Sentences with phrase «old rules of court»

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A Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco has ruled that a challenge to the state's 145 - year - old ban on prostitution may proceed, saying a 2003 Supreme Court ruling opened the door for closer scrutiny of the law.

The EU's Court of Justice announced a landmark ruling that nullifies that 15 - year - old Safe Harbour pact, which allows tech companies such as Facebook and Google to transfer European customer data to U.S. servers.

The French decision follows the May ruling by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in the case of Mario Costeja González, a Spanish man who succeeded in ordering Google to remove links to an old article saying that his home was being repossessed to pay off debts.

Working behind the scenes, members of the old establishment, some of them close to Mr. Mubarak and the country's top generals, also helped finance, advise and organize those determined to topple the Islamist leadership, including Naguib Sawiris, a billionaire and an outspoken foe of the Brotherhood; Tahani el - Gebali, a former judge on the Supreme Constitutional Court who is close to the ruling generals; and Shawki al - Sayed, a legal adviser to Ahmed Shafik, Mr. Mubarak's last prime minister, who lost the presidential race to Mr. Morsi.

They have already lost fights in the High Court, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court and European Court of Human Rights after Mr Justice Hayden ruled that doctors could stop providing life - support treatment for the 23 - month old.

That is what the defenders of conjugal marriage are saying after the brace of Supreme Court rulings issued yesterday on challenges to that truth that is as old as the human race, that marriage is between a man and a woman.

Florida Supreme Court says legislature, governor had no right to save Terri Schiavo's life The Florida Supreme Court today ruled unanimously that the state legislature should not have given Gov. Jeb Bush the power to feed mentally disabled 40 - year - old Terri Schiavo against the wishes of husband, who wanted to starve her to death.

The legislative leaders quietly introduced a campaign finance bill last night that is designed to strengthen enforcement at the state Board of Elections and also address the US Supreme Court's January decision that overturned a 20 - year - old ruling barring corporations from spending freely to support or oppose candidates.

A federal appeals court ruled for the first time that the 1964 Civil Rights Act protects LGBT employees from workplace discrimination, setting up a likely battle before the Supreme Court as gay rights advocates push to broaden the scope of the 53 - year - oldcourt ruled for the first time that the 1964 Civil Rights Act protects LGBT employees from workplace discrimination, setting up a likely battle before the Supreme Court as gay rights advocates push to broaden the scope of the 53 - year - oldCourt as gay rights advocates push to broaden the scope of the 53 - year - old law.

For Cuomo, a united Democratic Senate majority is a nightmare scenario: a centrist at heart, he belittled raising the minimum wage before it came back into vogue, ridiculed the idea of hiking taxes on wealthy people, and still won't comply with a ten - year - old court ruling to fork over state cash to underfunded city public schools.

Recall that last Friday, former governor of old Anambra State, Chief Jim Nwobodo and a former member of the House of Representatives, Uche Ekwunife, who later represented Anambra Central at the Senate, before her election was annulled by the appeal court, defected to the ruling APC.

Speaking to London branch of the NPP's Communication Team at the NPP Old Meeting Place on Seven Sisters Street in London in July this year, Sammy Awuku virtually brought the credibility of some of the Supreme Court justices who are about to give their ruling in the election petition case into disrepute when he said emphatically that quiet a number of them were favourable towards the cause of the NPP.

An appeals court in Manhattan ruled that a reporter for The New York Times could not be subpoenaed to testify at a coming trial about her jailhouse interview with a man accused in the decades - old murder of a 4 - year - old known as Baby Hope.

A man who was 16 years old when he fatally strangled his girlfriend almost 40 years ago is entitled to a new parole board review that takes into consideration his age at the time of his crime, a divided upstate court has ruled.

No, the old travel ban (EC 13769) is revoked and the Justice Department has dismissed its appeal of the Seattle federal court ruling.

A recent appeals court ruling in a case that grew out of PSEG Long Island's expansion of an electrical substation on Old Stone Highway in Amagansett, represents a mixed decision for East Hampton Town, which had sought to hold the utility provider to local zoning laws that would have required planning board review of the project.

A new crop of mega-philanthropists — with names like Soros, Gates and Koch — is eclipsing the old guard, changing the rules and courting controversy by taking on hot - button political and social issues on both the left and the right that thrusts them into the spotlight.

Bruno, an 83 - year - old Republican from Rennselaer County, was convicted of theft of honest services charges, but that was later overturned by a federal court following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the chcourt following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the chCourt ruling on the charge.

Chautauqua County Court Judge David Foley dismissed the charge of second degree manslaughter against 34 year - old Thomas Jadlowski in a ruling issued on Wednesday, saying District Attorney Patrick Swanson erred when he presented the case in front of a grand jury while seeking an indictment.

Manhattan Supreme Court ruled in favor of an ailing 73 - year - old man who accused the co-op board at 200 Central Park South of barring him...

Manhattan Supreme Court ruled in favor of an ailing 73 - year - old man who accused the co-op board at 200 Central Park South of barring him from installing a state - of - the - art air - conditioning system in his unit.

Tokyo's decades - old and disputed «scientific whaling» program suffered a blow in March when the International Court of Justice (ICJ), in a surprise ruling, ordered a halt to annual hunts in the Southern Ocean.

