Sentences with phrase «legal decisions now»

It's important to be aware how these legal agreements work before signing or creating a document, as being well - informed can help you make the best legal decisions now and down the road.

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«The take - away from this decision is that employers will now only be liable if they are negligent,» says Charley Moore, chairman and founder of RocketLawyer, an online legal services company in San Francisco.

The future of the friendly merger is now in doubt following the decision, which resulted from a legal challenge to the merger by some of Phosphate's shareholders.

The U.S. Justice Department's decision to turn a blind eye to the enforcement of federal marijuana laws in states that authorize medical or even recreational use of the drug eventually may make it easier to use credit cards for such transactions, but a banking ban on legal pot sellers remains intact for now.

Kennedy's decision, now the law of the land, forces us to ask a series of critically important questions: Are citizens» whether Protestants, Catholics, Jews, or Mormons» who seek to apply transcendent moral values to public life welcome in political, legal, and cultural debates?

The Court's own case law shows that in order to maintain the abortion right at the level of fundamental law, many other sectors of the states» legal order, at both statutory and common law, need to be altered: family law, marriage law, laws regulating the medical profession, and, as we now see with the recent circuit court decisions, criminal laws prohibiting private use of lethal force.

Little by little, court decisions are changing laws and in some states, it is now legal to have up to three parents for a child.

Since the Supreme Court has now prevented itself from acknowledging the question of whether Barack H. Obama is or is not an Article II «natural born citizen» based on the Kenyan / British citizenship of Barack Obama's father at the time of his birth (irrespective of whether Barack Obama is deemed a «citizen» born in Hawaii or otherwise) as a prerequisite to qualifying to serve as President of the United States under the Constitution — the Court having done so at least three times and counting, first before the Nov 4 general election and twice before the Dec 15 vote of the College of Electors — it would seem appropriate, if not necessary, for all Executive Branch departments and agencies to secure advance formal advice from the United States Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel as to how to respond to expected inquiries from federal employees who are pledged to «support and defend the Constitution of the United States» as to whether they are governed by laws, regulations, orders and directives issued under Mr. Obama during such periods that said employees, by the weight of existing legal authority and prior to a decision by the Supreme Court, believe in good faith that Mr. Obama is not an Article II «natural born citizen&raLegal Counsel as to how to respond to expected inquiries from federal employees who are pledged to «support and defend the Constitution of the United States» as to whether they are governed by laws, regulations, orders and directives issued under Mr. Obama during such periods that said employees, by the weight of existing legal authority and prior to a decision by the Supreme Court, believe in good faith that Mr. Obama is not an Article II «natural born citizen&ralegal authority and prior to a decision by the Supreme Court, believe in good faith that Mr. Obama is not an Article II «natural born citizen».

Now, the sentencings of Silver and Skelos will put pressure on lawmakers to react legislatively, Johnston said, and there are measures that can help, from tightening conflict - of - interest laws to some campaign finance changes to limit what he calls some of the «legal corruption» of money influencing the outcome of policy decisions.

But a lower court's legal decision in 2006 now permits it, said John Conklin, spokesman for the state Board of Elections.

However, the state Department of Environmental Conservation has delayed a decision on that proposal and is now locked in a legal battle with the company.

Both sides will now file legal briefs, and New York State Education Commissioner Mary Ellen Elia, who presided over the hearing, will then issue a written decision.

This cliff - hanger decision to be made by Kantrowitz will be awaited with much interest given the Independence Party's loss of Zebrowski, Lowey and now Hofstein from the top of their November batting order and the description of the Independence Party in New York as «corrupt» by several leading Democrats and as a «legal racket» by Phil Reisman of the Journal News.

The paper's author, Molly Gena, now a Milwaukee - based lawyer for Legal Action of Wisconsin, says her review of recent SBS decisions indicates the tide is beginning to turn.

That includes young adults whose parents helped manage their chronic conditions when they were minors, but now have the legal right to make their own decisions about whether they still want that involvement.

But the High Court ruled that NHS England does have the legal power to commission PrEP, a decision that has now been supported by three Court of Appeal judges, who decided to rule in favour of the National Aids Trust.

Toronto Film Festival Preview: «From now on, any legal division could make a vet a standard decision,» one top sales agent tells TheWrap

The due diligence process should also commence now, notifying the school's land owner of your decision to convert and asking them to collate the legal ownership / land registration documentation in preparation for conversion.

The new law significantly reduces the legal authority of the education secretary, who is now legally barred from influencing state decisions about academic benchmarks, such as the Common Core State Standards, teacher evaluations and other policies.

So, in March of 2014 Erik made the decision to work with the state of Arizona to get legal guardianship over his brothers Pedro and Jorge, now ages 17 and 15.

It's unclear whether the Houston school district will now negotiate a settlement with the teachers union or end up back in court, but either way, the decision comes at a significant time for the test - based accountability movement, which has faced a number of legal and political challenges over the past several years.

