Sentences with phrase «law the position of»

There is therefore a tension between AA 1955, which clearly enshrines in law the position of the CO to deal summarily with offences, and the ECtHR which considers the CO to be an inappropriate judicial arbiter.

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That result might seem surprising given the recent headlines declaring the demise of Canadian law firms (not to mention the hordes of law grads struggling to find articling positions), but lawyers are big earners, and over the past five years their numbers have swollen by 10,000.

The Department of Education has seen the surge in waiver applications because its Office for Civil Rights has «exceeded its legal authority» by taking the position since 2013 that the federal law that prohibits sex discrimination applies to transgender students, Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Gregory Baylor said.

That database, obtained from Panama City law firm Mossack Fonseca and made public by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, showed Amin and Mansoor Lalji have an ownership position in the J.W. Marriott Las Vegas Resort and Rampart Casino, and brother Shiraz Lalji has connections to Oakdene Finance Ltd., a holding company based in the British Virgin Islands.

Robbins Geller pressed forward and on March 9, the DOJ issued a more complete document, requesting «to resolve the lawsuit in a piecemeal fashion» which would allow the SEC «to draw out the litigation for many months, if not longer,» Law 360 reported.The article quoted University of Denver law professor Margaret Kwoka saying that «the SEC's position «is outrageoLaw 360 reported.The article quoted University of Denver law professor Margaret Kwoka saying that «the SEC's position «is outrageolaw professor Margaret Kwoka saying that «the SEC's position «is outrageous.

«Chief Justice Roberts could have serious misgivings about the unprecedented implications that Hobby Lobby's position could have in upturning centuries of corporate law practice,» Elizabeth Wydra, chief counsel Constitutional Accountability Center says.

«The official position of so many jurisdictions now is that they want less solitary,» said Judith Resnik, the Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School and a co-author of the report.

The Healthcare Reform Law, including The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and The Healthcare and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, could have a material adverse effect on Humana's results of operations, including restricting revenue, enrollment and premium growth in certain products and market segments, restricting the company's ability to expand into new markets, increasing the company's medical and operating costs by, among other things, requiring a minimum benefit ratio on insured products, lowering the company's Medicare payment rates and increasing the company's expenses associated with a non-deductible health insurance industry fee and other assessments; the company's financial position, including the company's ability to maintain the value of its goodwill; and the company's cash flows.

Thiel had then passively boarded a conveyor belt that would carry him from college to Stanford Law School, and thence to a position as a young transactional lawyer at New York's Sullivan & Cromwell, a position near the pinnacle of that profession.

«The welfare ministry is in a difficult position — it will not and can not say, «public pensions are in trouble and you won't be receiving much,»» said Hideyuki Morito, a member of a government panel on pensions and professor of law at Keio University.

The concerns include the exploitation of interns and firms calling work positions «internships» as a way of circumventing minimum wage laws.

The number of graduating law students has increasingly outstripped available articling positions in recent years, and the breakup of prominent Bay Street firm Heenan Blaikie has insiders wondering which will be the next big firm to fall.

The department also changed its position in a critical voting rights case in Texas, abandoning its yearslong opposition to a critical aspect of the state's voter ID law.

This statement is not, and should not be taken as, a definitive discussion of applicable law, all the relevant risks with respect to these products, or a statement of my position on any particular product.

Beyond the battle over at least the temporary future of the CFPB lies a legal question: Which federal law decides who will lead the CFPB — the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, which gives the president the ability to fill many open positions in the executive branch, or the Dodd - Frank financial reform that created the bureau in the first place?

Drawing from our knowledge of debt restructuring, bankruptcy, public finance, municipal law and governance, labor law, employee benefits, tax, litigation, government contracts and more, our attorneys are adept at positioning municipalities for long - term success.

Due to our investment in North American Rescue, LLC, a leading supplier of mission - critical tactical medical products to the military and law enforcement, and our relationship with Renaissance Strategic Advisors, one of the most influential defense consultancies, we are well positioned to identify, win and manage opportunities in this sector.

The Company's issuance of shares of common stock, including the additional shares that will be authorized if the proposal is adopted, may dilute the equity ownership position of current holders of common stock and may be made without stockholder approval, unless otherwise required by applicable laws or NYSE regulations.

Because of an editing error, an earlier version of this article misstated the position of Matthew J. Gehringer at the law firm Perkins Coie.

He said Washington was in the «paradoxical position» of criticizing the new Chinese law while opposing deals like MoneyGram because of national security concerns.

Since 2004, he has held the position of Deputy Law Clerk and Parliamentary Counsel in the House of Commons.

(The American Illness: Essays on the Rule of Law) It focuses on the impact the corporate governance regulation has had on the global competitive position of U.S. capital markets.

-- Al Ries, author of several best - selling marketing books including Positioning, The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing, and The Fall of Advertising and the Rise of PR

What's more, they increasingly put social media companies in a position that traditional news companies have long resisted — becoming an arm of law enforcement in criminal investigations.

In Los Angeles, that kind of space has been specifically positioned for more creative firms, rather than those in fields like insurance, law and finance, according to John D. Zanetos, senior vice president for brokerage services at the commercial real estate services firm CBRE in Los Angeles.

