Sentences with word «lawmaking»

All of which is to say, the boundaries on this issue are fluid and your association insurance provider and legal counsel should keep apprised of the latest lawmaking.

There have been suggestions in recent years that the whole notion of meaningful citizen participation in lawmaking has fallen out of fashion — that no matter how hard you try, or how sincere your efforts, the legislative outcome is predetermined by forces beyond your control.

When courts or legislatures do address the principles for adjudicating child custody disputes, they often act without close attention to factual complexity, empirical evidence, or respect for generally prevailing principles of lawmaking... [An] example of thoughtless action in the custody area occurred in the 1980s when several jurisdictions adopted a strong preference for joint custody... [T] he presumption for joint custody was adopted without careful attention to empirical evidence or diversity of factual situations....

Our participation has not been given the legitimacy by the Australian Government that we expected, and we remain disadvantaged and aggrieved by the failure of the Australian Government to properly integrate our expert counsel into the lawmaking procedures of government.

Be aware, that while the EEOC does not have lawmaking authority, some of those in Congress would like to see changes enacted at the national level.

One of Venezuela's two opposing lawmaking bodies has ruled that the country's issuance of a national cryptocurrency is illegal under domestic law.

President Donald Trump's spate of executive orders has jump - started a national debate about the wisdom of executive edicts, especially those that stray into the area of lawmaking.

Trump was widely expected to tout the Republican tax cut plan, his only significant legislative win from a year spent navigating the process of lawmaking with a fully Republican - controlled Congress.

This installment also focuses on the relationship between federal and state courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court's power to review state court decisions, the Erie doctrine's restriction on the common lawmaking powers of federal courts, and the parameters of federal question jurisdiction.

# 1 FLORIDA The Florida Supreme Court's liability - expanding decisions and barely contained contempt for the lawmaking authority of legislators and the governor has repeatedly led to its inclusion in this report.

He studies legal information and communication systems, and particularly nonlawyers» understanding of law and participation in lawmaking.

First came the Black Swan and Yukos decisions from the British Virgin Islands, and now the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal has waded into the judicial lawmaking waters.

(1) Every group that rejected codification also adopted resolutions to the effect that (quoting from Resolution II of the Vancouver Plenary session), «statutory changes to the existing law of evidence should be made in problem areas not susceptible to appropriate change by the ordinary processes of judicial lawmaking.»

Citability.org, a project supported by that league and other organizations, is tackling one small part of the lawmaking - improvement process by urging «advanced permalinks» on American legislatures.

(No legal research database is cheap, but pooling resources and making Really Good Value legal research databases available to everyone supports «access to justice» goals: to educate students, voters, and anyone else with an abiding lifelong intellectual curiosity about law, lawmaking, judicial process, legal rights, government, and politics.)

Marci Harris is solving the problem of communication with Congress, giving people a voice in government by bringing constituent engagement to the art of lawmaking through her company POPVOX.

Susan Block - Lieb Cooper Chair in Urban Legal Issues Established in 1999 Professor Block - Lieb writes on a wide range of topics that include sovereign debt, the emergence and evolution of international lawmaking on trade and commerce, and new theories of transnational legal orders.

10th Circuit Record Shows «Refreshing» Disinclination to Legislate from Bench WASHINGTON, D.C., February 1, 2017 — Noting Judge Neil Gorsuch's «refreshing record of leaving lawmaking to elected lawmakers,» the American -LSB-...]

Eric is showing the important role that engineers can play to make and analyze data in government works, and to help people understand lawmaking and the laws that govern them.

Precision is only one possible value in lawmaking.

Through the courts and through federal and provincial lawmaking; this has to change.

On September 20, 2016, CCLA released a comprehensive report, Charter First: A Blueprint for Prioritizing Rights in Canadian Lawmaking.

WASHINGTON, D.C., February 1, 2017 — Noting Judge Neil Gorsuch's «refreshing record of leaving lawmaking to elected lawmakers,» the American Tort Reform Association today voiced optimism about his nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court and «the perspective he'll bring in helping to make our civil justice system more predictably fair.»

It does not invalidate the lawmaking authority of the Congress, the judicial authority of the courts, the executive power of the President, the status of the Constitution as its final and highest source of law, or its nature as a sovereign government.

The UN investigators called on the City of Detroit, the Federal government, and other lawmaking authorities to take a variety of steps to remedy Detroit's problems and to protect against similar vulnerabilities elsewhere.

