Sentences with phrase «from controversial law»

Public school teachers were the face of the opposition to Gov. Scott Walker's Act 10 — and they could end up absorbing some of the longest - lasting changes resulting from the controversial law.

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Clinton seeks to roll back a controversial law that gives gun manufacturers ample protection from lawsuits.

Faced with boycott threats from giant businesses, including Nike, Apple, Angie's List and Salesforce.com, Indiana's Governor Mike Pence has vowed to alter the language of a controversial, religious freedom bill he signed into law just last week, to ensure businesses can't use it to discriminate against LGBT customers.

On Feb. 1, Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels signed a controversial right - to - work law prohibiting workers in union shops from being forced to pay union dues — less than 48 hours before Electro - Motive announced the closure of the London plant, its jobs expected to move to the Hoosier state.

Apparently, yesterday's mass Internet protests (from the likes of Google, Wikipedia and Reddit) must have had an effect: Many of the Senators who previously supported the controversial Stop Internet Piracy and Protect IP Acts — including some previous co-sponsors of the bills — have now come out in opposition against the proposed laws...

Europe now has dozens of laws to stop Christians from speaking out on controversial issues, not just in public spaces but in pulpits and private conversations as well, enforced vigorously through the criminal code.

Several states, though, have passed laws aimed at keeping the controversial church at a distance from funerals.

Either they need to fire all employees and dismiss all students who aren't Catholic (so they can say it's a religious issue for all that the insurance would cover) or follow the law (which by the way permits employees too opt out from the controversial parts of the coverage as sort of pointed out in the article).

He said: «A decade on from the passing of the controversial anti-smacking law in New Zealand, the law has maintained its very high level of opposition, but most significantly the law has had a «chilling» effect on parenting, and rather than tackling rotten parents who are abusing their children, it has targeted well - functioning parents».

In the late seventeenth and eighteenth century similar aspirations were felt from time to time, but the only conspicuous Anglican ascetic is the controversial theologian, spiritual guide, and mystical writer William Law, who would certainly have found his place as a monk, or perhaps a hermit, in other ages of the Church.

The FA had been carrying out an investigation eight controversial transfers that took place during Moody's time at the club and the law firm hired by the governing body, Mishcon de Reya, had secured a search order from the High Court to enter Moody's house in, seizing computers and phones.

Cuomo pushed the highly controversial law in the first days of the 2012 legislative session, enduring significant backlash from conservatives and gun rights advocates.

Billed as the «People's Presidential Debate,» the three candidates fielded a wide range of questions, ranging from the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline to the recent document dumps by WikiLeaks to staggering student debt and the nation's burdensome and discriminatory ballot access laws, among other topics, and did so without interrupting or insulting their opponents as had happened frequently during the recent Clinton - Trump debates.

The background to the new bill echoes the same clash of interests and climate of scandal that made New York's first cadaver law controversial in 1854, when medical professionals won despite vehement protests from representatives of working - class and immigrant New Yorkers.

CBS News» Paula Reid said the order, for the time being, effectively rescinds the Trump executive action, putting on hold the most controversial provisions of the law - including suspending entry of immigrants and nonimmigrants from the relevant counties; banning of refugees from certain countries; giving preference for some refugees based on religion; and banning of Syrian refugees.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is taking a beating from fellow Democrats and left - leaning entities like the Working Families Party for agreeing to suspend the creation of a database to be used for ammunition sale background checks — a provision of the controversial gun control law known as the SAFE Act.

The lawyer, who handled much of Glenwood's political work, said the company hoped to obstruct the passage of campaign finance reform laws, see the controversial 421a tax abatement renewed, obtain a favorable tax cap on revenue from apartment buildings and to prevent Democrats from taking control of the State Senate and giving control of the New York City rent laws from Albany to the City Council — which Mr. Dorego compared to «an atomic bomb.»

(CNN)- A controversial Indiana law that would keep low - income women from using federal Medicaid benefits to receive any kind of reproductive medical care from Planned Parenthood is unacceptable because it denies women the freedom to choose their health care providers, according to a federal hearing officer.

From that perch she ushered through some of the most significant, and controversial, legislation in decades, including President Obama's healthcare reform law, the Dodd - Frank Wall Street reform law and a climate change bill that Senate Democrats never took up.

Our investigations have found that the fine was issued to the DUP's controversial Brexit backers, the Constitutional Research Council, and that the only law it can have broken, given the size and nature of the fine, is of complying with rules requiring them to tell the Electoral Commission where their funding comes from.

Information reaching the desk of the Ghana Palaver from unimpeachable sources, indicate that controversial Finance Minister and cousin of President Akufo Addo, Ken Ofori Atta, has packaged a juicy contract and given it to a law firm founded by his equally controversial nephew, Asare Otchere Darko, popularly called Gabby.

City Councilman Rafael Espinal, who created the bill, said such a committee is needed to help update controversial laws, as well as to address quality of life concerns from communities where DIY establishments operate.

But Flanagan, who continues to be under fire from the right for voting «yes» on the controversial gun control law, is unlikely to approve funding any time soon — especially not with the special election for ex-Deputy Senate Majority Leader Tom Libous» seat this fall and the 2016 rematch for control of the majority looming.