Puerto Rico's leadership believes a series of court decisions issued over the past two decades, including from the U.S. Supreme Court, have now paved the legal path for them to move forward with school vouchers.

The practice is called lien stripping, which is now legal in every state following a recent Minnesota court decision that allows it in that state.

This historic decision will not only affect the world of traditional sports, as it has now opened up the door for legal betting on esports.

Five cities and counties in California that are suing fossil fuel companies for damages triggered by climate change are now at the center of a legal paradox created by conflicting decisions from two federal court judges reviewing nearly identical claims.

2 April: SMH: Peter Hannam: «Conspiracist» climate change study withdrawn amid legal threats Climate change academics say the decision by a publisher to retract their paper examining the links between conspiracy theorists and denial of global warming because of legal threats could have a «chilling effect» on research... «Sadly, it has turned into a routine for outsiders with no scientific standing to approach, bully, or intimidate journals, editors, and academics,» said Professor Lewandowsky, now at the UK's University of Bristol.

Reflecting back on the «very complicated commercial problem» with a number of clients with a common problem, I'm now less convinced that there was a problem as it appears that the information in issue related to the clients» commercial decision - making rather than to the legal representation and issues and the clients would have been appalled to have their commercial information shared.

A quick glance at the top of our home page will tell you the most important legal stories right now, whether it's today's Supreme Court decision, this morning's developments in high - profile trials, yesterday's law firm mega-merger, or Paris Hilton's latest scrape with the law.

beSpacific posts an announcement from Thomas R. Bruce, co-director of Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute, that it is now offering Supreme Court decisions delivered via an RSS feed.

Using this approach, litigants can now quantify the cost of the risks they face at trial, and make more informed decisions about the acquisition of legal information.

In particular, as part of a more qualitative approach, one needs to have a look whether the current perceived «turbulences» have also by now reached the more fundamental layers of international law, i.e. meta - rules such as the ones on sources, State responsibility, State immunity, treaty interpretation, or res judicata effect of international court decisions must be abided by the parties involved, to name but a few, the general acceptance of which is indispensable for a functioning international legal system.

Now I note the launch of a new blog devoted to tracking legal developments on the Daubert decision, Daubert Uncensored.

Perhaps this decision was born of courtesy given the discomfort AI wake - up calls tend to cause, but if you read Mills» very informative three - part piece on the state of play in artificial intelligence and law you will notice that he is not that bullish on the «medieval master craftsman model» for legal services compared to whatever might emerge from the AI experimentation going on right now.

The Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII) also made available hundreds of frequently cited historical decisions that were not freely available until now.

As a consequence, the Member States were now ready to acknowledge openness as a legal principle in the Amsterdam Treaty, and to give access to documents a separate treaty base that paved the way for the replacement of the institutions» three internal decisions by a legislative act, Regulation 1049, which was adopted on 30 May 2001.

Some of the main topics that need to be addressed are child custody, referred to now as legal decision - making, parenting time, child support, alimony (i.e., spousal maintenance), a division of marital assets and debts, and the payment of attorney fees, expert witness fees, and court costs.

The term custody in Arizona, now referred to as «legal decision - making,» has been grossly misunderstood and misused.

It is now, it isn't just a buyer's market in the sense that people can make intelligent decisions between legal options.

It should come as no surprise to anyone that our substantial collections of primary legal materials (law reports, tribunal decisions, statutes and regulatory materials) and bound law journals were barely being used, presumably because so many of these materials are now available in digital formats.

Once the issue of custody, now referred to legal decision making and parenting time, is decided the court must decide which parent will pay child support to the other parent, as well as the amount of that child support.

Parents sharing joint legal custody (now referred to as joint legal decision making) must reach agreements regarding major life decisions affecting their children.

It is the sponsor of CanLII, the Canadian Legal Information Institute, which now provides excellent online access to caselaw (court and tribunal decisions), statutes, and regulations.

Headnotes are at risk because the full text of legal decisions without headnotes are now available free on the Internet from multiple sources.

The COO of Legal is now the person making decisions on law firm selection along with procurement — again using clear metrics that dive more deeply into the law firm operations than ever before.

Not only is Delaware law highly influential with other state courts, but any legal practice that represents public corporations will be dealing with Delaware corporations... [and now] a recent Delaware Chancery Court decision makes clear that we really are all Delaware lawyers when it comes to that sort of practice.

It seems to me that we now need a Digg for court rulings — a way for the legal community to rate the significance of any given decision in a specific field.

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Now that the Legal Services Commission (LSC) will be subsumed into the Ministry of Justice, it is vital that decisions about the public funding are politically independent.

Now, the company's data is updated monthly and made readily available to everyone on the team through the Insight Enterprise dashboard, enabling them to make more timely and informed decisions about how cases should proceed and how the legal budget should be spent.

Now legal teams can use real - time data to make more informed business decisions across legal and compliance matters using current and historical information and trends.