Sentences with phrase «legal precedent for it»

Although a private letter ruling does not establish legal precedent for all investors, there are many advisors who believe two years is a conservative holding period, provided no other significant factors contradict the investment intent.»

On one side, malicious mothers who often have legal precedent for primary child custody on their side take children away from good fathers by alienating them.

Fortunately, this doesn't mean that Amazon is legally bound to honor similar requests in the future, but it also means that we still haven't established a legal precedent for it.

In October the tribunal delivered its verdict, rejecting Uber's argument that the drivers in question were self - employed contractors — instead judging them to be workers, setting a legal precedent for other Uber drivers to challenge the company.

I am aware of no legal precedent for invalidating a law just because it describes something that can not currently be done.

What is the general legal precedent for the term «Terms of Service» and does the contractual form where a service is used in and of itself to enforce a contract have special legal meaning?

The lawyer for the press comes in and says, if you're going to take that name, there's no good argument, there's no good legal precedent for keeping that name from the public.

The lawsuit is further special for setting a legal precedent for games, which had legally not been considered goods.

There is no law or legal precedent for the govt.

The Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, which mandated the desegregation of public schools, gave the executive branch a legal precedent for enforcing equal access to education.

One legal precedent for this case is when Paul Burrell, former butler to Princess Diana, successfully won # 5000 from PR man Max Clifford in 2016, says Naik.

Lawyer for the plaintiff, Hon. Alexander Afenyo Markins, speaking to journalists after the hearing said the ruling will serve as a legal precedent for successive governments so they don't delay the formation of governing boards for institutions.

Helen Durkin, attorney at the International Racquet and Fitness Association, says there is less of a legal precedent for governments such as park districts than there is for not - for - profit associations such as a YMCA.

The problem with the anti-choice argument is that there is no legal precedent for anyone to be obligated to save another person's life, even without threat to their own.

Over recent years, in addition to supporting volunteer duck rescue efforts by the Coalition Against Duck Shooting, Animals Australia's extraordinary legal team has secured crucial wins for native waterbirds, setting powerful legal precedents for animals.

There are legal precedents for war crimes prosecutions based on acts that were committed with recklessness, he added, and recklessness or negligence does not necessarily absolve someone of criminal responsibility under the United States military code.

Not exact matches

«A ruling by a single judge in one circuit can not and does not undo the years of clear legal precedent nationwide establishing that transgender students have the right to go to school without being singled out for discrimination,» said a statement from five groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), that have filed «friend of the court» briefs on behalf of transgender students.

Shannon Minter, a transgender man who is legal director of the San Francisco - based National Center for Lesbian Rights, said many transgender civil - rights gains of recent years are based on federal statutes and court precedents that can not be quickly undone.

Legal precedent, meanwhile, tends to define sexual harassment as occurring either when a supervisor requests sex in exchange for a subordinate being promoted or not being fired, or when an employee is subject to behavior of a sexual nature that's so pervasive it creates a hostile work environment.

Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey said in a letter released on Sunday night that the agency's request wasn't about setting legal precedent, but rather seeking justice for the victims and investigating other possible threats.

Catholic organizations have for decades fought to change federal and state laws that fail to protect «unborn persons,» and Catholic Health's lawyers in this case had the chance to set precedent bolstering anti-abortion legal arguments.

Any group that can manifest «hurt» can make a legal claim for special protection — again, racism (not the dignity of human nature) is the precedent:

«We are currently doing what I have to do, which is review very carefully the legal standards and precedents for whatever judgment is made.»

After ritually assuring us of same - sex marriage's inevitable triumph as a civil right, and noting the predictable criticism of Wuerl's stand from progressive Catholics, the editorial rightly points out that there is precedent for a legal compromise.

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

Competition policy (SME focus; need for equity; treat SMEs as «consumers» when dealing with larger businesses - extend unfair terms contracts to small business; need «legal precedents or statutory definitions» as part of unconscionable conduct framework); competition laws (focus on unfair terms and unconscionable behaviour; mention of MMP but not in context of s 46; access - call for broader access; price signalling (not clear)-RRB-; administration

One way or another, Dr. Amy has turned a little tempest over a «women's matter» into the potential for a major legal precedent that folks (young, childless, mostly male tech - heads) who don't know or care about home birth or the mommy wars will take an interest in.

