Sentences with phrase «obscure law»

You may think you know the basics of divorce and family law, but most states are known to have a few obscure laws that individuals will try to use in various cases.
In 2000, a federal district judge ruled that Arizona was violating this relatively obscure law, both by not spending enough on its Lau programs — a reference to a Supreme Court decision of 1974 and regulations of the federal Office for Civil Rights — and by failing to provide enough teachers, aides, classrooms, materials, and tutoring.
Net neutrality supporters are focusing their efforts in part on the Congressional Review Act, a once - obscure law that allows Congress to overturn regulations enacted by federal agencies within 60 days of when they take effect.
To have to confess this is not an obscure law, but a friendly permission and invitation.
Apple's lawyers plan to argue that the judge who gave the order has overreached in her use of an obscure law, violating the company's First Amendment rights.
While it's natural for the minor parties to oppose an end to Wilson - Pakula, the effort to repeal the obscure law is going to be a political fraught one.
In a statement released this evening following Cuomo's news conference unveiling his latest ethics overhaul proposals, WFP Executive Director Dan Cantor said repealing the obscure law a «distraction.»
But will he have any lingering problems after more than one - third of primary voters rejected him for an obscure law professor?
One of the pragmatic reasons the union officials who play such a big role in the WFP's operation wanted to give him its nomination rather than backing an obscure law professor whose lack of name recognition at the time was equaled only by her paucity of funding was that they felt more confident he could produce the 50,000 votes on the WFP line necessary to preserve its spot on the state ballot four years from now.
And administration officials have signaled that they will support pending efforts in Congress to use an obscure law to eliminate up to a dozen major rules that came out late in Obama's tenure, including rules that seek to reduce methane emissions from oil and gas operations and protect streams from coal mining.
On one occasion, NYSUT slipped an amendment on to an obscure law that would have limited the market share of charters in Albany to 5 percent.
by: Alan Singer Huffington Post July 20, 2014 Obscure laws can have a very big impact on social policy, including obscure changes in the United States federal tax code.
Digging up an obscure law, the board suggested finding a school to become a «lighthouse» school.
Twice in those years, I was approached by undercover agents offering to sell me illegal snakes and asking me to sell them python products that were, under an obscure law, illegal.
The photographer's satirical spin on these obscure laws raises points about politics and social conventions.
This isn't confined to obscure laws of little importance.
Because in April 2017, A US federal judge ruled that cryptocurrency is exempt from regulation due to an obscure law passed over 40 years ago.
The number of hoops we must jump through while carrying clients, the details we have to make sure get done, the personalities we must massage, the egos we must stroke, the clients we must talk off ledges and the obscure laws we have to know and adhere to would drive a normal person around the bend before lunch.
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