Sentences with phrase «means state law»

Buses are typically owned and run by the government, which means state laws can play a more disruptive role.

Not exact matches

The reversal of the Cole Memo, written by then - Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole in 2013 means that there will be more confusion about the legality of growing, selling, and using the drug in places where state and local laws clash with the federal government.

Libel is something that is regulated at the state level, which means that to change it, the president would have to either convince all of the states to change the way they handle libel prosecution or pass a new federal law specifically governing libel.

Recreational marijuana has been legal under California law since Jan. 1, but that doesn't mean the newly - legit drug will be welcome at one of the state's biggest music festivals this spring.

Even if these families had the means, suing wouldn't be worth the legal fees because state legislators passed a law barring citizens from winning compensation for damages related to health, quality of life, enjoyment of property, or lost income caused by factory farms.

Forty - six states plus Washington, D.C., have data breach notification laws, which means you must proactively inform your customers in the event of a breach involving their information.

Phones are otherwise a unique category of gadget that defies the fundamentals of Moore's Law, whose expanded meaning states that the performance of electronics is exponentially improving while the cost and therefore the price is decreasing along a similar trajectory.

The outcry is in response to Indiana's Republican Gov. Mike Pence signing into law a «religious freedom» bill that will free individuals and business owners from abiding by state and local laws that «substantially» burden their exercise of religion, unless the government can prove that it has a compelling interest and is doing so by the least restrictive means.

The rest of the states fall under equitable distribution law, which means assets are distributed fairly (but not necessarily equally) according to income, circumstances leading up to the divorce and other factors.

That could mean state intestacy laws determine who gets your assets, which may not be who you'd prefer.

The changed legal positions already advanced by Sessions means minority voters looking to prove that the state's strict voter ID law is intentionally discriminatory will probably have to do without the federal government's backing, as will transgender students who argue that the law allows them to use the bathroom that matches their gender identity.

Some states have laws meant to protect franchisees after they buy.

Also, the higher thresholds for the Alternative Minimum Tax («AMT») mean that many taxpayers who had to add back deductions for state and local taxes to determine their tax due may not have to pay the AMT, but the new law «caps» those deductions so the end result may be a small change for those taxpayers.

Several states have actually anticipated a South Dakota victory, adopting similar laws and hoping that a South Dakota win means their laws will automatically become legal.

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Effective January 1, 2013, Insurance Law § 2612 also requires a health insurer, as defined in that section, to accommodate a reasonable request made by a person covered by an insurance policy or contract to receive communications of claim - related information by alternative means or at alternative locations if the person clearly states that disclosure of the information could endanger the person.

That doesn't mean the stricter gun laws in Chicago, New York, or any other jurisdiction have no effect, but it does limit how far these local and state measures can go, since the root of the problem lies in other places» laws.

DTC is a limited - purpose trust company organized under the laws of the State of New York, a member of the Federal Reserve System, a «clearing corporation» within the meaning of the New York Uniform Commercial Code, and a «clearing agency» registered pursuant to the provisions of section 17A of the Exchange Act.

Thursday on MSNBC, Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz stated that President Donald Trump's longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen being wiretapped by federal investigators meant America was «moving closer and closer to the surveillance state.»

The division of church and state means that the state does the state does not entirely control the religions and the religions do not dictate to the state what the laws will be.

Wail away all you like, about the const - itution and how it is being mis - read, the true meaning of the separation of / from church and state, but it all does not matter — the law as currently interpreted and enforced says events of this nature are not legal!

Sales could be prosecuted under the criminal accessory component of this law, though such prosecutions were rare, because the state's policy was meant to prevent birth - control clinics from operating in Connecticut.

They still have to comply with federal and state laws, which means gays are out, but everyone else has to be considered for employment by the company (the only exceptions to the law are where your religion or other protected status are essential for the job... for example, a Muslim couldn't sue an Episcopalian church who wouldn't hire them in an administrative role because their faith clashes with that of the church — things like that don't apply to a fast food chain).

You can disparage the Supreme Court justices all you want and it will not change the fact that sodomy laws are unconstitutional in the United State of America meaning that it is unconstitutional to pass laws that make homosexuality illegal.

But the law actually means that any system will continue toward a state of disorder WITHOUT AN INPUT OF ENERGY.

Any specification of the responsibilities that accompany our basic rights, any articulation of the content of the «laws of nature,» any acknowledgement that the Church might be necessary for the state to judge and fulfill its obligations to the «power in heaven,» or any specification of the meaning of «nature and nature's God» — though article 1, sec. 8 of the Constitution may provide a clue when it empowers Congress «to promote the Progress of Science and the useful Arts.»

