Sentences with phrase «legal standing does»

What legal standing do I have in this situation?

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A major question in that litigation was whether Texas had legal standing to sue, an issue that the Supreme Court did not resolve.

Gawker is the only one among a new generation of media companies that appears ready to stand its ground in the face of legal threats; if it loses, there may soon be no one else who is willing to do so.

Just get clear on your legal standing, and what you can and can't do to get your partnership on track or end it.

Lively, with representation by Liberty Counsel (an evangelical legal organization), responded that in both the U.S. and Uganda he exercised constitutionally protected speech rights; that he opposes violence and neither committed nor plotted any; that Uganda did not in fact pass a proposed draconian anti-gay law, and that in any case Uganda's political institutions, instead of himself, are responsible for its political decisions; and that the court lacks jurisdiction and the plaintiffs lack standing.

Does he stand up for his legal right to do so, no matter how distasteful?

No one sued or complained because they had no legal standing to do so.

Whatever the league outwardly says it plans to do, all signs right now point to NFL owners eventually deciding to make players stand, opening up big problems on the legal front, creating a situation that the NFLPA will not let go unchallenged.

Say what you will about Bonds — and we certainly do — but if legends like Aaron and possibly Mays are Team A-Rod, and MLB is happy to move on with all of his numbers intact, the Yankees probably don't have a leg to stand on in their upcoming dinger - centric legal battle.

So while Mientkiewicz doesn't have a legal leg to stand on — «The ball ain't his,» says Finkelman — neither do the Red Sox.

Since we don't really have a legal leg to stand on, we have decided to move away from him as far as we legally can to limit his time with the kids.

IANAL, but it means anyone can do whatever they want to you and you won't have legal standing to protest it.

The court said the contractor, Lancaster Development of Richmondville, wasn't allowed to challenge the contract rules — relying on legal «standing» principles — because it didn't submit a bid.

The group does not have any legal counsel standing by to help potential whistleblowers, and instead handed DEC workers information on their rights as whistleblowers under state law.

In Rockland County, County Clerk Paul Piperato has said he did not believe he had legal standing to deny the Journal News» request for gun permit addresses.

When I said that there is a «legal» way back I did not mean that the law as it stands gives a way back, clearly it doesn't.

Nick Clegg is standing firm over the future of Lord Rennard, saying basic decency requires the peer to apologise over harassment allegations before having the party whip restored and that he does not believe this is the time for legal sabre rattling by Rennard's supporters.

WBFO»S Focus on Education reporter Eileen Buckley says State Supreme Court Justice Deborah Chimes ruled that Giambra and two co-petitioners did not have proper legal standing to mount the court challenge.

A Staten Island judge ultimately decided the pair did not have legal standing to make its case.

As Mr. Martin got down on one knee, he didn't notice a colleague of Ms. Blair's, standing by the door waiting for a legal file.

Does that mean that a legal immigrant has standing to challenge various «amnesty» type actions by federal government that unfairly removes those costs from illegal immigrants?

Since Levy thinks it's meaningful for the Governor to say «this is a fiscal state of emergency», even though it doesn't have any legal standing, why stop there?

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said he «will continue to monitor the situation, and we stand ready to take legal action to ensure the clean - up is done fully and done right.»

Unfortunately, Cuomo is getting away with flouting the Finance Law because members of the state Legislature — the only people with legal standing to sue him — simply don't care enough to make an issue of it.

However, now that the 49 - day waiting period has elapsed and all options are available to us, we stand ready to take legal action to compel long - overdue reforms at Rikers, if that becomes necessary to get the job done.»

At each wedding, as Jacob stood by his siblings and signed the papers to make it legal, he did it knowing he did not have the right to marriage himself.

The institute dropped the lawsuit after EPA attorneys argued that the group lacked legal standing to bring the litigation; the agency also pointed to a 1999 decision by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that concluded that receipt of grant money didn't mean that advisory committee members were «susceptible to improper influence.»

Instead, the court said, Roche is a co-owner and Stanford doesn't have legal standing to sue the company.

Although there are survivors who can testify to what they endured, Lipstadt's British legal team, led by solicitor Anthony Julius (Andrew Scott, providing a dose of wit) and barrister Richard Rampton (Tom Wilkinson, providing the gravitas), don't want to put them on the stand.

In a one - page ruling, Justices Barbara Pariente, Peggy Quince, Charles Canady and Ricky Polston all sided with the state and school choice advocates that the union did not have legal standing to challenge the law.

