Sentences with phrase «liberal state court»

The ruling significantly curtails interstate forum shopping by plaintiffs» lawyers seeking to file hundreds of individual civil actions and class actions in the most liberal state court jurisdictions in the US.

Not exact matches

The Virginia residents challenging their state districting plan said the lower court ignored a 2015 Supreme Court decision about Alabama in which Justice Anthony Kennedy joined the four more liberal justices to order a review of state legislative distrcourt ignored a 2015 Supreme Court decision about Alabama in which Justice Anthony Kennedy joined the four more liberal justices to order a review of state legislative distrCourt decision about Alabama in which Justice Anthony Kennedy joined the four more liberal justices to order a review of state legislative districts.

When President Bush nominated Judge Clarence Thomas to a vacancy on the United States Supreme Court, liberals opposed to confirming the nomination at first directed critical scrutiny to statements the nominee had made in favor of employing «natural law» in constitutional interpretation.

Having endured for half a century a Court that seized authority not confided to it to lay down as unalterable law a liberal social agenda nowhere to be found in the actual Constitution of the United States, conservatives must decide whether they want a Court that behaves in the same way but in the service of their agenda.

Indeed, not all that long ago liberal Justices of the Supreme Court were accusing the State of Indiana of shredding the First Amendment by enforcing public nudity laws against table top dancers at the Kitty Kat Lounge in downtown South Bend.

The liberal Daily Kos blog this morning posted a short item pointing out that the federal court asserted in a filing that it was still very much involved in approving the state Assembly and Senate lines.

In a strongly worded letter, Vince Cable, Liberal Democrat MP for Twickenham and Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, has accused officials at the Department for Education, acting on behalf of the Secretary of State, Michael Gove, of breaking the Coalition Agreement, by intervening in a High Court case over inclusive admissions in religious schools.

And the liberal - leaning judge Rebecca Dallet won a spot on the state Supreme Court.

And it offers grist to both ideological conservatives and liberals.For conservatives and libertarians, the tragedy reveals the deleterious blowback of nanny state intervention.The social welfare and family court judge tilted to the missing wife's parents, and restricted Josh's visits from his two sons.We should expect Gingrich to run with this story, attacking the liberal nanny state; and how this liberal state's actions have negative unintended consequences.Liberals will also weigh in.The police, 911 distpatcher, and the criminal justice systemas a whole, all failed.The «hard power» of the police state actually made matters worse.As the ideological divide plays out, the tragedy does not end.The young mother / wife is still missing, and presumed dead.The sick Josh is no longer a person of interest.

And no matter who is chosen, the Court of Appeals will likely remain a uniquely New York institution, more liberal than numerous other states such as, say, Alabama, Bonventre said.

Claims by the Secretary of State for Wales that the current devolution settlement does not need major changes are misguided and could help to entrench an unsatisfactory system in place where the courts become the final arbiter of laws rather than the electorate, the Welsh Liberal Democrats Assembly Member, Peter Black has said.

The Court of Appeals, the state's highest court, is back at full power, and with a decidedly liberal bent, following the confirmation of two of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's nominees by the GOP - controlled SeCourt of Appeals, the state's highest court, is back at full power, and with a decidedly liberal bent, following the confirmation of two of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's nominees by the GOP - controlled Secourt, is back at full power, and with a decidedly liberal bent, following the confirmation of two of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's nominees by the GOP - controlled Senate.

Then, this month, the liberal - leaning Rebecca Dallet won election to the state Supreme Court.

«And he has stated that his goal is to stack the Supreme Court with liberal Justices who will drive a stake through the heart of our constitutional right to keep and bear arms, if he is re-elected.»

And courts in liberal Massachusetts have held that viable fetuses can be treated as persons in homicide cases — yet abortion rights remain perfectly secure there, and in 35 other states with similar laws.

Massachusetts had the most liberal state definition of special education, and a 17 - year court case focused on compliance kept the focus off of misdiagnoses.

This lawsuit was filed by a variety of liberal groups, most notably the Washington Educators Association, the state teachers union, who also happened to be major campaign contributors to every Supreme Court justice who sided with their organization.

Liberal courts are disposed to discover something in state constitutions that will disqualify the law, regardless of whether the constitution prohibits vouchers according to a strict constructionist reading, but conservative courts that may be friendlier to school choice also will adhere more closely to a strict reading of the letter and intent of the constitution.

Florida is more liberal than any other state where it relates to exemptions (property that can not be taken by the court).

If it does not, liberal states and environmental groups are likely to sue the agency based on its carbon endangerment finding — an agency review ordered by the Supreme Court in 2007.

Although article V (1)(d) moves beyond the text of the 1927 Geneva Convention, it is not as liberal as certain arbitration statutes, which attach even less importance than the New York Convention to the law of the country where the arbitration took place at the recognition and enforcement stage.854 As explained in the chapter on article VII, 855 the Convention sets only a «ceiling», or the maximum level of control, which courts of the Contracting States may exert over foreign arbitral awards.

In addition, given the Canadian Supreme Court's embrace of lax certification standards, Canadian plaintiffs» attorneys may begin exploiting liberal discovery rules in the United States in the hopes of mounting parallel class action litigation in Canadian provinces.

It is also acknowledged that Justice Minister Jody Wilson - Raybould stated, on behalf of the Government of Canada at the Assembly of First Nations Annual General Meeting in Niagara Falls in July 2016, that the Liberal Government policy is to anticipate how Aboriginal and Treaty Rights will eventually be articulated by the Supreme Court of Canada so as to act accordingly, by establishing policies that «fill the section 35 rights box» in advance of slow and expensive Indigenous rights decisions from the Supreme Court of Canada.

Judging by the backlogs in the courts, there are not enough judges and / or courtrooms to handle all the cases in a timely manner, which is a basic function of the state on any liberal view, whether classical or social - democratic.