Sentences with phrase «established precedent»

This program established a precedent where the Australian Government now purchase environmental services from Indigenous peoples, resulting in employment opportunities for people on their country.

This program established a precedent whereby the Australian Government purchases environmental services from Indigenous people, resulting in real employment opportunities for people on country.

Several commentators have suggested that the expansion of the «real and substantial connection» test to include notions of fairness or foreign enforceability, and the overlap with factors that should really be left for the second - stage «forum» analysis, is not only contrary to established precedent, but has resulted in confusion and uncertainty for both judges and litigants.

Ng Ariss Fong has established precedent - setting cases concerning the necessity of mental culpability for findings of professional misconduct in BC, the right of professionals to maintain anonymity during appeal processes, errors in reasoning by tribunals, and public interest factors bearing on name publication decisions.

Leading jurists, attorneys, and legal and technological professionals will explore a wide array of eDiscovery issues, examining established precedent and projected new challenges, current and emerging technologies, and everything in between.

The Lawrence case does not alter the legal landscape by reversing well - established precedent.

These include the enormity of the discretion available to our top judges, the wildly varying degree to which some things matter, or don't, seemingly on a whim — like the plain meaning of the text, established precedent, and framer's intent — and how politics can explain why the Court can be pathologically timid while somehow simultaneously rendering an unpopular decision.

If the Supreme Court does not review this jurisdictional issue, then there will be established a precedent which will void the Doctrine of Judicial Immunity.

I have to follow established precedent, no matter how personally distasteful it may be.

«[T] he CFPB Director's autonomy is consistent with a longstanding tradition of independence for financial regulators, and squarely supported by established precedent.

For thus such reverence is lent To well - established precedent.

Both suggested that, rather than best explained through conformity to established precedent, identification of a duty of care in Robinson resulted from pure consideration of policy [84, 95, 113, 118].

The firm has been involved at the national level in a variety of cases that have established precedent in many important jurisdictional and procedural areas.

Indeed, the entire system of stare decisis would be undermined if courts, and in particular trial courts, were free to deviate from established precedent because, in their interpretation, its underlying principles no longer accorded with society's basic, and ipso facto, shifting values.

And if there's an established precedent to follow... Then again, there's a huge corn industry in Iowa — a state whose economy Obama may be especially keen on supporting (I seem to recall certain pledges made to support ethanol way back in the now - prehistoric primaries).

When Judge William Alsup, the federal judge presiding over the case, ruled that the case should remain in federal court, many believed he would quickly dismiss the case because of established precedent.

That photograph, of the fixed path left by his feet repeatedly traversing a section of grass, established a precedent that art could be a journey.

Designed by the French - American artist Marcel Duchamp as an elaborate prank poking fun at the American avant - garde, the work established a precedent that forever redefined what constitutes a work of art.

Long before Atlus and NIS America spoiled stateside gamers with sumptuous special edition packages, Working Designs established precedent.

In the case of Fortis, that dividend yield is a solid 4.01 %, and Fortis has an established precedent of consecutive annual dividend hikes that spans well over four decades.

Scalia once famously remarked that he was a «faint - hearted originalist,» meaning in part that he would sometimes forsake originalism in order to obey the command of stare decisis, that is, he would follow established precedent.

However, this film catapulted Jake Gyllenhaal into stardom and immediately established a precedent for his knack for playing odd, unhinged characters.

Similarly, Edgar Wright's new film Baby Driver continues Hill's established precedent of a sullen male lead whose apparent vocation is a firm grip on a steering wheel with a mile of asphalt before him.

The first U.S. State of the Birds report came out in 2009 and established the precedent of using birds that are confined to specific habitats as indicators of the health of those habitats: oceans, coasts, wetlands, arctic, forests, grasslands, and aridlands.

Brown's gamble — to strike out by himself to search for fossils in a foreign land — established a precedent for his expeditions and launched his legendary career..

His successor, John Smith, established the precedent of always taking his full allocation of questions.

«You could've gone with the well - established precedent of allowing the ethics board to choose its own members, as it has done for years.

In other words, your assertion that judges are not charged with the reading of minds is incorrect: there is well established precedent for considering discriminatory intent when determining whether an action is unconstitutionally discriminatory.

Its famous Johnson v. Calvert (1993) case established the precedent that the procreative intent of the parties would be used to determine the legal parents in a surrogacy relationship.

Don't let a child stay up late to watch a much - anticipated football game, despite how a child may plead, because then you've established a precedent which will only yield more requests.

The arguments against Rodriguez can't stand up to the established precedent for legends having a great season.

The established precedent is there, though.

In so doing, the court established the precedent that at least in Florida, courts should primarily consider how much is needed to raise a child, not how much a parent can pay.

He himself, although chosen by an assembly in Germany at the instance of Henry III, refused to assume the functions and title of Pope until after he had entered Rome garbed as a humble pilgrim, his election was confirmed, according to long - established precedent, by the people and clergy of the city.

Historians have wrangled over whether George Washington established precedent by adding the phrase on his own during his first Inaugural acceptance, but the Library of Congress website states he did.

«4 So there is a well - established precedent for use of the term «field» in scientific discourse.

«The field is always evolving and changing and is relatively new, so there's no real established precedent for many of the things we do in social media,» she told The Drum.

Establishing a precedent for John Paul II at Puebla, Paul VI journeyed to Medellín in 1968 to address the General Conference of Latin American Bishops.

The judgment establishes a precedent in a country where religious conversions, particularly from Islam to Christianity, have been steeped in controversy.

For as long as we remain unclear on the prevalence and impact that domestic violence has on men and women alike, we will fail to establish a precedent that keeps women safe.

This clearly establishes the precedent that regardless of what your general instructions are for how good you're supposed to behave in the regular course of your life, god can and will order you to commit atrocity in specific instances and you had gosh darn better well drop what you were doing and make with the bloodletting.

Courts established precedents that legitimated a reign of terror that lasted more than 100 years.

This single case of many (try Copernicus Darwin etc.) establishes a precedent of denial of observable science by Christianity.

Thus, when the Court in Casey asks that its case law be given the obedience due to the Constitution, and when it insists that, above all, it must remain loyal to its own recently established precedents, it makes a reasonable request within the context of the new constitutional regime.

Even then, the district may have a defense against the liability in the form of «governmental immunity,» although laws regarding injury claims that establish this precedent differ considerably across states.7 All five states included in this analysis had some form of governmental immunity, but the strength of those provisions varies.

A point of order is a parliamentary motion used to remind the body of its written rules and established precedents, usually when a particular rule or precedent is not being followed.

The settlement may help to establish a precedent in the future for how the Conflict of Interest Board vets fundraising efforts in elections for leadership positions.

Borman asserted, however, that case did not establish precedent because Anderson had not actually appeared on the Republican primary ballot.

Auerbach also posits that allowing the executive branch to withhold financial information from «an independently elected comptroller» could establish a precedent for recalcitrance.

Paterson, having given up hope of running for governor, had nothing to lose, and Cuomo had plenty to gain from establishing a precedent, even though Paterson's use of the emergency appropriations method allowed the Legislature room to bargain.