Sentences with phrase «federal constitutional law»

The general rules regarding school searches are derived from federal constitutional law.

But the radical insularity once embraced by the concept of «states» rights» is now seen in another form: the right of a state to abolish even those minimum standards in favor of human life that federal constitutional law still recognizes as necessary to the common good.

When Justice Hugo Black wrote Jefferson's metaphor of a «wall of separation between church and state» into federal constitutional law, the writing was on the wall: a full - scale secularization of our national politics, at the command of the courts, was only a matter of time.

As examples, the Minnesota Supreme Court has decided that roadblocks were unconstitutional under Minnesota law (not federal constitutional law).

By Mikhail Golichenko, Senior Policy Analyst, Canadian HIV / AIDS Legal Network February 23, 2016 The amendments to Russia's Federal Constitutional Law on the Constitutional Court, which came into force on December 15, 2015, simply enshrined into law a principle that was already implicit: the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation has the right to verify the -LSB-...]

Using that statute to challenge physician non-competes that were signed prior to July 12, 2016 arguably would seek to give the statute improper retroactive effect, and may also run afoul of state and federal constitutional law principles.

Mr. MacDonald received his juris doctor from the George Washington University Law School, where he explored his interest in federal constitutional law through participation in GW's Institute for Constitutional History and the American Constitution Society.

Both are very fine accounts of federal constitutional law and would be very useful for an overseas public lawyer, particularly if paired with Zines or Hanks.

She has successfully represented clients in matters involving patent, trademark, and copyright infringement; false advertising and unfair competition; health care, commercial, and real estate disputes; and state and federal constitutional law.

Joseph & Castan's Federal Constitutional Law: A Contemporary View is more current (2001) and includes longish case extracts alongside the commentary.

Booker, Glass & Watt's Federal Constitutional Law - An Introduction (2nd edn 1998) is getting a little long in the tooth.

From 1976 to 1989, Bill was an attorney with the Public Citizen Litigation Group, where he litigated law reform cases on state and federal constitutional law, antitrust and administrative law, voting rights, product liability, nuclear power, and food and drug law, and where he argued dozens of appellate cases, including several in the U.S. Supreme Court.

The requirement of independent appellate review reiterated in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan is a rule of federal constitutional law.

Under New York Times, the question whether the evidence in the record in a defamation case is of the convincing clarity required to strip the utterance of First Amendment protection is ultimately a question of federal constitutional law.