Sentences with phrase «even state courts»

Plenty of law offices are already paperless, the federal courts have been paperless for years, and even state courts are converting to electronic filing and paperless case files.

In fact, the federal courts have been paperless for years, and even state courts are converting to electronic filing and paperless case files.

Not exact matches

In separate lawsuits against the state, Michigan's Republican attorney general and Trump asked state courts to prevent the recount, saying Stein should not be allowed to seek one because she finished so far behind Trump and Clinton that she couldn't have won, even if some votes were miscounted.

«I got Reno... He took care of it and s — ain't gonna happen, even if they did take it to court,» the text stated, a state forensics investigator testified.

When prime - time hosts — who have never served our country in any capacity — dismiss facts and empirical reality to launch profoundly dishonest assaults on the FBI, the Justice Department, the courts, the intelligence community (in which I served) and, not least, a model public servant and genuine war hero such as Robert Mueller — all the while scaremongering with lurid warnings of «deep - state» machinations — I can not be part of the same organization, even at a remove.

For example, in Hans v. Louisiana (1890), the high court ruled against a Louisiana resident bondholder on 11th Amendment grounds even though it did not specifically preclude suits by a state's citizens.

The number of such states would be even higher, according to the Constitutional Accountability Center, if not for important rulings by three federal appeals courts.

In Virginia, a court upheld 12 state legislative districts and rejected a constitutional challenge, even though lawmakers made sure that at least 55 percent of the eligible voting - age population in each district was African - American.

(Even though, ironically, they may now marry in many of the same states, thanks to a Supreme Court decision from 2012 allowing same sex marriage on a federal level.)

But even there, the industry managed to operate for nearly a decade until the state Supreme Court finally declared those loans usurious in 2008.

Arizona has a complex relationship with solar, replete with the drama of recent settlements dodging the Supreme Court and even FBI investigations of state regulators.

It's happening even as court battles over state regulations for the young industry rage on.

Even considering this, only slightly more than half of Americans have a will or trust in place, leaving control of their minor children and their assets to state law and the courts.1

Clearly the compassion of the courts is going to reach far and wide under the new dispensation, even unto those who can not speak for themselves because they are «in a vegetative state or a permanent and irreversible state of unconsciousness.»

And the court has given states broad immunity from being sued in any court for money damages — for example, for infringing a patent or discriminating against older or disabled state employees — even though the Constitution limits this immunity only to suits in federal court by a citizen of a different state.

Even If the due - process provision calls on the court to protect rights recognized by tradition or widespread consensus, there is a problem with Roe: it involved neither Antiabortion laws were decades old, and although a few states had partly decriminalized abortion, Roe went much further and struck down laws in virtually every state.

At oral arguments about whether public prayers at a New York town's board meetings are permissible, the high court took a broad look at the country's church - state history and even the Supreme Court's own traditcourt took a broad look at the country's church - state history and even the Supreme Court's own traditCourt's own traditions.

Even though the Court did not rule that same - sex marriage must be legal in all states, it set the stage for that to happen.

Even state supreme courts and the U.S. Supreme Court are reluctant to overrule themselves, and often will not admit it when they do.

Although a theory of religious freedom is plainly necessary to the proper function of the state (because its courts must decide actual cases), a theory of religious freedom may be unnecessary to, and might even prove dangerous to, religion itself.

That wasn't even Olson's case, but with assists from a federal district court judge who came out as being in a same - sex relationship only after ruling and retiring, and elected officials who chose to forgo their traditional duty to vigorously defend state law, Olson and Boies did succeed in disenfranchising millions of Californians on a procedural technicality.

The even bigger goal was a United States Supreme Court decision that would do for America what the state supreme court had tried, against the wishes of the people, to do for CalifoCourt decision that would do for America what the state supreme court had tried, against the wishes of the people, to do for Califocourt had tried, against the wishes of the people, to do for California.

Most accommodationists place the limit at «compelling state interest»; but even setting compellingness as the standard, and handling it correctly, the courts in the end will be centering their concern on the needs of the state, not the needs of the religionist.

The successful experience of the State of New York with such a law in which hundreds of cases have been adjusted satisfactorily even without recourse to the courts encourages us to believe that the difficulties are not nearly so great as some feared or wanted us to believe.42 It is true that one can easily put too much faith in sheer legislation which may be rendered futile if it is not supported in the community consciousness.

Even the hallowed phrase that the First Amendment built «a wall of separation between church and state» saw the light of day not in a court ruling or piece of legislation, but in a letter from President Jefferson to the Danbury, Connecticut, Baptist Association in 1802.

