Sentences with phrase «legal justification»

Depending on your agreement, the cousin may have a legal right to possess the car, so make sure you have his approval or legal justification before acting on your own.

There have been plenty of opportunities for this or, for that matter, any character to bring up the topic as a moral or legal justification for these actions.

Also, as the Commission submitted in the Achmea case, the conclusion of bilateral conventions on double taxation had an express legal justification in Article 293 of the EC Treaty: EU primary law required Member States to enter into negotiations in view of concluding bilateral conventions for the benefit of their nationals.

Obama cited that act as legal justification for some of his actions.

The statute defining battery specifically excludes physical touchings that are exercised with legal justification.

In the broadcast room, the judge will begin by asking counsel whether there's any opposition to the broadcast, and the onus will be on counsel to provide legal justification against broadcasting.

After years of legal wrangling, the U.S. Department of Justice yesterday released a 2003 memo by then - Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo that offers legal justification for the use of torture to interrogate suspected terrorists held abroad.

Israel has yet to provide a public legal justification for the Al - Kibar operation under jus ad bellum.

Just last week, a federal judge in Washington ruled that the government must keep the program in place and start accepting applications again, unless it can provide a stronger legal justification for abandoning it.

That report was enough legal justification for Trump to bypass both Congress and the independent US International Trade Commission (USITC), which is typically called on to weigh in on proposed tariffs.

Combined with a stronger - than - recognized substantive legal justification, this bar on nettlesome litigation should make the likelihood of a successful legal challenge sufficiently dubious to give markets confidence that a Fed program to buy equities could proceed.

Very well put, there is religious marriage and secular marriage the government should only be concerend with the latter and there is NO legal justification to deny it to gays.

The case was heavily litigated on both sides and lasted over four years, but the attorneys at the Law Office of John Leunig worked tirelessly and eventually prevailed after convincing a judge that the officer had violated the Fourth Amendment by detaining the motorist without proper legal justification.

Political or social protest does not constitute a valid legal justification for failure to file a tax return containing sufficient information as required by law from which the tax can be computed.

Well, according to the story in ars technica, it turns out that this chutzpah is based on a truly... innovative legal justification.

I'm speaking now of the Hague and Geneva conventions, those legal limits to the conduct of war (jus in bello)-- there are also legal justifications for engaging in war (jus ad bellum), something else again.

For example, there happens not to be a public footpath or other right of way in my back garden, and so if you go there without permission (or other legal justification) then you would be trespassing.

AT&T, which NSA lauded for its «extreme willingness to help,» gave the agency access through several methods to billions of emails from its domestic networks, apparently relying on a number of different legal justifications.

Broadly defined, first - degree murder is the intentional killing of another person without legal justification.

There could also be legal justifications in various countries.

Section 429 provides a defence to a charge under this provision, however: one may not be convicted where one «proves that he acted with legal justification or excuse and with colour of right.»

Israel has yet to provide a public legal justification for the Al - Kibar operation under jus ad bellum.

Trump's legal justification for such tariffs is that reliance on foreign metals threatens American national security.

That looming tweak to the legal justification of Facebook's Custom Audiences feature — a product which lets advertisers upload contact lists in a hashed form to find any matches among its own user - base (so those people can be targeted with ads on Facebook's platform)-- also looks problematical.

An ambitious vision of the Supreme Court and constitutional judicial review as serving the ends of public virtue is without legal justification, except as bound tightly to the values incorporated into our national charter.

As Micah Zenko (an expert quoted in the McClatchy story) notes at Foreign Policy, these revelations drastically undermine the legal justification for the program:

Last week, President Obama's Justice Department published previously classified memos that outlined the Bush administration's legal justification for torturing detainees.

«There was no mandate and Syria is not about to attack our country, so there's no legal justification and also the timing.

As Land notes, Protestants have historically emphasized salvation as forensic, legal justification, whereas Pentecostals, in line with their Wesleyan roots, have emphasized sanctification / transformation.

It was then that the medical and legal justifications for assisted suicide and euthanasia took root - a decade or more before the Nazis came on the scene.

The message is clear: there can be no moral or legal justification for threatening whole populations with devastating and indiscriminate nuclear weapons.

«In USDA's attempt to kill this fully vetted final regulation, they've taken a radical departure from conclusions reached over more than 20 years of rulemakings regarding organic livestock care, and have assumed an aberrant view that has no historical basis or legal justification.»

In a letter to AIMS Ireland, Ms Laffoy clarified that in the opinion of the legal expert, Emily Egan SC, the 8th amendment can not serve as a legal justification for carrying out a procedure or treatment without consent, if the life of the foetus is not in danger.

This development struck a blow at the US - led coalition's legal justification for strikes in Syria.

Any proposal for action should always have a moral and legal justification, support from countries across the region and a clear strategy in place.»

There is little doubt that the gas industry wants to frack the entire state, in both the Marcellus and Utica Shales, and with little if any legal justification for hand - picking drilling areas, that's exactly what would likely happen if fracking is allowed.

Plaintiff states again that 2nd Defendant has not said a word against this marauding show of power without any legal justification by the 1st Defendant's request of a deposit of filing fees for the 2016 Presidential and Parliamentary Elections thereby embolden 1st Defendant in perpetuating these obvious illegalities against the political parties and individual candidates in this 2016 general elections.

President «Trump's decision to launch military strikes against the Syrian regime — without congressional input or authorization — shows a contempt for the U.S Constitution and is without legal justification,» said Rep. Barbara Lee (D - Calif.).

The report concluded that police had legal justification to use deadly force as Hernandez - Rossy fled police because they believed — mistakenly — that he had a gun and had shot one of the officers in the ear.

«I would very much like to know what is the legal justification for this expenditure out of the public view,» Feldman said.

The SAN had contended that the action of the EFCC was unconstitutional, had no legal justification, and was a gross violation of sections 36, 37 and 41 of the 1999 Constitution.

I filed an appeal, giving ESD until March 30 to turn over the documents or state their legal justification for withholding them.

You know, there is certainly no legal justification that LATFOR could put forward for not complying with the law.