Sentences with phrase «law than justice»

Not exact matches

Uber's loss follows an earlier one last year where the Luxembourg - based Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) classified the company as a transport service rather than a digital one, which stripped it of protections against undue national regulation that digital services enjoy under EU law.

Some 14 states have enacted more restrictive voting laws than they had in the 2012 presidential election, according to the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law.

People who are underage (under 18 for rifles and shotguns, and under 21 for other guns), someone convicted or indicted for a crime punishable by imprisonment of more than one year, fugitives from justice, the severely mentally ill, unlawful users of controlled substances, those convicted of domestic violence, and undocumented immigrants are among some of the categories of people barred from buying a firearm by federal law.

That was the whole point — that one could be driven to revolutionary action by standards of justice that are higher than the law, and against which the law is judged.

1) Men and nations are governed by moral laws; and those laws have their origin in a wisdom that is more than human — in divine justice.

Again, no one is claiming that Thomas's position is identical with Scalia's, but, given what the great Catholic theologian had to say about the limits of judicial authority in reference to the written law, his position is far closer to that of the late justice than to the idea of a «living» or «evolving» Constitution so ubiquitous today.

If justice is such a Jesusy thing, how come atheists live more law - abiding lives than Christians?

End Religion writer, Justice has not been done because he did not break any of their laws other than to be a different Religion than Iran.

The Muslim theocratic states, or the Communist states seem to have laws that better reflect God's «justice» than our secular laws.

To avoid what he so beautifully calls «a hostile polity contemptuous of truth, justice, law, and beauty,» Christians need to do more than draw empty distinctions to libertarianism.

That if it is adopted on apparently just grounds to overthrow tyranny, it must never be regarded as more than a preparatory step to positive structures of law and justice.

The moral law of Israel, as obedience to the will of the God who required of men justice, mercy, and faith, Jesus never set aside, though by his acts and his words he put deeper and wider content into these terms than any before him had done.

But I also believe that social justice is important given the systemic disadvantages in our country; heterosexual divorce is probably more detrimental than gay marriage; caring for the poor goes a long way toward reducing the «felt need» for abortion; and that setting Biblical morality up as civil law is probably not the way to go in a pluralistic society...

So I shall use the word «appraisal» in the remainder of this chapter, rather than the word «judgement»; the latter fails seriously, for us today at any rate, because it is so tied up with notions of law - courts, assizes, and the other paraphernalia of «justice» in the legal sense.

When we speak of «justifying,» showing the rightness or justice of a law, we speak about nothing less than establishing its moral ground.

Without de-emphasizing the crucial nature of the nation s laws in social - justice matters, we must recall that our theological heritage calls us to far more than the law can pursue.

The New Testament is in itself all that is necessary as a basis for Christian faith, but much light is thrown upon God's dealings with man in the story of Israel's halting and gradual discovery of the true nature of God as universal, not national; as law - abiding, not capricious; as a God of peace, not war; as a God of justice, love and mercy rather than of wrath, and vengeance.

Both sides think the other's appointed justices are misinterpreting the constitution and care more about advancing specific policy than rule of law.

This law, which has been rightly labeled a legal «revolution», by none other than Professor Itse Sagay, chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Anti-corruption, could not have come at a better time than now, when Nigerians are yearning for justice.

The criminal justice system must place higher priority on the rights of people who keep to the law than on those who break it, Tony Blair has insisted.

Comic writers, artists and publishers will be watching carefully to see the first prosecution under the law for signs of how strictly enforced it will be, rather than trusting Ministry of Justice assurance that it will only apply to paedophilic cartoons and animation.

Washington (CNN)- The Justice Department Friday announced that it is dispatching more than 780 federal observers and monitors to 23 states to watch for potential problems which would violate voting rights protected by federal law.

DEVELOPING: DOJ SENDS VOTING RIGHTS MONITORS, OBSERVERS TO 23 STATES... The Justice Department on Friday announced that it is dispatching more than 780 federal observers and monitors to 23 states to watch for potential problems that would violate voting rights protected by federal law.

The resolution is in response to the U.S. Department of Justice's request to a federal judge to order the state to move its congressional primary to no later than Aug. 18, in order to comply with a federal law requiring absentee ballots be sent to members of the military no less than 45 days prior to the Nov. 6, 2012 general election.

The U.S. Justice Department announced it filed a motion to join a lawsuit against the New York City Board of Elections, alleging that the board's Brooklyn office violated federal voter registration law by erasing more than 117,000 Brooklyn voters from the rolls before the primary election simply because they had not voted in previous elections.

«This new law will help us protect the civil rights of the more than one million New Yorkers with disabilities and special needs who for too long have not had the protections and justice they deserve.

The issue started with the U.S. Department of Justice's request to a federal judge to order the state to move its congressional primary to no later than Aug. 18, in order to comply with a federal law requiring absentee ballots be sent to members of the military no less than 45 days prior to the Nov. 6, 2012 general election.

CENTRAL HARLEM — After more than a decade of unsuccessful attempts by lawmakers and juvenile justice advocates, Gov. Andrew Cuomo officially signed a bill into law Monday that would prevent all 16 - and 17 - year - olds from automatically being charged as adults in New York, no matter the crime.

