The suits claim the state violated CSEA - represented employees» constitutional rights to freedom of speech, freedom of association, due process and
equal protection of the law when, during contract negotiations, it threatened to and did in fact, lay off CSEA represented workers, while sparing all management employees and political appointees.
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.
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.
In 2006,
when the New York State Court
of Appeals shamefully ruled that the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community did not have
equal protection under the
law in relation to Marriage Equality, I predicted that passing legislation to right this wrong in the State Senate would be a profound personal and sadly political battle.
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.
The case presents an
equal protection challenge to U.S. immigration
law that imposes different residency requirements on unwed citizen mothers than unwed citizen fathers
when conferring citizenship on children born abroad out
of wedlock.
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.