Sentences with phrase «equal protection rights»

CLC then filed suit against the City alleging that the zoning ordinance, on its face and as applied, violated the equal protection rights of CLC and its potential residents.

We turn next to Appellants» assertion that the PROTECT Act's provision authorizing fast - track programs violates their due process and equal protection rights because similarly situated individuals in districts with fast - track programs could receive lower sentences.

Trout and Taylor argued the measures were arbitrary and irrational, and violated their due process and equal protection rights.

Plaintiffs allege that these statutes, which impinge students» fundamental right to education and have a disproportionate impact on low - income and minority students, violate their equal protection rights under the California Constitution.

When their children were not promoted to grade 4, the parents filed a class action suit in state court, alleging violations of the children's due process and equal protection rights under the state and federal constitutions.

LA Weekly, 3/31/14» «This represents a new generation of lawsuits that are taking education and equal protection rights in a new direction,» says James Ryan, dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Education.

Reed is also less troublesome to Lindseth to the extent that the court's decision was based on students» equal protection rights under the state constitution rather than on the guarantee of an adequate education.

«They have rights to due process, they have equal protection rights,» said Cuomo.

«They have rights to due process, they have equal protection rights,» Cuomo said.

It is only a matter of time before non-doctors, non-terminally ill patients, and guardians of incompetent individuals will be arguing that state restrictions violate their equal protection rights.

Zzyym's lawsuit, filed last year by the LGBT rights legal firm Lambda Legal Defense Fund in federal court in Denver, argued that the policy of requiring either a male or female designation on passport applications violated due process and equal protection rights for intersex people.

Not exact matches

The suits by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Human Rights Campaign, filed in federal courts in Baltimore and Seattle, claim Trump's plan violates the Equal Protection clause of the Constitution.

With the help of the Transgender Law Center and the civil rights law firm Relman, Dane & Colfax, Whitaker sued his school district, arguing that it was violating his rights under Title IX and the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause.

In that letter he wrote about «an urgent need to achieve real equality in every area: equal pay for equal work, protection for working mothers, fairness in career advancements, equality of spouses with regard to family rights.»

The provision therefore violates the equal protection component of the Fifth Amendment right to due process, because it authorizes the Defense Department to afford preferential treatment on the basis of race and does not meet a «strict scrutiny» standard, the appeals court decided.

Although enforcement of the Equal Pay Act and other civil rights laws has helped to narrow the gender pay gap, these actions only cover segments of the American working population, and many important protections are not yet codified in law.

«Financing Conversion Securities» means securities with identical rights, privileges, preferences and restrictions as the Qualified Financing Securities issued to new investors in a Qualified Financing, other than (A) the per share liquidation preference, which will be equal to (i) the Note Conversion Price at which this Note is converted, multiplied by (ii) any liquidation preference multiple granted to the Qualified Financing Securities (i.e., 1X, 2X, etc. of the purchase price), (B) the conversion price for purposes of price - based anti-dilution protection, which will equal the Note Conversion Price, and (C) the basis for any dividend rights, which will be based on the Note Conversion Price.

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 %).

Equal right protection trumps the majority's rights.

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.

In addition to civil rights for people of color, women and LGBT, there has been an expansion of religious liberty for minority sects, enforcement of viewpoint neutrality with respect to access to various public and non-public forums (e.g. religious student groups must be granted equal access to school facilities as their secular counterparts, etc) greater protections against age and disability discrimination, and recognition of habeas corpus rights even for enemy combatants.

If portions of the country resist, the Supreme Court will very likely intervene and find a right to same - sex marriage amid the penumbras and emanations of due process or equal protection.

But many of the most important rights - protecting phrases «due process of law» «equal protection of the laws» — are far more broad and general.

It seems all they want is equal rights and protection against discrimination.

The social right's embrace of war while opposing not just equal rights but basic environmental protections and science did not bode well.

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.

The NAACP's support for marriage equality is deeply rooted in the fourteenth amendment of the United States constitution and equal protection of all people» said NAACP president Benjamin Todd Jealous, a strong backer of gay rights.

Freedoms of conscience, of religion and of institutions to safeguard and advance the right to language, culture, self - determination and equal protection of the laws are non-negotiable.

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

Whether or not something is a choice is not a suitable criterion for whether someone should have equal rights and protections.

don't you, doesn't everyone think that all people in the US deserve equal protection under the law, equal rights, equal consideration?

In addition to the rights to private liberties previously discussed, then, a democratic constitution must also stipulate a set of rights to public liberties, which includes the familiar rights to freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom to assemble and petition, due process, and equal protection of the laws.

All citizens must have basic rights to life and liberty, and political rights to the vote and to equal protection under the law.

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.

Shall the Missouri Constiitution be amended to define the term «person» to be from the beginning of biological development and grant such person constiitutional rights and access to courts under the equal protection, due process, and open courts provisions of the Missouri Constiitution?

According to this three - judge panel, Proposition 8 violated the 14th Amendment right to «equal protection» of California's gay men and lesbians.

«The Court holds that denying civil marriage to same - sex couples violates their fundamental right to civil marriage under the due - process clause and their right to equal protection in the enjoyment...

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.

(3) It will provide rights, opportunities, protections and rewards to all on an equal basis and will not discriminate against any person on irrelevant grounds.

Don't they deserve the same civil rights and equal protection of laws?

It's out ability to think that makes us a special human person with protection under the law and equal rights.

How will them getting equal rights and protections prevent you from practicing your faith?

On one side equal protection under the law is being trampled on to satisfy extrapolated (not actual) religious freedom rights.

In a historic turn of events, a federal appeals panel in San Francisco ruled Tuesday that California's ban on same - sex marriage violates the constitutional right to equal protection.

Chick Fil A as a business wasn't a problem until people discover it's owner contributed money to hate groups masked as «family values» that work against equal rights and protection of gays and lesbians.

Virtually the entire Bill of Rights has now been applied against the states, achieving three revolutionary results at once: 1) The original understanding of federalism has been obliterated, so that the states exercise their power now largely at the sufferance of the Supreme Court; 2) The Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of Section 1 have become a kind of witches» cauldron from which an exotic brew of postmodern nostrums has been fed into the bloodstream of the political culture; 3) The Supreme Court has successfully arrogated to itself more or less exclusive powers of constitutional interpretation.

And having been born, as persons under the Constitution, they were entitled to at least the same rights as people on death row — due process, equal protection of the law.

Preparations are already underway to make the case before the Supreme Court that state Blaine Amendments violate the equal protection clause and the free exercise clause of the Bill of Rights.

Meanwhile, in New York, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in Quill v. Vacco that while there is no «historic» right to die, the state of New York violates the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment with its prohibition of assisting suicide.

In Obergefell, Kennedy's claim was that although historically the interpretation of a fundamental right to marry has not included same - sex couples, the «referenda, legislative debates, and grassroots campaigns; studies and other writings; and extensive litigation in state and federal courts» has led to an «enhanced understanding» of how the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the 14th amendment contain a right for same - sex couples to marry that was really there all along, though until now unseen.