Sentences with phrase «federal statute designed»

The Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) is a federal statute designed to protect employees from discrimination or retaliation if they are forced to leave work due to a medical condition or to care for a close family member.

The Religious Freedom Restoration Act is a 1993 federal statute designed to resolve conflicts between generally applicable laws and religious beliefs.

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The proposed guidance required that unless prohibited by Federal statute for competitive grants and cooperative agreements, Federal awarding agencies must design and execute a merit review process for applications.

There are several federal statutes related to protecting ACE Controls Inc. designs and manufactures shock absorbers, gas springs, rotary dampers, hydraulic feed controls, air springs for automation control

«Are we being fusspots and nitpickers in trying (so far with limited success) to enforce rules designed to ensure that federal courts do not exceed the limits that the Constitution and federal statutes impose on their jurisdiction?»

This pocket guide is designed to familiarize federal judges with statutes and procedures established to help public courts protect government secrets when courts are called upon to do so.

U.S. law has a whole sub-field a statutes and legal doctrines like the Rooker - Feldman doctrine designed to prevent these conflicts from coming up when they arise between federal and state courts.

If the Federal Circuit's interpretation of the statute was affirmed, design patent damages would be a total outlier in the context of remedies for intellectual property infringement.

Attorneys for both plaintiffs and defendants will find comprehensive coverage of such matters as: the advantages and disadvantages of suits based on strict liability, negligence and breach of warranty; the use of state consumer protection statutes; the duty to warn and its innumerable ramifications; the liability of the manufacturers, retailers and other potential defendants in the distribution chain; successor liability; federal preemption of common law claims; monitoring product safety during design, manufacturing and distribution; causation theories in actions involving multiple manufacturers; product misuse and alteration; the elements of proof needed in an action; recovery for economic loss; punitive damages; and the government contractor defense.