Sentences with phrase «illegal act which»

My question basically is: If a User does not sign a contract saying that they are held liable for any illegal act which they»cause the Service to commit», then who is held liable; who has to pay the fines?

I.P.C.C. WGI condemns the illegal act which led to private emails being posted on the Internet and firmly stands by the findings of the AR4 and by the community of researchers worldwide whose professional standards and careful scientific work over many years have provided the basis for these conclusions.

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«But if there was a situation in which employers decided to knowingly continue to hire someone illegally — for example, as an act of civil disobedience — then they could be prosecuted for a felony for harboring illegal workers.»

First on the plate is the DREAM Act, which offered a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants who arrived to the U.S. as minors.

Thiel, who also supports the idea of creating autonomous islands on which people could live and create their own laws, said he is in favor of a bi-partisan bill called the «Intimate Privacy Protection Act,» which would make it illegal to distribute explicit private images without a person's consent, and would involve criminal penalties for those who profit from doing so.

In 2006, the government enacted the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, which made any type of online gambling within the United States illegal.

Notably, Republicans also recommended Congress repeal the Logan Act, which makes it illegal for private citizens to conduct policy negotiations on behalf of the US and which several of Trump's associates, including Flynn, have been accused of violating.

«We have simply noted in conversation with Mr. de Voogd that without the registration required by the Money Laundering and Terrorism Prevention Act, offering financial service could be grounds for criminal proceedings for illegal economic activity, which is a standard practice for, say, pawnshops.

In 2012, Liberal leader Raj Sherman introduced the Tobacco Reduction (Protection of Children in Vehicles) Amendment Act, which would have made it illegal for adults to smoke tobacco in vehicles with children.

In 1986, a Democratic Congress passed and the Republican president signed into law the Immigration Reform and Control Act, which attempted to close the back door of illegal immigration by, among other measures, imposing sanctions on employers for hiring unauthorized aliens.

Legally, the county's moratorium may violate a federal law — the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act — which makes it illegal for local governments to place a «substantial burden» on houses of worship and their function.

It has indeed caused «severe embarrassment» to the nation, as he laments, for the Senate investigation has laid before the public the elements of a terrible irony: that acts which are illegal and unethical for citizens to engage in at home are condoned, even aggressively pursued, by American law - enforcement officers and secret agents both at home and abroad.

And among those many persons who have committed no illegal act of crime or of overt violence, there is a widespread self - centeredness and demand for the right to do what one pleases which results in the violence of serious hurt to others.

Unfortunately with these people, we also don't doubt that they act upon their primitive thoughts, which is illegal, immoral, etc..

The Usk River Authority, and others like it in England and Wales, was set up by the Water Resources Act of 1963, and there were plenty of acts before that which made it quite clear that pulling out salmon, except with fully licensed rod and line, was distinctly illegal; but Si √ ¥ n Jones and his friends justify themselves on the basis of somewhat earlier legislation, instituted in the 10th century by an independent Prince of Wales, Hywel Dda («Howell the Good»).

In 2008, U.S. legislators passed the Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act (GINA) which made it illegal for insurance companies and employers to discriminate based on genetic information.

A snare was also deliberately used to catch a pheasant, which is illegal under the Wildlife and Countryside Act (1981).

The Cuomo camp, which denies anyone connected to Schneiderman ever made such an ask, argues that even if the governor wanted to expand the power of the office he used to hold, he couldn't do so because acting unilaterally through executive order would be illegal.

«This legislation strengthens the penalties for the BDB Loophole, which is already an illegal act under New York State's election law,» Murphy said in a statement.

The act of casting millions of illegal votes, which is impossible, would amount to serious charges.

In public health and political terms, «drugs» usually refers to recreational drugs, specifically those which are illegal under the Misuse of Drugs Act.

The home secretary tried to argue that article eight of the Act, which guarantees the right to family life, was preventing the deportation of criminals and cited the example of an «illegal immigrant» who could not be deported because of his pet cat.

In the 1920s David Lloyd George was involved in a barely concealed «cash for patronage» scandal managed by Maundy Gregory, which resulted in the 1925 Act which barred this (purchase of peerages had not previously been illegal).

These illegal and violent acts which took place in a Rambo fashion taking many civil servants by surprise is generating fear and drawing unwanted international attention to the country with speed gaining notoriety and creating the impression that we are a nation of lawless people without any strong and responsible leadership.

The leader of the immigration revolt — on an amendment, remember, which even the home secretary Theresa May had said was illegal under the Human Rights Act and the European Convention on Human Rights — was Dominic Raab, a bright international lawyer who knew exactly what he was doing, and was one of the stars of the 2010 intake.

