Sentences with phrase «from federal statutes»

While the need had been long recognized in Indiana, the impetus for this project came from federal statutes requiring guidelines to be in place no later than October 1, 1987.

However, although they comprise a relatively small subset of § 1983 cases, claims under § 1983 can, under certain circumstances, be based upon violations of federal rights derived from federal statutes, not from the U.S. Constitution.

Because of the shift in claims from these federal statutes to claims being made under the Missouri Human Rights Act, today, our attorneys are often asked to defend claims of discrimination and harassment under state discrimination statutes and do so on a regular basis.

There are other areas where New York law and courts differ from other states as well as from federal statutes.

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Even though we are likely a long way from comprehensive federal virtual currency legislation, it is promising for the virtual currency and blockchain community that legislators are signaling bi-partisan efforts to pass statutes to ensure that consumers obtain the full benefit of these innovations.

Also known as Obamacare, it's a federal statute signed into law in 2010 that seeks to expand Medicaid eligibility, establish health insurance exchanges, and prohibit insures from denying coverage due to pre-existing conditions.

Before joining DFAIT, he worked at the Department of Finance, including from 1983 - 1990 with the Financial Sector Policy Branch where he served as Project Director, Financial Institutions Reform Project, and chaired the Inter-Departmental Legislative Review Committee, which guided the development of the 1992 reforms that overhauled the federal financial institutions statutes (the Bank Act, the Insurance Companies Act, the Trust and Loan Companies Act and the Cooperative Credit Associations Act).

As a federal court stated in a 2011 decision upholding the foreign national prohibition statute and regulation — a decision affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court: «It is fundamental to the definition of our national political community that foreign citizens do not have a constitutional right to participate in, and thus may be excluded from, activities of democratic self - government.»

The 1993 federal statute states, «Government shall not substantially burden a person's exercise of religion even if the burden results from a rule of general applicability» without compelling government interest.

Constantly concerned about alienating the southern wing of the Democratic Party, the Kennedys sought to channel the movement away from attacks on state segregation statutes, which, they claimed, were local conflicts in which federal authorities were powerless to intervene, and into voter registration efforts in which the national state could be of assistance.

«The fresh pizza industry has fought for years for an exemption from statutes that require additional federal inspection of fresh meat pizzas if they are to be served in a school.

Specifically, these modern tribunes would be entitled to veto one piece of congressional legislation, one executive order and one Supreme Court decision; to call one national referendum, over any issue they wish (only two - thirds votes of both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives may render the statute unconstitutional); and to initiate impeachment proceedings against one Federal official from each of the three branches of government during their term of office.

New York's existing «sanctuary city» statutes forbids the NYPD and Department of Corrections from turning undocumented individuals in its custody over to federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement unless those persons have been found guilty of one of 170 violent felonies — including murder, rape, terrorism, assaulting a cop and physically or sexually abusing a child.

The California law, adopted first, faced two court challenges from SOCE practitioners on the grounds that it violated their free speech rights, but last August a federal appeals court upheld the statute, distinguishing between the rights practitioners enjoy to advocate for the practice in public debate and the limitations on the therapeutic practices they can employ in their professional conduct governed by state licensing.

The term «water law» in the Colorado River basin has come to refer to a monstrous volume of federal statutes and agreements, court precedents and state laws and regulations that can differ from place to place and have changed incrementally over the years but are structured by the interstate agreements to divide the river.

-- Make all serious domestic violence offenders surrender firearms The federal statute preventing domestic violence criminals from having guns has a big loophole: Guns often aren't taken away unless criminals voluntarily relinquish them to local law enforcement agencies.

The site covers requirements from such sources as major court decisions, state labor laws, federal anti-discrimination statutes, and the Children's Internet Protection Act.

[10] Yet three federal statutes prohibit the Education Department from making policy on curriculum.

Yet three federal statutes prohibit the Education Department from making policy on curriculum.

Like the federal statute, this state law also does not include a mechanism for parents to exempt their children from taking the state assessment.

There is nothing in the statute or federal regulations that addresses «absences from math instruction» or «only 30 days of school left» as a reason not to evaluate.

This order concerns violations by United Air Lines, Inc. («United») of the Federal statutes prohibiting U.S. and foreign air carriers from subjecting any air traveler to discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex or ancestry.

It directs Finnair to cease and desist from further violations of this statute and federal regulation and assesses the carrier a compromise civil penalty of $ 35,000.

By this order Frontier Airlines (Frontier) is directed to answer certain questions, provide information and / or produce documents that are necessary to enable the Department to determine whether Frontier on a particular occasion violated federal statutes prohibiting air carriers from discriminating against passengers based on their race, color, national origin, religion, sex, or ancestry.

by reviewing discrimination complaints, reports, and other relevant information collected or prepared by the Federal Transit Administration or recipients of assistance from the Federal Transit Administration pursuant to any applicable civil rights statute, regulation, or other requirement; and

The Sky Blue team then dissects what can and can not be disputed within each credit report based on the statute of limitations and other legal criteria, some of which is federal and some of which varies from state to state.

Bankruptcy exemptions are legal statutes, either state or federal, which will protect a certain portion of your assets from unsecured creditors when you file for bankruptcy protection.

A form of business organization created under provincial or federal statutes which has a legal identity separate from its owners.

