Sentences with phrase «old amendment to the law»

The dissenting justices contended that the church members should have been exempted from the requirements under a 15 - year - old amendment to the law that has been applied only to members...

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A key House panel is set today to consider some 76 amendments to a Republican bill reauthorizing the nation's top education law - activity that might otherwise suggest that Congress is finally serious about updating the 12 - year - old legislation.

The Florida public - school establishment is suing to repeal the Sunshine State's 13 - year - old school - choice tax credit and its new education savings accounts under the state's Blaine Amendment and its «uniformity clause,» which mandates that «Adequate provision shall be made by law for a uniform, efficient, safe, secure, and high quality system of free public schools...» The Florida Supreme Court previously struck down the state's voucher program under this provision in Bush v. Holmes (2006), on the grounds that the vouchers «divert [ed] public dollars» from «the sole means set out in the Constitution for the state to provide for the education of Florida's children.»

It comes in the form of an amendment to a 32 - year - old law that sets the value of new books at fixed prices.

We need, I suggest, a new code for family law matters, or at least amendments to the old, which:

«The old and familiar maxim in Bacon's Legal Maxims - De fide et officio judicis iton recipitur quaestio, sed de scientia, sive sit error juris, sive facti - expresses the distinction with reference to «due process of law» in the fourteenth amendment between the right of litigants in state courts in cases arising under the local state law to have the local state law administered judicially and not arbitrarily, and their right to have free, fair and impartial state tribunals.