Sentences with phrase «of arcane law»

I've seen what happens to many of these people in court, when they stand up and try to explain to the judge how they are «Mennonites» who can't be found guilty under the Constitution because it's a violation of their rights dating back centuries before America existed, or when they challenge the judge's right to preside over their case because of some arcane law, or that red light cameras are unconstitutional because they do not get to confront their accusers, again, I cringe, because I know what's coming.

Nevertheless, the book is an extremely valuable addition to the local government library of all who deal with this sector and should be a trusted guide for all within local councils who find themselves lost in a swirling fog of arcane law and process.

And yes, if we were to do that some of those arcane laws would melt away in sensibility, but we could also see that there are many that still apply.

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The amendments, however, have sown as much confusion as the original law, at least as it applies to the arcane world of insurance financing.

The converse worry is that a corporate culture emphasizing ethical values may find employees engaging in well meaning activity that may inadvertently expose the company to legal liability or punishment for failing to observe the often arcane, technical requirements of the law.

The sudden popularity of so arcane and elusive a topic was due to Thomas» past writing that justices could use natural law to alter the Constitution.

Economically, he started flexing the muscles of the state to arbitrarily enforce arcane laws in order to force most successful independent business sell controlling interest of their shares to Gazprom.

The state's attorney general has proposed a package of bills aimed at improving to what he said are «arcane» and «ridiculous» voting laws that bar many potential New York voters from casting ballots.

Party leaders believe that the success of the tea party movement shows that they can — and without waging costly campaigns to enact arcane voting laws.

Mr. de Blasio argued for less restrictive balloting and petition laws, and called for «free legal aid» for candidates less versed than him in the arcane intricacies of City election law.

Conservative director fills vacancies on committee Taking advantage of arcane election law, executive director of the Rockland County Conservative Party Ed Lettre has filled approximately 68 vacancies on his Conservative Committee, the Rockland Board of Elections confirm.

On the surface, the dispute centered on arcane state laws governing real estate tax breaks and mayoral control of the city's public schools.

«I think these candidates need to be much more specific in terms of the plan for the way forward,» said Lazio, who gave his remarks on the final day for receiving a judicial nomination by the Bronx Republican Party, which he has to accept in order to be removed from the Conservative line under New York's arcane ballot laws.

Plans to reform Britain's arcane libel laws have been thrown into doubt after the House of Lords last night approved amendments introduced to the Defamation Bill by the film producer Lord Puttnam - Independent

Choosing his words very carefully, he told us that «absent a constitutional provision allowing him to nominate an individual, [Paterson] should not make use of this arcane and never - before - used provision in the Public Officers Law.

If he refuses, then they have every right to block everything in every arcane way they can, refusing to stand by as bad laws are frogmarched through without the scrutiny and safeguards of a second chamber.

«We know that the system as it's currently structured under our state law literally can not keep up with the reality of our modern democracy,» de Blasio said, bemoaning the state's «arcane» electoral laws kept in place by entrenched lawmakers in Albany.

There are lots of culprits: farming subsidies for water - intensive crops, arcane laws encouraging waste, leaky infrastructure and more.

Kosher laws can be quite arcane and, as noted earlier, there are differences of opinion at the margins.

But we also know that Colorado's law immediately wiped out an arcane and ineffective evaluation and tenure system, which has governed most of the nation's schools for more than 50 years.

The attorneys cite three categories of laws that are being challenged: the state has put a moratorium on new magnet schools, «arcane and dysfunctional» laws that govern public charter schools and the state's inter-district open choice enrollment program that penalizes school districts that accept students from inner - city school districts.

A group of parents and education advocates is preparing to sue the Los Angeles school district, demanding that it follow an arcane 40 - year - old law that requires all California school systems to link teacher and principal evaluations to student performance.

Lockwood details her education of a seminarian who is also living at the rectory, tries to explain Catholicism to her husband, who is mystified by its bloodthirstiness and arcane laws, and encounters a mysterious substance on a hotel bed with her mother.

The laws on what constitutes lying to one's investors are arcane and weighted in favor of the miscreant.

I recall that as a very new lawyer pre-Internet, my «practice of law» consisted largely of researching information that was only accessible to those who knew the arcane legal research system — and very little analysis and application to the client's world.

Even the job which law schools supposedly do well, which is to indoctrinate impressionable youth in arcane legal reasoning, can actually get in the way of running a law firm, because law schools teach students how to identify issues or problems, but not how to solve them.

Your friends will remember things that you have never heard of and they will confuse you with their notions of arcane issues of trust law.

Thousands of victims of malpractice have been denied their right to compensation by this arcane New York State law.

«As first noted here late last night, in today's edition of The Recorder of San Francisco, attorney Cyrus Sanai has an interesting essay entitled «Taking the Kozinski Challenge» that begins, «The fiercest battle within the federal appellate courts these days is not over abortion or gay marriage, but the arcane question of whether an attorney may cite the unpublished case law of an appellate court as the binding law of the circuit.»»

Obviously, in - house counsel asking you to test some arcane point of law might see language different from a business client seeking guidance on a transactional matter.

Relentlessly upbeat, if a little uptight, he was passionate and enthusiastic about even the most arcane aspects of the practice of law.

Chancel Repair Liability («CRL»), has been variously described as an «arcane and unsatisfactory» area of property law, an «ancient liability» of an «anachronistic, even capricious, nature» and «one of the more unsightly blots on the history of English jurisprudence».

Over this time, he continued to present and write for CLE, edit practice manuals, advise on the drafting of the new Family Law Act, teach, research and publish arcane legal doctrine, practice law full time, and publish official materials for the Department of JustiLaw Act, teach, research and publish arcane legal doctrine, practice law full time, and publish official materials for the Department of Justilaw full time, and publish official materials for the Department of Justice.

It has been said that appellate practice is the last refuge of the generalist because appellate practitioners are tasked with communicating complicated — and occasionally arcane — subjects to a panel of generalist appellate judges, who on any given day, wrestle with a wide array of topics, ranging from land use law, family law, personal injury, and criminal law, among countless others.

The House of Lords, blasting aside arcane distinctions, said that this provision was not enough to oust judicial review for error of law.

The bulk of the law deals with the arcane world of hedge funds, derivatives markets, and the nuts and bolts of regulating the country's financial institutions, big and small.