Sentences with phrase «of vague laws»

He provides an originalist argument in favor of vague laws being struck down as violating due process and separation of powers.

Some lawyers argue that the Supreme Court's decision was a necessary clarification of a vague law, and one that will prevent prosecutors from overreaching.

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He called parts of it «draconian» and said, «much of it is too vague to give bitcoin companies the certainty that they are indeed complying with the law.»

Second, Congress has exercised lax oversight, bowing to the will of the executive, and framed such vague, inadequate laws that the intelligence agencies have filled in almost at whim the blank checks at their disposal.

But the lawsuit states that the law is vague and does not make it clear what activities fall under the scope of the restrictions.

Most memorably of all, «If you want to know the law and nothing else, you must look at it as a bad man, who cares only for the material consequences which such knowledge enables him to predict, not as a good one, who finds his reasons for conduct, whether inside the law or outside of it, in the vaguer sanctions of conscience.»

«Law - abiding citizens, such as Christians, could be caught by the vague definitions of extremism that get bandied about when ministers are trying to talk tough.

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.

Thus, the «Federalists» «anti-majoritarian bias, and their commitment to neutrality between competing conceptions of the good life, lays the groundwork for a Supreme Court whose commitment to such vague notions as «libertarian dignity under law» makes it the supreme umpire in American life.

Neuhaus argues that such poor drafting resulted from the bishops being in a media — inspired panic, he ignores the fact that the very definition he quotes refers to Canon 1395 — 2, which itself, like canon law generally, employs this kind of very vague language.

using a figure of speech in a law makes the law vague, this allows for interpretation, please stop interpreting the bible to suit your own Ideals, unless you wish to admit your a heretic.

Such a vague standard of normality, unsurprisingly, offered far flimsier support for sexual ethics than did the classical natural law tradition.

Reston's God, like the one Bellah described, is typical of the God of civil religion, is on the vague and austere side, «much more related to order, law, and right than to salvation and love.»

«the law's effectiveness is yet to be tested, in part because of protections it gives to «confidential communications,» as well as a vague definition of who should be considered a member of the clergy.

And the «vague» papal pronouncement that Mr. Lowell seems to doubt was ever made was, in fact, a major — some think historic — allocution, delivered in 1953 to an audience of Italian jurists, in which Pope Pius XII laid down the principle that «in the interest of a higher and broader good, it is justifiable not to impede error by state laws and coercive measures.»

Some come to Sunny Crunch with a formula already in mind — which may need only a few tweaks to make it compliant with regulatory laws and fit for mass consumption — while others have only a vague sense of the final product and need Sunny Crunch's help.

Food and Drink - Fall 2011 -(Page 58) > p PRODUCERS food law The Laws of the Label If you can avoid making vague or misleading claims on food labels, you might be able to avoid a class - action lawsuit.

While the study found that high schools in the state were meeting the law's minimum guidelines - likely left purposefully vague as a necessary legislative compromise for an unfunded mandate - Chrisman and her co-authors thus expressed the hope that further revisions of the law would beef up the educational requirements for athletes and parents.

Unfortunately, the details of the law are vague, and that has created loopholes for insurance companies to jump through.

They expressed concern about the limited extend of parent and athlete concussion education, but note vague language in the Lystedt Law itself likely played a role.

As of Aug. 1, 2012, the Affordable Care Act is supposed to cover the cost of some breast pumps, but because the law's wording is vague, insurance policies differ in what's covered.

Support for campaign finance reform will be mentioned in the resolution along with better enforcement of campaign laws, but language is expected to be vague.

As for «political speech» that seems to be a big part of this entire mess — the laws seem vague enough as to what these groups can and can't do that I find it hard for anyone to properly enforce them regardless of particular political leanings.

Recent guidance has prohibited the police from arresting under Section 5 of the Act when they are the individual being insulted, but campaigners say the vague wording of the law makes it open to abuse by other groups.

For example, China's Public Security Bureaus are granted such vague and wide - ranging powers to sentence individuals to re-education through labour that it is often difficult to make the case that an instance of detention was in clear violation of the law.

