Sentences with phrase «not legal questions»

Questions about «why a law is...» are political questions not legal questions and you may get better traction on politics.

I will start, like a typical lawyer, with two qualifications to what I just said, that these are not legal questions.

Sounding like New York State's own Vladimir Putin, Gov. Andrew Cuomo explains to Crain's New York's editorial board why he can't be accused of «interfering» with the work of the Moreland Commission investigating state corruption, which he recently disbanded (prompting the US district attorney to scoop up its files, saying its work wasn't done): «It's not a legal question.

This is a though question to answer as different states can have different standards as to what is and is not a legal question to ask a prospective tenant.

I'm voting to close this question as off - topic because the question of why she didn't take the hint isn't a legal question.

You are correct, this is not a legal question, sorry about that.

Of course there could be many reasons they never owed tax and therefore didn't pay it, but then that's not a legal question anyway.

A moral (categorical) imperative (Kant) is a philosophical ideology, not a legal question.

Most of the issues that cause trouble aren't legal questions.

Not exact matches

(Update 3/8: In follow up questioning, Fortune asked Mast why the company did not pursue legal action against any of the publications, who they claim wrote falsehoods.

There remains a valid legal question to these licensure fights: Since Square simply processes payment information, and doesn't actually transmit money itself, why should it have to fall under the transmission regulations of all 50 states?

«The legal questions aren't settled,» says Wendy Seltzer, a fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center and an expert in Internet law and intellectual property.

A major question in that litigation was whether Texas had legal standing to sue, an issue that the Supreme Court did not resolve.

Many legal minds — not least among them AT&T's legal team — have questioned the government's stance.

The court specifically noted that this was not a final determination of the issue and that discovery would be needed to fully resolve the legal question, which we think should be decided in our favor when all of the evidence is in.

The question is whether these offerings are legal — and whether celebrities like Mayweather face trouble if they're not.

The DOL's former head of wage enforcement, David Weil, recently suggested that weighing whether gig economy workers should be classified as employees or independent contractors is not so different than making the same determination for workers at brick - and - mortar businesses.84 Existing legal tests to determine whether a worker is an employee or an independent contractor are multifactor, fact - based exercises based on the level of control a company exerts over the workers in question.

From a strictly legal perspective, the relevant question is not whether there is a sufficient connection to any particular existing or proposed oil sands development or other production activity, and certainly not whether such projects or activities were included in the Terms of Reference (ToR), but rather simply whether the GHGs associated with the production of bitumen that will be transported by the NGP are an «environmental effect» of that project (see NGP Report, Volume II, Appendix 4, Terms of Reference, which defines «environmental effect» very broadly to mean «any change that the project may cause in the environment.»

The central legal question has not changed: When Michael Cohen wired $ 130,000 to Stephanie Clifford, was he trying to prevent Melania from learning about Clifford's allegations or trying to prevent voters in Michigan from hearing these allegations?

, but this begs the question of what legal and technical protections are in place to ensure data is not misused.

Facebook has already announced that it will end its data sharing partnerships with data brokers, but this begs the question of what legal and technical protections are in place to ensure data is not misused.

The question of whether or not legal marijuana takes of a bite out of alcohol sales has been hotly debated in recent years, with some research suggesting the two products are substitutes and other research suggesting cannabis and alcohol sales are complementary.

We are still getting questions here about how Facebook is responding to Cambridge Analytica — Zuckerberg says the company will take legal action if their audit of Cambridge Analytica isn't sufficient.

Not content merely to question the legitimacy of particular rulings, theorists like Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. and Robert Lee Hale pointed to the example of the lottery and liquor decisions to argue that traditional legal categories like «commerce,» «due process,» «police power,» or «public» were essentially meaningless.

The question this raises is not of discrimination but of what constitutes the human person as a man or as a woman, and which union should receive a legal form.

So, I absolutely do NOT think Rob's question about the «spiritual marriage / legal marriage» heresy is naïve.

Then he uses «legal dimensions» as an excuse to not come back here and face any people who would ask him questions.

