Sentences with phrase «national courts on»

Second, Justice Eady perused the positions of various national courts on rulings concerning Google's role in defamation as a search engine under European Union Directive 2000 / 31 / EC (better known as the Electronic Commerce [EC] Directive).

To promote training programs for judges and national courts on the proper enforcement of judicial guarantees to protect the right to access public information.

Enforcement issues are, however, less likely to arise in relation to investment treaty disputes arbitrated under the Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of other States (the ICSID Convention), which does not provide for the challenge of ICSID awards before national courts on traditional New York Convention grounds (which include public policy).

The latter type of practices need to be determined by the national courts on a case - by - case assessment and in the light of the criteria set out in the Articles 5 to 9 of Directive 2005 / 29 / EC.

The extradition was welcomed by lawyers for a legal advocacy organisation, The Guernica Group, and the Spanish Association for Human Rights, who in 2008 filed a criminal complaint before the National Court on behalf of the victims.

Barcelona's Brazilian star Neymar has been called to give evidence by Spain's national court on February 2 for alleged fraud surrounding his...

Barcelona's Brazilian star Neymar has been called to give evidence by Spain's national court on February 2 for alleged fraud surrounding his transfer to Barcelona in 2013.

Neymar's father, who acts as his agent, is also scheduled to testify at the National Court on Tuesday, which AS reports will take place at 5 p.m. local time.

Not exact matches

The US District Court for the District of Columbia judge presiding over the criminal case for President Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn has been recused from handling the case, a court spokeswoman said on ThurCourt for the District of Columbia judge presiding over the criminal case for President Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn has been recused from handling the case, a court spokeswoman said on Thurcourt spokeswoman said on Thursday.

If Trump's past comments about a ban on Muslims don't weigh heavily on the judges» perceptions of his motivations, the speed with which the order was drafted and rolled out — largely bypassing the government's traditional national - security apparatus — and the extent to which it has been altered since may give courts reason enough to wonder whether an «ulterior motive» was at play, Stock said.

The U.S. judge has excluded foreign investors, based on a precedent set in a 2010 Supreme Court ruling in the case of Morrison v. National Australian Bank.

Carvin argued unsuccessfully against the ACA at the Supreme Court level on behalf of the National Federation of Independent Business in 2011, and successfully for George Bush in Bush v. Gore during the 2000 election.

Several groups including the National Congress of American Indians and the Great Plains Tribal Chairman's Association along with 34 other tribes on Thursday filed a court brief supporting Standing Rock's request.

A few years after the Hill - Side turned down the national retailer, it was courted by furniture retailer CB2, which wanted to collaborate on a limited - edition collection.

McDonald's and the National Labor Relations Board will finally go head - to - head in court on Monday as the fast - food company faces long - standing allegations that it violated employee rights under the National Labor Relations Act.

Shannon Minter, a transgender man who is legal director of the San Francisco - based National Center for Lesbian Rights, said many transgender civil - rights gains of recent years are based on federal statutes and court precedents that can not be quickly undone.

«The Republican Senate refuses to hold hearings on [Supreme Court nominee] Judge Garland, refuses to fund the President's request for Zika aid and takes the most days off of any Senate since 1956, but thinks Facebook hearings are a matter of urgent national interest,» Jentleson said.

The National Venture Capital Association, an industry group of top U.S. venture capitalists, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday in Washington D.C. District Court against the Trump Administration, alleging it illegally delayed an immigration program created during President Obama's term.

The judge said in a 91 - page decision that, while the Army Corps substantially complied with the National Environmental Policy Act, federal permits issued for the pipeline violated the law in some respects, saying in a court order the Corps did not «adequately consider the impacts of an oil spill on fishing rights, hunting rights, or environmental justice.»

On July 8, the public got its first view into how the U.S. Department of Labor will defend its fiduciary rule when it filed a cross motion for summary judgment, asking the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to dismiss a law suit brought by the National Association for Fixed Annuities.

I have commented on most of that litigation in «Pipelines, the National Energy Board and the Federal Court» (2015), 3 Energy Regulation Quarterly 59 — 73.

On July 31, the Director of National Intelligence released a heavily redacted version of the FISA court's «primary order» compelling telecoms to turn over metadata.

On June 28, 2012, the Supreme Court ruled by a 5 — 4 vote in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius that the mandate was constitutional under the U.S. Congress's taxing authority.

That his face is everywhere and his name is national,» Broward Assistant State Attorney Sarahnell Murphy said in court after the younger Cruz's arrest for trespassing at the Parkland school on March 20.

In addition to asking a court to mandate that Uber implement fingerprint background checks — a measure the company has vehemently opposed — the plaintiffs are asking a judge to order Uber to perform national criminal background checks on its drivers every six months, and to bar registered sex offenders or people with rape or assault convictions from driving for Uber no matter how long ago it was, along with other measures.

The investigator, Peter Humphrey, and his American wife Yu Yingzeng werefound guilty of illegally acquiring personal information of Chinese nationals, an offense the Shanghai No. 1 Intermediate People's Court said on its official microblog account could warrant a sentence of up to three years in prison.

As the Supreme Court has recognized, it is the President's responsibility to classify, declassify, and control access to information bearing on our intelligence sources and methods and national defense.

On the eve of the Supreme Court decision, perhaps the time is ripe for a national conversation to take place.