But aside from the pedestrian proposals on offer, there was the usual litany of vague, meaningless and misleading promises about future law.

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What is more unfortunate is seeing numerous people within Labour and on the left joining in, perceiving in some vague unspecified way that Laws» misguided attempts to protect his private life and Alexander's significantly less misguided decision to only pay the amount of tax he was legally obliged to were somehow the moral equivalent to the more eyewatering examples of house flipping that Labour ministers got up to in the last parliament.

State law has already prohibited coordination between independent expenditure committees and the candidates they support, but the definition of coordination has been somewhat vague.

Brian Sampson, executive director of Unshackle New York, agrees with Cuomo that the new Start - Up New York law is written without the vague loopholes that allowed Empire Zones to morph into something else.

Cuomo kept the coalition's plans for overhauling the laws vague because there doesn't seem to be much of a plan right now.

The letter says that vague laws on the use of campaign money create a tremendous «potential for abuse,» and notes, «In hopes that this shortcoming will be addressed in the upcoming legislative session, I am forwarding a copy of this letter to Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader Dean G. Skelos, and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.»

Also, given the correct citations of portions of the USC, I suppose there must have been some lawyer involved somewhere, but I wonder if the designation of the class as aliens «from» as set of countries shows that any legal input was fairly low level and probably not from an immigration law specialist: it's terribly vague, and I doubt it was intentionally so.

And the district attorney's vague interpretation of the law against criminal impersonation would allow prosecutors to «pursue their personal predilections» in deciding whom to charge, Porter writes.

I have a vague conception of how cases get to the Supreme Court, but from my understanding a heavily conservative state, like North Dakota, could pass a law banning all abortion, and a case challenging the validity of this law would be raised, and appeals courts would send it before the SCOTUS, which would choose to take it and make a ruling.

New York State's campaign finance laws are weak and vague to begin with, but the lack of enforcement compounds the problem.

Some U.S. officials are still attending COP23, but Michael Wara, director of the Climate and Energy Policy Program at Stanford University Law School, worries that without U.S. leadership, the Paris accord rules could end up vague.

Laws are vague on the subject, but some legal experts suggest treating the moon as just another frontier: The first to go to develop a financial stake in a patch of lunar land would be able to claim property rights.

Scalia believed his job in education cases was to read and apply the text of the law, and not allow his personal views on education to come in through the backdoor via free - ranging interpretations of vague statutory and constitutional provisions.

The laws have become part of a broader debate over the proliferation of charter schools, private school vouchers and everything else now dubbed «education reform,» a vague term used by self - professed reformers to describe nearly any attempts that call for challenging the traditional public school system.

The rally took place just a few days after the Milwaukee School Board and administration on Friday rejected a controversial proposal that would have resulted in the takeover of some schools, saying the state - mandated plan was vague, the funding plan unclear and elements conflicted with state law.

Currently in Missouri, if law enforcement gets a complaint call they must call in the experts from the Department of Agriculture to help interpret 30 + pages of vague, confusing and outdated regulations.

We need to donate directly to local shelters, not to national organizations who line their own pockets and try to get new, subjective, and deliberately vague laws in place so they can force good people out of business until they are the only source of pets.

Dogs not covered by the ban may have lost their lives because of this vague, overreaching law.

When nobody can put anything on them beyond some vague guilt - by - association charge that could never hold up in a court of law, it then becomes obvious why this global warming crisis begins to look like it may fall apart.

He continues to reference vague «radiation laws» but all of this is described in basic radiation literature and textbooks.

In this episode of The Interchange, we talk to an electricity law expert about why Perry's «flimsy and vague» rule is a «total retreat from market - based principles.»

The real problem is whether or to what extent we can aggravate the legal situation of EU citizens by disapplying the legislative provisions on limitation periods for criminal proceedings, if we rely only on such vague and open - ended provisions of EU law like Article 325 TFEU.

With these somewhat vague definitions, the case law has developed a rule of thumb about how you calculate these different types of costs.

The provisions of Articles 17 and 18 of this Law shall apply to the absence of such an agreement or to a vague one.