Sentences with phrase «n't laws against»

Without regulations, they can just hold up their hands and say there weren't any laws against what they did.

Mormons would still be practicing polygamy if there wasn't a law against it.

As long as there's not a law against it * casts wary eyes on Canada, Great Britain, and the EU * you can have any kind of character doing any kind of thing.

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Rep. Brian Bosma, the speaker of the state House, said that the law does not allow discrimination against «any segment of the Hoosier community.»

The law would bar such companies from discriminating against customers who asked that the companies not sell their information.

Similarly, personal beliefs are the subject of numerous nascent state laws that would allow business owners to discriminate against customers or employees they don't approve of.

On a small scale, lighting a joint in Washington Square Park would still be against the law, not because of the marijuana but because smoking is illegal in New York parks.

A vote on the measure was delayed for hours after Democrats revolted against provisions to roll back part of the Dodd - Frank financial reform law and allow more big money political donations, while conservative Republicans objected because the measure did not block funds for Obama's immigration order.

And while that's not illegal, it is against the law to make false claims about the nature of the service or lie about being affiliated with the government's Direct Loan Program.

Here are the states where you can still be fired for being gay because they don't have explicit laws that prevent discrimination against LGBT people in the workplace.

Although it is against the law for travelers to occupy land which has not been designated for this purpose, it is not a criminal offense to occupy private or council - owned land so responsibility lies with the landowner and the police are not usually involved.Most of the time, the issue can be resolved by speaking to the travelers and agreeing a date by which they will move on.

On Monday and Tuesday of this week, Attorney General Sessions said that marijuana sale and use is still against federal law and said he does not think that cannabis is something that should be legalized, despite the fact that more than half of all states have some form of a regulated market already in place and the majority of Americans agree that marijuana prohibition should end.

By selling the bonds to Monaco, investors were trying to get around the 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which says, «The judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by citizens of another state, or by citizens or subjects of any foreign state.»

«Even though the Trump administration is not a strong supporter of the fiduciary rule, it will likely continue to defend [it] against legal challenges,» said Marcia Wagner, president and founder of Wagner Law Group, in a statement.

But Collins is not without his grievances against Schneiderman: in May, the Attorney General oversaw a federal probe that involved law enforcement officials searching Collins's home.

And health insurers, once considered to be a beneficiary of the Affordable Care Act, aren't really a solid Clinton proxy, as many have been withdrawing from the Obamacare marketplaces, casting shade on the law (not to mention that Clinton has spoken out against mergers between some of the largest players, including the proposed Aetna (aet)- Humana (hum) and Anthem (antm)- Cigna (ci) deals).

«Though the vast majority of Americans think it is wrong and should be against the law, [most state] laws do not protect the LGBT workforce from this kind of discrimination,» Peter Romer - Friedman, an attorney with Cohen Milstein, a law - firm in Washington, D.C., says.

«If it's against the law, we will not of course be in that business.

«Andy Puzder is against unions, calls the minimum wage and overtime «restrictions» and employees «extra cost,» and even said he wants to fire workers like us and replace us with machines that can't take vacation or sue their employers when they break the law,» the nonprofit Interfaith Worker Justice quoted Rogelio Hernandez, a Carl's Jr. cook, as saying.

Krasner: I have — like a lot of civil rights lawyers, like a lot of activists — been beating my head against the wall of the DA's office and the [Philadelphia] police department for a long time because the DA's office in Philly was not enforcing the law against police.

Faced with boycott threats from giant businesses, including Nike, Apple, Angie's List and Salesforce.com, Indiana's Governor Mike Pence has vowed to alter the language of a controversial, religious freedom bill he signed into law just last week, to ensure businesses can't use it to discriminate against LGBT customers.

Even if the religious freedom laws aren't intended to allow discrimination against LGBT people, the point is, with the state RFRA laws it's possible.

Both metropolitan areas have said, for example, that short term rentals procured through Airbnb and VRBO are essentially against the law, as they cheat cities out of millions of dollars of tax revenues, but also because they aren't regulated the way hotels are, and could be fire traps or have other safety considerations about which hapless customers are not likely to be aware.

In 2009, the Obama administration ordered federal prosecutors not to prioritize legal action against medical marijuana dispensaries that comply with state laws.

«Extra-judicial killing over justice in a court of law should not become the norm in the fight against terrorism,» he said in a statement.

That ruling struck down an 1883 decision in which the Court held that a law against interracial marriage did not discriminate against either race.

Until now, significant cases have not been brought against mutual funds although the law applies equally in each case.

These do not appear to be fake accounts, and since they don't seem to have violated any laws or Facebook policies, the company does not appear to be taking any action against them.

While business groups in Indiana, such as the Indiana Chamber of Commerce, have come out decisively against the law, Indianapolis, the center of business conference activity in the state, is now fighting to make sure that businesses don't abandon the city's vital convention industry.

David Eby said government legal experts looked at the Alberta legislation tabled Monday and conclude it's unconstitutional, against the law and designed to not be enacted.

Tillerson, who flew to DC in 2010 to lobby against the section of the law driving the rule, argued that it placed an unfair burden on US companies that their foreign counterparts don't have to deal with — requiring them to disclose trade secrets.

Labor laws France not only levied fines against Uber and its managers but also brought a criminal case over unlicensed taxi operations.

Did White not know about the complaint against Rice (lack of due diligence) or was this a lapse of transparency (not good for those enforcing disclosure laws)?

After extensive criticism, Gov. Mike Pence says he now wants to pass legislation clarifying that a recent law does not permit discrimination against gays and lesbians.

Wage theft «is not only against the law but morally and ethically incomprehensible,» says Susan Steinbrecher, author of Heart - Centered Leadership: Lead Well, Live Well.

Pai voted against the net - neutrality order as a commissioner at the time, saying that the laws were «trying to solve a problem that didn't exist.»

Both companies have insisted in court that gathering data on what you look like isn't against the law, even without your permission.

California law requires that «employees shall be protected against the hazard of walking through glass by barriers or by conspicuous durable markings,» but the company has not been subject to citations, according to U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration data.

Obama, speaking at the South by Southwest entertainment festival in Austin, Texas, last month, warned against «fetishizing our phones» and said that doing nothing to address law enforcement's encryption challenges «can't be the right answer.»

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Republicans may rage at the CEOs who appear before them, but they haven't given the Justice Department enough funding to pursue criminal charges against corporations and executives who violate the law.

Texan regulators have had a lot on their plate: in addition to the filing against Bitconnect in early January by state officials, the state's banking commission also clamped down on AriseBank, for violating the law and using the term «bank» in its name, when it was not registered to do so.

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Children as young as 14 are purchasing the «legal highs,» which are not against the law in the UK and other countries.

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The United States doesn't have an overarching privacy law; rather, there is a cluster of common law that protects US citizens against the invasion of privacy.

According to law, unless the creditors file a case in the court, they are not allowed to take action against people who have gone bankrupt.

When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you — when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self - sacrifice — you may know that your society is doomed.

[62][In cases dealing with federal works and undertakings such as] pipelines, railways and airports, it is not the case that validly - enacted provincial laws, in this case municipal bylaws, somehow cease to be valid enactments when they come up against the federal undertaking.