Sentences with phrase «making unlawful»

The Supreme Court of Massachusetts held that a landlord was not liable under a state statute making unlawful any «unfair or deceptive acts or practices in the conduct of any trade or commerce» where he leased an apartment to a young, childless couple without disclosing the possibility of lead paint in the apartment.

In early May, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio signed a bill making it unlawful for NYC employers to use an applicant or employee's credit history for employment purposes.

State and city law in New York City specifically include requirements for reasonable accommodations, making it an unlawful employment practice to refuse to provide accommodations that will enable an employee to do their job.

If you have been seriously injured in a motor vehicle accident involving a left - turn at an intersection, then you may have a claim for damages against the driver who was making an unlawful turn.

In Chicago, you can face serious jail time and fines for making unlawful and unwanted contact with another person.

Genuine issues of fact precluded summary judgment on a consumer's claims against a seafood producer for allegedly making unlawful, false, and misleading advertising regarding the omega - 3 nutrient content of certain of its products in violation of California's Unfair Competition Law (UCL), False Advertising Law (FAL), and Consumers Legal Remedies Act (CLRA), the federal district court in San Jose has ruled (Ogden v. Bumble Bee Food, LLC, January 2, 2014, Koh, L.).

Battery is the crime of making unlawful contact with another person in a harmful or offensive way.

And just last month, he won an acquittal for Detroit lawyer Geoffrey Fieger on federal charges of making unlawful campaign contributions.

In 2000, President Bill Clinton signed the Shark Finning Prohibition Act (H.R. 3535) into public law (P.L. 106 - 557) making it unlawful to possess a shark fin in U.S. waters without a corresponding carcass.

In Canada they passed a law making it unlawful to wear a mask at a demonstration or protest.

And even in Tennessee today the law is on the statute books making it unlawful to teach evolution in the schools.

Although this is a relatively new development, several European countries have now passed laws making it unlawful to discriminate in the provision of goods or services.

The 1972 Clean Water Act makes it unlawful to discharge any pollutant from a single identifiable source — such as a pipe — into certain bodies of water without a permit.

Every day, companies take action against employees who make unlawful statements about co-workers, or create hostile work environments.

A good next move for Congress would be to launch a long - overdue update of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act from 1986, which makes it unlawful to break into a computer to access or alter information and, astoundingly, still serves as a legal guidepost today.

The Liberty Counsel, which also opposes it, told World Net Daily, «This bill would also make it unlawful for any person to sell books, including the Bible, counseling services, or anything else that directs people to trust in Jesus Christ to help them overcome unwanted same - sex attraction or gender confusion.»

http://quran.com/9/29 Fight those who do not believe in Allah or in the Last Day and who do not consider unlawful what Allah and His Messenger have made unlawful and who do not adopt the religion of truth from those who were given the Scripture --[fight] until they give the jizyah (Security Tax) willingly while they are humbled.

3:93 — All food was lawful to the Children of Israel except what Israel had made unlawful to himself before the Torah was revealed.

Also your solution to the not only unlawful but illegal ffp is to make their unlawful and illegal rules stricter?

Makes it unlawful for certain government agencies or departments to act in a way that interferes with your human rights

Introduced in the Senate by Jeff Merkley (D - OR) and Mark Kirk (R - IL), the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA)(S. 815) would make it unlawful for an employer with 15 or more employees:

Maybe a Constitutional change that makes it unlawful to inhibit or block any changes brought forth by The Active Majority Will Of The American People?

If a policy is introduced with a purpose and it does not meet that purpose, a previous case from 1968 against the minister for agriculture, fisheries and food provides the precedent for judges to make an unlawful ruling.

Gay adoption provoked a major political row in 2007 when Labour's Sexual Orientation Regulations made it unlawful for adoption agencies to refuse to help gay prospective parents.

The new Local Law makes it unlawful for establishments to: purchase any articles, jewelry or precious metals from any person under the age of 18; sell, dispose of, destroy, alter or remove from premises any articles for 14 days, (or 30 days if requested by law enforcement); and bars employment to anyone who has been convicted of a felony in the past 3 years.

Our Congress passed a law in 2002 that made it unlawful for me to refer to any product not grown in the USA as «Siberian ginseng.»

Part 6 of the Act makes it unlawful for the responsible body of a school to discriminate against, harass or victimise a pupil or potential pupil in relation to admissions, the way it provides education for pupils, provision of pupil access to any benefit, facility or service, or by excluding a pupil or subjecting them to any other detriment.

Ashford University does not discriminate in its education programs and activities on the basis of race, color, creed, national or ethnic origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, marital status, medical condition, genetic information, service in the uniformed services, political activities and affiliations, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws.

