Sentences with phrase «for unconstitutional laws»

As Goodridge recognized, where a change in law is so radical that the consequences of that change realistically require time for the Legislature to act, a court may make the remedy for unconstitutional laws prospective only.

Only in New York would an antigun zealot appeal to the authorities of a city that has been slapped for their unconstitutional laws by the Supreme Court of the United States.

Not exact matches

For those that said their businesses would be affected, two - thirds of respondents said it would be positive for hiring and wages if the law is declared unconstitutionFor those that said their businesses would be affected, two - thirds of respondents said it would be positive for hiring and wages if the law is declared unconstitutionfor hiring and wages if the law is declared unconstitutional.

The Obama administration Justice Department, for instance, has opened 23 investigations of law enforcement agencies, including police departments in Baltimore, Chicago and Ferguson, Missouri, for unconstitutional practices and has reached court - enforceable consent decrees with many of them.

I'm reading NFIB v. Sebelius (the Obamacare decision) in preparation for teaching the case to my constitutional law students and came across the following most interesting passage in in Justice Ginsburg's opinion: «A mandate to purchase a particular product would be unconstitutional if, for example, the edict impermissibly abridged the freedom of speech, interfered with the free exercise of religion, or infringed on a liberty interest protected by the Due Process Clause.»

These days, Obama's too busy with unconstitutional violations of his cherished Obamacare law and dodging responsibility for the IRS political persecutions that just happened to begin the week after he met with an IRS chief to be bothered with the p's and q's of violating some 1982 law that Harry Reid wants ignored.

And, indeed, this was done in the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit that declared the Washington State law prohibiting physician - assisted suicide to be unconstitutional on the grounds that it violated the guarantee of personal liberty in the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.

That the law was held to be unconstitutional was less shocking than that the Court was unable to articulate a coherent rationale for its conclusion.

Discriminatory laws enforcing racial segregation have been declared unconstitutional and abolished, while the dream of Martin Luther King (that every individual be judged by the content of his character and not the color of his skin) has been integrated into the American dream itself in a way that only Lincoln's Gettysburg image (a government of, by, and for the people) had been previously.

Terming the protections of RFRA as «extreme religious liberty rights,» the Foundation and associated groups go beyond even what the Obama administration requests, asserting not only that Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood don't qualify for the law's protections, but rather that RFRA itself is unconstitutional.

This story stunned me: It is SOP for legislators to put a «severability clause» into legislation, so that if part of a law is found unconstitutional, the rest of it can remain in effect.

The dominant feature of this organization was legal democratic action for the attainment of equality thus, all laws supporting segregation were declared unconstitutional.

In some European nations, there are more equal gender laws concerning public nudity but those nations have LESS sexual assault and violence against women than in the United States - so there is no legal rationale for this double - standard - it's simply an unconstitutional tradition that has never been challenged in court by ACLU attorneys.

A victory for the rule of law as the Fifth Circuit rules against President Obama's illegal and unconstitutional executive amnesty!

It would be unconstitutional for States to make legislation outside the Federal Law on the Federation Account, as such state laws can not override National law in this exceptional situatiLaw on the Federation Account, as such state laws can not override National law in this exceptional situatilaw in this exceptional situation.

The non-portability of interracial marriage in the US was a problem that was eventually resolved (as was the more complex problem of interstate divorce), but a-marriage-is-a-marriage-is-a-marriage for purposes of foreign immigration law outside the US (not in the US because of the Defense of Marriage Act, which has recently been held unconstitutional).

I insist that it is unconstitutional for this Government to use any covert agent for operations against citizens to hide its Gargantuan political corruption like Nerquaye - Tetteh's golden handshake of GH 400,000 when it knows that the Constitution and the laws of Ghana proscribes it from using the executive powers of policing, intelligence and security entrusted to it by the Constitution except in compliance with the existing law.

one wonders why a person like Anas Aremeyaw Anas, who intentionally violated the Supreme law of the Republic of Ghana, qualifies for the Award the GJA gave to him for the very conduct that the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional.»

On May 22, as reported here earlier, a U.S. District Court ruled that California's ballot access law for newly - qualifying parties is probably unconstitutional, and enjoined the state from enforcing the deadline.

For our latest Postcast, Daniela Porat interviewed De'Jon Hall, a co-author of a two - year study by UB and Cornell Law Schools alleging that the Buffalo police department engages in unconstitutional and discriminatory policing.

The bill is apparently an attempt to repair the old law for minor party ballot access, because the old law was held unconstitutional in 2006.

Soto's campaign contends that he has fought for reproductive rights for years, noting that he supported the opening of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Kissimmee, is a member of the Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus, and, while in the Florida Senate, led the charge against a 24 - hour waiting period law, helping get it declared unconstitutional.

A split Second Circuit overturned a district court ruling that a New York law requiring nonresident attorneys to keep a physical office in the state as a prerequisite to practice is unconstitutional, saying it wasn't implemented for protectionist reasons.