The two prosecutors, which included acting Manhattan U.S. Attorney Joon Kim, also denounced the de Blasio camp's behavior on behalf of his election campaign in 2013 and the state Senate race a year later as inappropriate if not illegal.

Today marks the second legal defeat for the pro-hunting group, which previously tried to argue the ban was illegal because it had been passed through the Parliament Act.

His donations were illegal under the terms of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendum Act which states that people must use their own names when giving more than # 5,000 to a political party.

In Cooper v. Harris, decided on May 22, 2017, the Supreme Court of the United States affirmed the judgment of the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, finding that two of North Carolina's congressional districts, the boundaries of which had been set following the 2010 United States Census, had been subject to an illegal racial gerrymander in violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

Tkaczyk is also criticized for supporting the Dream Act, which provides tuition assistance to undocumented immigrants, with a flier saying she «voted to use your tax dollars to give illegal immigrants free college tuition.»

Citizen Action was joined by union - backed groups like the Alliance for Quality Education and Strong Economy for All, as well as Make the Road New York, which has pushed for the Dream Act that would allow tuition assistance for illegal immigrants or their children.

During 2011, Lord Falconer assembled a Commission, which has now produced a report recommending a change in the law so that those who assist someone in the act of suicide will no longer be committing an illegal act.

Last year, they brought people in from all parts of the South - South geopolitical zone especially Delta State, to come and register as voters, which is an illegal act.

While addressing journalists, within the premises of Ado Ekiti branch of the Zenith bank, Fayose alleged the federal government through the EFCC of blocking his account which he described as an illegal act.

On Friday 28 May 2010, Woolas's Liberal Democrat opponent, Elwyn Watkins, issued an election petition against the result [40][41] under section 106 of the Representation of the People Act 1983, [42][43][44] which makes it illegal to make false statements of fact about a candidate.

Specifically, Lancman wants to tackle the issue of garbage - toting trains that lumber through western Queens, which are federally regulated, and would like to see a national DREAM Act, which would give illegal immigrants who were brought to America in their youth a path to citizenship.

Homosexual acts are already illegal in Uganda, but the bill which is before parliament proposes tougher sentences for people convicted.

Senate Republicans, while opposing the DREAM Act, which would allow taxpayer - funded state tuition assistance programs to be used on the colege kids of illegal immigrants, support the education tax credit that would provide a benefit for those who donate to private and public schools.

The research was carried out in the wake of the then home secretary's Immigration Act, which came with a pledge to make Britain a «hostile environment» for illegal immigrants.

«No person is illegal — thought has no borders,» said Barbara Bowen, who heads CUNY's Professional Staff Congress to which Rafiee belongs, describing Trump's order as a «dangerous, counterproductive [and] immoral» act.

In 1996, Congress passed the Child Pornography Prevention Act (CPPA), which made illegal «any visual depiction including any photograph, film, video, picture or computer - generated image that is, or appears to be, of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct.»

introduced the «Responsible Electronics Recycling Act,» which would have made such practices illegal.

The West Virginia Radio Astronomy Zoning Act (§ 37A -1-2 of the West Virginia Code) makes it illegal operate, or cause to be operated, any electrical equipment which causes harmful interference with the reception of radio waves.

«The BMA is opposed to the deliberate creation of genetically identical individuals and welcomed the passage of the Human Reproductive Cloning Act 2001, which made human reproductive cloning illegal.

Cannabis sales have been illegal since the 1970 Controlled Substances Act was passed, with the only exceptions being the products made from the «mature stalk» and «sterilized seed» of the hemp plant, which could still be sold since they contained little to no psychoactive components.

Superbly acted 1950s - set drama in which illegal abortions engender an unexpected kind of family tragedy — not quite Mike Leigh's best, but still quietly devastating.

* The 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act allowed illegal immigrants already living in the United States to apply for legal status if they met certain requirements, which resulted in a dramatic upswing in immigration figures in the late 1980s and 1990s, totaling about 2.7 million people over that period.

Section 504 is Section 504 the Rehabilitation Act and it was through a simple reauthorization of that piece of legislation that advocates were successful in putting in just one clause in that, in that law which was that basically that any entity that received federal funds that discriminated against people with disabilities, that that was illegal.

After all, on that basis, the federal Race to the Top program (which was originally funded as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act) would also be illegal; but it isn't because it actually complies with the original law itself.

One of the most serious is Section 110 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, which jeopardizes U.S. trade with Canada, its largest partner.