Sentences with phrase «in eyes of the law»

While telework and other arrangements focus on the work employees accomplish rather than the time they put in, the new overtime rules make time a lot more important in the eyes of the law.

Chin said the company is able to broadcast things like the Super Bowl live to tens of thousands of subscribers because each subscriber has an individual antenna and a unique copy of the broadcast, thus enabling it to be considered by some in the eyes of the law as a private performance rather than a public one.

In the eyes of the law, by the very nature of entering into business with another party, you may be considered a partnership — whether you have a written agreement or not.

For now, the SEC has left the door open somewhat by not opting for something hyper - aggressive and tantamount to a blanket ban, which leaves some room for plausible deniability among SV bigwigs and others when this bubble pops and the SHTF (if not in the eyes of the law, then at least for the sake of face - saving in two years» time).

And because credit - card rewards aren't seen as currency in the eyes of the law, they're often glanced over by judges and lawyers during divorce negotiations.

When you go this route, your business entity is basically treated the same as your own person in the eyes of the law, financiers and the companies and people you do business with.

When two people live in a committed relationship for decades and some hospital functionary bars one from visiting the other in the hospital because they can't marry and hence are technically unrelated in the eyes of the law, that is a civil rights issue.

At one time, in the eyes of the Law, escaped slaves living in the North could be arrested and dragged back to slavery in South.

In the eyes of the law, abortion is not murder.

Oh, but they are people in the eyes of the law; but people who can not easily die or be imprisoned.

We need to allow any two people to come together in marriage in the eyes of the law.

The problem is that a civil union in the eyes of the law does not bring the same legal benefits.

Justice Kennedy concluded his majority opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges with this summary: Gay couples «ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law.

If the master has not broken the law HE REMAINS BLAMELESS IN THE EYES OF THE LAW.

If this inward experience is deep and genuine, his life is marked outwardly by an unselfish concern for others and desire to help them in any way that is possible, by courage in making hard moral decisions, by an integrity which goes much deeper than conventional honesty in the eyes of the law.

You or anyone else can blame the master for his actions, but in the eyes of the law he is blameless.

They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law.

First, in the eyes of the law, Hardy is innocent — period.

The Lib Dems also undertake to place on homophobic chanting on an equal par with racist chanting in the eyes of the law, which makes sense.

It actually does matter... in the eyes of the law.

It allows gay and lesbian couples to enjoy the same rights as straight couples in the eyes of the law.

If they ask you to leave, let them know that you will report them and reiterate that they are completely in the wrong here, in the eyes of the law (and likely, their employer's policies).

We're talking about my very existence as a full - fledged human being in the eyes of the law of the State of New York... and the laws of the United States of America.

He stated categorically that, the decision to arrest and detain Koku Anyidoho's for two days was not right in the eyes of the law.

Electoral Act concerning the organization of party primaries, it was not even deemed to have participated in the April 11th 2015 governorship election in Taraba State in the eyes of the law.

There's a line between highly - compensated labor and a sham consulting agreement, though exactly where it exists in the eyes of the law as opposed to the public was complicated by the exoneration of former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno earlier this year.

Since the elections of the governors were nullified, he argued, they never existed in the eyes of the law.

«There can't be a vacuum and as servants of the law, we must be seen at all times to be people who are duty bound to uphold the law and to do the right things at all times in the eyes of the law.»

«So, once Fayose can prove that he was illegally removed and that illegality has been confirmed by a court of law, it means that in the eyes of the law, he was still a governor but was prevented from acting during the impeachment.

He said, «The National Caretaker Committee led by Makarfi has appealed the judgment of February 17, 2017 at the Supreme Court and in the eyes of the law, until the appeal is set aside by the Supreme Court, the National Caretaker Committee remains in charge of the affairs of the PDP.

It was the most logical and legal conclusion the Court of Appeal should have reached to save dwindling public funds to be used again to conduct another election, having nullified the election of Ekwunife on the grounds of non-qualification which means, in the eyes of the law, the PDP candidate was never a candidate.

In the eyes of the law, Peter Nielsen is presumed innocent till proven guilty after an adversarial trial process.

«And while appearances don't matter in the eyes of the law, they certainly do in politics and campaigns.

He said, «The National Caretaker Committee led by Makarfi has appealed the Judgment of the February 17, 2017 at the Supreme Court and in the eyes of the law, until the Appeal is set aside by the Supreme Court, the National Caretaker Committee remains in charge of the affairs of the PDP.

«While appearances don't matter in the eyes of the law, they certainly do in politics and campaigns,» she said.

In the eyes of the law, he says, driving is a privilege, not a right.

Those two things are nowhere to be found in Ted 2, despite the oddly topical storyline centered around the concept of Ted (MacFarlane) and John (Wahlberg) fighting for the bear's civil rights when it turns out that he somehow slipped by the legal system all these years and is now suddenly deemed property in the eyes of the law, as opposed to a human being.

He lived a free and contented life with a small carbon footprint and because he had squatted there for so long, he eventually inherited the chance to call his little patch of land his own in the eyes of the law.

Monday on FRESH AIR, should corporations be regarded as people in the eyes of the law?

When their peaceful protest actions fail to achieve real progress, the women become radicalized, turning to vandalism and violence in a desperate attempt to be recognized as equals in the eyes of the law.

The two pretend to be domestic partners, which in the eyes of the laws of the Stae, is as binding as a marriage for these purposes.

Through two seminal victories, the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the civil - rights movement had won equality in the eyes of the law, but the economic and social legacies of centuries of slavery and racial discrimination remained.

Hanging in chains was a very different sort of post-mortem punishment from anatomical dissection, although the two were equal alternatives in the eyes of the law.

And because credit - card rewards aren't seen as currency in the eyes of the law, they're often glanced over by judges and lawyers during divorce negotiations.

I'm not ignoring that our expenses / income in the eyes of the law are separate, however, they truly are not and we don't perceive them to be separate in any way.

They are also correctly set up to ensure the best representation, in sharp contrast to companies, which are not always legitimate in the eyes of the law - so they are closed down.

Ted Michalos: Certainly they do, a payday loan is like any other debt in the eyes of the law.

Let's say buy and hold is taxed at 25 %, and trading is taxed at 50 % (because trading is often seen as «business income» in the eyes of the law).

Therefore, there isn't anyone to report this to as it doesn't sound like the company is doing anything wrong in the eyes of the law.

You see, if pets are treated more like people than property in the eyes of the law, the legality of selling pets and pet ownership come into question.