A midlevel court has rejected a teachers» union claim that New York's property - tax cap is unconstitutional, marking another defeat for the union trying to upend the law.

The suit asks for the Combative Sport Law to be ruled unconstitutional because it is «so badly written that neither ordinary persons nor state officials are able to say with any certainty what it permits and what it prohibits.»

The original law had been declared unconstitutional in 2006, mostly because it required the signatures for minor party qualification to be submitted in November of the year before the election.

«This law not only prevents localities from enacting any kind of firearm measure but also subjects a violating locality or local official to a civil fine — a provision that we believe is unconstitutional given that legislators are immune from civil liability for legislative activities,» the lawmakers wrote in a letter sent to House Speaker Richard Corcoran and Senate President Joe Negron.

The U.S. District Court had put them both on the ballot on February 3, on the basis that the ballot access law for newly - qualifying parties is unconstitutional and that these two plaintiff political parties had shown they have a modicum of support.

Nonpartisan attorneys for the Wisconsin Legislature say parts of a newly signed law speeding up legal appeals related to the Foxconn Technology Group's factory could be unconstitutional.

The ONLY recourse you and your gun loving friends have is to take the State of New York to court for passing an unconstitutional law.

On November 26, 2008, independent U.S House candidate Faye Coffield filed suit in U.S. District Court in Georgia, asking that the Georgia ballot access law for independent candidates for U.S. House of Representatives be declared unconstitutional

The «sanctuary» crowd insists it's unconstitutional for Washington to withhold aid to coerce cooperation with federal law.

On February 3, the U.S. District Court had held the state's ballot access law for minor parties to be unconstitutional.

In his originating summons, Ajibola sought for 13 reliefs and these include a declaration that the «State of Osun Local Government Areas (creation and administration) Law, 2015» and «State of Osun Local Government Areas (creation and administration) amendment (No. 1) Law, 2017» having been enacted by the legislative body that is not known to the constitution and for the State not known to the 1999 constitution, and having been assented to by the governor in that manner, they are as such illegal and unconstitutional.

«No one understands the ultimate implications of this new law because it was rushed through so quickly and it will be going to a higher court to see if it is unconstitutional for the people for the right to bear arms,» she said.

OSSIEC had announced its plan to conduct the state councils» polls on Saturday, January 27, 2018 but a human right activist, Barrister Kanmi Ajibola approached the court, urging it to declare as unconstitutional and illegal the electoral law which proposed parliamentary system for the exercise.

New York's controversial receivership law that allows for the takeover of failing public schools withstood a court challenge by the teachers union, with a state Supreme Court judge this week rejecting a number of arguments aimed at deeming the statute unconstitutional.

Oral arguments were held before Judge Eugene Devine this morning, with the attorney for the nine Senate Republicans involved involved in the suit arguing that a law requiring prisoners to be counted at their last - known address rather than where they are incarcerated is unconstitutional.

We agree with the findings of Judge William Overton that the Arkansas creationism law represents an unconstitutional intrusion of religion doctrine into the public schools, that «creation science» is not science, and that its advocates have followed the unscientific procedure of starting from a dogmatically held conclusion and looking only for evidence to support that conclusion.

Nashville, Tenn. — A federal district judge here has ruled unconstitutional a state law requiring a minute of silence at the beginning of each school day «for meditation or prayer or personal beliefs.»

In particular, David Ardia, the director of the Citizen Media Law Project at Harvard Law School, characterized it unconstitutional, as» there is no justification under the First Amendment for shutting down an entire website».

Public sector unions can breathe a sigh of relief after last month's state Supreme Court ruling: an Illinois pension reform law that would have cut benefits for existing workers was declared unconstitutional.

In a stunning decision, a judge in the California Superior Court has ruled that, because education is a fundamental right of California youth, the laws governing teacher tenure, teacher dismissal and rules for layoffs are unconstitutional.

Lawyers for Minnesota's public - employee unions say that state's law, passed last December to help close a $ 312 - million budget deficit, is unconstitutional because it abrogates the workers» constitutional claims to contract and equal - protection rights.

If signed by President Reagan, the legislation would establish a substitute for the automatic - budget - cut mechanism that was declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court and ease the original law's deficit targets.

An Illinois judge has ruled unconstitutional the state's 2013 law that decreased cost - of - living adjustments, capped pension amounts, and raised the retirement age for workers who are currently under age 45.

The Supreme Court, in Brown v. Board of Education, ruled that schools could no longer be segregated and that state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students were unconstitutional.

May 19, 2016 by Brett Kittredge As the United States marks the 62nd anniversary of the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education decision which declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional, a new study looks at the effect school choice has had in reducing racial segregation in schools.

Earlier this year, the ACLU and Americans United for the Separation of Church and State filed a lawsuit claiming that New Hampshire's school choice law was unconstitutional under the state's Blaine Amendment, which prohibits the public funding of religious schools.

Alexandria, VA — In a sweeping victory for education reformers in California, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled yesterday that state laws governing teacher tenure protections are unconstitutional.