Sentences with phrase «federal legal precedent»

In a motion seeking to keep both men off the witness stand, prosecutors call the testimony «utterly irrelevant» and improper under federal legal precedent.

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Shannon Minter, a transgender man who is legal director of the San Francisco - based National Center for Lesbian Rights, said many transgender civil - rights gains of recent years are based on federal statutes and court precedents that can not be quickly undone.

Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey said in a letter released on Sunday night that the agency's request wasn't about setting legal precedent, but rather seeking justice for the victims and investigating other possible threats.

Catholic organizations have for decades fought to change federal and state laws that fail to protect «unborn persons,» and Catholic Health's lawyers in this case had the chance to set precedent bolstering anti-abortion legal arguments.

It's ABSURD to suggest that ANY U.S. court (at the federal or state level) is going to suddenly ignore over 200 years of American legal precedent and decide a case based on Islamic law.

The hearing provided the most formal legal test yet of whether fMRI lie detection meets the so - called Daubert standard for admitting evidence in federal court, and as such it could set an important precedent.

In emerging industries, where there is little legal precedent, courts would likely look to federal guidelines even if they lack the weight of law, said Brad Mondschein, an alternative energy and green development attorney at Hartford, Conn. - based Pullman & Comley LLC.

But however the case is resolved, it serves as an important reminder of the importance of state - specific constitutional language and precedents, the considerable degree of variation in legal rules in our 50 - state federal system, and the continuing power of the local control idea in education law.

Even the No Child Left Behind Act's requirement that school districts adopt a voluntary desegregation plan, for instance, may conflict with legal precedents set in most federal appeals courts.

Until the new UAE Federal Arbitration Law is enacted, enforcing an onshore Dubai - seated arbitration award through the Dubai courts will continue to be fraught with difficulties, including uncertainty (there is no system of binding precedent in the UAE), significant delay (enforcement proceedings can take up to three years), and costs (legal costs are not recoverable in the Dubai Courts).

Students will learn basic conceptual building blocks of American law, including the hierarchy of court systems, how lawyers and courts make distinctions between facts and law, the relationships among common, statutory, and constitutional law, the interactions between procedural and substantive law, legal precedent, the interactions between federal and state law, the adversarial process, and the ethics and social norms that govern and shape the behavior of American lawyers.

[18] Paragraph (d)(2) recognizes that a lawyer may provide legal services in a jurisdiction in which the lawyer is not licensed when authorized to do so by federal or other law, which includes statute, court rule, executive regulation or judicial precedent.

While the ruling will not serve as binding legal precedent because the Viacom - Google case will be decided in Federal District Court in New York, it may prove influential.

American legal commentators expect that the decision in State v. Earls will be followed by other state courts, particularly in light of other strong state and federal precedent weighing towards heavier protection of digital privacy rights.