Sentences with phrase «law is vague»

The law is vague about what a child's «best interests» are.

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But the lawsuit states that the law is vague and does not make it clear what activities fall under the scope of the restrictions.

Unfortunately, the details of the law are vague, and that has created loopholes for insurance companies to jump through.

Laws are vague on the subject, but some legal experts suggest treating the moon as just another frontier: The first to go to develop a financial stake in a patch of lunar land would be able to claim property rights.

However, in many states, charter school laws are vague on an authorizer's legal role in investigating or remedying special education complaints.

In most provinces and states, Realtors must disclose but some of the laws are vague and the buyer is not always protected.

Not exact matches

«Not just vague statements about zero tolerance but where there are procedures in place and training about the law and suggested strategies to bystanders about how to react.»

Particular laws can be vague or ambiguous.

He called parts of it «draconian» and said, «much of it is too vague to give bitcoin companies the certainty that they are indeed complying with the law.»

And sensitive information shouldn't be outsourced to cloud providers, because current laws and contracts are too vague and inconsistent.

Meanwhile, the rules are still so vague that there are many gray areas, and law enforcement still frequently targets cannabis companies.

«Antitrust is highly discretionary and the antitrust laws in the U.S. are rather vague and it really depends on who is doing the antitrust enforcement, and that is the big unknown as we go forward,» said Bloom.

When I first started my business, China was a messy labor landscape with laws that were vague and unclear.

While the existing intelligence charters are vague, it can hardly be argued that the officials who systematically broke the law did not know what they were doing.

«Law - abiding citizens, such as Christians, could be caught by the vague definitions of extremism that get bandied about when ministers are trying to talk tough.

Neuhaus argues that such poor drafting resulted from the bishops being in a media — inspired panic, he ignores the fact that the very definition he quotes refers to Canon 1395 — 2, which itself, like canon law generally, employs this kind of very vague language.

Reston's God, like the one Bellah described, is typical of the God of civil religion, is on the vague and austere side, «much more related to order, law, and right than to salvation and love.»

«the law's effectiveness is yet to be tested, in part because of protections it gives to «confidential communications,» as well as a vague definition of who should be considered a member of the clergy.

And the «vague» papal pronouncement that Mr. Lowell seems to doubt was ever made was, in fact, a major — some think historic — allocution, delivered in 1953 to an audience of Italian jurists, in which Pope Pius XII laid down the principle that «in the interest of a higher and broader good, it is justifiable not to impede error by state laws and coercive measures.»

Food and Drink - Fall 2011 -(Page 58) > p PRODUCERS food law The Laws of the Label If you can avoid making vague or misleading claims on food labels, you might be able to avoid a class - action lawsuit.

But the problem with strictly following (a) is that the laws are TERRIBLY TERRIBLY VAGUE, and, more generally, just TERRIBLY TERRIBLY WRITTEN.

While the study found that high schools in the state were meeting the law's minimum guidelines - likely left purposefully vague as a necessary legislative compromise for an unfunded mandate - Chrisman and her co-authors thus expressed the hope that further revisions of the law would beef up the educational requirements for athletes and parents.

As of Aug. 1, 2012, the Affordable Care Act is supposed to cover the cost of some breast pumps, but because the law's wording is vague, insurance policies differ in what's covered.

Support for campaign finance reform will be mentioned in the resolution along with better enforcement of campaign laws, but language is expected to be vague.

As for «political speech» that seems to be a big part of this entire mess — the laws seem vague enough as to what these groups can and can't do that I find it hard for anyone to properly enforce them regardless of particular political leanings.

Because FARA is a vague written law that can be used to target particular individuals / entities that the current US government does not like.

Recent guidance has prohibited the police from arresting under Section 5 of the Act when they are the individual being insulted, but campaigners say the vague wording of the law makes it open to abuse by other groups.

For example, China's Public Security Bureaus are granted such vague and wide - ranging powers to sentence individuals to re-education through labour that it is often difficult to make the case that an instance of detention was in clear violation of the law.

But aside from the pedestrian proposals on offer, there was the usual litany of vague, meaningless and misleading promises about future law.

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What is more unfortunate is seeing numerous people within Labour and on the left joining in, perceiving in some vague unspecified way that Laws» misguided attempts to protect his private life and Alexander's significantly less misguided decision to only pay the amount of tax he was legally obliged to were somehow the moral equivalent to the more eyewatering examples of house flipping that Labour ministers got up to in the last parliament.

The law in question is vague enough that opponents claim opposite citing same code, but it's down to interpretation, and legal opinion was that it was proper and legal.

State law has already prohibited coordination between independent expenditure committees and the candidates they support, but the definition of coordination has been somewhat vague.

Brian Sampson, executive director of Unshackle New York, agrees with Cuomo that the new Start - Up New York law is written without the vague loopholes that allowed Empire Zones to morph into something else.

He got a second chance because the «honest services» mail fraud law, under which he was convicted, was deemed overly vague and unconstitutional.

Cuomo kept the coalition's plans for overhauling the laws vague because there doesn't seem to be much of a plan right now.

The letter says that vague laws on the use of campaign money create a tremendous «potential for abuse,» and notes, «In hopes that this shortcoming will be addressed in the upcoming legislative session, I am forwarding a copy of this letter to Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader Dean G. Skelos, and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.»

During oral arguments, several justices questioned whether the federal anti-corruption law — also used in the Skelos case — was too vague and being interpreted too broadly.

Some lawyers argue that the Supreme Court's decision was a necessary clarification of a vague law, and one that will prevent prosecutors from overreaching.

Also, given the correct citations of portions of the USC, I suppose there must have been some lawyer involved somewhere, but I wonder if the designation of the class as aliens «from» as set of countries shows that any legal input was fairly low level and probably not from an immigration law specialist: it's terribly vague, and I doubt it was intentionally so.

Among his arguments to dismiss the case, Porter says that the criminal impersonation law is being applied to Conner in a way that is vague and overly broad.

Former Senate Leader Joseph Bruno, a Republican, was convicted on corruption charges in 2009 — only to see the conviction vacated after the Supreme Court deemed the law used to convict him too vague.

I have a vague conception of how cases get to the Supreme Court, but from my understanding a heavily conservative state, like North Dakota, could pass a law banning all abortion, and a case challenging the validity of this law would be raised, and appeals courts would send it before the SCOTUS, which would choose to take it and make a ruling.

New York State's campaign finance laws are weak and vague to begin with, but the lack of enforcement compounds the problem.

The law is not vague at all.

Law gives the U.S. government the power to control and regulate all navigable waters, but is vague on what other waterways the EPA is empowered to regulate.

Some U.S. officials are still attending COP23, but Michael Wara, director of the Climate and Energy Policy Program at Stanford University Law School, worries that without U.S. leadership, the Paris accord rules could end up vague.

If the 1996 law's language was vague, Congress made the message clear by cutting the CDC's budget by $ 2.6 million — exactly the same amount the agency had spent the previous year on gun violence research.

Scalia believed his job in education cases was to read and apply the text of the law, and not allow his personal views on education to come in through the backdoor via free - ranging interpretations of vague statutory and constitutional provisions.