Sentences with phrase «law precedent for them»

Assembly Democrats have the vast majority of the votes in a special session and there is case law precedent for them appointing replacements in statewide office vacancies.

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It's entirely possible that if the Vermont law is allowed to stand, the precedent it sets will help make it easier for other states to jump on the bandwagon.

But Kasich did sign into law a measure banning abortions after 20 weeks — another controversial regulation that could potentially brush up against previous court rulings, even though Kasich cited Supreme Court precedent for his veto of the «heartbeat» legislation.

Eight other states have gambling laws with similar language to New York's, so what happens in New York could set a precedent for legality elsewhere.

«I don't think there's any precedent in the law for a security to transform to be something else,» Gensler told an audience at the MIT Technology Review's Business of Blockchain Conference last week.

Experience, however, soon showed in what way they were to become the most dangerous; that the insufficiency of the means provided for their removal gave them a freehold and irresponsibility in office; that their decisions, seeming to concern individual suitors only, pass silent and unheeded by the public at large; that these decisions, nevertheless, become law by precedent, sapping, by little and little, the foundations of the consti.tution, and working its change by construction, before any one has perceived that that invisible and helpless worm has been busily employed in consuming its substance.

Catholic organizations have for decades fought to change federal and state laws that fail to protect «unborn persons,» and Catholic Health's lawyers in this case had the chance to set precedent bolstering anti-abortion legal arguments.

You cant run America like a business at a certain point «The Workers» have to mean more then the bottom line, or China will be the model of our future, a form of marshal law «Life Credits for eating well, working well, and precedent of making $ 2.00 per hour!

It would violate standards of international law and create a dangerous precedent for other nations (China, India, Pakistan, Russia) that will decide to engage in preemptive wars that they believe are justified.

In 1935, Jewish residents were no longer considered citizens, and thus gave the precedent for new laws to prevent any resistance.

If not for the attempted narrow ruling trying to limit this to «family owned» companies it would certainly set precedent for JW's employees denied blood tranfusions being paid for or Christian Scientists employees from paying for any health care at all and it's all based on theocratic laws.

But once the law - finding power passed to judges, who began to exercise it by rendering written opinions that remained available for all to read, precedent threatened to impose a straight - jacket on future legal development and to bar all future legal change.40

They recognized the necessity for making modifications in the law and they used tradition to provide precedents.

Competition policy (SME focus; need for equity; treat SMEs as «consumers» when dealing with larger businesses - extend unfair terms contracts to small business; need «legal precedents or statutory definitions» as part of unconscionable conduct framework); competition laws (focus on unfair terms and unconscionable behaviour; mention of MMP but not in context of s 46; access - call for broader access; price signalling (not clear)-RRB-; administration

If that law is overturned, it may set the precedent for other states to legalize betting in their own state — an appealing option to the many states running a budget deficit.

@DrunkCynic I'm mostly looking for a 101 - level primer on how it works in practice, not a law - review deep - dive into Federalism and history of legal precedents.

But this generated a substantial change; a precedent for the victory of the law of the community over the arbitrary exercise of power.

The judicial precedent for equal protection for federal laws is somewhat fuzzy as there is not equal protection clause specifically written as part of the fifth amendment, and the specific clause is only in reference to states in the fourteenth amendment.

From a later but still pre-Enlightenment era, the English common law notion of precedent, developed by such as Edward Coke (1552 — 1634), is a clear influence on self - conscious conservatism (Pocock 1989) http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/conservatism/ One could add Taoism (Lao Tzu) to the list above for similar reasons.

There is, however, precedent for the Assembly voting in statewide officials through an appointment, which has been upheld by case law.

Within EU law, there exists no precedent for what happens when a territory of an existing Member State becomes independent, and wishes to retain EU membership, and the treaties do not provide for such an event.

This means that they are only subject to personal liability for money damages in cases where the meaning of the law with respect to the situation in question is «clearly established» which usually means that it involves a legal issue that has been resolved in a binding case law precedent.

f) A Declaration that each of the Applicant's «right to vote and entitle [ment] to be registered as a voter for the purposes of public elections and referenda» in light of the Act 699 and said various laws and legal instruments is not subject to any condition precedent aside the article 42 age and sanity of mind criteria;

Leaving the county's top elected law enforcement position in a caretaker's hands for a long period of time sets a bad precedent, because it devalues the job and severs voters» ties to it.

In fact, this politics in place of law has gone on for so long, that the body of Federal case law is so convoluted and conflicting that now there there is precedent for nearly any outcome.

Your Excellency, I have not forgotten the bad precedent set by Ex President John Agyekum Kufour in nominating Hon J. H. Mensah, his brother - law, for appointment as «Senior Minister» which the then Parliament accepted.

