Sentences with phrase «federal protections does»
Mirroring state law to existing federal protections does not change practice — New York will continue to follow Roe v. Wade just as we have done since 1973 — when the federal ruling took precedence over our state law written in 1970.»
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«We still have some work to do to ensure that students who take out private student loans have the same kinds of protections offered by federal loans.»
Then came the most - publicized case of well - water contamination near fracking operations, in Dimock Township, Pa., just east of Bradford County; the federal Environmental Protection Agency said in 2012 that preliminary results found the water was safe to drink, though it did contain chemicals as well as explosive methane.
The bigger issue for the retailer is everyone coming in with their two cents on what Target should have done to prevent this breach, including two U.S. senators seeking investigations from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Federal Trade Commission.
We've already made modest progress: in February, Canada and China signed a Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement, which the federal government claims will make doing business in China safer and more predictable for Canadians.
If a judge deems the British Columbia government is not doing enough to protect crucial habitat of the endangered spotted owl, he or she could order the federal environment minister to recommend an emergency protection order under the federal Species at Risk Act.
However, borrowers do have a few more protections in place in case of default on a federal student loan:
Private student loans don't have to offer the same borrower protections and repayment options as federal student loans.
Unlike federal student loans, your private (non-federal) loans don't have a common set of consumer protections when it comes to deferment and forbearance.
Nor does it in any way restrict federal, provincial or territorial governments from implementing new laws and regulations in areas such as health and safety, labour protection, education and the environment.
Premier Horgan indicated in his comments concerns about gaps in the federal government's $ 1.5 billion Oceans Protections Plan, but did not offer any specifics or solutions.
The Volcker Rule is a specific section of the Dodd — Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act originally proposed by American economist and former United States Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker to restrict United States banks from making certain kinds of speculative investments that do not benefit their customers.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has been known to remark that Dief doesn't get enough credit for that 1960 bid to entrench federal protection of freedom of religion, speech, the press, and assembly.
Unlike private student loans, federal direct student loans don't require credit history or a co-signer, and they have more repayment options and protections to prevent default.
When you consider whether a private lender is right for you, remember that private student loans for college don't come with the same protections as federal loans.
If it does, the U.S. will still lag far behind Europe in its treatment of farmed animals, but a federal law offering some protections to egg laying hens will be a marker of forward progress.
Most of what a Federal Reserve Board member does is dealing with microeconomic issues having to do with bank regulation, bank mergers, bank supervision, consumer protection laws, CRA [Community Reinvestment Act], fair lending statutes — all kinds of things that have nothing to do with monetary policy.
Yet the draft describes wide - ranging protections, saying, «Persons and organizations do not forfeit their religious freedom when providing social services, education, or healthcare; earning a living, seeking a job, or employing others; receiving government grants or contracts; or otherwise participating in the marketplace, the public square, or interfacing with federal, state, or local governments.»
As we read this history, the furor over stem cells was fueled by numerous factors: the near - universal human desire for magic; patients» desperation in the face of illness and their hope for cures; the belief that biology can now do anything; the reluctance of scientists to accept any limits (particularly moral limits) on their research; the impact of big money from biotech stocks, patents, and federal funding; the willingness of America's elite class to use every means possible to discredit religion in general; and the need to protect the unlimited abortion license by accepting no protections of unborn human life.
It violated the Federal Fair Housing Act, and no... she didn't sign away her rights to that protection when she signed a contract.
April 2011 — For the first time in American history, Obama urges passage of a non-discrimination law, that does not contain hiring protections for religious groups, forcing religious organizations to hire according to federal mandates, without regard to the dictates of their own faith, thus eliminating conscience protection in hiring.
Not only that, the federal RFRA does not protect against state laws that infringe upon religious liberty, and state religious protections are now vociferously opposed by progressive political adherents and large corporations — as Indiana discovered recently when it was threatened with economic ruin for attempting to pass an RFRA that extended to the operation of businesses.
As CT previously reported, religious liberty protections at the federal level do not end clashes at the state and local levels over accommodations (think: wedding vendors and bathroom bills).
They should drop their federal non-profit protection status is they don't want the government to intervene in their affairs.
The justices on the current Court will do the real work of jurisprudence if they draw on the briefs, take the time to set forth the evidence, and show why the state or the federal government has a compelling case for casting around infants in the womb the full protection of the law.
It was an era filled with protest that led to legislation and the federal protection of the civil rights of people, allowing them to keep doing what America was born from: protest.