@DrunkCynic I'm mostly looking for a 101 - level primer on how it works in practice, not a law - review deep - dive into Federalism and history of legal precedents.

(there seems to be a legal and political precedent for this; e.g. levying sin taxes on tobacco producers to cover budget for treating cancer; or levying taxes on medical device manufacturers as part of ACA / Obamacare to help fund it).

This means that they are only subject to personal liability for money damages in cases where the meaning of the law with respect to the situation in question is «clearly established» which usually means that it involves a legal issue that has been resolved in a binding case law precedent.

f) A Declaration that each of the Applicant's «right to vote and entitle [ment] to be registered as a voter for the purposes of public elections and referenda» in light of the Act 699 and said various laws and legal instruments is not subject to any condition precedent aside the article 42 age and sanity of mind criteria;

Sweeney added there is little state legal precedent to go on because New York primaries are normally held in September, which leaves no time for a later primary before the general election.

The forcible removal of branding would infringe fundamental legal rights, severely damage principles around intellectual property and set a dangerous precedent for the future of commercial free speech.

Although some legislators expressed concern that the legislation would set a legal precedent that could lead to other pleas for relief, Legislative Counsel George Nolan said he did not expect a flood of lawsuits.

It's normal for lawyers and others to ask questions whether the Supreme Court's decisions follow a legal pattern: that is, do the Court's decisions conform to legal precedent, ordinary norms of legal reasoning, and established constitutional and legal principles.

It does not apply to overall state limits, but experts say the decision sets a precedent which could set up a legal challenge to New York's $ 150,000 overall contribution limit per person per calendar year, and $ 5,000 limit for corporations.

At the Democratic Party's lunchtime meeting in Tarrytown, Schumer spoke to his hopes for the future, including that he will become Senate majority leader and, in the event the Republican - controlled Senate does not relent in its opposition to an Obama nominee, «our madam president will surely nominate a person for the Supreme Court who is in the legal mainstream (and) will uphold fundamental rights and common sense precedents now so severely under attack by the right - wing.»

At the Democratic Party's lunchtime meeting in Tarrytown, Schumer spoke about his hopes for the future, including that he will become Senate majority leader, Hillary Clinton will be elected president and she will «nominate a person for the Supreme Court who is in the legal mainstream (and) will uphold fundamental rights and common sense precedents now so severely under attack by the right wing.»

The hearing provided the most formal legal test yet of whether fMRI lie detection meets the so - called Daubert standard for admitting evidence in federal court, and as such it could set an important precedent.

And the resulting lawsuit was settled out of court, leaving a dearth of precedent to establish the legal strength of financial disclosure's role in the safety or consent for a clinical trial.

For starters, IBM has four markets in mind: machines that could find the best places to invest money, bring new depth and accuracy to medical diagnoses, research the appropriate legal precedents in court cases, or give people help when they dial a call center.

Tech companies may intend to be creating a safer and more inclusive environment for users — but they may actually encourage radicalization and simultaneously create precedents for removing content in the face of public outcry, regardless of legal or moral obligations.

Morgan has directed Ofsted to draw up a legal cases for all 18 unregistered schools it has discovered, setting a precedent for future cases, in bid for tighter regulation.

The appeals court relied heavily on legal precedents set down by the Supreme Court in 1973 in Committee for Public Education v. Nyquist.

The district also contends that because the mayor and board of education have provided additional funding for traditional public schools ever since the act was passed, those actions have created an authoritative legal precedent.

Even the No Child Left Behind Act's requirement that school districts adopt a voluntary desegregation plan, for instance, may conflict with legal precedents set in most federal appeals courts.

This commentary addresses the Arizona Supreme Court's legal reasoning in Cain v. Horne, which struck down two voucher programs for special needs children pursuant to one of Arizona's Blaine Amendments and explains that the court both failed to apply a straightforward textual analysis and ignored the analytical framework its prior precedents had properly established.

Precedent: A legal concept referring to a case that has resolved a particular legal question that lower courts are bound to follow and that the deciding court will usually follow, absent a strong reason for concluding it is wrong or has become unworkable.

Those legal precedents cleared the way for private school choice programs that didn't single out particular religious groups.

Nonetheless, I stood squarely behind a very simple legal precedent: men had been allowed to leave the coast of the United States in rowboats bound for Europe.