swain dissenters did not take issue with the majority's position that the Equal Protection Clause does not prohibit the State from using its peremptory challenges to exclude blacks based on the assumption or belief that they would be partial to a black defendant.

Swain required the Court to decide, among other issues, whether a black defendant was denied equal protection by the State's exercise of peremptory challenges to exclude members of his race from the petit jury.

Accordingly, the component of the jury selection process at issue here, the State's privilege to strike individual jurors through peremptory challenges, is subject to the commands of the Equal Protection Clause.

Harvey makes the point at K [277] that, although grounds were given for distinguishing the earlier decision «one is left with a strong impression that the limitation of retrospective access to pay protection policies owes as much to pragmatic considerations of practicability in the implementation of equal pay as to any clear issue of principle».

It was noted that the concept of «equal protection» rather than «special rights» provided the appropriate way to view equality issues.