Sentences with phrase «legal justification for»

Because Israel has not provided a legal justification for the attack, the attack can not help establish the legality of pre-emptive self - defence.

No reaction is required when a state does not provide a legal justification for its actions.

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.

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.

* This may come as a shock, but Glenn Greenwald is troubled by the Obama administration's legal justification for killing American citizens overseas via drone.

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

As she acknowledges, Israel has still not articulated any legal justification for the Al - Kibar attack, much less claimed that it represented a legal act of pre-emptive self - defence:

It is not clear how that affects one's colour of right or legal justification for accessing or destroying data on that machine.

In some cases, the prosecution must also prove that you did not have a legal justification for your action, such as acting in self - defense.

When asserting these defenses, you are essentially admitting to the battery, but providing a legal justification for your actions.

If we find that there may have been a legal justification for your actions, we will argue that in court.

The majority went on to emphasize that «none of the observations of Viscount Sankey can be said to provide legal justification for an attempt by Canadian Courts to mould and fashion the Canadian Constitution by judicial legislation so as to make it conform according to their views to the requirements of present day social and economic conditions.»

This conversation allows us to search for indications that (1) you had a legal justification for committing the crime, or (2) your Constitutional rights were violated in some way.

«What,» he then asks, «is the legal justification for this argument that kangaroo court military hearings are an adequate replacement for real judicial hearings in a real court?»

In asserting a claim of self - defense you are essentially admitting to the charges against you, but offering a legal justification for your actions.

If there is no legally recognized duty of care to the family owed by the defendants, there is no legal justification for a protracted and expensive trial.

And, if he had said that, this would surely pass muster for reasonable suspicion for a Terry stop and would have provided a legal justification for demanding ID.

Unless it is an emergency, like you are 1000 miles from any help and your dog is dying a painful death and you feel the only humane way is to kill your dog immediately, then there's no moral, behavioral or legal justification for you to kill your own dog yourself.

Indeed, there is no moral or legal justification for this policy.

It is a long ways from Marbury to a legal justification for the claims advanced by adequacy plaintiffs.

A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit ruled 2 - 1 that there was no legal justification for the Boston district's policy of considering race for roughly half the admission slots...

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.

Democrats and good government groups have slammed the Republicans, saying there's no legal justification for adding a new seat and the move was likely fueled by politics.

«The board did not raise concerns about the legal justification for the loan and board members were satisfied that authorization of the loan was consistent with EFC's mission,» the report found.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Not exact matches

From a legal and regulatory standpoint, sanction - busting and lax regulatory compliance are very different sins than intellectual property theft and discriminatory trade polices (which Trump often cites as the main justifications for his threat to impose tariffs on Chinese imports).

Legal experts and counterintelligence veterans largely agreed that they could see no reasonable justification for why Grassley and Graham would hold off for eight months before acting on what they described as an «unusual,» «odd,» and «disturbing» email.

The authorization was legitimized in two ways: firstly in the government's justification of mining activity that avoids a shortage of mineral resources for the nation, and secondly in the hope that allowing legal mining would assist in combating illegal exploration.

And while the university lost that case, it's clear that the main strategy for schools in these legal situations is going to use educational goals as a justification for rules that would otherwise be in violation of labor and antitrust laws.

In our legal system, there is no possible justification for not doing a C - section when there is any element of doubt, no matter how tiny.

International law is a collection of justifications for military and diplomatic action or inaction, rather than something with a true «legal» character in the conventional sense.

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 no legal, moral, financial or administrative justification for this policy against which he, Pensions Minister Webb, tabled an Early Day Motion (when in opposition) calling for the abolition of the iniquitous discriminatory Regulation Three.

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 other would have forced state agencies that reject requests without justification to pay the legal fees of citizens forced to sue for the information.

There's no legal justification, there's no practical justification for actually removing ourselves from the treaty.

Nassau County relied on the 2011 email as justification that Looks Great's work for the county after Sandy was not covered by prevailing - wage laws, according to a legal opinion written in April and provided to Newsday by county Attorney John Ciampoli.

The department did not respond when asked for a legal justification.

Not only is this in direct contradiction to explicit policies set up other institutions (like University of Washington) but as discussed elsewhere, there seems no basis for this decision in FLSA, and at the time of writing responses to requests for the legal justification of this have not been received.

Still, the legal justification of affirmative action solely for its impact on white students is problematic...

In the podcast, Melnick dissects the legal justification presented by the Office for Civil Rights for its instructions and considers the likely impact of the «Dear Colleague» letter.

Operating Administrations (OAs) desiring to use a provision or a clause on a standard basis shall submit a request containing a copy of the clause (s), justification for its use, and evidence of legal counsel review to the Office of the Senior Procurement Executive in accordance with (TAR) 48 CFR 1201.304 for possible inclusion in the TAR.