Sentences with phrase «legal limbo»

The dog meat industry is in legal limbo in South Korea, neither legal nor illegal.

The trio have been left in a state of legal limbo by the privileges committee following serious accusations made against them in 2012 by the Commons culture, media and sport select committee, which was then investigating phone hacking at the News of the World.

Some had been left in legal limbo for more than three years.

Three of Rupert Murdoch's former executives in legal limbo as they await long - delayed decision by privileges committee over phone - hacking accusations

The films, financed by Roger Corman (who had also produced Hellman's Los Angeles stage production of «Waiting For Godot»), were well received at European film festivals but tossed into legal limbo when its European distributor went bankrupt and ended up being sold directly to American TV.

Britain is failing to abide by its legal duty to protect the rights of children and is trapping immigrants in a traumatic legal limbo, campaigners have said.

When it comes to irregular migrant children, deportation data shows that children and families with children are not a priority group for immigration officers; this means that these children are more likely to spend a significant part of their childhood in the country of residence in a situation of protracted legal limbo.

«EPA took an important step to finally rescue these waters from legal limbo,» said Peter Lehner, executive director of the Natural Resources Defense Council, headquarted in New York City, in a statement.

He's putting the district in serious legal limbo with this one.

Jean Marie Primrose — Oregon This case involved neglected cats who were left in legal limbo after their guardian was judged incompetent for trial.

Have these small, harmless and shy snakes now been put in legal limbo simply for residing here?

The plan has been in legal limbo for the past year.

Schneiderman's office is among the state attorneys general suing to provide bolstered legal status for dreamers, undocumented immigrants who arrived in the United States as children who are in a state of legal limbo as the federal government determines the fate of the DACA program.

A majority of the candidates who ran on the newly formed ballot line last year have not signed off on a set of rules for the party and a judge's ruling this month threw the party's status into legal limbo.

Hamstrung by the federal government's failure to negotiate treaties in decades of talks, the company has been left in a legal limbo.

Despite the National Energy Board's recent approval, staunch opposition from First Nations groups and environmentalists looks set to suspend the pipeline in a state of legal limbo.

Trump's decision to eliminate the program after a six - month delay that expires in March, however, leaves many of those individuals, known as Dreamers, in legal limbo.

According to World Watch Monitor, an organisation which reports on cases of Christians seeing persecuted for their faith, people leaving Islam in Malaysia are being left in «legal limbo».

It's like a prison, you're caught in a legal limbo.

Guatemalan President Oscar Berger announced recently that adoptions to the United States will be suspended on January 1, 2008, a decision that could leave nearly 3,000 babies currently in the adoption pipeline in legal limbo.

Yet, midwifery remains in a strange sort of legal limbo.

Control orders currently face a legal challenge in the House of Lords and have long been criticised for creating a legal limbo.

This means that in case of a tie the supreme court fails to fulfill its purpose and instead leaves the matter in legal limbo.

Worse, zombie properties that are in the legal limbo of foreclosure rot in communities throughout the state negatively impacting property values.

We could have a second referendum (the UK parliament can call a referendum on anything it likes), but a vote to reject the negotiated terms would leave us in legal limbo.

Campaigners are concerned that children are trapped in a legal limbo — unable to pursue their claims because of the removal of legal aid for immigration cases, lacking quality legal advice and facing soaring application fees and poor - quality decision - making by the Home Office.

The money is being called for as President Donald Trump's 120 - day ban on refugee travel to the United States is in legal limbo.

I fought hard to make this law to hold banks accountable for zombie properties stuck in the legal limbo of foreclosure a reality and I applaud Governor Cuomo for taking swift action.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul earlier this month won an appeal decision after a state Supreme Court judge in Niagara County threw the party into a form of legal limbo.

The families of more than 900 Britons missing, feared dead, following the Asian tsunami disaster have been warned that they face years of legal limbo.

Opponents have long criticised control orders for creating a legal limbo which fails to fully satisfy human rights or security concerns.

Home affairs spokesman Nick Clegg said control orders provide a legal limbo, which is bad in itself and made worse when they are poorly enforced.

In 2016, the Independent Democratic Conference led the effort to combat «zombie» properties, those caught in the legal limbo of the foreclosure process that have been left vacant and abandoned.

The studies also strengthen the case that all of the indigenous people living in the Americas descended from the continents» first inhabitants, which could resolve a legal limbo for some archaeological artifacts and human remains.

Given the timing, he and others suspect the cause is President Donald Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric during the campaign and his election, rather than the White House's 27 January travel ban against seven Muslim - majority countries, which is now in legal limbo.

Without such an order, Kreiter worried that his macaques would be left in legal limbo.

Europe's largest fusion facility, the Joint European Torus (JET), is sited near Oxford, U.K.; a vote to leave would put it in a legal limbo that could halt vital research supporting the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), now under construction in France.

And it could have international implications, because the United States faces important climate negotiations in Paris in December, which will be harder if their domestic plan is in legal limbo.

The president's action leaves the national monument, created last year by his predecessor, Barack Obama, in legal limbo.

And the health care researcher facing the $ 6500 request is in legal limbo.

The Gossip Table After more than a year with their marriage in legal limbo, Ashton Kutcher has filed for divorce from Demi Moore.

After more than a year with their marriage in legal limbo, Ashton Kutcher has filed for divorce from Demi Moore.

Ashton Kutcher has finally pulled the trigger, filing for divorce from Demi Moore... over a year after the couple split up and now we know After more than a year with their marriage in legal limbo, Ashton Kutcher has filed for divorce from Demi Moore.

Writer - director Peter Sattler... grounds his story in the cold operational detail of Gitmo, showing how the soldiers there administer the legal limbo of indefinite detention and insulate themselves from the cruelty and injustice of what they're doing.

And yet, this happy - go - lucky idiot makes friends, becomes an airport hero, and never questions authority or tries to circumvent his legal limbo.