1912: NEA endorses Women's Suffrage 1919: NEA members in New Jersey lead the way to the nation's first state pension; by 1945, every state had a pension plan in effect 1941: NEA successfully lobbied Congress for special funding for public schools near military bases 1945: NEA lobbied for the G.I. Bill of Rights to help returning soldiers continue their education 1958: NEA helps gain passage of the National Defense Education Act 1964: NEA lobbies to pass the Civil Rights Act 1968: NEA leads an effort to establish the Bilingual Education Act 1974: NEA backs a case heard before the U.S. Supreme Court that proposes to make unlawful the firing of pregnant teachers or forced maternity leave 1984: NEA fights for and wins passage of a federal retirement equity law that provides the means to end sex discrimination against women in retirement funds 2000s: NEA has lobbied for changes to the No Child Left Behind Act 2009: NEA delegates to the Representative Assembly pass a resolution that opposes the discriminatory treatment of same - sex couple

In addition, Presidential Policy Directive 19 extends whistleblower protections to Federal employees eligible for access to classified data and the Kirkpatrick Act of 2017 makes it unlawful to access a Federal employee's or an applicant's medical records for certain unauthorized purposes.

(a) It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer to discriminate against any of his employees or applicants for employment, for an employment agency to discriminate against any individual, or for a labor organization to discriminate against any member thereof or applicant for membership, because he has opposed, any practice made an unlawful employment practice by this title, or because he has made a charge, testified, assisted, or participated in any manner in an investigation, proceeding, or hearing under this title.

-- No person shall discriminate against any individual because such individual has opposed any act or practice made unlawful by this Act or because such individual made a charge, testified, assisted, or participated in any manner in an investigation, proceeding, or hearing under this Act.

(D) It shall be unlawful for an employer to discriminate against any of his employees or applicants for employment, for an employment agency to discriminate against any individual, or for a labor organization to discriminate against any member thereof or applicant for membership, because such individual, member or applicant for membership has opposed any practice made unlawful by this section, or because such individual, member or applicant for membership has made a charge, testified, assisted, or participated in any manner in an investigation, proceeding, or litigation under this Act.

It establishes the maximum amount that borrowers may be charged for credit and makes it unlawful for lenders to discriminate on the basis of marital status or gender when extending credit.

I would like to suggest a new ordinance for the community of Liberty, MO: An ordinance that makes it unlawful to have behavior unbecoming a human.

The statute makes it unlawful without a waiver to pursue, hunt, take, capture, kill or sell birds on the list, including red - tailed hawks.

Bill 485, commonly known as the Pet Rescue & Adoption Act, seeks to make it unlawful for retail stores to sell dogs, cats, or rabbits unless the animal was obtained from a public animal control agency or shelter, SPCA shelter, Humane Society Shelter, or other 501 (c)(3) rescue organization.

Bill 485, commonly known as the Pet Rescue & Adoption Act, makes it unlawful for retail stores to sell dogs, cats, or rabbits unless the animal was obtained from a public animal control agency or shelter, SPCA shelter, Humane Society Shelter, or other 501 (c)(3) rescue organization.

The RICO statute makes it unlawful for any person associated with an enterprise to participate in the conduct of such enterprise's affairs, or to conspire to do so, through a pattern of racketeering.

[FN102] The ETSA makes it unlawful to «intentionally kill or wound any fish or wildlife designated by FWCC as endangered, threatened, or of special concern.»

[FN72] The court found that it was clear from the language of the MBTA that Congress intended to make the unlawful killing of even one bird an offense.

[FN66] The MBTA makes it unlawful to, at any time and by any means or manner,»... take, capture, kill, attempt to take, capture, or kill... any migratory bird,... nest, or egg of any such bird...» [FN67] Under the violations and penalties section of the MBTA, any person, association, partnership, or corporation who violates the provisions of the MBTA is guilty of a misdemeanor and, if convicted, can be fined up to $ 15,000 or imprisoned up to six months, or both.

Likewise a Monroe County ordinance makes it unlawful for «any owner or keeper of an animal other than a domestic cat willfully or negligently to allow the animal to run at large on public property or on any private property of another without permission of the property owner.»

[FN107] However, FWCC's rule makes it unlawful for any person to release wildlife that is not native to the state, without first securing a permit from the FWCC.

The FTC charged Deutsch in its complaint with violating Section 5 of the FTC Act, 15 U.S.C. § 45, which makes unlawful deceptive trade acts and practices, because the tweets falsely appeared to be independent reviews of the PS Vita.

New York Senators Jack Martins (R - Mineola) and Tony Avella (D - Queens) have co-sponsored a bill (# S. 4074) which would make it unlawful for «any person to organize, conduct, promote or participate in any contest or competition where the objective of such contest or competition is to take the greatest number of wildlife.»

Signed into law (P.L. 106 - 557) on December 21, the Act amends the Magnuson - Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to make it unlawful to: (1) remove any of the fins of a shark, including the tail, and discard the carcass of the shark at sea; (2) have control or possession of such a fin aboard a fishing vessel without the corresponding carcass; or (3) land such a fin without the corresponding carcass.

Although the states have varied exceptions and statutory penalties for violations, all the bans make it unlawful for any person to possess, sell, offer for sale, trade, or distribute shark fins within that jurisdiction.

AB376 states, «This bill, except as specified, would make it unlawful for any person to possess, sell, offer for sale, trade, or distribute a shark fin, as defined.»

Undeterred, Friends of the Earth, Solar Century and Home Sun then sought and obtained backing for a legal challenge from High Court Judge Mr Justice Mitting, who said ministers were «proposing to make an unlawful decision» and as a result the court would be «amenable to a judicial review».