Sentences with phrase «laws chance on»

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The reason so many companies were able to get away with violating the law (because it really was so clear that Connecticut employment lawyer, Daniel Schwartz, described the ruling as «far from shocking,» on Twitter) was because interns didn't want to complain because they were afraid they wouldn't get any internships, which then lowers their chance of getting a real job upon graduation.

What matters is whether this is illegal gambling under New York law, and New York law is crystal clear that in order to be gambling, you must have someone that bets on a contest of chance where the person betting does not have «control or influence» over the outcome.

The gambling law in New York is unusual: it states that a contest is gambling if the outcome depends on a «material degree» of «the element of chance,» as opposed to skill.

When the Canadian Securities Administrators issued a call last summer for comment on the potential regulation of the proxy advisory industry, it was inundated with responses from general counsel, their companies, law firms, and others who seemed to have been waiting in the shadows for a chance to vent.

The specific legal grounds for the Texas coalition's challenge to the remaining DACA program are that it violates the Constitution's direction for the president to execute the nation's laws, that it was adopted without allowing the public an advance chance to comment on it, and that it exceeds presidential power under federal immigration laws and is thus illegal.

And despite Trump's claim that plenty of lawyers and «top law firms» want to work for him, a growing number have passed on a chance to represent a client who contradicts them in public, changes his story repeatedly, expects them to lie and has a history of stiffing his employees.

Over the last decade or so, VCs took a chance on companies that violated hotel licensing laws (AirBnB), airspace laws (drone companies) and encouraged their users to take a ride in the car of a stranger who happened to be violating municipality laws (Uber).

While the budget has little chance to become law, it draws a distinct contrast with Democratic views on spending.

A couple of research papers indicated only a decrease in abortion rates that is statistically insignificant (i.e. it could have been due to chance rather than the change in the law), but these have tended to analyse data on abortion rates for all ages, not specifically teenage abortion rates.

Albert Camus's essay «Reflections on the Guillotine» cites a 19th - century French jurist's application of the law of probability to the chance of a judicial error with a result of one innocent man's being condemned in every 257 criminal cases.

For we've already been told that the law must be settled on grounds that are «categorical»: it is not enough to say that marriages between men and women have the best chance of begetting children.

Along with dualistic mythology several developments in scientific thought since the seventeenth century have contributed to the exorcism of mind from nature: first, there is the cosmography of classical (Newtonian) physics picturing our world as composed of inanimate, unconscious bits of «matter» needing only the brute laws of inertia to explain their action; second, the Darwinian theory of evolution with its emphasis on chance, waste and the apparent «impersonality» of natural selection; third, the laws of thermodynamics (and particularly the second law) with the allied cosmological interpretation that our universe is running out of energy available to sustain life, evolution and human consciousness; fourth, the geological and astronomical disclosure of enormous tracts of apparently lifeless space and matter in the universe; fifth, the recent suggestions that life may be reducible to an inanimate chemical basis; and, finally, perhaps most shocking of all, the suspicion that mind may be explained exhaustively in terms of mindless brain chemistry.

ALEXANDRIA, VA (March 13, 2018)-- NABCA's 25th Annual Legal Symposium on Alcohol Beverage Law and Regulation offers attorneys, government officials and industry professionals the chance to remain current about the latest legal issues in alcohol beverage management.

The 5 - on - 5 match should be full of memorable moments, including the chance for Triple H to face off against brother - in - law Shane McMahon, as well as Kurt Angle to lock up with John Cena, but a bigger moment could take place during the battle between the Shield and the New Day.

Obviously we have Olivier Giroud, who is due a goal tomorrow simply on the law of averagesas he has missed so many chances in recent weeks, and Theo Walcott is also desperate to prove his worth as an out and out hitman.

But it has been noted that Arsenal have created more chances than any other Premiership team this season and it is only a matter of time until these chances start to be converted into goals and, on the law of averages, someone is going to get hammered very soon, and why not Stoke.

Then with just four minutes left Law had chance to put right her second minute penalty from a similar place — and this time was on target.

They say changes to the law, renewed every five years, present the best chance to put healthier food than nachos on school lunch trays.

Even if you have a good relationship with your mother in law, the chances are good that you will not agree on many things when it comes to parenting and how to handle a new baby.

These would all be perfect for my new grandbaby on the way.My daughter in law hadnt gotten pregnant in 5 years so she thought she never would again.So she gave all her things to people that needed them.Well now she needs them and has nothing!This would be such a big help for her.Thank you so much for the chance

Mothers and fathers are given equal opportunity before the law, with neither having a better chance of being granted physical custody based on gender alone.

Now, as Cuomo's closest friend and former top advisor, Joseph Percoco, is about to be indicted for rigging bids on state contracts, the governor proposed a raft of ethics reforms on Wednesday that stand little chance of ever getting made into law.

