Sentences with phrase «favor of state law»

Congress created a set of exemptions in the bankruptcy code but allowed each state to opt - out of those exemptions in favor of state law exemptions.

Not exact matches

But that approach has largely fallen out of favor, with more states turning to red flag laws that focus not on a mental health diagnosis but rather on dangerous behavior.

When President Bush nominated Judge Clarence Thomas to a vacancy on the United States Supreme Court, liberals opposed to confirming the nomination at first directed critical scrutiny to statements the nominee had made in favor of employing «natural law» in constitutional interpretation.

As opposed to the thousands and thousands of billboards & church message boards every 50 ft with their snarky comments pushing their beliefs and quite often attacking non -(Jesus) believers and / or science directly or indirectly, all the millions of people that like to go around constantly «sharing their beliefs» about how everyone who believes differently is gonna be tortured and burned for eternity, or the countless attempts by local, state, and federal government officials to push laws based on those beliefs and to favor those beliefs all over the country.

Q9) Do you as Christians and Atheists wish at times if you had a sperate state for each to live in, where each of you can do as they please as in their favorite way of living, where each can impose his own laws and beliefs, and would that mean accepting to live among the mass Races of that belief or rather would favor a state or county for each mass of Race within the same belief?

He very clearly and convincingly lays out the argument that Al Qaeda attacked us to weaken our support for middle eastern dictators and monarchies in favor of a Taliban - style sharia - law - based state.

Should there be a conflict between the laws of the State of New York and any other laws, the conflict will be resolved in favor of the laws of the State of New York.

Most states have laws in place in favor of nursing moms, so don't let your company put down or minimize your nursing needs.

In 1998, the court ruled in favor of Orland Hills, stating, «Illinois case law gives preference to voluntary annexation over involuntary annexations.»

Since 2009, the league, to its credit, has also been lobbying hard in favor of laws - now in place in 31 states and the District of Columbia, and with more sure to follow this year - requiring concussion education of parents and athletes, banning same - day return - to - play after a suspected concussion, and requiring medical clearance before a concussed athlete is allowed back on the playing field, diamond or ice.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has said twice in his last two State of the State addresses that he favors campaign - finance reform laws, but has not proposed or embraced any so far.

Last month, a State Appellate Court ruled in favor of two home healthcare workers who filed suit claiming the 13 - hour rule violated New York State's minimum wage laws, since they were made available to work 24 - hours a day by being live - in home health workers.

The New York State Assembly's Environmental Conservation Committee has voted in favor of a law that would defer the issuance of new hydrofracking permits amid increased environmental and health concerns about the controversial natural gas extraction method.

Interestingly enough, Paladino also included the names of the Republican state senators who voted in favor of the law: Philip Boyle, John Flanagan, Charles Fuschillo, Martin Golden, Mark Grisanti, Kemp Hannon, Andrew Lanza, Kenneth LaValle, Carl Marcellino, Jack Martins and Republican Leader Dean Skelos.

In the United States, this system of Government is called a Jeffersonian Democracy, which favors a weak centralized government (without writing tons, a Jeffersonian believes the Local Government should have more control over an individual by law as they are easier for the individual to fight) and as the scope of authority rises in a federal system, the government deals less and less with the individual and more and more with lower governments.

Charging that the city's current education system doesn't do enough for kids looking to bypass college in favor of careers as plumbers, electricians and carpenters, state Sen. Simcha Felder said a new law signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo should help even the playing field.

«I'm in favor of greater disclosure without a doubt,» said State Senator Phil Boyle, a Republican who earned over $ 100,000 from his law practice in 2013.

Silver funneled legislative favors, including state grants, to a mesothelioma doctor who directed many of his asbestos - exposure patients to Weitz & Luxenberg, the law firm where the Manhattan Democrat served «of counsel.»

Silver, 72, was convicted of taking millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks in exchange for various favors, including directing state grants to a particular doctor who passed on leads to him about potential law clients.

Scott asked a state public ethics commission to investigate whether Robert Haggerty, O'Hara's boss as the former first deputy director of the Department of Agriculture & Markets, violated state law by steering contracts to favored bidders.

Grisanti in 2011 was one of four Republicans in the state Senate to back the legalization of same - sex marriage and, less than two years later, provided a vote in favor of the gun control law known as the SAFE Act, a measure that has stirred anger among the conservative base.

A judge is blocking the Village of Owego's taxpayer - funded poll on whether local residents favor abolishing their police force, saying the survey is likely an «improper and unlawful» non-binding referendum under state law.

He favors waiving the State's sovereign immunity from ADA challenges and favors amending State Human Rights Law to incorporate Titles II and III of the ADA, to compensate for the increasingly negative interpretations by federal courts.

A federal jury determined that the once - feared former Assembly speaker had enriched himself through the subtle subterfuge of referral fees, having arranged state favors for individuals and organizations that agreed to utilize a pair of law firms that paid him.

The blog State of Politics reports that hours after Cuomo spoke in favor of campaign finance reform in a news conference, he attended a $ 20,000 a plate fundraiser at the home of his sister and brother in law, Maria and Kenneth Cole.

Faso voted against New York State sovereignty (yes, against state's rights, a supposed bedrock of Republican doctrine) when he voted in favor of anyone from an «open carry» state having the right to come to New York and brandish weapons — with their state laws overriding ourState sovereignty (yes, against state's rights, a supposed bedrock of Republican doctrine) when he voted in favor of anyone from an «open carry» state having the right to come to New York and brandish weapons — with their state laws overriding ourstate's rights, a supposed bedrock of Republican doctrine) when he voted in favor of anyone from an «open carry» state having the right to come to New York and brandish weapons — with their state laws overriding ourstate having the right to come to New York and brandish weapons — with their state laws overriding ourstate laws overriding our own.

