Sentences with phrase «laws protect your interests»

Even though these laws protect your interests, it can be hard to understand what your legal rights are.

Not exact matches

The case pits the interests of tech companies and privacy advocates in protecting customer data against the demands of law enforcement in gaining information vital to criminal and counterterrorism investigations.

The police are bound by law and morality to protect the bodily and property interests even of those present illegally.

«Instead of working to protect American families, President Trump's plans put the interest of big - money special interests over people,» said Nat Mund, legislative director of the Southern Environmental Law Center, a Virginia - based advocacy group.

As reported in the Globe and Mail on Oct. 31, the judge ruled that the Law Society had put the commercial interests of its members ahead of its statutory duty to protect the public interest.

China responded swiftly, warning it is prepared to take action to protect the interests of Chinese firms and saying it hopes the United States can deal with the issue in accordance with the law.

The rise in interest rates to 20 percent by 1980 forced most states to revoke their usury laws, and credit card companies played states against each other in a race to the bottom when it came to protecting consumer rights.

Within a broader framework — which seeks to protect the full range of interests that antitrust laws were enacted to safeguard — the potential harms include lower income and wages for employees, lower rates of new business creation, lower rates of local ownership, and outsized political and economic control in the hands of a few.407

Only after intense public criticism, the Liberals came up with «five conditions» that must be met in order to approve the project — conditions which largely already exist in law, and do little to actually protect B.C.'s interests.

I'm reading NFIB v. Sebelius (the Obamacare decision) in preparation for teaching the case to my constitutional law students and came across the following most interesting passage in in Justice Ginsburg's opinion: «A mandate to purchase a particular product would be unconstitutional if, for example, the edict impermissibly abridged the freedom of speech, interfered with the free exercise of religion, or infringed on a liberty interest protected by the Due Process Clause.»

The literature clearly establishes that a legally sanctioned law enforcement system existed in America before the Civil War for the express purpose of controlling the slave population and protecting the interests of slave owners.

They turned their eyes from injustices, committing them through robberies, extortions, loving bribes and honor in public places, yet making up for themselves laws that protect their interests, disregarding the poor, and needy who struggle to survive.

In Roe, the Supreme Court in effect affirmed this moral intuition by ruling that after determining «viability,» the community through its laws can exercise its interest in protecting life.

The resulting reduction in carbon emissions is particularly striking given that buildings at the site include restored and refurbished Victorian Mill buildings, some of which are Grade II listed (designated as being particularly important and of special interest and protected by UK law), within a Conservation Area and Site of Special Scientific Interestinterest and protected by UK law), within a Conservation Area and Site of Special Scientific InterestInterest (SSSI).

As Attorney General, should ownership of the Columbus Crew initiate a move of the team without complying with Ohio law, I am prepared to take the necessary legal action under this law to protect the interests of the State of Ohio and the central Ohio communities which have all invested to make the Columbus Crew a proud part of our Ohio sports tradition and help Mapfre Stadium earn its reputation as «Fortress Columbus.

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Another interesting fact I learned from the USDA's site is that all fifty states have «Good Samaritan» laws in place which protect donors of «gleaned» food from liability.

In terms of societal values and tort law, it's interesting that states had abolished those torts while most people in society still claim that marriage and family is important and should be protected.

Even though you have found a family law attorney, that doesn't mean that the primary focus in the divorce process will be protecting your rights or your best interest.

But in the typical «family law setting» where there is no issue of abuse, the child - the crucially important party - has no advocate; there is, literally, no one except the judge who can protect the child and make a ruling in the best interests of the child.

(c) Accordingly, it is the policy of the United States that executive departments and agencies (agencies) immediately review existing regulations that potentially burden the development or use of domestically produced energy resources and appropriately suspend, revise, or rescind those that unduly burden the development of domestic energy resources beyond the degree necessary to protect the public interest or otherwise comply with the law.

The UK has recently been heavily criticised by the UN for its disregard for international law on both the rights of the child (whose best interests should be protected in law) and the right of the population to a decent standard of living.

«The attorney general is New York State's leading law enforcement official and with firefighters serving on the front lines it is vital we have someone able to not only represent New Yorkers interests in the courtroom, but someone who also knows first hand what it is like to serve on the front lines protecting lives.»