He is now gone from our lives, his Assembly seat as vacant as his eyes, completing his shuffle from Manhattan State Supreme Court, where he began as a law secretary in 1971, to the federal courthouse on Foley Square, where 12 of his peers finally got a chance to judge seven of his felonies.

Mr. Wu, a law professor running on a ticket with Zephyr Teachout, has a greater chance of defeating Ms. Hochul — who must run on her own apart from Mr. Cuomo — than Ms. Teachout does of knocking off Mr. Cuomo, an incumbent with a war chest north of $ 30 million.

The state Legislature then will have a chance to vote on the cost - cutting plan under the provisions of a new law passed as part of the state budget earlier this year.

On September 10, voters in two districts will have the chance to re-elect or oust their incumbent Democratic state representatives who are being targeted for supporting tougher gun laws in Colorado.

He's in favor of abortion rights adn gun control: maybe they will throw him Health and Human Services, but, since there is no chance of the GOP winning in 2012, he had better concentrate on his farm in Peekskill and his law practice.

But given the divisions that may open up in the Coalition, Labour must surely stand a good chance of holding the seat — but on the very strict proviso that Ed Miliband lays down the law to the old regime that still runs the party machine in London.

The source rejected claims by Laws that a «truculent trio» of Ed Miliband, Ed Balls and Harriet Harman wrecked any chance of a progressive coalition, and says that a deal was possible on every issue apart from the pace of deficit reduction.

Additionally, Bruno will remain free until the Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of the law used to convict him — meaning there is a chance that the case could end up in no jail time for Bruno.

«Politicians in Albany had the chance after both leaders were arrested on corruption charges last year to enact tough ethics reform laws and they failed.

Chances of a referendum on Britain's membership of the EU recede, after peers vote to kill off the bill enshrining it in law

More than 40 witnesses offered testimony in a marathon Assembly hearing on a single - payer healthcare bill that has no near - term chance of becoming law.

Republicans have sought to turn the women's agenda issue around on Democrats, saying their insistence of passing the full package has prevented other items that stand of chance of becoming law from being approved.

According to New York election law, registered voters missed the last chance to change their party affiliation for the entire 2016 primary season — presidential on April 19, congressional on June 28, state and local on Sept. 13 — more than five months ago.

If our Westchester County Justice system can create an atmosphere with leaks that will create doubt on the victims that are in law enforcement, then any young man, especially, a young black man does not have a chance for any real transparency of the law in Westchester County.

Councilors said they hadn't seen the language of the law, and refused to vote on something they weren't given a chance to read.

The Catholic Church as weighed in on raising the state's minimum wage, but Governor Cuomo says the chances of an increase becoming law are «dubious.»

Robert Flanders, one of two Republicans running for the chance to take on Democratic U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, is criticizing Whitehouse for backing a law blamed by some for making it more difficult to go after the opioid industry.

Agreements on the highest - priority issues are frequently reached on or after the last scheduled meeting, so lawmakers dedicate their gatherings to passing one - house bills that stand little chance of becoming law in the immediate future and plowing through hundreds of completely uncontroversial pieces of legislation that rename bridges or create new license plate designs.

The race was in jeopardy because of an obscure state law banning charitable games of chance on state property.

The Assembly bill, which stands little chance of being approved in the Republican - led Senate, would prohibit state and local law enforcement from participating in federal immigration enforcement — part of a raft of measures approved on Monday in the chamber seeking to counter President Donald Trump's immigration policies.

But as Sanders has gained steam, largely on the support of younger and more liberal voters, Senate Democrats have stepped up their attacks, saying Sanders is not ready to be commander in chief, criticizing his democratic socialist views and contending that his domestic agenda has little chance of ever becoming law.

More than 40 witnesses offered testimony Tuesday in a marathon Assembly hearing on a bill that has no near - term chance of becoming law.

Alliance Party assembly member Anna Lo, who is pro-choice, told Inside Politics the amendment was «the last chance to liberalise the law on abortion».

The Catholic Church is weighing in on raising the state's minimum wage, but Governor Andrew Cuomo says the chances of an increase becoming law are «dubious.»

«We thought for the sustainability of one casino in the Catskills region — to give it the best chance to succeed with everything that's going on in the surrounding states — was to not have another casino in the region,» Law said.

But on the downside, it has no chance of becoming law.

«That said, sometimes legislation provokes a discussion and the chance to find a way forward to relieve law - abiding gun owners of burdens that don't have any real impact on keeping people safe,» Little said.

Top Senate Republicans announced on Monday that they plan to reintroduce a staunchly anti-gay religious freedom bill in the new year, saying they believe the bill has a better chance of being approved by Congress and signed into law now that Donald T... Read