To do otherwise would subject the board to constitutional claims, because people have the right to
equal protection of the laws from governmental agencies, such as boards of education... A written policy can be invaluable in such situations to guide administrators and to inform parents as to what the rules are.»
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.
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.
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.»
EU citizens also enjoy legal
protections of the EU
law, [7] specifically the Charter
of Fundamental Rights
of the European Union [8] and acts and directives regarding e. g.
protection of personal data, rights
of victims
of crime, preventing and combating trafficking in human beings,
equal pay,
protection from discrimination in employment on grounds
of religion or belief, sexual orientation and age.
With their pro bono representation, I sued several Washington officials, among them Governor Gary Locke, arguing that the state's exclusion
of theology majors
from the Promise Scholarship program violated my rights to free speech, free exercise
of religion, and
equal protection under the
laws.
«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.
Just last month, citing a part
of the education code that says that a district may deviate
from seniority (f) or purposes
of maintaining or achieving compliance with constitutional requirements related to
equal protection of the
laws, Superior Judge William Highberger ruled in favor
of the plaintiffs.
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
Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) prohibits creditors
from discriminating against credit applicants in any aspect
of a credit transactions on the basis
of race, color, religion, national origin, sex or marital status, or age; the fact that all or part
of the applicant's income comes
from any public assistance program; or the fact that the applicant has in good faith exercised any right under certain federal consumer credit
protection laws.
The most basic relevant principle is the
Equal Protection Clause, which forbids a state from denying a person the equal protection of its
Equal Protection Clause, which forbids a state from denying a person the equal protection of
Protection Clause, which forbids a state
from denying a person the
equal protection of its
equal protection of
protection of its
laws.
XIV § 1 prohibits States
from denying any person within its jurisdiction «
equal protection of the
laws.»
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.
The draft policies would deny workers suffering
from work - related stress their Charter right to
equal protection and
equal benefit
of the
law without discrimination.
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Defense counsel moved to discharge the jury before it was sworn on the ground that the prosecutor's removal
of the black veniremen violated petitioner's rights under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to a jury drawn
from a cross-section
of the community, and under the Fourteenth Amendment to
equal protection of the
laws.
Defense counsel moved to discharge the jury on the ground that the prosecutor's removal
of the black veniremen violated petitioner's rights under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to a jury drawn
from a cross-section
of the community, and under the Fourteenth Amendment to
equal protection of the
laws.
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;
This notion
of equal protection, accorded through holding exactly the same procedural rights as others, determinedly sets its face against the fact that the titles
of others do not derive their nature and incidents
from Indigenous
law.