I conclude by reminding those who have defamed me or who intend to do so that in making this statement I am by no means giving up my right to seek redress at law and repeat that I expressly reserve my rights to take all such steps as I and my solicitors consider necessary to protect my interests.

«If he moves forward with this cruel action, New York State will sue to protect the «dreamers» and the state's sovereign interest in the fair and equal application of the law,» Cuomo said.

We are also proposing a far reaching partnership on how we protect Europe together from the threats we face in the world today; how we work together to promote our shared values and interests abroad; whether security, spreading the rule of law, dealing with emerging threats, handling the migration crisis or helping countries out of poverty.

Sponsors of the law claim that they are interested in protecting the health of children who are vulnerable to the effects of secondhand smoke.

Undoubtedly, Western interests are at stake in Syria and the region more widely, but we are not going to advance or protect them by unilateral military action — not only because such action would be in violation of international law but also because it can not achieve desirable outcomes.

by Assembly Minority Leader Brian M. Kolb (R - Canandaigua) Defying federal policy by attempting to shield illegal immigrants from the law does not protect the interests of New Yorkers.

Even in states with disclosure laws, companies can omit information in the interests of protecting intellectual property.

«Ethics rules are not so much aimed at protecting us from ExxonMobil, but in ensuring that government officials are acting in the public interest rather than their own private interests,» said Kathleen Clark, a professor at Washington University Law specializing in ethics.

Both claimed they were simply trying to uphold European packaging laws and protect the interests of UK manufacturers.

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Though South Africa opened its borders and welcomed refugees fleeing persecutions, the current approach towards treatment of refugees shows a sign of a fatigue of hosting refugees.45 It becomes a metaphysical question as to whether Rwandan refugees should blame South Africa for having laws that protect the human rights and interests of its citizens or whether they blame the superpowers foreign policies that led to the negation of the principles of human and refugee rights, resulting in their current sufferings and predicament or whether they blame the oppressive regime installed in Rwanda, a regime only interested in tracking them down for assassination.

Within this perspective, Paul Weis describes refugees as «a vessel on the open sea, not sailing under any flag ’23 while Hannah Arendt observed that refugees are without rights because each nation - state has primary obligation to protect the rights, interests and expectations of its own citizens first, no matter where they are.24 However, both international and national refugee laws are adopted with the sole aim to ensure entitlement of the basic rights, proclaimed under a range of human rights conventions.25 Under these conventions, respect for human dignity of each and every human person is underlined as a foundation to freedom, justice and peace.

In a subsequent post on its website, the union went bonkers, claiming, «Corporate millionaires and special interests have mounted an all - out assault on educators by attempting to do away with laws protecting teachers from arbitrary firings, providing transparency in layoff decisions and supporting due process rights.»

The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is a Federal law that gives you the right to access any U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) records unless DOT reasonably foresees that the release of the information in those records would harm an interest protected by one or more of the nine exemptions (such as classified national security, business proprietary, personal privacy, investigative documents) or release is prohibited by law.

As the author of a copyrighted work, UK copyright law protects some personal rights as well as economic interests.

This rule stems from federal laws that protect consumers from arbitrary or unexpected increases in their interest charges.

Although recent debt reform may protect you from instantaneous and retroactive rate increases, the new laws do not place caps on interest rates charged by credit card issuers and other finance companies.

These new regulations, which are all good laws BTW, intent to protect consumers by prohibiting banks from imposing arbitrary high interest rates on credit cards and charging outrageous bank fees.

And, for what it is worth, 12 years ago I played a large role in setting the rules for Maryland life insurers in place, both writing the law, and explaining to the legislators how it protected the public interest.

Usury laws protect the borrower from being charged exorbitant interest rates.

Laws and regulations can only do so much to protect you from high fees and interest charges, but you can find the help you need to get back on your feet again.

In Ontario where I live, there's a threshold of $ 5,650, if your car is worth that or less, or your interest in the car is worth less it's protected under the law, nobody can take it from you.

It can go a long way towards protecting the assets Emma brings into the relationship, but the truth is that common - law couples can acquire interests in each other's property through «unjust enrichment.»

My original loans were all subsidized but because I consolidated them around 1993 (there was some law that came into effect right afterward to protect borrowers who had subsidized loans) they still accrue interest.

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What is the administration doing to protect the consumer from credit card companies who are increasing the interest rates before the new law goes into effect in 2010?