And according to an article in the Journal of Conflict and Security Law by David Fidler, a professor of law at Indiana University, the current international law is «not well positioned to support responses to terrorist cyberattacks,» and there are no «strong incentives» for states to develop international law against this threat due to the relative dearth of these occurrencLaw by David Fidler, a professor of law at Indiana University, the current international law is «not well positioned to support responses to terrorist cyberattacks,» and there are no «strong incentives» for states to develop international law against this threat due to the relative dearth of these occurrenclaw at Indiana University, the current international law is «not well positioned to support responses to terrorist cyberattacks,» and there are no «strong incentives» for states to develop international law against this threat due to the relative dearth of these occurrenclaw is «not well positioned to support responses to terrorist cyberattacks,» and there are no «strong incentives» for states to develop international law against this threat due to the relative dearth of these occurrenclaw against this threat due to the relative dearth of these occurrences.

So far, both the RCMP and the Public Prosecution Service of Canada have maintained that these agreements are not available under current Canadian law, a position Mr. Barutciski dismisses.

«Each period, whether a day, a month, a year or longer, represents an infinite number of possible learning opportunities, revealing more and more about correlations, hedging, law, regulation, culture, sizing positions, trading versus holding, activism, bankruptcy law and practice, government action and political impacts on investing, organizational realities and growth, as well as the kind of personal characteristics that are required to do this job well.»

While the law does not require that companies provide retirement plans, health plans, dental or vision plans, life insurance plans, or paid vacation time, many firms still provide these benefits and many candidates have come to expect at least some of these benefits, especially as they progress to the higher management positions,» said Andrew Challenger, vice president of global outplacement and executive coaching firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc..

There is much that could be said about this, but I will stick with one thing, based on discussion at about the 2 minute mark: When atheists insist that atheism does not drive behavior, and then then campaign on behalf of atheism, ridicule religion and religious believers in the name of atheism, seek to change laws in favor of their atheistic positions, recommend the extermination of religion, and practice falsehoods like Dawkins's in support of atheism, they prove that their atheism drives their behavior and that their premise is false, disingenuous, and (as far as I can tell) useless for anything but giving atheism rhetorical cover from being implicated in atheists» atrocities.

Law professors write solely for other academics, but since their underlying religious / ideological / political positions are relatively conventional, they can also reassure their co «ideologues outside of the academy that someone really smart who speaks the language of modern moral / legal theory is on their side.

I swear, if I had a law degree, I would run for this position to keep taliban Roy out of it.

Laycock's hypothesis ripened into full - blown suspicion by June 2000 when Justice Stevens took the position that the free speech rights of the Boy Scouts were not violated by a state law requiring them to employ an avowed homosexual as an assistant scoutmaster.

NAMBLA takes the position that the Greek erotic ideal is the adolescent or young adult, that sex between the young male and his mentor is a thing of beauty and spiritual exaltation that ought not to be prohibited by law.

A question, as i am curious... Should the «laws» change in relationship to the issue of gay's being allowed marriage, and full equal rights, would you and the Mormon Church come out and «change it's position and say, we are following our government and it's laws which say it (gay marriage) is o.k..

However attentive [Scalia's] theory is to a reasonable, contextual construal of the written law, his position, nevertheless, is rather clearly an expression of legal positivism.

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 abortion and related life issues are in fact the great civil - rights issues of our time» in that they test whether the state may arbitrarily deny the protection of the law to certain members of the human community» then Griswold eventually led to a situation in which the Democratic and Republican positions on civil rights flipped, with members of today's Democratic party playing the role that its Southern intransigents played during the glory days of the American civil - rights movement.

Thy have found that it is possible to show compassion in recognizing the human aspect of homosexuality and to support laws against discrimination without compromising their theological position.

«If enforced, the law will place Alabama church members in the untenable position of verifying individuals» immigration documentation before being able to follow God's word to «love thy neighbor as thyself,»» the lawsuit states.

If laws permitting euthanasia were to be introduced, or a legal definition of death made law that contradicted the Catholic position and understanding, then organs could be taken even prior to death.

Considering the history of conflicts between Church and State, it would seem more prudent for Christians, Jews, and others of good will to take the position that the death penalty is justified as long as it is carried out by a lawful sovereign, not inflicted in a cruel and unusual manner, and imposed only on those convicted of heinous crimes by due process of law.

The chief of the religious department occupied an important position as the guardian of Islamic law.

I recall that the Galatian believers took the same position as yourself... although they were focused on only one aspect of the Law, Paul then corrected them that they had become obligated to keep the whole Law.

At this point those accustomed to Bultmann's earlier distinction of Jesus from Paul in terms of law and gospel,» and his subsequent classification of Jesus within Judaism2 as only a presupposition of New Testament theology, would expect him simply to repeat that position.

I think the church, from a position of strength, conceded far too much by supporting the legislature's use of dubious psychological concepts such as «gender identity» and «sexual orientation» in state anti-discrimination law.

The majority opinion, issued by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, said that Hastings College of the Law's «all comers» policy, which required all groups to open all positions to all students, «is a reasonable, viewpoint - neutral condition on access to the student - organization forum.»

In a 5 - 4 decision this morning, the Supreme Court said that a California law school can require a Christian group to open its leadership positions to all students, including those who disagree with the group's statement of faith.

Martha Nussbaum received her Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard, She currently hold a position in Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago Law School.

Alfred Neumann in Six of Them tells of a German professor of law who continued teaching in the early days of the Hitler regime, lecturing on justice with pointed reference to its subversion in the Nazi state.36 When fired from his position, the professor, his wife, and a loyal band of students publish secretly copies of his lectures and other material attacking the injustices of the regime.