Sentences with phrase «give equal protection»

If the court strikes down DOMA, it will change the landscape for millions of gay couples, giving them equal protection under federal law.

Equality requires that this unique interest be given equal protection to that extended to non-Indigenous interests in land.

Where a conflict arises between Indigenous laws and customs and non-Indigenous laws a human rights approach requires that they be given equal protection.

Not exact matches

But some Koreans might give the impression that they should still enjoy special treatment and protections they no longer need, and that they see every negotiation as a choice between winning or losing, rather than win - win opportunities between long - term equal partners.

To hold that same - sex marriage is part of the fundamental right to marry, or necessary for giving LGBT people the equal protection of the laws, the Court implicitly made a number of other assumptions: that one - flesh union has no distinct value in itself, only the feelings fostered by any kind of consensual sex; that there is nothing special about knowing the love of the two people whose union gave you life, whose bodies gave you yours, so long as you have two sources of care and support; that what children need is parenting in some disembodied sense, and not mothering and fathering.

The Fourteenth Amendment accepts that argument and endows it with constitutional protection giving new meaning to the phrase that «all men are created equal.»

For the Max Planck PhDnet, an active network of Ph.D. candidates at the German Max Planck Society (MPG), a big victory came on 13 March: MPG finally decided to treat all of its Ph.D. candidates as employees, giving them equal professional status and full social security benefits and employment protections.

The study finds that across Europe children do not receive an equal level of protection from the adverse effects of online marketing, given that marketing to children is regulated in a slightly different manner between countries and because parents apply different models of oversight of their children's online activities.

Given the Constitution's protection of the right to vote, the equal protection clause also would support a federal right to an education that prepares students to be competent voters and civic participants — enabling them, for instance, to comprehend complex ballot initiatives and serve competently on a jury, as education law scholar and litigator Michael Rebell has contended.

Anti-bullying policies are frequently involved, with some arguing that to ensure equal protection, anti-bullying statutes must explicitly mention sexual orientation, while others argue that doing so gives gay students special protections.

He's an outspoken critic of pretty much any legislation or social movement that might give LGBT people equal protection under the law or say, a chance at life.

But there's no option for protection for an Android smartphone or tablet with this product, which makes Internet Security feel a bit outdated versus some of Bitdefender's other options that give mobile devices and computers equal protection.

The GDRs essay is «Greenhouse Development Rights: A Framework for Climate Protection that is «More Fair» than Equal per Capita Emissions Rights,» a focus that makes good sense given the state of the philosophical debate.

It continues a recent trend from the Court of Appeal in confirming that employment agreements can not be approached in the same manner as commercial agreements (given that employees typically lack equal bargaining power), and as such, require protection.

Giving providers assurance that guidelines can be used only in their favor may be an important step toward gaining their support; but allowing such one - sided use of evidence in a court of law raises disturbing questions of fairness and of validity under the U.S. Constitution's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments» due process and equal protection mandates, and under state constitutional principles as well.

Where the Minister certifies by notice, published in the Canada Gazette, that any country that is not a treaty country grants or has undertaken to grant, either by treaty, convention, agreement or law, to citizens of Canada, the benefit of copyright on substantially the same basis as to its own citizens or copyright protection substantially equal to that conferred by this Act, the country shall, for the purpose of the rights conferred by this Act, be treated as if it were a country to which this Act extends, and the Minister may give a certificate, notwithstanding that the remedies for enforcing the rights, or the restrictions on the importation of copies of works, under the law of such country, differ from those in this Act.

Harvey makes the point at K [277] that, although grounds were given for distinguishing the earlier decision «one is left with a strong impression that the limitation of retrospective access to pay protection policies owes as much to pragmatic considerations of practicability in the implementation of equal pay as to any clear issue of principle».

Here, contract compliance (once a particular bugbear of Mrs Thatcher's government) is not normally considered (if at all) in the context of wage protection, but instead in the context of the advancement of other social goals, in particular under equality / discrimination law, eg only giving contracts to firms who show that they are equal opportunities employers.

(1) With the intent to deprive any person or class of persons of the equal protection of the laws or of equal privileges and immunities under the laws or for the purpose of preventing the constituted authorities of this state or any subdivision thereof from, or hindering them in, giving or securing to all persons within this state the equal protection of the laws;

In contrast, savings - cum - protection insurance gives you a maturity benefit which is equal to the sum insured plus bonus additions.

This plan offers Tata AIA Life Insurance Accidental Death and Dismemberment (Long Scale)(ADDL) Rider which provides protection of your family by giving an amount equal to the rider sum assured in case of an accidental death.

From giving everyone more protection, to promoting a more equal privacy landscape, these changes will be good for the industry as a whole.

In July 2016, China started developing a law that would reportedly give bitcoin the status of a «civil rights object» equalling it to personal belongings, property, bank deposits and other objects of private property, and therefore, will provide owners of bitcoin legal protection in case of theft.

The extension of protection under the Award and the payment of equal wages was delayed by three years to «give the pastoralists an opportunity to consider the future of their Aboriginal employees and to make arrangements for their replacement by white labour if necessary».

Noting that the Commonwealth Senate on 31 August 1999 rejected one such regime, the Committee recommends that similarly close scrutiny continue to be given to any other proposed state and territory legislation to ensure that protection of the rights of Indigenous peoples will not be reduced further» Concluding Observations on Australia (24 March 2000, see United Nations document CERD / C / 304 / Add.101, para 8) See also Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission Native Title Report (2000), page 158

All human rights and fundamental freedoms are indivisible and inter dependent and that, in order to promote development, equal attention and urgent consideration should be given to the implementation, prom otion and protection of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights 2

In contrast, human rights give Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples a means for expressing their legitimate claims for equal access to goods and services, most importantly equal protections of the law — and a standard that government is required to measure up to.