Sentences with phrase «equal protection of the law for»

The campaign involves clergy, concerned activists and individuals from various faiths calling for equal protection of the law for all and access to a better life in this country.

My office will continue to fight every day to defend the fundamental guarantee of equal protection of the law for all New Yorkers.»

My office will keep fighting every day to defend the fundamental guarantee of equal protection of the law for all New Yorkers.»

The Intervenor was established by people with disabilities to create a voice for disabled Canadians and to promote the full participation and equal opportunity and equal protection of the law for people with disabilities in Canadian society.

Not exact matches

When the U.S. Muslim community sounds out LOUD and CLEAR, without equivocation, and immediately against all forms of terrorism, including all aggressive religious intolerance for human rights, women's right, children, equal protection under the law, the respect for other religions to coexist, the right to free speech, and the ability to separate church from state, IF THEY FINALLY DO THAT AND LOUDLY, then we will begin to feel comfortable that they are truly embracing American ideals and here to join us, not to oppose, defy, or undermine what we hold dear.

This «moral reading» of the Constitution calls on judges to act as moral philosophers: «equal protection of the laws» should mean what best promotes «equal concern and respect» for all humans; «liberty» in the «due process» clause should mean autonomy in matters important to personal development, and so forth.

To hold that same - sex marriage is part of the fundamental right to marry, or necessary for giving LGBT people the equal protection of the laws, the Court implicitly made a number of other assumptions: that one - flesh union has no distinct value in itself, only the feelings fostered by any kind of consensual sex; that there is nothing special about knowing the love of the two people whose union gave you life, whose bodies gave you yours, so long as you have two sources of care and support; that what children need is parenting in some disembodied sense, and not mothering and fathering.

«Amendment 14 addressed citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws — namely for former black slaves.

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

Speech can be regulated only when it directly conflicts with other constitutional conditions of the democratic process — for instance, freedom of religion and assembly, equal protection under the law, and basic rights to life and liberty.

A friend who has been teaching a course on constitutional law for a couple of decades and has achieved a national reputation confided recently that he plans to stop teaching the course; there just isn't any integrity to the subject, and it becomes almost a degrading experience to have to teach, say, equal protection doctrine and pretend that the Court's decisions are the product of any sort of coherent thinking.

The judicial precedent for equal protection for federal laws is somewhat fuzzy as there is not equal protection clause specifically written as part of the fifth amendment, and the specific clause is only in reference to states in the fourteenth amendment.

«I have consistently advocated for equal protection under the law for those who seek to certify their unions in the face of the law.

The values of equality for all and equal protection and safety under the law have shaped me and embodied all facets of my life, both personal and professional.»

And every day, we stand up for core democratic principles enshrined in the Constitution: the rule of law, equal protection for all under law, freedom of speech, press, religion.

«Today's Supreme Court decision guaranteeing the right of same — sex couples to marry is a resounding victory for the principle of equal protection under the law,» said Queens Borough President Melinda Katz.

«My office will fight every day to defend the fundamental guarantee of equal protection under law for all New Yorkers,» he said.

That makes us guardians of those democratic institutions and traditions — like rule of law, separation of powers, equal protection and civil liberties — that our forebears fought and bled for.

Twice, in 2013 and 2014, she voted «nay» or sat out the vote for the 10 - part Women's Equality Act, pushed by Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo, which would guarantee equal pay for women and strengthen protections for victims of human trafficking, but also codify into state law the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision.

Given the Constitution's protection of the right to vote, the equal protection clause also would support a federal right to an education that prepares students to be competent voters and civic participants — enabling them, for instance, to comprehend complex ballot initiatives and serve competently on a jury, as education law scholar and litigator Michael Rebell has contended.

In Rutan v. Republican Party (1990), he wrote that «the Fourteenth Amendment's requirement of «equal protection of the laws,» combined with the Thirteenth Amendment's abolition of the institution of black slavery, leaves no room for doubt that laws treating people differently because of their race are invalid.»

Among these are the implementation of LCFF, with all school districts approving their Local Control Accountability Plans (LCAPs) by July 1, the primary election for Superintendent of Public Instruction, the deadline for districts» administration of pilot versions of Common Core State Standards tests, and a ruling in the Vergara lawsuit, around teacher tenure and job protection laws and students» right to access equal education.

«The Education Code expressly allows a school district to deviate from... seniority for... purposes of maintaining or achieving compliance with constitutional requirements related to equal protection of the laws,» said the ruling from Judge William F. Highberger.

There isn't one specific provision in the California constitution that's violated, exactly: Rather, the court identifies three «pertinent» clauses in the constitution: a guarantee of equal protection under the law, a provision ordering the legislature to encourage «intellectual [and] scientific improvement,» and a requirement that the legislature «provide for a system of common schools.»

