Sentences with phrase «laws against racial»

American laws against racial discrimination have been interpreted to mean intentional discrimination, not acts that result in a discriminatory effect.

Not exact matches

One had to be either a Roman citizen, as in the case of Paul, or else guilty of a crime against the empire rather than an infraction of a provincial or racial law over which the recognized authorities among the conquered people had the right of judgment.

As Avi pointed out the Supreme Court has ruled against discrimination based on race but racial discrimination is protected by federal law and would have been illegal even outside of the primaries.

1080 is not aimed at stopping racial profiling, which is already against the law.

In Connecticut, there are laws against both excessive suspensions of students and racial / ethnic segregation of students, particularly for charter schools.

Excellent point — and now Charters are not required by law or policy to reduce racial isolation in fact, nearly every single charter school in CT is more racial isolated than the community they draw from and consistently discriminate against Latino Students, students who aren't fluent in the English Language and students who require special education services.

It has also served as the basis for such critical Supreme Court cases like Brown v. Board of Education (barring racial segregation in education) and Loving v. Virginia (striking down laws against interracial marriage).

Foley Hoag partner Michael Keating led a team that won a defendants» verdict from a Boston jury, which found that law firm Ropes & Gray LLP did not retaliate against former associate John Ray III for claiming he was a victim of racial discrimination.

Soros opines that exposure to the criminal justice system is potentially more detrimental to a young person than marijuana itself, that enforcing marijuana laws costs taxpayers billions while benefiting only foreign drug kingpins, and that laws against marijuana, from their inception, have been motivated by racial prejudice.

A former Howrey associate has filed a $ 30 million lawsuit against the firm, accusing higher - ups of firing her after she complained about racial discrimination in Howrey's Brussels office, according to The National Law Journal, an Am Law Daily sibling publication.

Legal Feeds Blog Appeal court upholds racial discrimination ruling against Peel law librarian Two black lawyers and an articling student who were asked to show their IDs in a Brampton, Ont., court several years ago were discriminated against based on their race, the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled Thursday.

While we have made great strides with regard to civil rights and laws to protect against race discrimination in the workplace, the reality is that racial harassment is still prevalent.

In a long - simmering court battle over a racial reference in a blog post, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice has ruled against a law graduate who sought to intervene in the case, ordering her to pay costs.

Trump's demonization of Mexicans and Muslims foreshadows an assault not only on the safeguards against racial discrimination developed since the 1950s (and which moulded our own equality laws) but even on the fundamental rights of the individual to freedom from arbitrary detention and punishment.

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The Committee recommends to the State party that it work towards the inclusion of an entrenched guarantee against racial discrimination in its domestic law.

The Committee, while noting the explanations provided by the delegation, reiterates its concern about the absence of any entrenched guarantee against racial discrimination that would override the law of the Commonwealth.

equal protection of property interests before the law; as required by the International Convention against the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), Article 5 and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), Article 17.

That, in recognition that existing protections against racial discrimination have been overridden in relation to Indigenous peoples, the Commonwealth Government begin a constitutional process for the removal of section 25 of the Constitution and its replacement with a clause guaranteeing equality before the law and non-discrimination.

SEND bullying is against the law as the Equality Act of 2010 outlines that schools and governing bodies have a duty to ensure that students do not face any form of racial discrimination, including attacks and harassment.

A number of the United Nations human rights bodies including the Human Rights Committee, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, [4] and the Committee Against Torture [5] have also highlighted their concern in respect of the mandatory sentencing laws in both Western Australia and the Northern Territory.

The only judge who found unequivocally that the race power did not support laws which discriminated against particular racial groups was Kirby J in dissent.

Related to how the Commonwealth government ensures compliance of the states and territories with international obligations is the issue of the level of protection against racial discrimination in Australian law.