Sentences with phrase «of immunity laws»

Not exact matches

Another option would be to revisit Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a 1996 law that provides immunity from liability to online platforms for content generated by its users.

Under Greek law, parliament must first investigate allegations against lawmakers before they can be stripped of immunity and prosecuted by judicial authorities.

To give such websites blanket immunity in the name of internet progress is antithetical to Canadian public interests, whether they be law enforcement, protection of content or other concerns.

Constitutional Amendment 14 (this one specifically applies to Pan's Bill): ``... No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.»

In Canada, the notion of plea bargains or immunity deals in exchange for co-operation are well - established in criminal law in cases facing individuals.

The doctrine of interjurisdictional immunity (IJI) holds that a provincial law that impairs the core competence of a federal head of jurisdiction (in this case the TransMountain pipeline as a federally regulated interprovincial work or undertaking) will be inapplicable to the federal matter.

It was only if those requirements were relaxed as a matter of federal law that it would become necessary to consider if those requirements could continue to apply ex proprio motu, or if they were inoperative or inapplicable by virtue of the doctrines of paramountcy and / or interjurisdictional immunity.

For centuries they have committed crimes with impunity, they refuse to abide by the laws of the land claiming diplomatic immunity or sovereignty.

The form in which he originally proposed it was: «The Congress shall have power to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper to secure to the citizens of each state all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several states and to all persons in the several states equal protection in the rights of life, liberty, and property.»

Lead author Sara Chrisman of the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center in Seattle, Washington, viewed the finding that concussion education requirements for coaches under the state's first - in - the - nation «Lystedt Law» were being closely followed by public high schools in Washington State as «very encouraging but not surprising,» noting that schools had an incentive to follow the law because it provides legal immunity from litigation for schools that follow it correctLaw» were being closely followed by public high schools in Washington State as «very encouraging but not surprising,» noting that schools had an incentive to follow the law because it provides legal immunity from litigation for schools that follow it correctlaw because it provides legal immunity from litigation for schools that follow it correctly.

School districts in some states, including all five surveyed, may have additional protection under «recreational use» statutes, which offer immunity from certain claims against landowners who open their property to the public for recreational use.10 In states with broad recreational use statutes, such as Indiana, opening school kitchen facilities could be considered a protected activity under the law, depending on the circumstances of the use and other factors.11 However, in Massachusetts, protection for recreational activities extends only to purposes that are «scientific, educational, environmental, ecological, research, religious, or charitable,» 12 so the state's statute might not apply when districts allow for - profit groups to use school kitchens.

Even then, the district may have a defense against the liability in the form of «governmental immunity,» although laws regarding injury claims that establish this precedent differ considerably across states.7 All five states included in this analysis had some form of governmental immunity, but the strength of those provisions varies.

A recent thread in the law section of stack exchange is also relevant and spells out the ideas of the qualified and absolute immunity of officials acting to carry out an unconstitutional order from a superior.

The independence granted the Commission under the Constitution does not mean immunity to flout all the financial laws of Ghana, waste public funds and unlawfully enrich corrupt public officials.

(No public officials in the U.S., even the President, have immunity for unofficial acts in violation of the law.)

No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

However, the Independent National Electoral Commission after investigation indicted the governor, but said he could not be prosecuted in line with electoral laws because of the immunity he currently enjoyed.

The law also makes it easier to strip legislators of their immunity, allowing the arrest of MPs even during plenary sessions of Parliament.

He favors waiving the State's sovereign immunity from ADA challenges and favors amending State Human Rights Law to incorporate Titles II and III of the ADA, to compensate for the increasingly negative interpretations by federal courts.

From the April issue: In this month's roundup of government - related real estate news, The Real Deal checks out the Loft Law, which grants residents living in illegal loft properties immunity from eviction, whose deadline passed last month.

Courts have generally held that due to this dual nature tribes have immunity from federal civil cases, most of the time, and are not subject to laws of States the reservation is on.

Parliamentarians promoting and granting immunity to themselves can only serve to launder the rule of the powerful rather than the rule of law.

The governor also said the similar issue that happened at the end of his first tenure is about repeating itself and urged the anti graft agency to respect the law as he enjoys immunity, adding that they should not to be in an hurry as he will submit himself to them when he finish his administration.

«I am here in Zenith bank, Ado Ekiti, I got a wind that the EFCC blocked my account and the accounts of some of my associates and I see this as very illegal, if you want to fight corruption, you fight corruption based on the rule of law, I am a sitting governor and under section 308 of the Nigerian constitution, I enjoy immunity.»

Because French was not required to waive his immunity from prosecution when he testified before the grand jurors, the report said, under state law he can not be prosecuted «regardless of the ultimate conclusions» reached by the the attorney general's office.

In the middle of the night, while mockingly echoing the SAFE Act's nefarious witching - hour birth, the senators voted to amend the SAFE Act law to grant immunity to law enforcement officers and retired LEOs from its unconstitutional restrictions.