While I can not myself question Julie based on my knowledge, I think it is fair to at least point out that there is legal documentation and testimony to support that Julie's side is not the only side of the story.

There is NO legal issue here; It's a bad theology issue, and because I DO N'T subscribe to the religions in question, I am EXEMPT fom following the the «pray, pay & obey piety - brigade».

But there's a question between something being legal and something being right, and when the space between those two things involves pile driving an elderly man who says he has patients to get to, it's hard not to wonder if maybe United just should have asked someone else to stay behind.

We can not of course go more closely here into the question why the Church has the right and duty, not only to promulgate and inculcate the precepts of immutable divine law and to supervise its observance, but on its own initiative to go beyond this and lay down positive legal prescriptions, and impose obedience to them as a Christian's duty, although they are enacted with full consciousness that they are not necessarily eternally valid but can be changed and even abolished.

This book is going to ruffle some feathers as I not only challenge the practices of baptism and communion (die to your rites), but also raise questions about the legal rights of Christians to the freedom of speech, to bear arms, and to various other rights guaranteed by the «First Amendment» and the «Bill of Rights.»

The decision on Friday will open marriage legally in the remaining fourteen states, and will give new legal protection for those who got married under court rulings that actually could not be considered truly final until the Supreme Court itself had decided the constitutional question.

Also I have a question to the public, if this becomes the «legal» then should we also allow people to have more than one wife or husband since it makes them happy and they are not bothering society?

So my question to catholic engineer... Would you contribute to a special fund, not for every day expenses and charitable works, but to pay for the legal fees and damages incurred by the abusive priests that have, we hope, been expunged from the RCC?

This standing will, in turn, lead to questions of recognition and application, not only of military law, but of pertinent state laws for marriage or partnership, and the military's legal obligations to provide co-residence, health - care, and other general benefits.

«He did not let a single legal question lapse,» said Zhang Peihong, a lawyer who worked with Zhang, according to Chinachange.org.

A Supreme Court ruling today against a Christian campus group that barred students who don't share its views on marriage may have settled a legal question, but the debate may rage on.

Courts, then, could not resolve legal questions without resorting to moral answers.

Historians» judgments on these questions vary, but it seems important to my thesis to maintain that the pressures of pluralism and their impact on legal institutions did not wait for the revolution and constitution making.

In this essay, I have referred only to the book of Genesis and thus have chosen not to mention the prohibitions against homosexuality included in Leviticus, for it seems to me that what is at stake now is not homosexuality, which is a fact, a reality, whatever my view of it as a rabbi might be, but the risk of irreversibly scrambling genealogies, questions of legal and social status (the child - as - subject becoming child - as - object), and identities — a confusion that would be harmful to society as a whole and that would lose sight of the general interest in seeking the advantage of a tiny minority.

You still haven't answered my question — why does genetics matter to the argument for legal rights?

«Upon legal advice, I was told not to discuss the events in question.

She is not the first to question that; earlier this year, I read an intriguing essay by legal scholar Katherine Franke in the anthology, Marriage at the Crossroads Law, Policy, and the Brave New World of Twenty - First - Century Families, comparing the experience of African - American slaves who, once freed after the Civil War, also became free to marry — but «free» is a relative word.

In the meantime, if you're a prospective adoptive parent or birth parent and you have a legal question, don't forget to check out the list of open adoption attorneys on our website.

It is a question about which policymakers have aimed to provide clarity, not only from an ethical and legal standpoint but to offer parents the assurance that they've made the right choice based on the weight of current medical evidence.

Fortunately, I have not yet needed the legal services of HSLDA, but I do appreciate the fact that they have always been very prompt to respond — with great accuracy — to any and all of my questions and concerns.

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Despite these clear legal obligations, Palmer said, «Our organizations have received many complaints and questions from parenting employees and students who do not know their lactation rights, have faced difficulties when they need to pump milk on the job or during the school day, and do not know who to turn to within the school community for help.»

If this legal question is not resolved, the outcome is likely to be a regulatory or legal world in which each country may want their own cloud, Smith believes.