Sentences with phrase «legitimate public purpose»

Even under strict scrutiny, being able to identify a passenger, especially using public transit, having identification serves an overriding and legitimate public purpose (actually multiple purposes) and as such, would survive the strictest of judicial scrutiny.

Betsy DeVos appears completely unable to speak to the public purposes of schooling largely because she simply does not see any legitimate public purpose to anything.

To seize property by eminent domain, New York law requires the authority to be acting in some legitimate public purpose, like the removal of blight or a threat to public safety or, much more controversially, to spur economic development.

Not exact matches

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.

Brown says that while combination end points have a legitimate purpose when researchers are testing drugs for a rare or infrequent outcome, far too often researchers use the information in ways that «mislead both doctors and the general public.»

You have the right to restrict or object to our processing if we are processing your data based on legitimate interests or the performance of a task in the public interest as an exercise of official authority (including profiling); using your data for direct marketing (including profiling); or processing your data for purposes of scientific or historical research and statistics.

Defenders of the status quo are able to effectively attack certain reforms as «anti-public education» because Americans believe that the public has a legitimate responsibility to ensure that all children receive an adequate education... The divisions emerge when we consider how to act upon these shared purposes.

I doesn't matter how much temporizers argue that this is the effect of «noble cause» corruption, IT»S STILL CORRUPTION, undertaken deliberately and with malice aforethought, the effects including the diversion of research funds from legitimate purposes as well as support for public policies and private sector malinvestment, which do great material damage to particular parties and to the common weal.

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.

Besides the legitimate questions and debates around who gets to use public spaces for what purposes, from a simply pragmatic perspective it seems likely that each individual physical occupation will eventually be cleared o — either by use of force from authorities, inclement weather, or the simple fact that it is very, very hard to keep such make - shift communities going over extended periods of time.

He contends convincingly that the consolidation of the Union's role in criminal law only makes the «need for an all - out criminal law policy... more acute than before» (page 59) and highlights six fundamental principles that the EU needs to address in order to clarify and legitimise further its action in the field; among the six, the call to pay attention to the principle of ultima ratio, coherence, subsidiarity and the requirement of a legitimate purpose seem particularly pertinent also in regard to the current debate concerning the establishment of the European Public Prosecutor.

The extreme levels of incarceration come at a human and financial cost that is unjustified by the legitimate purposes of sentencing, and that perversely undermines public safety.

Although Cranston J accepted that the public interest might require persons to be given access to a court of the purpose of challenging the issue and execution of a search warrant and the retention of material (either in the Administrative Court or the Crown Court under section 59) given the relative weakness of the individual rights at stake and the relatively trivial interference with those rights, it was legitimate for the courts to permit the withholding of PII material in the wider public interest [33, 41].

The ECJ said that legitimate aims for the purpose of Art 6 had to have a public interest nature.

They stated that «such entities, by their very nature, collect health information for legitimate public health and research purposes.»

# 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.