Sentences with phrase «own legal standing»

A major question in that litigation was whether Texas had legal standing to sue, an issue that the Supreme Court did not resolve.

The decision by the New York Court of Appeals gives such individuals legal standing to seek custody or visitation rights.

This type of signature provides the same legal standing as a handwritten signature as long as it adheres to the requirements of the specific regulation it was created under.»

Just get clear on your legal standing, and what you can and can't do to get your partnership on track or end it.

Among the factors which may have contributed to this rise were the European sovereign - debt crisis — particularly the 2012 — 2013 Cypriot financial crisis — statements by FinCEN improving the currency's legal standing and rising media and Internet interest.

Detailed underwriting includes review of investment strategy, financials, legal standing, and property condition / location.

All laws must include and protect the freedoms, rights, and equal legal standing of all persons, in and outside the church... John

You have no legal standing or right to impose your religion on others, especially where secular authority is concerned.

The religion itself has no legal standing, no legal representation, and is only a delusional belief system without any credibility at all.

But even in an environmental - impact statement, it is the effect of the proposed activity only upon human welfare which has legal standing.

Your religion has ZERO legal standing.

Justice William O. Douglas was the first prominent American jurist to propose legal standing for environmental objects.

He would say to us today, likely, that we should relax about making laws about how folks that are different from us might be allowed to have legal standing such as marriage would provide.

Until 1791 Jews had unequal legal standing in Muslim and Christian countries and so had to rely on their wits, bribes or the enlightened self - interest of the governing majority.

Neither your version of a god, nor any version of any god, has legal standing in our laws.

I think the Supreme Court got it wrong in 1857 in Dred Scott v. Sandford, when it held that an African - American whose ancestors had been brought to the U.S. as slaves could not be a citizen and thus had no legal standing.

The moral requirement is fulfilled by a valid recipient who must receive them from a legally ordained priest with legal standing.

For my friends and acquaintances that are GLBT, the ability to have a legal standing on par with heterosexual couples carries weight in every area of their lives.

We are reverting to the pre-Constantinian situation, where the Church has no legal standing and its doctrines are considered to be private matters (when they are not considered to be seditious).

The solution is a return to the pre-Constantinian practice of the Church in which a Church marriage is a purely sacramental matter, subject to the doctrine and disciplines of the Church, but without legal standing.

No one sued or complained because they had no legal standing to do so.

Even if unmarried fathers are registered on the birth certificate and get PR, their legal standing is still currently different from mothers and married fathers.

I knew that open adoption has no legal standing in the state of Indiana and that the adoptive parents could negate their decision to keep the adoption open at any time.

Kellyanne Conway's husband, a close Trump ally, bashed the president's Twitter habits, warning that Trump was undercutting his own legal standing in the court fight for his travel ban in order for short - term emotional gratification.

Shortly after this interview the club confirmed that Archway Sheet Metal Works Ltd and the Josif Family had exercised their right to seek to challenge the Secretary of State's compulsory purchase order in the High Court, a legal stand - off which means Spurs now accept that it «is highly unlikely we shall be able to open the new Stadium at the start of the 2017/2018 season.»

IANAL, but it means anyone can do whatever they want to you and you won't have legal standing to protest it.

Lynch also has railed against state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman because he said that widow Diane Piagentini lacks the legal standing to challenge the board's decision.

It is unclear whether Cuomo's letter to the United States government has legal standing as a cease - and - desist order, according to the Washington Post.

Except to the extent that «national security interests», immigration policy, or the enforceability of tax laws are involved, a major theme of U.S. law is that the legal standing of a person should not depend on who that person is.

Would you say the current debate is centered more on the fact that many see it as an American «principle» regardless of legal standing?

Lawyers for both sides in the two - hour hearing veered a bit from the issue at hand which was whether the plaintiffs had legal standing to move ahead in their case.

While Graham and others questioned the PSC's ability to arbitrate environmental rather than utility issues, the commission's lawyers questioned whether the plaintiffs had legal standing since the organizations fighting the subsidy were mostly from the lower Hudson Valley, which is some four hours away from the nuclear plants.

Laws making homosexuality punishable by jail time in Uganda, and lack of property rights for women in India and the Middle East contribute to the AIDS epidemic by leaving people vulnerable to the disease without the legal standing to seek help, said Joseph Deiss, president of the UN General Assembly at the ceremony.

In Rockland County, County Clerk Paul Piperato has said he did not believe he had legal standing to deny the Journal News» request for gun permit addresses.

The point is that any person whether they have power as a demagogue, or through illegal use of our justice system, can threaten the legal standing of our democracy.

WBFO»S Focus on Education reporter Eileen Buckley says State Supreme Court Justice Deborah Chimes ruled that Giambra and two co-petitioners did not have proper legal standing to mount the court challenge.

Children often lack legal standing, knowledge, financial resources and adequate legal representation.

A Staten Island judge ultimately decided the pair did not have legal standing to make its case.

I wish we, the public, had legal standing to sue to recover those funds for the State.

Since Levy thinks it's meaningful for the Governor to say «this is a fiscal state of emergency», even though it doesn't have any legal standing, why stop there?

Quigley said that he had a letter from the corporation counsel of the City of Kingston, Andrew Zweben, indicating they had no legal standing; The Kingston Common Council had hoped the need for the approval of the Kingston Board of Water Commissioners for Niagara to draw water from Cooper Lake reservoir in Woodstock would give be enough for them to have involved agency status, but Zweben felt otherwise.

An attorney for the Assembly argued Schulz lacks the legal standing to proceed with his case.

Unfortunately, Cuomo is getting away with flouting the Finance Law because members of the state Legislature — the only people with legal standing to sue him — simply don't care enough to make an issue of it.

«Prophet Jones Erue wishes to first and foremost thank God for the outcome of this long - drawn case which for years now had cast a blight on the legal standing of the State Executive Committee.

The institute dropped the lawsuit after EPA attorneys argued that the group lacked legal standing to bring the litigation; the agency also pointed to a 1999 decision by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that concluded that receipt of grant money didn't mean that advisory committee members were «susceptible to improper influence.»

The 80 minutes of occasionally spirited argument at the high court this morning focused on the two main issues in the greenhouse gas litigation: For the case to go forward, the plaintiffs must prove that the case has legal standing (they must show that the court is the right venue for resolving this dispute), and that the common law definition of nuisance can support suits over greenhouse gases.

«The ISA is the only body with the legal standing and responsibility to manage mining beyond national jurisdiction,» said Kristina Gjerde, an international high - seas lawyer and co-author on the Science paper.

Instead, the court said, Roche is a co-owner and Stanford doesn't have legal standing to sue the company.

The United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit is the same court that gave Sherley and Deisher legal standing in June.

A U.S. District Court rejected the suit for several reasons, including that none of the plaintiffs had legal standing to sue.