Mr Lansley said measures such as increased taxation on alcohol negated the fundamental need to underline individual responsibility and claimed no discernable benefits had been derived from the controversial 24 - hour drinking laws.

Inserting himself into a polarizing dispute, Cuomo in December 1989 signed a controversial law allowing Staten Island residents to vote on secession from New York City.

Some Democrats cried foul when the meeting to make the appointment was called in less than 24 hours, on the same night that the New Paltz Town Board was holding its public hearing on the controversial wetlands and watercourses law, prohibiting several members of the committee from attending the meeting.

Revelations that Ulster County Executive Mike Hein received $ 11,500 in campaign donations over the last two years from the developers of the proposed Park Point student housing project in New Paltz, with an additional $ 5,000 in contributions from their Albany - based, county - connected law firm, have further roiled the muddy waters gurgling around this controversial project.

«We are proud to stand with Governor Cuomo today as he announced the suspension of New York's participation in Secure Communities, a controversial partnership between immigration officials and local law enforcement that has come under scrutiny at a national level for straying from its intended purpose of deporting dangerous criminal immigrants.

School personnel have been banned from discussing specific questions, however controversial, immediately after the exams were given, on grounds that would violate copyright laws.

The City of Saratoga Springs has updated its controversial «sit / lie» law that prevents individuals from obstructing a public sidewalk.

When Wu told an Albany radio host that upstate businesses suffered from too much «red tape,» including the state's controversial Scaffold Law, the labor - backed Working Families Party — which is backing Cuomo - Hochul, after a serious - looking flirtation with Teachout - Wu — responded by accusing him of starting down «a slippery slope that would set the labor community back decades.»

In a symbolic gesture aimed at further healing relations with the gay community and burying the Tories» «nasty party» image, Mr Cameron this week apologised for Section 28 - the controversial law brought in by the Conservatives in 1988 banning local authorities from portraying homosexuality in a positive light.

The controversial law passed in April raises the age of criminal responsibility from 16 to 18 years old.

The Association of Law Students on January 29, 2018, petitioned President Nana Akufo - Addo to cause the withdrawal of the controversial Legal Profession Regulations 2017 from Parliament.

The Association of Law Students has petitioned President Nana Akufo - Addo to cause the withdrawal of the controversial Legal Profession Regulations 2017 from Parliament.

Cattaraugus County has become the latest to distance itself from the state's controversial SAFE Act gun control law, seeking to block the state from using the county name and seal on paperwork related to the recertification of pistol permits called for by the law.

And, he adds, nothing makes the Massachusetts law especially controversial; indeed, it applies almost exclusively to those convicted of violent crimes, unlike a state like Virginia which draws and banks blood from every felon passing through its prison system.

In the US providing calorie information on menus has proved controversial, with constant delays and «push back» from food industry groups fearing the cost of implementing the laws.

The Dutch government must decide whether it will invoke export - control laws in a bid to prevent virologist Ron Fouchier from submitting a revised version of his controversial H5N1 paper to Science.

Many in the U.K. scientific community claim that fear of being sued under the country's permissive laws discourages scientists from tackling controversial issues.

A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that a Virginia high school discriminated against a transgender teen by forbidding him from using the boys» restroom — a case that might have implications for a controversial North Carolina law.

Set in 1949 Los Angeles, the picture, which claims to be «based on a true story» but turns out to be as authentic as The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, finds William Parker (Nick Nolte), the city's controversial chief of police (who didn't actually obtain the post until a year after the movie's setting, but never mind), deciding that the best way to stop gangster Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) from taking over the entire city is to organize an elite team to work outside the law in an attempt to bring him down.

At the same time, she shepherded the state education department through a host of major policy shifts, from lowering class sizes to implementing a new accountability system and a controversial bilingual education law.

According to a fairly controversial Supreme Court decision about a decade ago, the free exercise clause does not prohibit a state from applying religiously neutral and generally applicable laws to religious institutions or individuals.

Here's the audio from a Friday morning panel at Yale University on the parent trigger featuring Parent Trigger's Ben Austin and former state Senator Gloria Romero, who authored the controversial law, along with the Fordham Foundation's Adam Emerson and moderator Andy Rotherham.

State officials received a waiver from the federal government releasing Indiana from the controversial mechanisms of the No Child Left Behind law, replacing them with the A-F ratings.

Also before the Assembly panel is AB 47, which would make some basic changes to the state's Open Enrollment Act - a controversial law adopted last year that gives parents and students new rights to transfer from low - performing schools.

In Tennessee, one of StudentsFirst's goals is to provide a political firewall of support for legislators who have continued to back a controversial 2010 law that tied teachers» and administrators» evaluations to gains in student achievement, despite vehement criticism from some quarters.

And state - issued school grades come mainly from school FCAT scores — which don't recognize individual teachers» impact, said state Rep. Erik Fresen, the Miami Republican who helped pass the controversial law, known as SB 736.

Duncan is seeking public comments from state and local officials as well as other stakeholders about proposed changes - whether they are helpful in clarifying one of the most complex and controversial mandates in federal law.