For most of the hour - long session, the court's conservatives appeared skeptical about imposing new limits on the president's national - security powers over immigration.

On Friday, in the same Federal District Court where its Wall Street actions are litigated, the Southern District of New York (SDNY), it filed its bombshell RICO lawsuit on behalf of the Democratic National Committee (DNCOn Friday, in the same Federal District Court where its Wall Street actions are litigated, the Southern District of New York (SDNY), it filed its bombshell RICO lawsuit on behalf of the Democratic National Committee (DNCon behalf of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).

Corrigan said the city plans to ask the Supreme Court of Canada to hear its challenge to the National Energy Board decision, which said Kinder Morgan is not required to comply with two sections of Burnaby's bylaws on land and tree clearance as it expands the pipeline.

The answer is that the Christian right in our country is constantly trying to force their religious beliefs into the public sphere (science education, school prayer at public schools, Decalogue displays at court houses, nativity scenes on city hall property, crosses in all kinds of public places, national days of prayer, etc.)-- if these things stopped, the outcry from us non-believers would be greatly diminished.

The organisation said the agreement appears to have been reached on the basis that the evidence collected would be used to try those responsible in the Iraqi national courts, rather than the International Criminal Court.

Nor should it have been a surprise that the Court, having successfully claimed for itself the authority to write a «living Constitution» based on penumbras and emanations, should assume the roles of National Metaphysician and National Nanny (as it did in Casey, with its famous «mystery of life» passage and its hectoring injunction to a fractious populace to fall into line behind the Court's abortion jurisprudence).

Last December, soon after the Supreme Court had pulled the chain on Florida's chad fest, Bill Ivey, the Clinton - appointed director of the National Endowment for the Arts, spoke to the National Press Club.

Tennis Australia, the national body for participation and facilitation of tennis in Australia has so far resisted the calls to rename the arena, saying last week on its Twitter page that Court's «personal views are her own».

In those cases the court deferred to the judgment of the Air Force that the free - exercise claim of a Jewish officer who wore his yarmulke on duty could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of correctional authorities that the free - exercise claim of a Black Muslim to attend Friday afternoon religious services could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service that building a logging road through a national forest was necessary despite the damage to religious practices of Native American tribes in that area; it deferred to the Internal Revenue Service's ruling that Bob Jones University was not entitled to tax exemption because of its religiously motivated rule against interracial dating and marriage on campus; it deferred to the judgment of the secretary of labor that a religious community must pay its members the minimum wage for work they performed in the group's business although the members said they had religious objections to being paid for their work.

The reason, no doubt, is that the Court is a «vital national seminar» in ways and on issues that churches never have been in the United States.103

The National Registration Department had not acted fairly towards the applicant by insisting on a letter of release and order from the Sharia Court.»

Of the «alphabet soup» of federal agencies initiated by Roosevelt, not all found equal favor with the publication; it was, for instance, doubtful about the National Recovery Administration long before the Supreme Court pronounced that agency s death sentence (even so, it carried the NRA eagle sign on its second page for many months).

A friend who has been teaching a course on constitutional law for a couple of decades and has achieved a national reputation confided recently that he plans to stop teaching the course; there just isn't any integrity to the subject, and it becomes almost a degrading experience to have to teach, say, equal protection doctrine and pretend that the Court's decisions are the product of any sort of coherent thinking.

Yet in Casey, three Justices» who had been placed on the Court, incidentally, during a period in which relative anonymity was a leading prerequisite for successful appointment» saw it as their right and duty to call «the contending sides of a national controversy to end their national division by accepting a common mandate rooted in the Constitution.»

The National Court in Madrid said Inocente Orlando Montano Morales, 76, arrived in Madrid on Wednesday from the US and was placed in prison.

In a twist on the hotly contested national debate on church - state matters, the Supreme Court will decide whether a teacher at a religious school can sue under a federal law against workplace discrimination.

«Federal taxpayer subsidies are helping pay for over 1,000 health plans that cover abortion on demand, and [last week's] Supreme Court decision underscores that only Congress can put a stop to that,» said Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life Committee (NRLC).

On many points, decisions of Islamic religious courts have the force of national law (a touchy issue when a dispute involves a Muslim and a non-Muslim, or when one spouse in an existing marriage converts to Islam and makes the other members of the family subject to Shari'a determinations on matters such as child custodyOn many points, decisions of Islamic religious courts have the force of national law (a touchy issue when a dispute involves a Muslim and a non-Muslim, or when one spouse in an existing marriage converts to Islam and makes the other members of the family subject to Shari'a determinations on matters such as child custodyon matters such as child custody).

In a far more significant move that came last November, Indonesia's top court discarded the national requirement that compelled citizens to identify with one of six religions on their national identification cards.

With the fate of 199 Iraqi nationals on hold while a Detroit court hears a lawsuit, a group of evangelical leaders has sent the Trump administration a simple message: Don't deport Christians into genocide.

The 43 - year - old from the evangelical National Restoration Party, became widely popular candidate after denouncing a court ruling calling on the Central American country to give civil marriage rights to same - sex couples.

Twenty years ago, when I wrote the amicus curiae brief for the National Jewish Commission on Law and Public Affairs (COLPA) in the Supreme Court in Lemon v. Kurtzman — the landmark case on aid to parochial schools — I truly believed we could win.