Sentences with phrase «legal opinions by»

«This is my answer no matter how many times you tell me: There was a legal opinion by David Lewis, our legal counsel, saying it was proper to do,» he said when asked if the conference was seeking an independent legal opinion.

Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco pointed to a legal opinion by the conference's top lawyer that insisted the arrangement was legal.

The Harper government obtained a legal opinion by former Supreme Court of Canada justice Ian Binnie.

Not exact matches

«The battleground has shifted to the legal courts and the court of public opinion,» he said, referring to lawsuits filed by tribes and an effort planned by the Lakota People's Law Project to rally lawmakers and others in Washington, D.C., to their cause.

The strategy is intended to produce a bipartisan majority vote for Mr. Brennan in the Senate Intelligence Committee without giving its members seven additional legal opinions on targeted killing sought by senators and while protecting what the White House views as the confidentiality of the Justice Department's legal advice to the president.

It appears that the highly publicized legal actions taken by the SEC as mentioned above are (in this writer's opinion, at least) meant to make examples of the parties involved, whilst sending a message to companies within the industry that they are not willing to compromise on enforcing their legislative decisions.

A legal opinion, prepared by law firm Farrer & Co, was published today by the Tax Justice Network: see here (pdf).

By «full assessment», did they want a legal opinion?

Delivering a legal opinion requires a certain level of work by company counsel, which increases legal fees.

is mediated by our own unique belief system, then this issue of expert opinion can be a real problem, especially where belief and the «self» is involved, as opposed to expert knowledge on medical / legal / other issues.

It was the Universal opinion of the Century preceding the last, that Civil Govt could not stand without the prop of a Religious establishment, & that the Xn religion itself, would perish if not supported by a legal provision for its Clergy.

A legal analysis by Managing Your Church, a CT sister site, looks at the uncertainty created for churches and pastors because the majority opinion «stopped short of stating a religious exemption.»

In other words, the legal opinion favoring freedom from obligation, if supported by probable opinion, may be followed with moral integrity even if the opinion favoring obligation is more probable.

The opinion was of a kind we are used to seeing by now from Justice Kennedy: long on windy rhetoric about «dignity» and ad hominem attacks on the basic human decency of the law's defenders, and short on actual coherent legal reasoning from recognizable constitutional principles.

But once the law - finding power passed to judges, who began to exercise it by rendering written opinions that remained available for all to read, precedent threatened to impose a straight - jacket on future legal development and to bar all future legal change.40

Decisions had to be made from time to time as to where or when services of the church would be held; the church needed to be told of the impending visit of an apostle, or of some prophet or teacher from abroad; a question has been raised as to the good faith of one of these visitors, and there must be some discussion of the point and a decision on it; a fellow Christian from another church is on a journey and needs hospitality; a member of the local congregation planning to visit a church abroad needs a letter of introduction to that church, which someone must be authorized to provide; a serious dispute about property rights or some other legal matter has arisen between two of the brothers and the church must name someone to help them settle the issue or must in some other way deal with it; a new local magistrate has begun to prosecute Christians for violating the law against unlicensed assembly, and consideration must be given to ways and means of meeting this crisis; charges have been brought against one of the members by another member, and these must be investigated and perhaps some disciplinary action taken; one of the members has died, and the church is called on for some special action in behalf of his family in the emergency; differences of opinion exist in the church on certain questions of morals or belief (such as marriage and divorce, or the resurrection), differences which local prophets and teachers are apparently unable to compose, and a letter must be written to the apostle — who will write this letter and what exactly will it say?

fatwa — a formal legal opinion given by a recognized religious leader; a religious pronouncement or verdict concerning a controversial question.

The range of activities being quarantined under a 48 per cent buyout of the Maggie Beer Products premium food business by ASX - listed Primary Opinions has been clearly outlined in a prospectus ahead of a vote on June 24 by shareholders in the Victorian acquirer, which is switching to food manufacturing and away from operating a legal services networking hub.

Nestlé's contempt for UNICEF's legal opinion is shown by it using exactly this excuse in its quote in the Leicester Mercury,

the fact that the outcome positions of the entire court can almost always be foretold just by looking at the subject matter of a case says that it is a court of private opinion - not of proper, dispassionate legal interpretation.

We are satisfied to note that the Chief of Staff asked for a legal opinion from the Attorney - General, not on whether or not Ghana had committed to acquire that 24 % stake (which would be false), but on whether the government could issue the directive to SSNIT as demanded by Woyome.

The opinion released yesterday was prompted by a letter from Cuomo's top legal aide Mylan Denerstein who sought to clarify how and when Cuomo can use the state aircraft when traveling for official business.

Instead, Venditto was willing to try to work out a «legal way» — evidenced by the seeking of lawyers» opinions — for the town to guarantee Singh's loans in order for him to make upgrades to the beach and golf course where he was a concessionaire, Agnifilo said.