Evangelicals who promote a warped view of American history in an effort to undo the court rulings on church - state affairs ignore the fundamental point that no country can be called Christian, even though Christians are in it.

That seems likely to remain the case in the immediate future, even though the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision permits state legislatures to enact some modest regulation of abortion practice.

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And here in Ohio, the state prepares to execute Jay D. Scott, even as his attorneys continue to argue in various courts that to kill a schizophrenic is «cruel and unusual punishment»; Scott's execution has been delayed twice, the last time five minutes before the poison was to be administered — the shunts were already in his veins.

Judge Noonan points out that the employee was not required to participate in or even listen to the services; he then recounts the historical record of free exercise claims under the Court's «compelling state interest» standard:

Like Jefferson, Lincoln believed that courts, including the Supreme Court of the United States, could violate the Constitution and even undermine constitutional government.

Yet the attempts made to nullify the Supreme Court decision even at the cost of eliminating the public schools and passing acts of open defiance in state legislatures, to say nothing of rioting and violence and the nonviolent but intimidating acts of white citizens» councils, indicate how long a road there is yet to travel.

Indeed, as the history of the past three decades has shown, it is today's devotees of «negative liberty» as reinterpreted by postmodern radical skeptics and relativists who are the primary exponents of coercion in the name of «tolerance» and «diversity» — even if that coercion is mediated through split decisions of the United States Supreme Court.

Reaffirmation of the doctrine that religious motivation does not override substantial secular concerns relating to health and welfare was recently evidenced by the United States Supreme Court determination that sale and distribution of drugs, even though religiously motivated, was not immunized from legal accountability.

In Reynolds the Court recognized that «religion» is not defined in the Constitution but agreed that even if the state had no power over opinion, it was free to regulate actions.

Even counseling failed to reconcile her to her foster parents» values; she ran away and eventually had to be committed to a state girls» school, though the only «crime» she had committed was running away from a life style imposed on her by the courts.

The Volunteers own neutral court wins over Purdue and NC State that look even better now than they did at the time, and they played a highly competitive contest against top - ranked Villanova in the Battle 4 Atlantis championship game.

Even though Logan Tuley - Tillman committed to the University of Michigan back in February, he is still being courted by some of the top schools in the country including his now biggest rival, The Ohio State University.

North Carolina was unbeaten outside of a neutral - court loss to Michigan State, and there was little reason to suspect the Terriers would even give the Tar Heels a game.

Many states require parents to file a formal parenting plan with the courts; but even if it's not a requirement, working with your ex to develop a basic parenting plan that includes your collective agreements and responsibilities will pave the way for a smooth ride while you're raising your kids collaboratively.

Even if you decide to represent yourself in court, you should discuss the child custody laws in your state with a qualified attorney.

Fortunately, yes it is legal to breastfeed a baby in public in most states, with some courts even defining it as a constitutional right.

Until recent years, husbands hitting their spouses in the US was considered «reasonable chastisement of wives» and «a private family matter» by the courts and by law enforcement even though it has technically been against the law in all fifty states for decades.

Even though all states now recognize that married same - sex parents who have children through donor insemination are both parents to their children, a recent New York court decision highlights in detail why second - parent adoptions are still necessary.

As a result, even if a private sports program that uses town fields, rinks, diamonds, or courts is required to comply with state mandates regarding concussion safety, I believe that there is a huge sports safety gap which, absent voluntary implementation by a private sports program of youth sports health and safety best practices, such as those we are pilot testing in Grand Prairie, Texas this fall as part of our SmartTeams ™ program, can and should be filled by a municipality by exercising its power of the permit.

No Supreme Court case has ever held or implied that Congress's Commerce Clause authority is limited to individuals who are presently engaging in an activity involving, or substantially affecting, interstate commerce... if Congress can regulate even instances of purely local conduct that were never intended for, or entered, an interstate market, we think Congress can also regulate instances of ostensible inactivity inside a state.

By contrast, I have heard of cases pertaining to some newer member states where the state in question would not even send a representative or written arguments to the court (here again I think it was about prejudicial questions, not infringement proceedings but it shows how specific countries approach EU litigation in general).

Virtually no - one believes in absolute free markets (at a bare minimum, most people agree that courts should enforce a contract signed between 2 individuals or companies), and virtually no - one believes in complete state control of everything - even the USSR and China had significant amounts of private control over collectivised farms and allowed private farming as well for most of their history.

If I'm wrong, then at the most the «dumped» state may take some kind of legal action in binational or international fora (or even in the courts of the state breaking off the agreement).

The president is even further separated by a second filter, the Electoral College, also selected by the states, and then the Supreme Court is selected by the president and the Senate.