The groups had previously been told by both the trial court and appeals court that they did not have legal standing to challenge the 15 - year - old program adopted by the Legislature, and Wednesday's rejection ends their appeal.

In May 2015, the Circuit Court of the Second Judicial Circuit in Leon County, Florida, dismissed the original FEA lawsuit after finding that plaintiffs did not have legal standing to sue.

In their appeal to the Supreme Court, state officials did not stress the merits of the law but argued instead that the plaintiffs who challenged it lacked the legal standing to do so.

A state judge ruled earlier this month that, while the plaintiffs who filed the lawsuit had no legal standing to make the challenge, the governor could do so.

Do school superintendents follow orders from above and turn their backs on the parents whose fundamental rights can not be abridged or do they stand up and fulfill their moral, ethical, and I would argue legal, responsibility to create healthy, safe and productive learning environments for all of their students, including those whose parents have opted them out of the Common Core testinDo school superintendents follow orders from above and turn their backs on the parents whose fundamental rights can not be abridged or do they stand up and fulfill their moral, ethical, and I would argue legal, responsibility to create healthy, safe and productive learning environments for all of their students, including those whose parents have opted them out of the Common Core testindo they stand up and fulfill their moral, ethical, and I would argue legal, responsibility to create healthy, safe and productive learning environments for all of their students, including those whose parents have opted them out of the Common Core testing.

Despite the fact that there is no law, regulation or legal policy that prevents parents from opting their children out of the destructive testing mania, school superintendents and principals have been directed to do everything they can to prevent parents from standing up to protect their children.

This distinction is why the courts have ruled that FEA and its partners don't have standing, and why legal challenges to tax - credit scholarship programs around the country have been largely unsuccessful.

Higher speeds you feel it in the Model S so you back off and the re-gen slows you down quickly ready for the next blast... M5, 3 seconds of Raw fun, stupids speeds arrive and then 20 seconds of coasting and nail biting before you slow down back to legal speeds... 3 seconds of fun and 20 seconds of fear... too quick and without re-gen you are just standing on those very expensive disks and pads... Honestly in todays traffic Model S far better and if you must, buy a lotus for the weekend B road blast... Also with all the sound insulation in the M5 you can't hear the engine until silly speeds... so again Model S.... My friend said don't you miss the V8 noise and my other friend sat in the car said its a bit like missing the clip clop of your horse at the advent of the Model T...

Although the publishing companies don't have a real legal leg to stand on....

Without going into detail, suffice it to say that my wife and I met the legal standing requirements and my mother - in - law did not.

The presence of Kindle Worlds might also give copyright owners firmer legal standing if they choose to go after fan ficcers who try to profit from their work («There is an existing platform that allows you to do this legally.

Without independent legal advice, you may find that your separation agreement is not valid and does not stand up in a court of law should you need to enforce or change something in the future.

If your account is in good standing, defined as: A) Your Checking Account has been open for at least 30 days; B) Making regular deposits sufficient to cover transactions; C) Bringing the account to a positive balance at least once every thirty days or less; D) There are no legal orders outstanding on your account; and E) You do not have any loans with us that are more than 30 days past due, we may, at our sole discretion, pay overdrafts up to the limits mentioned above, including our normal Non-Sufficient Funds or Courtesy Pay charge (s).

So long as it is legal to do so in your neighborhood, you could get volunteers to stand at street corners and hold similar signs, with a photo, brief description (Lost Dog), and a phone number.

If he did a full on sprite and music swap and filled the world with original graphics that don't exactly look like Link, then Nintendo really wouldn't have a legal leg to stand on.

What legal feet do they have to stand on?

Unless these demonized «skeptics» are charged with a crime, California doesn't have any legal legs to stand on.

Successful legal project managers will stand out in their practice as the people who get things done, who have satisfied clients, who build high - functioning teams, who drive profitability or accomplish more than expected with a shrinking budget.

«If I was going to stand up in front of my students and really believe that having a legal degree and a career as a lawyer can be among the most fulfilling career choices a person can make,» says Michigan State University law professor Renee Newman Knake, «I needed to be doing something to make sure that would be true going forward for future generations of lawyers.»

Oddly, he starts with an example that does not squarely fit his thesis, That Other Drug Legalization Movement, in which he examines how pharmaceutical companies push legal drugs as substitutes for illegal ones — Ritalin as stand - in for cocaine, for one.