(a) Whenever the Attorney General receives a complaint in writing signed by an individual to the effect that he is being deprived of or threatened with the loss of his right to the equal protection of the laws, on account of his race, color, religion, or national origin, by being denied equal utilization of any public facility which is owned, operated, or managed by or on behalf of any State or subdivision thereof, other than a public school or public college as defined in section 401 of title IV hereof, and the Attorney General believes the complaint is meritorious and certifies that the signer or signers of such complaint are unable, in his judgment, to initiate and maintain appropriate legal proceedings for relief and that the institution of an action will materially further the orderly progress of desegregation in public facilities, the Attorney General is authorized to institute for or in the name of the United States a civil action in any appropriate district court of the United States against such parties and for such relief as may be appropriate, and such court shall have and shall exercise jurisdiction of proceedings instituted pursuant to this section.

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.

-- Nothing in this Act shall be construed to invalidate or limit the remedies, rights, and procedures of any Federal law or law of any State or political subdivision of any State or jurisdiction that provides greater or equal protection for the rights of individuals with disabilities than are afforded by this Act.

(4) serve as a national clearinghouse for information in respect to denials of equal protection of the laws because of race, color, religion or national origin, including but not limited to the fields of voting, education, housing, employment, the use of public facilities, and transportation, or in the administration of justice;

[108] This suggestion ironically echoes Hadfield's description of a «lousy legal infrastructure» where courts can be bribed by those richer and better connected, and it exacerbates the failure of law to provide equal protection for all citizens.

If the court strikes down DOMA, it will change the landscape for millions of gay couples, giving them equal protection under federal law.

78 However, the absence of such an autonomous and uniform definition under European Union law of the concepts of social security, social assistance and social protection and the reference to national law in Article 11 (1)(d) of Directive 2003/109 concerning those concepts do not mean that the Member States may undermine the effectiveness of Directive 2003/109 when applying the principle of equal treatment provided for in that provision.

In their famous essay «The Equal Protection of the Laws», the authors provided the intellectual building blocks for rational legal thought about legislative «classifications».

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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).

Where the Minister certifies by notice, published in the Canada Gazette, that any country that is not a treaty country grants or has undertaken to grant, either by treaty, convention, agreement or law, to citizens of Canada, the benefit of copyright on substantially the same basis as to its own citizens or copyright protection substantially equal to that conferred by this Act, the country shall, for the purpose of the rights conferred by this Act, be treated as if it were a country to which this Act extends, and the Minister may give a certificate, notwithstanding that the remedies for enforcing the rights, or the restrictions on the importation of copies of works, under the law of such country, differ from those in this Act.

For the purpose of applicable data protection laws, the data controller is Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP of 65 Fleet Street, London EC4Y 1HS, on behalf of the Equal Representation in Arbitration Campaign led by the Pledge Steering Committee.

In what is often viewed as its most important decision of the twentieth century, Chief Justice Warren wrote for a unanimous US Supreme Court: «segregation is a denial of the equal protection of the laws»; and «to separate [some children] from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.»

(1) With the intent to deprive any person or class of persons of the equal protection of the laws or of equal privileges and immunities under the laws or for the purpose of preventing the constituted authorities of this state or any subdivision thereof from, or hindering them in, giving or securing to all persons within this state the equal protection of the laws;

Just extend the full benefits of equal protection laws to gays in terms of a protected class analysis and then you prevent discrimination, ban peremptory strikes based on sexual orientation, and allow for Batson challenges when it appears that being gay was the reason for the strike.

Heartland Dental provides all employees and applicants for employment the protections of federal, state, and local laws affording equal opportunity in employment.

FAMILY LAW — CHILDREN — with whom the child lives — where there are allegations the father and paternal grandmother sexually abused the child — whether there is an unacceptable risk of harm to the child in the father's care — where the child has speech and language delays — where the child had spent unsupervised time with the father after separation — where the parties entered into final Consent Orders in October 2015 — where the allegations arose after that — where the child has been spending supervised time with the father since October 2016 — where the mother obtained a domestic violence protection order against the father in 2015 — where an order for equal shared parental responsibility is not in the child's best interests — where an unacceptable risk of harm is not found — where the mother is granted sole parental responsibility — where the child will continue to live primarily with the mother and spend unsupervised time with the father on an increasing basis

And such a committee can not be easily persuaded that the right of Indigenous titleholders to equal protection of their title by the law should be compromised in order to achieve certainty for other stakeholders.

In contrast, human rights give Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples a means for expressing their legitimate claims for equal access to goods and services, most importantly equal protections of the law — and a standard that government is required to measure up to.