Dr. Robert Taub, the director of Columbia's Mesothelioma Center, which handles asbestos - related cancer, referred his patients to Silver's law firm in exchange for the speaker steering $ 500,000 in state money to his research and providing favors to his family, according to a criminal complaint and sources.

Most GOP officials were in favor, that year, of making changes to the state's prevailing - wage laws; but many were lining up behind a reform proposal that would have stopped short of total elimination.

Scott - Childress's resolution also takes a shot at U.S. Rep. John Faso's vote in favor of federal concealed carry «reciprocity» legislation that would allow gun owners from states with lax gun laws to legally carry firearms in states like New York with much tougher standards for issuing concealed carry permits.

The argument in favor of letting the amendment into the final Senate bill is that if states do not comply with the law they lose their federal match, which would impact the federal budget.

Attorneys on both sides have argued that prior rulings by New York's Court of Appeals, which lay the foundation for the state laws that apply in the federal case, break in their favor.

Both local Assemblyman Anthony Palumbo (R - New Suffolk) and State Senator Ken LaValle (R - Port Jefferson) voted in favor of the law.

While the principle of «innocent until proven guilty,» also known as the «presumption of innocence,» isn't explicitly mentioned in the United States Constitution (though it is part of the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, a key document of the French Revolution), it is long considered one the most fundamental principles of the American justice system.In 1895, the U.S. Supreme Court declared in Coffin v. United States that «the principle that there is a presumption of innocence in favor of the accused is the undoubted law, axiomatic and elementary, and its enforcement lies at the foundation of the administration of our criminal law.»

Nancy Schauffler, who has filed an Article 78 lawsuit challenging the Cucina expansion that the ethics complaint charged Magarelli and McKenna with favoring, stated that it «just doesn't look good» for a Town Board to rewrite a law that two of its members were found to have violated.

She said she thought the debate in the state Legislature would continue past this year's session, and was shocked the morning of June 25 to hear about the state Senate's historic 33 - 29 vote in favor of the law.

Last year's State Senate session ended with protests and arrests outside Klein's Capitol office, with demonstrators upset that he didn't use his alliance to win final votes on progressive bills they favored, including a system of public campaign finance and changes to the state's abortion State Senate session ended with protests and arrests outside Klein's Capitol office, with demonstrators upset that he didn't use his alliance to win final votes on progressive bills they favored, including a system of public campaign finance and changes to the state's abortion state's abortion laws.

The Legislature voted 11 - 6 in favor of the resolution on Tuesday as legislators said barring the use of the seal during enforcement would emphasize it is a state law and not a county one.

Why should the laws of the state favor the rich and powerful?

The availability of arbitration therefore highlights two additional considerations for would - be reformers: the need to scrutinize state laws governing a contract impasse to ensure that they do not stack the deck in favor of union interests and the importance of raising public awareness of contract provisions that arbitrators might otherwise leave untouched.

The public also strongly favors laws allowing states to take control of local districts where academic performance has been low for several years.

In a Show - Me Institute poll released in May 2007, 67 percent of Missouri voters and 77 percent of African Americans said they favored a law that would «give individuals and businesses a credit on either their property or state income taxes for contributions they make to education scholarships that help parents send their children to a school of their choice, including public, private, and religious schools.»

Over Thanksgiving weekend, Florida's Sun - Sentinel editorialized in favor of the Florida teachers union's lawsuit against the Sunshine State's most popular school choice law.

Of course, if I - 1240 becomes law, public charters schools will be allowed everywhere in the state, regardless of whether a majority of voters in a particular county voted in favor of I - 1240 or noOf course, if I - 1240 becomes law, public charters schools will be allowed everywhere in the state, regardless of whether a majority of voters in a particular county voted in favor of I - 1240 or noof whether a majority of voters in a particular county voted in favor of I - 1240 or noof voters in a particular county voted in favor of I - 1240 or noof I - 1240 or not.

Distribution of this grant will favor states that have private school choice, magnet schools and charter laws, encouraging them to participate.

For instance, in late April the California Fourth District Court of Appeal ruled in favor of Anaheim parents who want to use the state's parent - trigger law to turn a traditional public elementary school into a charter school.

But the law expired in 2007 without congressional reauthorization, and the Obama administration has encouraged states to apply for waivers that allow them to avoid AYP penalties and the 2014 goal in exchange for adopting policies favored by the Obama Department of Education, such as tying teacher evaluations to student test scores.

In Maryland, the small cadre of reformers there (including the Old Line State branch of 50 CAN and the Center for Education Reform) are looking to rewrite the state's charter school law, which favors districts at children's expState branch of 50 CAN and the Center for Education Reform) are looking to rewrite the state's charter school law, which favors districts at children's expstate's charter school law, which favors districts at children's expense.

The proposal, which was prompted by the scandal enveloping the Los Angeles Unified School District over the long career of former Miramonte Elementary School teacher Mark Berndt, who now faces 23 charges of what the law politely calls lewd acts upon a child, arose the ire of the two unions because it would have allowed school districts to suspend teachers accused of alleged sexual and substance abuse crimes without pay and allowed dismissals to be presented before an administrative law judge instead of the usual three - person panel of the state's Professional Competence commission that is largely slated in favor of NEA and AFT.

In August, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said Obama had approved plans to, in effect, reform the law without going through Congress: The secretary would waive specific provisions of the law in exchange for states agreeing to adopt favored reforms.

But the law also weakens federal oversight in favor of state responsibility.