Sentences with phrase «legitimate government purpose»

Essentially, a court identifies the purpose of the subject law and then considers whether it serves a legitimate government purpose.

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But some owners use nominees or shell companies, which can have legitimate purposes but also can mask international crime, governments and international bodies like the World Bank say.

After the Court granted the Government's petition for leave to serve the summons, managing partner of Berns Weiss LLP and Coinbase customer Jeffrey K. Berns filed a motion challenging the summons, arguing that the IRS had no legitimate purpose in seeking the requested records, that enforcement of the summons would constitute an abuse of process, and that the categories of requested documents were overbroad.

Most courts considering laws that state governmental agencies have claimed are necessary for fiscal responsibility, which Chelan County claims is the purpose of this rate increase, have concluded that the laws are rationally related to a legitimate government interest.

Those government acknowledgments of religion serve, in the only ways reasonably possible in our culture, the legitimate secular purposes of solemnizing public occasions, expressing confidence in the future, and encouraging the recognition of what is worthy of appreciation in society.

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«With New York government scarred by a shameful parade of scandals, ethics reform is once again at the forefront of this year's legislative session and I call on the Senate and Assembly to include real restrictions on these taxpayer - funded mailings that serve no legitimate governmental purpose,» Singas wrote.

But a big obstacle to research on marijuana as medicine is that it's listed by the federal government on what's called Schedule I. Assignment to Schedule I means that the Food and Drug Administration does not recognize a legitimate medical purpose to a substance.

Informing parents about how and when they can enroll their children in voucher schools seems like a pretty «legitimate educational purpose» given that voucher programs have existed in Milwaukee since 1990, in Racine since 2011 and statewide since 2013, and the Republicans who control state government are thinking about expanding voucher availability again.

That doing so is a legitimate purpose of government is arguable.

The only legitimate purpose of all governments is to protect the people.

And many — and this is predominantly (although not exclusively) to be laid at the feet of the Republicans — deliberately exploited legitimate concerns about government overreach and government interference in the market to gin up a malignant hatred of government for the politically expedient purpose of laying cover for very risky and highly dangerous policies that served to benefit a tiny % of the public disproportionately.

The practice has legitimate purposes, mainly the early closing of a parliamentary session when the government has achieved its agenda.

This may be regarded as the establishment or recognition of a residual and minimal legal «safety - net» that could be regarded as binding upon the conduct of both named parties for the purposes of the action they are undertaking which is mandated and legitimated by the Union withdrawal clause (for an argument that the UK government and the EU institutions are bound by EU law in the conduct of the negotiations, see here).

Such pure discrimination is most certainly not a «legitimate purpose» for our Federal Government, which should be especially sensitive to discrimination on grounds of birth.

The government alleged that the defendants prescribed painkillers and caused pharmacy claims to be submitted where there was no legitimate medical purpose for the prescriptions.

# a new Securities Transfer Act will be enacted to provide a modern framework for the transfer of shares, bonds and other securities, and promote interprovincial and international harmonization of rules; # personal health information access and privacy legislation will be introduced to balance the individual's right to confidentiality with the need to get information for legitimate health purposes; # government will receive the report of the Task Force on Access to Family Justice, and respond to its recommendations accordingly; # a Building Code Act will be enacted that establishes a chief building inspector position, promotes consumer safety, and provides for province wide adoption of the National Building Code and mandatory inspections by qualified inspectors; # a Heritage Conservation Act will be introduced to improve heritage stewardship; # a new Pay Equity Act will be introduced to ensure that pay equity legislation applies to all parts of the public service.

In relation to the first point, the government's representative emphasised to the CERD Committee when he appeared before it in March 1999 that the government's purpose in enacting the validation, confirmation and primary production upgrade provisions as well as the amendments to the right to negotiate provisions was legitimate in that it sought to balance a range of interests affected by the legislation using proportionate means to do so.

Firstly, it maintains that the purpose behind the amendments to the NTA are legitimate and that insufficient attention was paid by the Committee to the reasonableness of the government's objectives and the proportionate means by which these objectives were achieved.