Sentences with phrase «extending equal protection»

His proposals include extending equal protection of women, ethnic minorities and gender identity groups as well as protecting abortion rights now provided by federal law that could be struck down by the Supreme Court.

As Justice Stevens wrote in Bray, «the demonstrations in the 1960's were motivated by a desire to extend the equal protection of the laws to all classes — not to impose burdens on any disadvantaged class....

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The statement does not even hint at the possibility of a Supreme Court ruling that would extend due process and equal protection to unborn persons.

In Ontario, effective 1 April 2018, equal pay protection under the Employment Standards Act will be extended to ensure that part - time, seasonal and casual workers must be paid the same as full - time workers doing similar work; and workers hired through temporary help agencies must be paid the same are workers hired directly by an employer who are doing similar work.

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.

In Bainbridge 1 the EAT upheld the tribunal's finding that it was unlawful not to extend pay protection beyond those actually losing pay under the new payment system in local government (the Green Book) to cover the claimants who had successfully claimed equal pay in relation to the pre-Green Book system and who would have lost money under the new system if they have been properly paid under the old one (see [2007] IRLR 91, [2006] All ER (D) 197 (Nov)-RRB-.

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.

Equivalence is to be found in the level of respect or protection that the common law extends to native title being equal to the level of respect and protection that the common law extends to non-Indigenous interests in land.

Also, to recent developments regarding extending the definition of marriage to same sex couples state may also not prohibit interracial marriage based on the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution.

Equality requires that this unique interest be given equal protection to that extended to non-Indigenous interests in land.