Sentences with phrase «involve constitutional issues»

Our attorneys have litigated civil rights cases involving constitutional issues including cases dealing with:

Not exact matches

Two centuries of judicial interpretation of the United States Constitution have demonstrated that when the Supreme Court veers off course in a particular case or series of cases, continued constitutional litigation over the issue involved serves to correct their heading.

Setting aside the many, many issues involved in this Senate letter affair, it is interesting to see the complete focus in the larger media debate on American constitutional requirements for treaties, largely with complete disregard to international law.

I define «constitutional» issues as distinct from «distributional» ones, which involve reallocation of resources (and the regulation of behaviour).

Come learn about and discuss the rights we currently have, potential threats to those rights, popular issues motivating convention supporters, who is likely to serve as delegates to a NYS Constitutional Convention, and the groups involved in convention lobbying.

Many citizens simply do not have the time and capacity to get involved in debating constitutional issues.

«It seems increasingly likely that we are either faced with an intelligence service out of control, begging serious constitutional issues, or with ministers secretly agreeing to a policy involving British complicity with torture.

The attorney acknowledged, though, that this was a deeply personal decision, and that there are serious issues of civil liberties involved, and even some constitutional complaints.

Characterizing its practice as a «general practice for a specialized clientele,» the firm provides legal advice and expertise to handle any and all needs of a school district, including fair dismissal personnel issues, allegations of employment discrimination and EEOC complaints, other personnel disputes, student discipline issues, student tribunal hearings, civil rights claims, personal injury actions, federal and state constitutional claims and other litigation, special education and other legal issues involving disabled students, contracts, leases and other business needs, policy and rule development, construction disputes, bond and SPLOST issues and other financial matters.

Providing a general law practice for a specialized clientele, Harben, Hartley & Hawkins meets all of the legal needs of school districts including: fair dismissal personnel issues, allegations of employment discrimination and EEOC complaints, other personnel disputes, student discipline issues, student tribunal hearings, civil rights claims, personal injury actions, federal and state constitutional claims and other litigation, special education and other legal issues involving disabled students, contracts, leases and other business needs, policy and rule development, construction disputes, bond and SPLOST issues and other financial matters.

Finally, because the Utah constitutional provisions are in your packet of state constitutional provisions, this issue is just one of the state constitutional issues that involve parental choice programs.

During her time in judicial office Judge Macken presided over or was a member of the formation in many seminal cases involving a wide range of legal issue, at European and national level, including in the areas of the environment (waste, water, special areas of conservation), free movement, intellectual property, regulatory control, telecommunications, privacy and data protection, the European Arrest Warrant, and in a broad range of constitutional and EU Treaty matters.

The cases involved issues of criminal and constitutional law.

She has managed cases involving constitutional, novel and sensitive issues, particularly those related to harassment, human rights, school law and the Charter of Rights and Freedom.

Jim has represented numerous Connecticut public officials in litigation involving constitutional election and voting issues.

Mr. Wade has represented numerous public officials in Connecticut in litigation involving constitutional election and voting issues.

His experience includes handling business disputes, commercial leases, zoning, land use and administrative matters, title issues, constitutional and statutory property rights, contract disputes, appeals, tax deeds, and ad valorem tax disputes involving property assessments.

The matter involves a variety of complex legal issues (international public law, constitutional law, property law, obligation law, financial law, USSR law).

She also handled countless contested hearings involving constitutional, statutory, evidentiary and sentencing issues.

During her clerkship, she was extensively involved in issues surrounding local government, high - profile government litigation, Florida Constitutional law, and employment law.

The Canadian Constitution also explains how the Supreme Court of Canada works and describes the people and issues involved in leading constitutional cases.

Our attorneys are actively engaged in developing and navigating what are often diverse and complex areas of municipal law, ranging from day - to - day operational issues, such as compliance with the Open Meetings and Freedom of Information Acts, to complex development deals and litigation defense in lawsuits involving allegations of constitutional and employment law violations.

He has also acted in significant cases involving commercial disputes, constitutional issues, shareholder disputes, injunctions, and publication bans.

The more important issue addressed in this case was the economic imbalance between economic litigants involved in constitutional litigation against the state, an issue dealt with in Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium v. Canada (Commissioner of Customs and Revenue) and Carter v. Canada (Attorney General).

Looked at in aggregate terms, non-family civil proceedings are subject to an institutional squeeze — there is a constitutional imperative to try criminal cases within a reasonable time (the Askov issue) and a social imperative to move family law cases (particularly those involving children) through the system to trial with dispatch.

The Respondent argues that these broadened remedies involve penal consequences and alter the approach to the constitutional issue.

With regards to subject matter, the caseload in federal court will involve issues dealing with federal constitutional and statutory law.

This case involved the appeal of three non-Charter cases in Ontario where the Attorney General disputed the amicus curiae rates as determined by the court, raising constitutional issues about the relationship between the judiciary and the executive and legislative branches in our society.

The most challenging case I handled involved important constitutional issues.

This means effort and in - depth research of the law applicable in the case in hand, very frequently involving individual rights, EU Law and important constitutional issues.

Such may be the case where the matter involves a public body trying to elucidate the law or where a party has raised a constitutional issue or one otherwise of broader interest.

Over the past year I've written about the Emoluments Clause; the No Religious Tests clause; limits on presidential power as defined in the steel seizure case; the meaning of the oath of office; how the Appropriations Clause constrains lawsuit settlements involving the federal government; how and whether gerrymandering by race and for partisan advantage affects constitutional rights; judicial independence; the decline and fall of the Contracts Clause; the application of Obergefell to issues of public employees and birth certificates; Article V procedure for calling a new constitutional convention; and too many First, Second, Fourth, and Fifth Amendment controversies to list.

Federal courts are established under the Constitution to decide disputes involving federal laws and constitutional issues.