Sentences with phrase «of federal statutes»

In order to bring a lawsuit in federal court, there has to be a violation of a federal statute related to employment.

That is how the logic of the federal statute would go: I don't know if anyone has been prosecuted for that.

After all, there are a large number of federal statutes — some frequently obscure — that may offer the opportunity to collect attorneys fees for various matters.

For example, the digital versions of federal statutes available from Justice Canada are «official», and they exist in forms and with rights extended to all and sundry that permit reuse and republication without royalty or permission.

«The provisions of the federal statute here invoked are beyond congressional authority,» wrote Justice Anthony M. Kennedy.

The GOP majority can not use this to make a border wall part of federal statute.

The federal government increasingly has used the False Claims Act to enforce compliance with a variety of federal statutes and regulations against companies that either contract with or receive funding from the federal government.

Recall that the ruling was the first invalidation of a federal statute by the Court in more than fifty years, and only the second in the nation's history.

This order concerns violations by United Air Lines, Inc. («United») of the Federal statutes prohibiting U.S. and foreign air carriers from subjecting any air traveler to discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex or ancestry.

Note: Despite the repeal of the federal statute for 2010, taxpayers must continue to complete and file Form 706 with the District.

The term «water law» in the Colorado River basin has come to refer to a monstrous volume of federal statutes and agreements, court precedents and state laws and regulations that can differ from place to place and have changed incrementally over the years but are structured by the interstate agreements to divide the river.

The biggest «savings» that Coburn identifies is actually a misreading of federal statutes, according to NSF officials.

Seems the Motches, a variation on the wealthy world - makers from Aykroyd's Trading Places, want to «insource» a Chinese factory to North Carolina in defiance of all federal statutes regulating child labour, pollution, safety, and wage; Marty is just the patsy recruited to look the other way.

All this brings us back to December 2015 when President Obama signed ESSA into law, ushering in not just reauthorization of a federal statute but, far more importantly, a new era with pronounced restoration of state and local decision - making in how schools are operated.

The Nevada Attorney General opined that «[t] he requirement of a federal statute that a school district which receives a grant for special aid to educationally deprived children make such aid available to pupils of private schools does not violate Nevada's Blaine Amendment... if federal moneys are kept separate.»

The «EPA overreach» described by the industry execs consists of nothing more than the proper and necessary enforcement of a federal statute that has long aimed to protect the health and environment of the residents of Appalachia.

As TreeHugger has explained before, fracking (or hydraulic fracturing) is exempt from many of the federal statutes meant to safeguard the environment and public health, including the Safe Water Drinking Act, Clean Water Act and the Clean Air Act.

Thus, in suits for damages based on violations of federal statutes lacking any express authorization of a damage remedy, this Court has authorized such relief where, in its view, damages are necessary to effectuate the congressional policy underpinning the substantive provisions of the statute.

On the contrary there are hundreds of federal statutes that sanction civil forfeiture, as well as 18 U.S.C. § 983 (and other subsections inter alia) that governs civil forfeiture.

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to decide the constitutionality of a federal statute banning states from authorizing sports betting.

The Leahy - Smith America Invents Act (AIA), a collection of federal statutes signed into law on September 16, 2011, has significantly impacted the intellectual property landscape.

Here our citizenship rules are a matter of federal statute, not the constitution, and so are at once less exalted and more easily changed.

«Net Neutrality» is not an issue of first impression: there are several decades» worth of federal statutes, legislative history, and administrative and regulatory laws, federal court opinions, federal - state preemption issues, and Congressional, political, and campaign finance issues to comprehend — and a rich and long scholarly (and non-scholarly) bibliography to peruse.

Finding that the visual images transmitted by the accused through email depicted minors, as required for violation of federal statute which prohibits receiving or transporting visual depictions of minors engage in sexually explicit conduct was supported by expert testimony that they were minors.

These issues require consideration of a federal statute known as the Act of 1851 and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which that Act implemented.

I would also add that this belief that «it is all online» has contributed to the dearth of a badly needed revision of federal statutes but that is a post for another time.

It includes a full text consolidation of the federal statutes and regulations (excluding the Income Tax Act), with

Moreover, under this dissenting view, a state policy of providing special protection for franchisees... can be recognized without impairing the basic purposes of the federal statute.

The following are a few of the Federal statutes that apply to individuals working on navigable waterways:

As Ars Technica notes in its article on this situation, this makes the matter difficult for national ISPs, who must deal with different legal interpretations of the federal statute in different geographic locations.

If done correctly, a restatement of a federal statute would, theoretically, end up with the exact statute itself along with some commentary about how judicial decisions have filled in the blanks differently — a state of affairs that already exists with the copious academic literature commenting on federal copyright law.

Effectively counseled trustees of employee benefit plans directly regarding the applicability of federal statutes and case law, rights and obligations under plan documents, and implementing plan policies

Section 13 of the Official Languages Act states that both the French and English versions of a federal statute are equally authoritative.

Ontario's Superior Court of Justice has decided that provisions of a federal statute (the Criminal Code of Canada) are contrary to the Constitution (specifically, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms).

Those sources also include parts of another federal statute, the Supreme Court Act — some provisions identified by number as well as whatever might in future be determined to embody the Court's «essential features.»

From motions practice to appellate briefing, Ms. Brown represents corporations in all phases of complex litigation and develops litigation and compliance strategies under a variety of federal statutes, including the federal Communications Act, the Federal Arbitration Act and the Freedom of Information Act, as well as the U.S. Constitution.

Lawyers who practise federal law are used to considering and comparing the two different versions of federal statutes, but they are unable to do so with large chunks of the Constitution.

I often notice that statutory interpretation is much easier when I resort to the French version of a federal statute.