Sentences with phrase «obscure laws»

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.

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.

This isn't confined to obscure laws of little importance.

The photographer's satirical spin on these obscure laws raises points about politics and social conventions.

Obscure laws can have a very big impact on social policy, including obscure changes in the United States federal tax code.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This paragraph in particular of Malcolm Mercer's article obscures the law society's great negligence in failing to try to solve the problem, «If we are serious about the access to justice gap, we should accept that no one solution will slay the access dragon.

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.

Not exact matches

This year, a formerly obscure federal law from the late 1970's will be the biggest driver of utility - scale solar in the United States.

In this case, Canada and the European Union are both threatening to retaliate against the US after President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he planned to impose big tariffs on imported steel and aluminum by using an obscure trade law.

This is in part due to an obscure maritime law from 1920 called the Jones Act that prevents non-American ships from bringing resources to the island without having to pay additional taxes.

In outlining the judicial decisions leading to same - sex marriage, Reilly demonstrates how the invocation of privacy law to protect gay sex quickly obscured the moral dignity of persons, especially children.

7 We are applying the law of continuity here, according to which «nothing could ever burst forth as final across the different thresholds successively traversed by evolution (however critical they be) which has not already existed in an obscure and primordial way» (The Phenomenon of Man, p. 71).

Instead of introspection, goes the theologian's cry, let us rake over historical artifacts, dive into ancient lexicons, reframe cultural narratives, negotiate our way around words, vague and obscure, like so many corporate hacks rewriting the law.

Just because a law is in a book somewhere, be it obscure or not, does not mean it is being enforced or even known about.

The upper - case term has been obscured by antinomian Lutherans who fear that by making too much of divine Law they will obscure gospel.

And so there should be no ambiguity on the part of law that the male / female model should be protected from those who want to obscure that fundamental axiom of life.

He esteemed the Qur» an and treated it with reverence, even though he thought it morally lax, confused, obscure, mendacious, irrational, and violent («their law began by the sword»), and he held that the law of Islam is not of God.

To an unhappy humanity, for whom profound changes were obscuring the landmarks of the natural law, the Church was extending a helping hand.

When society systematically denies the difference between male and female in law and custom, our fundamental dignity is diminished, the image of God within us is obscured, unreality becomes legally established, and those who refuse to conform are regarded as irrational bigots.

But the government should not be the target of general criticism for an honest mistake on an obscure point of law, which was unforeseeable when the Church in Wales did not address this point, or any other, in its response to the consultation.

Perhaps even what I just wrote was breaking some obscure election law somewhere.

The saga of Eliot Spitzer, candidate for an obscure job in the labyrinthine bureaucracy that runs New York City, hinges on a peculiarity of the city's election law.

The mayor — now facing multiple investigations of his campaign fund - raising tactics — is using an obscure loophole in campaign finance laws to pay the lawyers defending him.

Cuomo, known as a clever strategist who carefully maps out his political future, did not anticipate a primary challenge from obscure Fordham Law School professor Zephyr Teachout.

He supports reviving an obscure 1980 law to begin a research program in which 20 hospitals could dispense medical marijuana with certain conditions.

The police department's press office for decades shared such information willingly, but the administration's lawyers have decided an obscure section of New York State's 1976 Civil Rights Law makes those revelations improper and illegal — or, in de Blasio's phrase today, «a bureacratic error.»

Good government groups have for years complained that New York's campaign finance laws make it difficult for the public to determine the actual source of campaign dollars, whether due to the so - called «LLC loophole» — which allows business interests that control a network of subsidiaries to vastly multiply their political giving — or corporate formation laws that allow companies to obscure the individuals and other businesses behind them.

Heaney's stories could lead to a significant change in the state's Freedom of Information Law that would open up the books at some of the most obscure state entities.

The race was in jeopardy because of an obscure state law banning charitable games of chance on state property.

Now facing multiple investigations of his campaign fund - raising tactics, the mayor is using an obscure loophole in campaign finance laws to pay the lawyers defending him.

Labour must restore the cuts made by the Coalition in the Health and Safety Executive and introduce a new comprehensive Health and Safety Act that reverses the retrograde legislation introduced by the Coalition which has confused, obscured and narrowed the coverage of the existing health and safety law.

Critics note that contributions to such accounts are unlimited and their expenditures almost completely obscured under existing law.

This afternoon, Politicker noted that due to an obscure state law, Eliot Spitzer might actually need to collect 7,500 signatures to run for city comptroller, not just the 3,750 required by the city.

An obscure political figure, Fordham University law professor Zephyr Teachout, used the Moreland Commission controversy to catapult herself into the spotlight and offer Democrats someone to vote for instead of the moderate governor.

If the petitions are upheld, officials in both camps said, it appears that state election law allows Mr. Mahony's campaign to pick someone to take his place in the primary — a rule so obscure that even election lawyers were unaware of it until this morning.

The issue: An obscure section of the state civil rights law that shields myriad police, correction officer and paid firefighter employee records from public disclosure isn't known that well at the Capitol.

WASHINGTON — There is «a substantial reason to believe» that Rep. Chris Collins violated federal law by touting the stock of an obscure Australian biotech firm based on inside information, while also possibly breaking House ethics rules by persuading National Institutes of Health officials to meet with a staffer from that company.

At issue is something called Technical Bulletin 117 (or TB 117), an obscure California law enacted in the late 1970s.

Doc would be correct, of course, and as the plot of Thomas Pynchon's potboiler pastiche Inherent Vice grinds into high gear, he'll run afoul of several alive - folks - thought - dead, mysterious cults, more mysterious cartels, crazy drugs, loaded guns, subversives, countersubversives, obscure nautical laws, a band of dentists gone bad, and, worst of all, he will witness firsthand the slow strangulation of a certain dream of free living at the hands of nefarious historical forces.

The Obama administration, relying on an obscure provision of the law, created a process in 2011 to grant waivers to states that demonstrated they could set up their own accountability program.

Under an obscure 2007 Illinois law, passed under former Governor Rod Blagojevich (yes, the one who was convicted and removed from office), union officials could participate in the Illinois Teachers» Retirement System by teaching for a single day.

How's this for a summer blockbuster — the American Civil Liberties Union is suing the state of Michigan for violating the «right to learn» of its children, a right guaranteed under an obscure state law.