This gives immunity from prosecution for people who disclose information such as dangers to health and safety, breaches of the law, and miscarriages of justice.

Whether the issue was bail, grand jury immunity, prosecution of drunken drivers or investigation of police shootings of unarmed civilians, Murray was clueless about the law.

Colin Fricker, the director of legal and legislative affairs for the Direct Marketing Association, believes the registrar already has enough powers to investigate, provided that the government does not claim immunity from the data protection laws on national security grounds.

In terms of the family, there is «marital immunity» which incorporates extensive exemptions for rape in marriage.31 Then there exists «familiarity immunity» which administers the «criminal law of acquaintance or intimate relationships.»

32 Sovereign immunity is thus just an extension of these paradigms, ensuring that states do not have to be accountable for its violations through the law of nations.

Scalia focused on the general understanding of the terms «equal protection of the laws,» «due process of law,» and «privileges and immunities» in the late 1860s and thereafter.

The law surrounding the principle of «qualified immunity» gets complex pretty quickly.

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed last week to reconsider one of its important precedents on qualified immunity, which protects public officials such as educators and police officers from liability when their challenged actions did not violate clearly established law.

Pursuant to Education Law section 16, any person having reasonable cause to suspect that a student has been subjected to harassment, bullying, and / or discrimination by an employee or student, on school grounds or at a school function, who acting reasonably and in good faith, either reports such information to school officials, to the commissioner, or to law enforcement authorities or otherwise initiates, testifies, participates or assists in any formal or informal proceedings under this subdivision, shall have immunity from any civil liability that may arise from the making of such report or from initiating, testifying, participating or assisting in such formal or informal proceedinLaw section 16, any person having reasonable cause to suspect that a student has been subjected to harassment, bullying, and / or discrimination by an employee or student, on school grounds or at a school function, who acting reasonably and in good faith, either reports such information to school officials, to the commissioner, or to law enforcement authorities or otherwise initiates, testifies, participates or assists in any formal or informal proceedings under this subdivision, shall have immunity from any civil liability that may arise from the making of such report or from initiating, testifying, participating or assisting in such formal or informal proceedinlaw enforcement authorities or otherwise initiates, testifies, participates or assists in any formal or informal proceedings under this subdivision, shall have immunity from any civil liability that may arise from the making of such report or from initiating, testifying, participating or assisting in such formal or informal proceedings.

The case concerns whether teachers or other school personnel - required by state law to serve as mandatory reporters of suspected child abuse - are entitled to qualified immunity.

In performance of any of the powers, duties, and functions authorized by law, Florida College System institution police have the same rights, protections, and immunities afforded other law enforcement officers.

In 1954, the Supreme Court in its landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision ruled that separate school facilities based on race are inherently unequal and thus in violation of the 14th Amendment which states, in part: «No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.»

It is clear that the laws which allow charter schools so much «autonomy» (and lack of scrutiny and immunity from Freedom of Information legislation) only protects the guilty and greedy.

Major U.S. and foreign air carriers may, under 49 U.S.C § § 41308 - 41309, request a grant of immunity from the U.S. antitrust laws to operate certain commercial alliances.

Spotlighting the Casey Cort legal thrillers: Qualified Immunity, Under Color of Law, and In Plain Sight...

Studies are underway right now that will most likely demonstrate that immunity to rabies vaccination is good for at least 5 or 7 years; however, for now we must certainly follow the law with regard to this vaccination, given the public health risk of rabies.

You'll need to discuss the revaccination schedule with your veterinarian, as it will depend on local or state laws and the duration of the vaccine's immunity.

All privileges and immunities of the German nobility as a legally defined class were abolished on August 11, 1919 with the promulgation of the Weimar Constitution, recognising all Germans as equal before the laws of their country.

Animal Folks also took legal action against the USDA for the removal of animal welfare documents, and they are working on a bill that will give immunity to Minnesota veterinarians who report suspected animal cruelty to law enforcement.

(In most jurisdictions, titers are not legal proof of rabies immunity, and even a high titer will not exempt the animal from vaccination for rabies as required by law.)

In the case of airline frequent flier programs and their credit card - based programs, attempts to regulate them years ago through the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) failed as it kicked the regulatory process back to Congress, which pretty much gave airlines immunity from these types of laws.

Allows privately funded industrial hemp research to be conducted in Hawaii under certain conditions; requires monitoring by department of public safety; requires reporting to county law enforcement; exempts argonomic data derived from research from public records disclosure; confers immunity from criminal prosecution for the research.

Allows privately funded industrial hemp research to be conducted in Hawaii under certain conditions; requires monitoring by department of public safety; requires reporting to county law enforcement; exempts agronomic data derived from research from public records disclosure; confers immunity from criminal prosecution for the research.

Functional immunity arises from customary international law and treaty law and confers immunities on those performing acts of state (usually a foreign official).