Sentences with phrase «from imminent harm»

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For a court to grant an injunction — an order that prohibits someone from doing a specific action — there has to be imminent, irreparable harm.

(b) To take action that would prevent, or refrain from taking action that is likely to cause, current or imminent harm or prejudice to the arbitration proceedings themselves;

An interim measure is any temporary measure by which, at any time prior to the issuance of the award by which the dispute is finally decided, the arbitral tribunal orders a party, for example and without limitation, to: (a) maintain or restore the status quo pending determination of the dispute; (b) take action that would prevent, or refrain from taking action that is likely to cause, (i) current or imminent harm or (ii) prejudice to the arbitral process itself; (c) provide a means of preserving assets out of which a subsequent award may be satisfied; or (d) preserve evidence that may be relevant and material to the resolution of the dispute.

But, a paradigmatic example of protective custody outside the jail or prison context is the protective custody of an individual who is at imminent risk of being lynched despite the fact that authorities believe that the person is not guilty of a crime, in order to prevent that person from being harmed.

Moreover, given the severe and permanent nature of the harm that accrues from the destruction of sacred sites, it will be difficult for the government to justify such an infringement in the absence of an urgent, overriding public purpose (eg the construction of a fire break to prevent the imminent spread of a forest fire, where there is no possible alternate location).

The Supreme Court stated in its opinion that plaintiffs could not allege procedural violations, «divorced from any concrete harm,» which requires an injury to be «actual or imminent, not conjectural or hypothetical.»

This could include if the client consents to disclosure, or if there is reasonable suspicion of or risk of child abuse, where it is considered that disclosure is necessary to protect a child from the risk of harm, to prevent or lessen a serious or imminent risk to the life or health of a person, or of damage to property.