Sentences with phrase «extends constitutional protections»
«On the one hand, the Fourth Amendment extends constitutional protections to a person's «houses, papers and effects» from unwarranted government interference,» Kerr argued in court papers.
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The Association argued that a large apartment complex is a public forum, and the court should extend constitutional protections to the Association's activities just like the California Supreme Court did when it determined that a shopping center was a modern day public forum (see Editor's Note below).
Not exact matches
While I don't object to a constitutional amendment that would extend special protection to unborn persons - especially since such an amendment would presumably lodge protection for the unborn beyond the discretion of partisan courts, and also dispose of any potential problems with respect to state action - such an amendment is constitutionally superfluous.
The statement suggested two legal remedies: first, the Supreme Court could reverse Roe, returning the issue to the states; second, the nation could pass a constitutional amendment that would extend Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment due process protection to unborn persons.
The ACLU was founded to defend and secure constitutional rights and to extend them to people who have been excluded from their protection.
Filing for bankruptcy protection is your Constitutional right, and it can be a sound strategy for starting over, but it is also the right of private enterprise to refuse to extend credit to anyone they feel is a credit risk.
We know constitutional protection extends to impoverished people accessing the courts, but now we know it extends to the middle class too.
This ended the basis for legal discrimination in that country by extending federal constitutional protections to the Church.
The court considered various constitutional principles, and found that the protections for spouses found in the Canada Evidence Act should indeed be extended to common - law spouses, as this would harmonize the law in this area with the other legislation that essentially abolished the distinction between the two types of union.
Among other things, state courts can not extend federal constitutional protections beyond the limits the Supreme Court itself sets; this leaves individuals with fewer places to turn to protect their rights.