Saying that there was no precedent for his statement, Wolffe said that his analysis reflects the approach of the supreme court in the Gina Miller case, and that he does not believe the bill breaches UK obligations under EU law.

There is precedent for that request, said elections attorney Brett Kappel of the Washington law firm Akerman.

However, at the 19 June hearing, the Court found a loophole in the law to enable Laura and Eunan to have the humanist ceremony they want, without reaching a final judgment in their case, or setting a precedent for other couples also seeking humanist marriages.

The CEO of Apple continues to argue that the FBI is seeking a «dangerous precedent» in getting help to unlock an iPhone for a law enforcement investigation.

@AndyT As you may be aware, for quite a lot of how the UK political system works, finding an authoritative reference can be difficult, since the constitution is formed from the body of laws and precedents which already exist.

On - topic questions included the timing of the effectiveness of the laws signed today and when ICE will close it's office on Rikers Island, how many people currently on Rikers Island will be covered by these laws, details of Carlos Rodriguez (who was held on Rikers Island for eight months on an ICE detainer) path to this country and his thoughts during his eight month detention, what Mayor de Blasio would like to see the federal government do about immigration and what he will do absent such action, what he would tell Republicans who think his approach is a dangerous precedent, de Blasio and Melissa Mark - Viverito's positions on municipal IDs and voting rights for non-citizens, the number of people arrested on misdemeanors and then subject to ICE detainers and whether persons arrested on felony charges must first go through the justice system before being subject to an ICE detainer.

Court expert and Albany Law School Professor Vince Bonventre says it's a unique opportunity for Cuomo, but perhaps sets a bad precedent.

When the agenda turned to a related matter — proposed amendments to the ethics law, for which the board scheduled a public hearing on August 13 — Wilber announced that town attorney Rod Futerfas, citing a judicial precedent, had suggested that the board could proceed under the so - called Rule of Necessity.

«The adoption of this law may set a dangerous precedent for patients looking to be treated with other unproven stem cell therapies in Europe and other countries,» remarked Hans Clevers, Professor of Molecular Genetics and President of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

«It is extraordinary how many patients describe themselves as collateral in the war against drugs,» where law enforcement concerns for potential abuse take precedent over the medical imperative to treat suffering, said author — journalist Melanie Thernstrom, who participated on the committee as a patient advocate.

Spain's move to approve the drug flouts the spirit of E.U. environmental law, Bowden says, and «sets a bad precedent for Africa and Asia where systems are less controlled.»

Although the review pointed to a possible need for radioactive licensing and disposal for certain materials, and it looked at other states with laws aimed at radioactive waste from drilling, the DEC said there is no precedent for examining how these radioactive materials might affect the environment when brought to the surface at the volumes and scale expected in New York.

«This definitely sets a very strong precedent for abortion rights advocates and will lead to courts striking down the sham laws that impose restrictions that go beyond what is needed to ensure patient safety, that are really aimed at closing down clinics and throwing obstacles in the way of women's access to abortion care.»

Although he would occasionally follow precedent instead of the original understanding of constitutional text, Scalia argued that, in general, originalism was the only principled way for judges to avoid enshrining their own policy preferences into the law.

The judge argued that the state law, «when measured against Supreme Court precedent... falls woefully short of constitutional requirements» in the restrictions it placed on access to abortion for pregnant girls under age 18.

States» rights take precedent over the oversight, accountability, and protections for historically - under - served students embedded in federal education law.

«It is important for the U.S. Supreme Court to take this case, as the Ninth Circuit opinion ignores 20 years of precedents on special education law and represents yet another example of a federal agency exceeding its authority over educational decision making,» NSBA Executive Director Thomas J. Gentzel said.

Contracts, precedents, school board policy, and state law place far too many restrictions on schools for them to be very creative, and teachers can get in a good deal of trouble if we challenge the wrong authority.

The point of the «Revolution» was to test out Schwarzenegger's daring new parent - empowerment laws, setting a precedent for unhappy parents — and the burgeoning charter - school business — across the state and nation.

But if the previous laws were ideal precedents in spirit for NCLB, they weren't adequate precedents in design.

Then some crazy - ass idiot over at Publishing Perspectives argues that the judge was a busybody for adjudicating based on law and legal precedent instead of storytelling logic:

After a precedent was set by the Supreme Court, federal law doesn't allow student loan debt to be discharged in bankruptcy, although other forms of outstanding debt such as credit cards have the potential for discharge in bankruptcy.

There is no law or legal precedent for the govt.

Individual cities in Ohio could just continue to fight their constituents and continue to waste tax dollars going to court defending their laws — making precedents for every single possible scenerio under the law.