I get the question you are asking and iv read the «answers» however all the answers are just public (or legal) opinions of man (in other words made up by men).

The Vice-President at the time (now President) acted in concert with Dr. Oteng Adjei, (the Minister for Energy) in by passing my legal opinion to them on the EO Group case and smuggled a memorandum to the President for an executive consent to enable the EO Group to assign their shares to a buyer.

The documents provided also include the original legal opinions, a follow - up by Kavinoky Cook disputing the Phillips Lytle opinion and a letter from Acting District Attorney Michael Flaherty that suggests his office never designated Lorigo as the West Seneca Town Prosecutor.

Siragusa faced questions during an hour - plus hearing whether he was prodded by Poloncarz to seek the legal opinion about Lorigo.

In his legal opinion, County Attorney Robert Meehan said the law would qualify Westchester as a «Sanctuary County» as defined by the United States Department of Justice and jeopardize nearly $ 13 million in federal public safety grants and reimbursements.

In fact, the legal opinion further stated that by failing to pay Ameri, Government of Ghana has breached the Agreement.

Merrill said he was not taking sides in Vinal's dispute with city hall, nor expressing a legal opinion, by administering the oath.

CORRECTION: Restaurateur Harendra Singh secured a $ 1.5 million line of credit in 2010 with an opinion letter from then - Oyster Bay Deputy Town Attorney Frederick Mei and legal documents drawn up by Rivkin Radler LLP of Uniondale, according to testimony in the federal corruption trial of former Nassau County Edward Mangano and former Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto.

The Fort Schuyler Management Corp., charged with managing the program, is still refusing to release information sought by Investigative Post despite a legal opinion recently issued by the State Committee on Open Government that concluded the agency is subject to the Freedom of Information Law.

This is supposedly based on standard «self defense» war doctrine which is recognized by United Nations, although specific legal issues are subject to much debating and frequently are more a matter of opinion than law.

«We received a clear legal opinion from Tim Owen QC and Julian Knowles, the barristers at Matrix Chambers specialising in human rights and extradition law, that the scope for the exercise of discretion by the home secretary is greater than you believe,» Keith Vaz, chairman of the committee, wrote.

But Quigley said he based his determination to exclude the Common Council on a legal opinion drafted by Kingston's own corporation counsel, Andrew Zweben.

The opinions were written by the department's Office of Legal Counsel amid investigations into President Richard M. Nixon and President Bill Clinton.

`' In my opinion, padding is an illegal or unlawful insertion by a person who is not expected to do it into a legal, purely completed legislative document.

In 2015, the IDA was informed by the New York State Authority Budget Office of the State Comptroller's Formal Opinion No.2014 - F1 which stated that Industrial Development Agency's did not have the legal authority to create subsidiaries for purposes outside of those specifically authorized in their enabling legislation and that IDA's are not authorized,» to make grants or loans of its money to any type of entity.»

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.

Caputo worked to build public sympathy for MercExchange by reducing an arcane legal case to «kitchen table language,» painting eBay as a corporate monster and finding reporters and opinion writers to publish stories about the matter in the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal.

Regardless of whether they are the sole legal owner of the deceased's data — and irrespective of whether the opinion of their next of kin, with regulation, DAI firms would have to abide by certain conventions, such as, preventing hate speech and the commercial exploitation of memorialised profiles».

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) today issued a legal opinion that the controversial logging, which had been defended by Poland's government, is illegal.

Between 2005 and 2012, more than 1585 U.S. published judicial opinions describe the use of neurobiological evidence by criminal defendants to shore up their defense, according to a study published last week in the Journal of Law and the Biosciences by legal scholar Nita Farahany of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and colleagues.

The three «fractured opinions,» as one legal expert put it, increase the chances that the plaintiffs can successfully petition for a new review by the full court, known as an en banc hearing.

so if you want more details look at my last Q but i want your opinions just by how it sounds with out the other (Before you ask, I'm not worried about the legal stuff because the age of consent where I live is 16.

Washington — The Education Department's top auditor has asked the department's legal office for an opinion regarding the ownership of $ 3.6 - million worth of office equipment and other property now in the hands of educational laboratories and centers supported by the National Institute of Education.

Support has declined by 10 percentage points since 2013, suggesting that opinion has shifted in response to the media attention the issue has received during the ongoing Vergara v. California litigation over the constitutionality of tenure (see «Reaping the Whirlwind,» legal beat, Fall 2016).

Legal experts who wish to circumvent the recent Supreme Court decision by shifting from race to family income clearly have yet to make much headway in the court of public opinion.

Supreme Court Advisory Opinions: Answers to legal questions posed to the court by governors or state legislatures.

In addition to the expert opinion, legal arguments pertaining to mootness and ripeness, as well as a strong defense of CCJEF's legitimate standing in the case, the reply brief was offered by counsel for the plaintiffs, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP (New York), with assistance from the Yale Law School Education Adequacy Clinic, both of which serve pro bono in this action.