Sentences with phrase «for substantial disruption»

In reviewing the application of Tinker, the court indicated that the majority of courts will apply it where the speech is brought to the school or the authorities, meaning any speech — regardless of origin — will be considered for substantial disruption.

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Where these balance sheet improvements are most advanced, future financial distress will look more like what we typically see in instances of financial stress in the major economies — substantial asset price volatility and the potential for substantial financial losses, but less in the way of a significant disruption to either short - run or long - run real economic growth.

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The states «have a substantial interest in avoiding the vast disruption in state and local labor relations that would occur if the Court were now to overrule Abood's approval of public sector collective bargaining arrangements utilizing agency - fee rules,» lawyers for the states argue.

«The government needs to be realistic about the lack of time left to make substantial changes to the border arrangements for either goods or people before March 2019 without significant disruption or security challenges,» MPs concluded.

«The process which resulted in the massive disruption that made it impossible for elections to be conducted in a substantial part of the Federal and State Constituencies in the LGA.

Women who pursue a more aggressive surgery for early stage breast cancer have nearly eight times the odds of reporting substantial employment disruptions, according to a new study from University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers.

«The result was an installation that entailed no disruption in the short - term, but which promises to deliver substantial benefits for our schools over the long - run.»

Under Tinker v. Des Moines (1969), still the lodestar for school discipline cases, schools can punish student speech only if it will cause a substantial disruption or violate the rights of others.

But now passionate activists at both ends of the discourse are pushing ever harder for or against rapid action, while scientists immersed in studying the climate are projecting substantial disruption in water supplies, agriculture, ecosystems and along coastlines.

Abrupt climate change is defined as a large scale change in the climate system which takes place over a few decades or less and is anticipated to persist for at least a few decades, and causes substantial disruption in human and natural systems.

We define abrupt climate change as a large - scale change in the climate system that takes place over a few decades or less, persists (or is anticipated to persist) for at least a few decades, and causes substantial disruptions in human and natural systems (see Glossary).

- HB (postscript: again one has to ask, if it's about 4,200 more cubic feet for a shut down, what * smaller * number of cubic feet would it take for «merely» a partial shutdown / slowdown of a magnitude enough to cause substantial weather disruption.

The Supreme Court upheld the suspension of a student who made a lewd speech during an assembly in Bethel School District No. 403 v. Fraser, but the Third Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the use of this case in Layshock v. Hermitage School District to punish a student for a fake MySpace profile of the principal because it did not cause a substantial disruption,

If the system is your law practice, the disruption can be substantial or it can be minimal depending on how well you have planned for it.

Although the court here denied the First Amendment claim they upheld the student's impermissibly vague argument, but also held that even if a student is disciplined for accessing a site at school they must still meet the substantial disruption test in Tinker.

The student policy in Flaherty v. Keystone Oaks School District was also found to be vague and overbroad, because the student handbook used for the discipline lacked geographic limitation, was not linked to substantial disruption, and the terminology used was too vague to allow students to know what behaviour would violate them.