Among the proposals in her «Rent Justice for All» program are ending the preferential rent loophole, by which landlords can offer an apartment for less than the legal regulated rent but can revoke this privilege whenever the lease is renewed; expanding rent stabilization statewide to buildings with six or more units, which is currently the law in New York City; and increasing funding to the state's Homes and Community Renewal agency.

According to SERAP, «Rather than proposing amnesty for suspected looters of our commonwealth, the House of Representatives under your leadership should be promoting laws that would lead to the comprehensive and radical reform of the criminal justice system to ensure that those accused of grand corruption are not allowed to profit from their alleged crimes.»

Around five million Poles voted for his Law and Justice party, more than during its election victory two years ago.

In a sign, perhaps, of the Conservative party's shifting priorities, Gove's speech attracted more interest than the law and order session addressed by Theresa May, the home secretary, and Kenneth Clarke, the justice secretary (see 12.32 pm).

However, nowhere was this powerful belief in equality more clear than at Monday's «Equality and Justice Day» rally in Albany, where citizens from across our state came together and demanded equality under law in one unified voice.

BE THAT AS IT IS, NIGERIA AS CONSTITUTED BY THE BRITISH IS YOUNGER THAN THIS PRE-EXISTING POLITICAL ENTITIES BUT IT MUST BE NOTED THAT THEY CO-EXISTED, HOWEVER THE MERGER OF THE SOUTH AND THE NORTH AND THE EMERGENT NORTH - WEST, SOUTH - SOUTH, NORTH - EAST, SOUTH - EAST,, SOUTH - WEST, NORTH - CENTRAL STRUCTURE IS ONE THAT CAN ONLY THRIVE IN JUSTICE, THAT IS JUSTICE, RULE OF LAW AND FAIRNESS IS THE ONLY GLUE THAT CAN BIND THIS NATION TOGETHER OTHERWISE IT IS AN ENTITY BLOWING IN THE WIND

«This new law will help us protect the civil rights of the more than one million New Yorkers with disabilities and special needs who for too long have not had the protections and justice they deserve,» the governor said in a statement.

He added that the court had no option than to strike out the charge under the Administration of Criminal Justice Law.

«It's not clear why female scientists reported more stress than males,» said Thomas J. Holt, MSU professor of criminal justice, «though it may stem from differences in the experiences of female scientists who are not sworn law - enforcement officers working in a quasi-military structure where more males are sworn officers, particularly in supervisory roles.»

By the time I graduated from law school in 1975, I had three preschool - age kids and a husband, at a time when female lawyers comprised less than 3 percent of all lawyers and were generally unwelcome in law firms and the halls of justice.

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Amazingly, the Justice Department has taken an extremely narrow view of the antitrust laws, prosecuting the publishers resisting Amazon's pricing rather than the behemoth pressuring them.

In conformity with the theoretical conceptions of an accusatory rather than an inquisitional system of justice, our law provides in most jurisdictions that the police shall produce the arrested party for a preliminary hearing without unreasonable delay.

Only Justice has the resources and independence to apply the law — book publishers are more dependent on Amazon than ever.

The group just wrapped up a two - day symposium in Montreal at which more than 100 experts in international law explored ways to use legal tools, most of which are oriented toward doling out justice among those alive now, to avert what amount to crimes against the future.

Eric Steenstra, president of Vote Hemp, said Hemp History Week supporters plan more than 100 events focusing on local hemp farming history and the sampling of hemp products, hoping to generate 50,000 signed postcards to the Department of Justice asking to allow United States farmers to grow non-drug varieties of cannabis under existing state laws.

Opened in 1957, it was designed to be «more clinic, than court,» fostering a child - centred approach to youth justice that aims to address the underlying factors that lead young people to conflict with the law, including problems at home, poverty and under - housing, substance use and mental health issues.

Or is this the appropriate conclusion, the administration of justice is not brought into disrepute if the lives of judges when at work, are given greater protection by the rule of law, than are the lives of employees of the owners of scrap metal when at work?

Although the Court of Appeal shared the sympathies which Mr Justice McCombe had previously expressed for police officers «who have to confront day in and day out the realities of life rather than the black letter law which this court has to apply» (see Bonner v DPP [2004] EWHC 2415 (Admin), [2004] All ER (D) 74 (Oct)-RRB-, it recognised, as indeed it must, that if the law were to be changed, it was to be achieved by Parliament using the legislative process rather than by the courts according the statutory provision a «liberal» (or illiberal) interpretation.

U of O has, probably more so than other Ontario law schools, a social justice / access to justice bent and I have been critical of the CBA's recent Reaching Equal Justice Report mostly because it is unrealistic and provides little hope for justice / access to justice bent and I have been critical of the CBA's recent Reaching Equal Justice Report mostly because it is unrealistic and provides little hope for justice bent and I have been critical of the CBA's recent Reaching Equal Justice Report mostly because it is unrealistic and provides little hope for Justice Report mostly because it is unrealistic and provides little hope for change.

Could a law blogger «have any finer friend than Justice Antonin Scalia?»