They suggested three ways in which RFRA might conceivably be interpreted (misinterpreted, really) to create bad consequences: (1) to give a church's opponents legal «standing» (a technical term meaning the right to sue) to challenge the church's tax - exempt status; (2) to allow taxpayers to claim their free exercise rights would be violated if a religiously affiliated organization receives government assistance under a secular program; and, most importantly, (3) to allow pro-abortion plaintiffs to claim a free exercise right to abortion if Roe v. Wade is overruled and states enact anti-abortion laws.

A natural law Constitution need not mean a confessional State, even though it is true that natural law is a Christian concept — but that point got completely lost in the emotional maelstrom that passed for a campaign here.

Q9) Do you as Christians and Atheists wish at times if you had a sperate state for each to live in, where each of you can do as they please as in their favorite way of living, where each can impose his own laws and beliefs, and would that mean accepting to live among the mass Races of that belief or rather would favor a state or county for each mass of Race within the same belief?

Section 3 of the law states, «No person shall attempt to convert, either directly or otherwise, any person from one religious faith to another by use of force or by allurement or by any fraudulent means, nor shall any person abet any such conversion.»

It means the state can not impose a religious belief on others, i.e. Sharia law.

Of course we wish to treat people with compassion and encouragement, even when they are in objectively sinful or irregular states of life, but this does not mean that we can blithely set aside the law of God and change the Lord's own doctrine on marriage.

If a country lands on the report, that means, according to the law, they should not receive any military support from the United States.

Separation of church and state means the government can not pass laws to impede religion and the religion can not tell the government what to do, that's all.

Here are some details about that November 2004 ballot proposal: 1) there was already in place a Utah law strictly banning same - sex marriage, which I fully supported; 2) all three candidates for the office of attorney general of Utah (the chief law - enforcement officer in the state) opposed the amendment, including the LDS (Mormon) Republican incumbent, Mark Shurtleff, mostly because they considered it a poorly drafted amendment; 3) I refused to endorse the amendment, but I did not urge people to vote «no»; 4) the leadership of the LDS Church, which has a record for being as strongly opposed to same - sex marriage as the Catholic Church, did not issue a statement urging its members to vote one way or the other; 5) inasmuch as two thirds of Utahans belong to the LDS Church, this means that the leadership of at least 80 percent of Utah churchgoers did not urge a «yes» vote on the amendment.

And the right of states to control, by their own political processes, what marriage means under their own laws is still intact too.

«Sadly, the anti-conversion laws in Iran pose a direct threat to those who have converted to Christianity, and we must ensure that a convert's right to life is being upheld by all means,» ADF senior counsel Paul Coleman stated.

So I agree that just because there is a law that states that businesses have to provide certain medical benefits doesn't mean they are instantly justified.

To me separation of church and state also means laws and regulations are passed and enforced for the good of the country and should not be modified for one religious group or another.

Like most UN human rights treaties, its implementation by state parties is overseen by a compliance committee, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, which issues «General Comments» meant to guide our understanding of the provisions contained in the treaty, and which conducts periodic reviews of state parties, instructing them how to change their laws in order to comply better with the treaty, as understood by the Committee.

RFRA requires that if a federal law imposes a substantial burden on religious exercise, the law will only survive challenge if: 1) it serves a compelling state interest: and 2) it operates via the least restrictive means.

What that means is that the 50 million people this article states that can not already afford to purchase heath insurance will, if the law passes, be required to purchase it or pay a penalty for not doing so.

This latter norm prohibits the exercise of arbitrary power by state legislatures, and means that not every law that they enact is by that fact alone constitutional.

The United States has a maze of antiquated and complex liquor laws that date back to the Al Capone days of Prohibition from the 1930s and mean that, in practical terms, beer, wine and spirits producers can't sell directly to retailers but need to go through third - party distributors.

The Act's implied preemption power does not mean that states can not develop their own «Good Samaritan» laws that protect those involved in food donation activities and encourage food donation.

While child custody laws vary from state to state there are many similarities, this does mean you'll want to familiarize yourself with Alabama's laws.

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In the United States alone, where family law is regulated by the individual states, this means 50 sets of rules for prospective parenting parStates alone, where family law is regulated by the individual states, this means 50 sets of rules for prospective parenting parstates, this means 50 sets of rules for prospective parenting partners!

Emancipation means that the child has come of age and capable of self - support as determined under state law.