You will not, and will not allow or authorize others to, use the Services or the Sites to take any actions that: (i) infringe on any third party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy; (ii) violate any applicable law, statute, ordinance or regulation (including those regarding export control); (iii) are defamatory, trade libelous, threatening, harassing, invasive of privacy, stalking, harassment, abusive, tortuous, hateful, discriminatory based on race, ethnicity, gender, sex or disability, pornographic or obscene; (iv) interfere with or disrupt any services or equipment with the intent of causing an excessive or disproportionate load on the Animal League or its licensors or suppliers» infrastructure; (v) involve knowingly distributing viruses, Trojan horses, worms, or other similar harmful or deleterious programming routines; (vi) involve the preparation and / or distribution of «junk mail», «spam», «chain letters», «pyramid schemes» or other deceptive online marketing practices or any unsolicited bulk email or unsolicited commercial email or otherwise in a manner that violate the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act (CAN - SPAM Act of 2003); (vii) would encourage conduct that could constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any applicable local, state, federal or international laws, rules or regulations; (viii) involve the unauthorized entry to any machine accessible via the Services or interfere with the Sites or any servers or networks connected to the Sites or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Sites, or attempt to breach the security of or disrupt Internet communications on the Sites (including without limitation accessing data to which you are not the intended recipient or logging into a server or account for which you are not expressly authorized); (ix) impersonate any person or entity, including, without limitation, one of the Animal League's or other's officers or employees, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity; (x) forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any information transmitted through the Sites; (xi) collect or store personal data about other Animal League members, Site users or attempt to gain access to other Animal League members information, or otherwise mine information about Animal League members, Site users, or the Sites; (xii) execute any form of network monitoring or run a network analyzer or packet sniffer or other technology to intercept, decode, mine or display any packets used to communicate between the Sites» servers or any data not intended for you; (xiii) attempt to circumvent authentication or security of any content, host, network or account («cracking») on or from the Sites; or (xiv) are contrary to the Animal League's public image, goodwill, reputation or mission or otherwise not in furtherance of the Animal Leagues stated purposes.

The 2003 change in administrative statutes established the Prado as an autonomous entity, still funded by the federal government but freed from direct supervision.

«We can not conduct a criminal investigation unless there is a clear allegation that a federal criminal statute has been violated,» Ross Rice, an FBI agent and spokesman from the Chicago field office, said via email.

Tragically, fracking is not regulated by federal statutes governing water safety, because industry lobbyists obtained an exemption from this law, known as the «Halliburton loophole.»

Primary law from all U.S. states and territories, including all federal and state case law available on traditional LexisNexis, all LexisNexis headnotes and case summaries, and all available statutes and constitutions.

A federal judge in Georgia has ordered Public Resource to remove Georgia's official statutes from its website, finding that the state of Georgia holds a valid copyright in them and that Public Resource's publication was not fair use.

Even though the site is focused on New York, its users can research cases from any federal court or state appellate court and statutes from every state.

In her 30 + years in practice, she has handled just about every kind of lawsuit you can think of — from shareholder derivative suits to medical device litigation, from disputes about insurance (life, title, commercial general liability) to claims based on federal statutes (RICO, TCPA, ERISA).

The federal government increasingly has used the False Claims Act to enforce compliance with a variety of federal statutes and regulations against companies that either contract with or receive funding from the federal government.

Class v. United States, No. 16 - 424, holding that a guilty plea, alone, does not bar a federal criminal defendant from challenging the constitutionality of the statute of conviction.

We advise business clients and insurers on pollution and other environmental claims, and have extensive experience litigating claims under federal and state statutes in clean - up cases, either defending against liability and allocation among defendants, or seeking reimbursement for recovery costs from responsible parties.

Katz had been convicted on a multiple count Indictment of transmitting illegal gambling wagers by telephone from Los Angeles to Miami and Boston in violation of a federal statute.

* Reporting obligations may come from federal law, especially where there is no provincial private - sector privacy statute.

Fastcase for iPhone is a mobile law library that allows its users to search cases and statutes from all fifty states, federal government included.

As we'd expect from the above, when States enact alienage statutes, they're subject to strict scrutiny, and when those statues cross the line, the courts have found that State attempts to restrict resident or non-resident aliens encroach upon the federal government's exclusive control over entrance of aliens.

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to decide the constitutionality of a federal statute banning states from authorizing sports betting.

For example, the digital versions of federal statutes available from Justice Canada are «official», and they exist in forms and with rights extended to all and sundry that permit reuse and republication without royalty or permission.

One of the things I omitted from those lists were the approximately one zillion things out there where someone has simply hoovered up the whole of the California statutes or the federal codes of regulation or some such — all of which are free — and turned around and repackaged it as a $ 2.99 app.

I'm watching three: Ashcroft v. Raich, Pasquantino v. United States (does the federal wire fraud statute criminalize evading Canadian taxes) and Small v. United States (does the felon - in - possession statute prevent someone convicted in a foreign court from possessing a firearm in the United States).

By way of an example from the political arena, in the same paper in which the argument for a Charter challenge was laid out, my co-author and I included a draft federal statute.

The federal bribery statute bars agents of federally funded entities from taking anything of value for influence «in connection with any business, transaction, or series of transactions... involving any thing of value of $ 5,000 or more.»