In contrast to the INSERM report, in 2003 a French civil appeal court upheld an earlier court ruling that the Pasteur Institute was responsible for the 2001 death of 30 - year - old Pascale Fachin from CJD contracted from contaminated human growth hormone administered in 1985 and imposed a fine of $ 322,000.

Almost as many still played by the old - school women's rules of half court.

But the 82 - year - old retired school administrator — whose 1977 move to charge the families of undocumented children here $ 1,000 per student to attend public schools sparked a federal lawsuit — has more than made his peace with the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling against him and the school system in Plyler v. Doe.

A New Jersey judge has ruled that the Woodbury school district may continue its 22 - year - old policy of starting each school day with a moment of silence «for contemplation» pending a trial on that case and decisions in two related federal - court cases.

Gov. George E. Pataki promised an ambitious educational agenda last week in his final State of the State Address, but he didn't answer the $ 5.6 billion education question: Will the state put up the money to end the 13 - year - old lawsuit that led to a court ruling that the state is shortchanging New York City public schools?

With its ruling, the court has locked Washington State into a defunct, hundred - year - old notion of public schooling that makes it impossible for the citizens or the legislature to experiment with more flexible and effective ways of educating the state's children.

California is not required to pay for the tuition of an extremely gifted 13 - year - old student who is enrolled in college, a state appeals court has ruled.

With its ruling, the court has locked Washington State into a defunct, hundred - year - old notion of public schooling.

In 1998, in New Jersey's school funding case, called «Abbott,» the state's highest court ruled that preschool is an essential component of a constitutionally adequate education and mandated universal full - day preschool for 3 - and 4 - year - olds in the 31 highest poverty districts in the state.

For example, it fails to consider Hunter v. Pittsburgh, the century - old U.S. Supreme Court ruling that essentially renders districts (as well as other local governments) as subservient to state government, essentially making the very concept of local control a fiction.

Superior Court Judge James Chalfant's ruling said the district has been violating the 41 - year - old Stull Act, which requires student progress to be part of teacher evaluations.

Applying a 30 - year - old Supreme Court ruling to a California case, a federal district court found that schools do not have to meet the top level when providing services for students with disabilities - only a basic floor of opportunity.»&rCourt ruling to a California case, a federal district court found that schools do not have to meet the top level when providing services for students with disabilities - only a basic floor of opportunity.»&rcourt found that schools do not have to meet the top level when providing services for students with disabilities - only a basic floor of opportunity.»»

Two High Court judges last week ruled that magistrates were right to throw out an attempt to prosecute Jon Platt, who was issued with a fine by Isle of Wight council after taking his seven - year - old daughter to Florida last April.

Last month, a Superior Court judge ruled L.A. Unified to be in violation of a 41 - year - old law requiring student progress to be part of teacher evaluations.

We're releasing the 2018 Local School Finance Study at a time of intense focus on how public schools are funded in North Carolina, including a new General Assembly Joint Legislative Task Force on Education Finance Reform, the Governor's Commission on Access to Sound Basic Education, the My Future NC Commission and a pending court ruling in the 20 + year old Leandro case.

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge James C. Chalfant affirmed his preliminary ruling this week, finding that the district has violated a 40 - year - old state law, known as the Stull Act, requiring that evaluations of teachers and principals include measures of how much students learn what the state and district expects them to know.

An important school choice ruling, as a Florida appellate court has tossed an 8 - year - old lawsuit taking aim at 20 years of state education policy.

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled in favor of a debtor, who sought discharge of his student loan debt in a decade - old bankruptcy case.

Eric Bernthal, a lawyer and Maryland resident who chairs The HSUS's board of directors, says the court's ruling reminds him of an old saying: Hard cases make bad law.

An inferior court appeal by 27 year old Al Jones, succeeded today when Justice Adolph Lucas ruled that they were discrepancies in the testimonies of prosecution witnesses and he quashed the conviction, set aside the sentence and acquitted Jones.

That news followed the release of dueling assessments on the college's condition in the months before an expected ruling in State Supreme Court on the legality of having tuition at the 155 - year - old institution.

[89] Nevertheless, the practical demands of «access to justice» have led courts and legislatures to recognize that the old rules and assumptions must give way, at least in part.

In these circumstances the Court decided to refer the following questions for a preliminary ruling to the CJEU: 1) whether for the purposes of Art. 2 (2)(c), Member States can require the direct descendant who is older than 21 years to have tried, without success, to obtain employment in the country of origin in order to be regarded as «dependant» and fall within the scope of the provision; and 2) whether in interpreting the term «dependant» any significance should be attached to the fact that the family member is, due to the personal circumstances such as age, education and health, deemed to obtain employment in the host Member State, which would mean that the conditions of dependence will no longer be met.

The pro-motion faction maintained the ruling was old and out - of - date with what was happening in society and if brought into court would not uphold the view of today's society.

As this overview has shown, courts can — and will — apply the old version of the rules.

A judge in the Court of Session refused to grant the specific issue order and residence order sought by the mother after ruling that it would be in the five - and - a-half year - old girl's «best interests» to remain here.

And with Canada's most comfortable summer in full swing, an old Saint «Nick in legal gowns will be showin» up at the fifty - year old Victoria Court house round Canada Day with a brand new set of access - to - justice Supreme Court rules.

The Superior Court in Ontario, Canada relied in substantial part on the expert evidence of Jeremy D. Morley as to family law in India in ruling that the father of a four - year - old child living in Ontario should not be permitted to take the child on a family visit to India.