Sentences with phrase «lack legal standing»

Even where individuals would wish to bargain for privacy, they may lack the legal standing to do so.

Children often lack legal standing, knowledge, financial resources and adequate legal representation.

Lynch also has railed against state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman because he said that widow Diane Piagentini lacks the legal standing to challenge the board's decision.

An attorney for the Assembly argued Schulz lacks the legal standing to proceed with his case.

The institute dropped the lawsuit after EPA attorneys argued that the group lacked legal standing to bring the litigation; the agency also pointed to a 1999 decision by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that concluded that receipt of grant money didn't mean that advisory committee members were «susceptible to improper influence.»

A Harris County judge ruled in August that the Houston Chronicle lacked legal standing to seek an order forcing the Houston Independent School District to turn over the records.

In their appeal to the Supreme Court, state officials did not stress the merits of the law but argued instead that the plaintiffs who challenged it lacked the legal standing to do so.

The U.S. Supreme Court has given the nation's public schools the green light to keep «under God» in the Pledge of Allegiance — at least for now — by holding that a California father lacked the legal standing to challenge a California school district's policy of leading children in the pledge.

The judge found that Alex Arreaza, the attorney representing wounded Stoneman Douglas victim Anthony Borges, lacks legal standing in the case to file any such petitions.

A U.S. District Court dismissed the lawsuit, saying the ranchers lacked legal standing to sue under the Endangered Species Act.

Not exact matches

One of them, involving the state of California, looks to have been a sound legal ruling: the Court dismissed the case for lack of standing of the plaintiffs.

Lack of legal knowledge and lack of confidence in standing up for oneself in coLack of legal knowledge and lack of confidence in standing up for oneself in colack of confidence in standing up for oneself in court.

Lively, with representation by Liberty Counsel (an evangelical legal organization), responded that in both the U.S. and Uganda he exercised constitutionally protected speech rights; that he opposes violence and neither committed nor plotted any; that Uganda did not in fact pass a proposed draconian anti-gay law, and that in any case Uganda's political institutions, instead of himself, are responsible for its political decisions; and that the court lacks jurisdiction and the plaintiffs lack standing.

In the last analysis, men stand before God not otherwise than the day laborers of the parable, with their utter lack of any legal claim (that was the rule in those days), men who must not make comparisons or find fault if others receive a better assignment of work and therefore a larger reward (Matt.

Laws making homosexuality punishable by jail time in Uganda, and lack of property rights for women in India and the Middle East contribute to the AIDS epidemic by leaving people vulnerable to the disease without the legal standing to seek help, said Joseph Deiss, president of the UN General Assembly at the ceremony.

Based on the above, we still insist that, «The Commission as constituted lacks both legal and moral standing to inquire into the «clashes» that happened between the Nigerian Army and members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria on 12th -14 th December, 2014 at Zaria for lack of fairness, independence and impartiality.

The Obama Administration opposed the suing states in this case largely on grounds that they lack standing, marking a rare instance in which the Administration finds itself at odds with environmentalists on a major legal issue.

Non-privileged applicants who seek to challenge a legislative act might still find themselves without effective legal redress if they lack standing before national courts (see however, paras. 105 - 124 of the Advocate General's Opinion on this matter).

The issue stands out for me as one requiring further consideration in that many individuals in the demographic of lawyers that I am most in contact with (solo, small and medium sized firms) consistently demonstrate either a lack of understanding, and / or a lack concern regarding the forces of competition that are changing the delivery of legal services in Canada.

Quebec civil procedure distinguishes between «declinatory exceptions», which are preliminary motions to stay or dismiss based on absence of personal or subject - matter jurisdiction (compétence)[Quebec Code of Civil Procedure, arts. 163 - 164] and «exceptions to dismiss» (moyens de non-recevabilité), which are motions to stay or dismiss on other grounds: (i) res judicata or lis pendens, (ii) lack of legal capacity to sue or be sued, (iii) plaintiff's lack of standing, and (iv) no reasonable cause of action [C.C.P., arts. 165 - 167].

Whilst Legal Aid is still available for mediation, for many other matters, it may not be applicable and whilst many of the referrals for family mediation Southampton might come from solicitors, if their numbers have also dwindled due to a lack of public funding, then it stands to reason that the number of clients they are able to refer for mediation would also drop significantly.