Sentences with phrase «federal prohibitions against»

There are federal prohibitions against allowing an embryo to develop past the point where it forms a structure called a primitive streak, which happens on the 15th day after fertilization.

While federal law does not specifically prohibit discrimination based on criminal convictions or arrests, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has issued a policy statement indicating that an employer's use of criminal history information in making employment decisions may violate the federal prohibition against discrimination based on race or national origin.

Not exact matches

On Monday and Tuesday of this week, Attorney General Sessions said that marijuana sale and use is still against federal law and said he does not think that cannabis is something that should be legalized, despite the fact that more than half of all states have some form of a regulated market already in place and the majority of Americans agree that marijuana prohibition should end.

«The problem here is that in some ways what this is based on is the idea that you can violate state law and state prohibitions on using government resources during a campaign as a defense against federal bribery charges,» Kaehny said.

While no such federal law exists, courts and the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR), as well as the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division, issued significant guidance in May 2016 asserting that Title IX prohibition against sex discrimination encompasses discrimination based on a student's gender identity, including discrimination based on a student's transgender status.

Federal law exempts in house collectors from the FDCPA's prohibitions against abusive and unfair practices that apply to other debt collectors.

Prohibition Against Unlawful Internet Gambling: Federal law, the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006, and implementing regulations prohibit commercial customers from receiving deposits or other credits of any kind relating to their operation of an illegal internet gambling business.

The Quebec Superior Court ruled that provincial law must be in line with federal laws, and since the Criminal Code prohibition against physician - assisted death was still in effect, Quebec's law could not take effect.

«The prohibition against involuntary servitude does not prevent the State or Federal Governments from compelling their citizens, by threat of criminal sanction, to perform certain civic duties.»

When Parliament repeals the prohibition against drug trafficking (at least with respect to pot) it may become a by - law issue — though, given that the federal government and the provinces continue to heavily regulate the sale of other substances such as cigarettes and alcohol, and if the sale of pot (other than for medicinal purposes) is ever legalized we should expect it to be heavily taxes, the notion that the sale of pot will ever only become a by - law issue seems far - fetched — but until it does it's simply wrong to say this is a by - law issue.

Even aside from the consent decree, this harvesting plainly violated the Federal Trade Commission Act's prohibition against «deceptive acts or practices.»

The Office of Special Counsel (OSC) and the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) enforce the prohibitions against federal employment discrimination codified in the CSRA.