And our superior SafeCell Impact Protection... Because we don't settle for «safe enough» our team of experts worked to create an integrated system of safety components that protect well beyond the federal safety standards for car seats.
These federal standards do not override any higher protection given by states in which the woman lives.
Double jeopardy and the protection of the 5th amendment prohibition of such, does not apply here, with regards to the Federal Criminal courts.
However, the Fifth Amendment's due process guarantee, beginning with Bolling v. Sharpe (1954), has been interpreted as imposing some of the same restrictions on the federal government: «Though the Fifth Amendment does not contain an equal protection clause, as does the Fourteenth Amendment which applies only to the States, the concepts of equal protection and due process are not mutually exclusive.
If the politicians didn't appoint all the judges, this would be a great subject of a federal lawsuit on equal protection grounds.
The state asked the federal Environmental Protection Agency to regulate the amount of colorless contaminant 1,4 - dioxane found in public water systems and the state would set its own limit if the feds fail to do so, in a letter that will be sent to the EPA, Cuomo announced.
Cuomo wants to require water systems with fewer than 10,000 customers be tested for contaminants — including PFOA, the chemical found in Hooksick Falls — that the federal Environmental Protection Agency monitors but does not regulate.
It ends with a call for state and federal lawmakers to reject campaign contributions from gun rights groups like the NRA, enact stricter licensing and registration requirements for guns, a ban on «all classes of weapons that do not serve the specific uses of personal protection and sport shooting» and other gun control measures.
As of press time, two Republicans lawmakers, David Gelfarb, of Rye Brook, and Jim Maisano, of New Rochelle, support the legislation, which would prohibit law enforcement officials from honoring requests made by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection agents, which do not give rise to reasonable grounds for detaining individuals.
And even as multiple wells in nearby Hoosick Falls tested positive for elevated and potentially dangerous levels of the same toxic chemical more than a year ago, state health department employees suggested a delay in reporting results and did not initially recommend a wider outreach to the public, according to emails between state, county and federal officials, some of which were obtained through a Freedom of Information Law request to the federal Environmental Protection Agency.
«If the Commission believes that the privacy protections granted by the IRS undermine accountability in the electoral process, then it should lobby Congress to make changes, but the Commission's charge does not pertain to reevaluation of those federal laws and policies,» the filing says.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's Park Slope home was the destination for immigration activists Tuesday night; they marched through Brooklyn to protest the senator voting in favor a short - term federal funding bill Monday that did not include protection for undocumented immigrants who were brought into the United States as children.
As he has done in the past, Zucker repeatedly pointed the finger at the federal Environmental Protection Agency for bungling the response in Hoosick Falls, accusing the Obama administration of issuing conflicting and «confusing» guidance on PFOA contamination.
Zucker insisted federal warnings didn't mean residents should stop drinking the water because «the EPA builds in a large margin of protection» in its recommendations.
The delay in making such a move has most certainly contributed to the loud calls for restructuring as many Nigerians have felt that the Federal Government has deliberately, by commission or omission, decided that some lives are expendable and do not deserve protection from the state security services.
And tough new rules from the federal Environmental Protection Agency on power plant emissions will make closing Indian Point that much harder, if the state is to do so and still meet its other environmental goals.
State Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos on Monday said the federal Environmental Protection Agency needs to do more to ensure that PCBs have been thoroughly removed from the Hudson River, reopening a decades - long debate about the area's toxic legacy.
In the corridors of power even previously sceptical Tories are also muttering that a proper federal, constitutional settlement for the UK could yet be done — incorporating an EVEL (English votes for English laws) solution alongside some hardwired protections for Scotland.
The new legislation, in addition to piggybacking the current policy, would also prevent law enforcement officials from honoring requests made by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and Customs and Border Protection, which do not give rise to probable cause.
Actually, «the federal government is looking at our water policy, realizing we have none, and wants to position itself as doing something,» contends Swackhamer, chair of the US Environmental Protection Agency's Scientific Advisory Board.
In 2015 the agency reversed course without adequate justification or explanation, finding that the bird «did not warrant» federal protection, so early the next year the Center and allies sued again for Endangered Species Act protections for Mono Basin sage grouse.
Although no federal indoor air quality standards protect women and children in schools, the Environmental Protection Agency does provide some guidance for schools.
However, this effort failed in 1973 as a result of the Supreme Court's ruling in San Antonio v. Rodriquez that such claims did not have a basis under federal equal protection laws.
Removing privacy protection for individual schools in data reports, a protection that does not exist in any other federal statue or regulation.