Citizen Lawmaking and Technology: What's New and What's Ahead?

LexPop is looking for volunteers to participate — by such means as contributing content and suggesting / creating new functionality — as well as to spread the word about the LexPop approach to crowdsourcing lawmaking.

It's about the style of lawmaking and how you're going to use laws to create public policy and the impact that public policy has on the masses.

From the lawmaking perspective, the Ontario government has addressed the issue by introducing Bill 132, the Sexual Violence and Harassment Action Plan Act.

In this context, it should be mentioned that, as it has been held by the Constitutional Court, the principle of the supremacy of the Constitution implies also a duty of the legislature and other lawmaking subjects to revise legal acts which were passed before the entry into effect of the Constitution, while taking account of norms and principles of the Constitution, and to ensure a harmonious hierarchical system of legal acts which regulate the same relations (the Constitutional Court's rulings of 3 December 1997, 6 May 1998, 29 October 2003, and 5 March 2004).

The dissenters in Philip Morris likely believe that limits on punitive damages should come from democratic lawmaking and not from judicial constitutional creation.

The Court's holding today that all legislative - type action must be enacted through the lawmaking process ignores that legislative authority is routinely delegated to the Executive Branch, to the independent regulatory agencies, and to private individuals and groups.

The Constitutional Court has also held that the duty of the legislature and other lawmaking subjects to revise all legal acts adopted by them before the entry into effect of the Constitution and which still remain in force, also the legal acts adopted by no longer existing institutions after the entry into effect of the Constitution and still remaining in force, which regulate the relations which are assigned to the sphere of regulation of a corresponding law - making subject, as well as legal acts, which had been adopted before the restoration of the independent State of Lithuania and remained in force after restoration of the independent State of Lithuania and, after the entry into effect of the Constitution, regulate the relationships, which are assigned to the sphere of regulation of an appropriate legislative subject, and assess their conformity with the Constitution within a reasonably short period, stems from the principle of the supremacy of the Constitution, and the constitutional principle of a state under the rule of law (the Constitutional Court's ruling of 29 October 2003).

I've yet to see any concrete evidence that these options have resulted in a more democratic and efficient lawmaking system over there.

Does it suggest that one or more of the topics are more ripe for international guidance or lawmaking than the others?

The violation of the rule of law... when the appearance of stability and certainty which encourages people to rely and plan on the basis of the existing law is shattered by retroactive lawmaking... Often it is analogous to entrapment: one is encouraged innocently to rely on the law and then that assurance is withdrawn and one's very reliance is turned into a cause of harm to one...

If you live in Massachusetts and want to keep up with the latest news from Beacon Hill, then add a bookmark for MassInsider, a site devoted to tracking the latest news and opinion concerning policy, lawmaking and politics in the Bay State.

Citizen lawmaking seems ideally suited to today's Web.

His research aims to investigate the links between efficiency, transparency and the quality of legislation in EU lawmaking.

The category of information and communication technologies (ICTs) that enable online citizen involvement in lawmaking has many names, including eConsultation, eDemocracy, eParliament, eParticipation, eRulemaking, and Dr. Beth Simone Noveck's «collaborative democracy».

Exciting developments in citizen lawmaking and technology have enlivened the last several weeks.

Online voting pilot projects — testing technologies that could be implemented in states that permit citizen lawmaking — are likely to be launched in the U.S. in the coming months, pursuant to the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act.

With the launch of this «semi-official» blog, The Senate Site, Utah's state Senate became the first legislative body to make blogging a tool for lawmaking, Stateline.org reports.

I wholeheartedly agree with your objectives, and hope that our efforts will stir up public interest in law (through making it easy to access), and, maybe, bring about direct public participation in lawmaking in our lifetimes.

They could also act as guides to ensure that the Constitutional Rights aren't trampled upon within Legislative lawmaking — having a voice, but without a vote.

It gives the federal government exclusive lawmaking power over criminal law and criminal procedure, but not over the establishment of criminal courts.

It gives the provinces exclusive lawmaking power over the administration of justice in each province.

«The problem with having courts follow the statements of individual lawmakers and commentators is that their views are not subject to the constitutional lawmaking processes.

Following the expressed views of any one individual or faction would allow that person or group to bypass the Constitutional lawmaking process and get their version of what they hope or wish the law did enacted into law without being subject to the Constitution's requirements.

This applies to all lawmaking powers of the US government, not just XOs.