Sentences with phrase «granting legal protections»

Republican legislators are trying to break a political stalemate in Kansas over a bill granting legal protections to faith - based adoption agencies that won't place children in LGBT homes.

Kansas and Oklahoma lawmakers have passed legislation to grant legal protections to faith - based adoption agencies that won't place children in LGBT homes.

Oklahoma legislators have approved a measure to grant legal protections to faith - based adoption agencies that cite their religious beliefs for not placing children in LGBT homes and lawmakers in Kansas were close to passing a similar measure.

ESAs are not the only animals granted legal protection for emotional and psychological difficulties or disabilities.

Not exact matches

The order is likely to grant legal status to nearly half of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the U.S., giving many access for the first time to legitimate work visas, or protection from deportation.

I could just as well say «at heart, legal personhood just means that a corporation is granted unfair and unreasonable legal protections under the law in a court situation».

Should the fetus be granted legal status as a person and provided with protection?

Without it couples who merely live together are denied many legal benefits and protections granted to married couples.

Generally, legal protections are granted to disclosures made during sacramental confession.

And while she writes that, it's revolutionary to be «fighting for marriage to be about love and companionship — and not about a strictly gendered economic or social power construct,» she misses the point that same - sex couples already had love and companionship — what they wanted, and needed, were the legal and financial perks and protections marriage grants them.

Except for one thing: single people still don't have access to the legal benefits and protections the government grants to those who get married.

A commission that recommends burying the Children's Museum in a sacrosanct locale such as Grant Park won't blink at putting one more athletic field on Lincoln Park land that lacks the same special legal protections.

He will also work to pass the Reproductive Health Act, which will update state abortion laws to fall in line with the federal protections granted in Roe V. Wade ensuring that New Yorkers have access to safe and legal abortions.

But the Trump administration has been committed to reining in both legal and illegal immigration, most notably by ending protections for 800,000 young undocumented immigrants, known as Dreamers, beginning in March unless Congress grants them legal status before then.

You can't enforce a «law» granting trans people legal protections when there's NO OBJECTIVE WAY to determine who is trans i.e. has a «gender identity» the opposite of their anatomical sex?

«Partners unable to enter into a civil marriage, and their children, lack basic legal protections taken for granted by married couples.»

The idea is radical but simple: to include the nonhuman great apes within the community of equals by granting them the basic moral and legal protection that only human beings currently enjoy.

Chemically altered hormones were made because of a quirk in our legal system which grants patent protection for chemically altered versions of a natural substance.

All of these rely on the understanding that they'll be granted similar legal protections to creative works already in existence.

She focuses on the legal obligation of the state to grant each prisoner the right to DNA testing under the Innocence Protection Act of 2001.

The proposed legislation would underwrite extensive infrastructure projects, grant legal title for illegally deforested Amazon land, and scale back environmental protections for forest reserves on private land.

For libraries, and the people who use libraries, it is the exceptions and limitations to the legal protections granted to rightsholders that provide the basic mechanism for access to copyrighted content.

Moreover, the Directive's scope is limited to natural persons: the EU legislator does not seem to be willing to consider to grant protection to legal persons, regardless of the fact that they can be held criminally liable in most MS.. In sum, the real added value of the Directive will depend on its implementation in national law and the willingness of the national courts, as well as of the Court of Justice, to ensure that the Directive contributes to the enhancing of defence rights in the EU.

You are critical of the Parliament and Council for lacking «courage» and you suggest that the Directive should have been «more ambitious» and extended protection beyond the ECtHR, such as by extending the same fair trial guarantees to legal persons as are granted to natural persons.

115 (1) The issuance of a certificate of supplementary protection grants the certificate's holder and their legal representatives, during the certificate's term, the same rights, privileges and liberties that are granted by the patent set out in the certificate, but only with respect to the making, constructing, using and selling of any drug that contains the medicinal ingredient, or combination of medicinal ingredients, set out in the certificate, by itself or in addition to any other medicinal ingredient.

Austrian law provides that permits for advertising casinos located in other Member States can be granted only where the legal protection for gamblers in the casino's State «at least corresponds to» the protection provided in Austria.

For a flowchart depicting the stages, timelines and avenues by which a person can be granted or denied refugee protection under the RDP, see the Continuing Legal Education of Ontario, Refugee Rights in Ontario website at http://refugee.cleo.on.ca/en/refugee-claim-flowchart.

Despite the legal protections granted to Florida patients, medical malpractice is unfortunately as common in Tampa as it is throughout the country.

Despite these rules, the sense of the community of lawyers is that the protection granted by legal privilege in Italy is, as a matter of fact, low.

In response to this act, we saw the need to implement an Intellectual Property management system, which included the protection of a seal used by the artist as service mark to cover copyright management, preparation of structure of powers between legal heirs to grant copyright licenses of use, preparation of certificates of authenticity for genuine works and authorised copies, and a notice in social networks to inform public about such copyright management.

The Prince Edward Island Office of the Superintendent of Securities and the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) have announced that IIROC has been granted new legal powers to strengthen its discipline of wrongdoers — important steps in enhancing consumer protection in the province.

Legal protection for motorists that we take for granted in Canada may not exist elsewhere.

Granted, it will be much easier to find cheap car insurance if you only purchase the legal minimum of liability protection.

In the European Union, the looming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will grant EU citizens legal rights regarding their data when it comes to dealing with data - devouring companies like Facebook and Google.

A separate maintenance ruling grants the couple all of the legal protections associated with a divorce without actually ending the marriage.