Sentences with phrase «legal statutes about»

Note that legal statutes about clergy confidentiality concern only what is admissible in a court of law.

Not exact matches

Douglas Kellner told the board the two - year statute of limitations for contributors that do not adhere to the legal limit is too tight and that anyone «serious» about overhauling campaign laws should change it.

He made no bones about the legal thinking behind his warning: «There were, quite frankly, concerns with federal mail fraud statutes.»

Previously, abortions beyond this point were only legal to save the mother's life, but the «health» standard has raised concerns about a broader law than the initial statute.

Speaking on the Brian Lehrer Show, Ms. Quinn strongly denied that the Women's Equality Party was about anything other than advancing the Women's Equality Agenda, a 10 - point plan that would codify a number of anti-discrimination statutes as well as the legal right to an abortion.

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Following are legal considerations about some of the common collections concerns for debtors in New York: Statutes of Limitations: A statute of limitations on a debt is the time period following the last payment made during which a debtor can be sued successfully for payment.

To the extent that the statute is about consent, the consent is a statutory creation, a legal fiction of sorts.

You might want to emphasize to students that the court rules and statutes about confidentiality relate to the question of when statements or documents used in ADR proceedings can be introduced into subsequent legal proceedings.

I'm also talking about the statutes, the regulations, the state rules, the business logic, the business processes, and also to quasi-legal documentation that are all involved with executing legal contracts.

Static Pages — These pages provide information about your areas of practice, including explanations of laws and statutes related to your practice and useful information about the type of legal matter that concerns the potential client.

If the emphasis is on legal, if legal history means the doctrinal and historical origins of current law, it can be useful in certain cases, such as arguing about the signficance of a past amendment to a statute.

Remember how you learned in legal writing 101 that the judge did not care what you personally thought and only cared about what cases and statutes said?

As just about everyone in the legal community knows, the purpose of the ULCC is to develop uniform statutes that are then forwarded to the provincial and territorial governments for implementation — or not.

This blawg includes information about and links to Oregon legal research resources, in addition to comments about cases, statutes, and interesting events in the world of legal research and law libraries.

For instance, one report, entitled Human Rights at Home: Miami's Housing Crisis and its Perpetuation of Poverty, analyzed raw data collected by Legal Services of Greater Miami and the Community Justice Project to show how Florida's rent deposit statute disparately impacts low - income people's ability to defend themselves: even if a tenant has a sudden financial hardship to overcome or alleges legitimate concerns about housing conditions, that tenant must deposit all the unpaid rent into the court to even have the dispute heard.

What if you could review a dictionary of legal terms, research statutes of limitations, look up information about visa types, investigate crime rates and history for specific crimes, as well as state and national average comparisons, get closing cost estimates, and information on square footage, home sales price, and utility prices from one iPhone app?

Non-lawyers may not have a lot of legal knowledge to add to the interpretation of law, but collectively they may be able to add substantially to our knowledge about a subject — or a statute.

Maybe that's a practical lawyer's reaction... There are legal textbooks that consider the impact of amendments to statutes over the years, but I think here we are talking about decisions about what text of a legal document) is definitive at any particular moment.

Statute of Limitations and Real Property Limitations Act — We blogged about a number of cases (Tarko v. MTCC No. 626, MTCC No. 659 v. Truman and TSCC 1487 v. Market Lofts Inc.) in the past year where one party took the position that the other party's claim was barred because the legal proceedings were commenced after the expiry of the limitation period set out in the applicable limitations statute.

Also on the topic of researching legislation: it doesn't appear that SLAW has previously mentioned Eric Appleby's free online Legal Research Guide to Statutes 2007 (PDF, 44 pages)(Eric is the founder of Maritime Law Book; Gary Rodrigues posted here last year on SLAW about Eric).

'' [A] n attorney may not claim protection of the anti-SLAPP statute for publishing statements about an adversary at will, in hopes of shoring up his or her own position, attracting potential clients, or otherwise gaining a tactical advantage in an ongoing legal proceeding, even when that proceeding has, as here, attracted a good deal of public and governmental interest.

But beyond that simple sort of restructuring of the parts («if this, then that»), I'm unclear about how legal semanticists, if that's an appropriate way to describe Professor Wyner, would propose to construct an ontology for statute law.

Family law has been my primary area of practice for my entire legal career and I am passionate about this area of law and in keeping current on the cases, statutes and changes that affect Indiana divorce, custody, support and adoption law.

There's 255 million documents in the Fastcase and Docket Alarm databases, and so, we have a ton of information about judges or law firms or clients, and so armed with the kind of whole legal database of judicial opinions and statutes, all of the motions and pleadings from the Docket Alarm database and then all of the metadata about filings in PACER, what the pace of things were, when they happened.

Because, with all due respect to Côté J's argument that the issue in this case relates to a matter of general importance to the legal system as a whole (solicitor - client privilege), it is hard to accept the characterization of this decision as about solicitor - client privilege, rather than about the interpretation of the Privacy Commissioner's home statute.

Legalcite, if the draft proposal is approved, will come up with a «tagging model» that would let content producers affix a variety of metadata to a case or statute citation in such a way that a computer could, first, recognize that the citation was just that: a legal citation; and then «understand» a number of things about that citation.

This page contains some basic information about personal injury statutes of limitations in Texas, and is not intended to be legal advice.

As a legal realist would be quick to point out, picking a statute's purpose, selecting the level of generality at which to describe the purpose, and making the consequentialist judgment about which interpretation promotes that purpose can be a deeply political and policy - laden endeavor, one that looks a lot more like making law than finding it.

However, I don't see any legal statute regarding entry with or without notice for showing, nor does my lease agreement say anything about entry for showing.

This online resource from the Student Legal Services of Edmonton includes information about common law relationships and the Adult Interdependent Relationships Act, property rights, other benefits and statutes (Alberta) and Federal Acts.

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When talking about caring for your children after separation, whether with your spouse or as part of a legal process with collaborative attorneys, it's not necessary to borrow the language from the legal statutes and talk about custody and visitation.

For example, when a client asks for legal advice about a particular alimony option that is being discussed, an under - functioning lawyer might say something like «it's up to you and your spouse» without advising the client about how the spousal support statute works or what case law suggests alimony might look like under the facts of the client's case.

A government statute telling someone they can't freely voice an opinion even about legal issues would interfere with constitutional protections.