Sentences with phrase «piece of law if»

In other words, they could threaten to call a general election over any vote or piece of law if they lost.

Not exact matches

(Others in Dimock claim they were told that if they refused to sign a lease, gas would be taken out from under their land anyway, since under Pennsylvania law a well drilled on a leased piece of property can capture gas from neighboring, unleased properties.)

NRF has argued before Congress and in court that the practice is a violation of federal antitrust law the same as if retailers were to collude on the price of specific pieces of merchandise.

If I write down a long number on a piece of paper and sell it to you for a hamburger, under what law would that be illegal?

A major piece of this court is giving power back to individual states and it generally felt they will ensure states know they can make similar laws if they haven't given gays the right to marry first.

As I said in my own piece, people of my persuasion would do handstands if we could enact Wilson's policy today and have the law restrict abortions beyond eight to ten weeks.

«If love or non-violence be not the law of our being,» he wrote, «the whole of my argument falls to pieces» (in Gandhi on Non-violence, edited by Thomas Merton [New Directions, 1964], p. 25).

«If this town board puts this piece of legislation back on the agenda and goes through the process, will you abide by the majority of people that show up in this room either for or against supporting that law to be passed in this town?»

Supervisor Quigley is quoted as saying, «If this town board puts this piece of legislation back on the agenda and goes through the process, will you abide by the majority of people that show up in this room either for or against supporting that law to be passed in this town?»

However, if you follow the capsule wardrobe law of one piece of clothing in, one piece out, you shouldn't need to worry about becoming overwrought with clothes ever again.

With the Globe's piece (and subsequent investigations), I won't be surprised if the CRA starts to enact new laws and interpretations that close gaps in the rules that surround untaxed profit of assignment sales.

If I offer a piece of software for free, but give users the option to make a donation on the webpage, what laws govern those donations?

«Drilling companies have won exemption from just about every piece of federal environmental law except the requirement to get permits if they use diesel in their fracking fluid,» said Dusty Horwitt of the Environmental Working Group.

''... If you want the average examiner's eyes to glaze over (or me to disregard your arguments), put 4 pages of arguments citing 10 different pieces of case law regarding the motivation to combine.

Is there nothing in US (or perhaps European) laws that makes asking for customer acceptance of such conditions simply illegal (especially if one considers the probable implications, not spelled out of course in the Orwellian piece above)?

If you or a loved one has been injured in a car accident in Florida or would like to learn more about the car accident compensation law, a good piece of advice is to speak with an experienced Florida personal injury lawyer to learn about some of the issues that can arise with these claims, including how most insurance companies respond to these claims and the type and amount of damages you can recover.

«If you could give one piece of advice to yourself while still in law school what would it be?»

If you include all the stakeholders (partners, paralegals, assistants), it will become part of your law firm's culture, and a piece of empowerment for everyone who works there.

I mean if I pick up a random piece of paper off the ground and it says «confidential» would I be breaking a law or a contract by showing it to someone?

Perhaps this decision was born of courtesy given the discomfort AI wake - up calls tend to cause, but if you read Mills» very informative three - part piece on the state of play in artificial intelligence and law you will notice that he is not that bullish on the «medieval master craftsman model» for legal services compared to whatever might emerge from the AI experimentation going on right now.

Law bloggers generally fall into one of two camps with any new technology: (1) it is The Future of Law, and if you don't use it, you are probably committing malpractice; or (2) all you need to practice law are a few pieces of birch bark and some charcoLaw bloggers generally fall into one of two camps with any new technology: (1) it is The Future of Law, and if you don't use it, you are probably committing malpractice; or (2) all you need to practice law are a few pieces of birch bark and some charcoLaw, and if you don't use it, you are probably committing malpractice; or (2) all you need to practice law are a few pieces of birch bark and some charcolaw are a few pieces of birch bark and some charcoal.

The industry does a fair job of regulating itself, but if we are to have federal legislation, wouldn't it be nice to have a piece of law that was well considered, thoughtful and reasonable?

If you sign over the copyright of a piece of code, then under US copyright law you have essentially lost any authority over the code and any inherent right to use it.

Whereas law practice enslaves lawyers, blogging empowers, giving lawyers a unique voice in a world where they usually serve as a mouthpiece for others, giving them control over a domain, even if it's just a tiny little piece of the Internet.

The absence of a plan leaves the burden upon the law society to pick up the pieces if something happens to the lawyer, often an avoidable one, which can end up costing the estate of the lawyer a lot of money.

So if it's a smaller matter, there's a group of law firms where I can pick up the phone and negotiate a specific piece of work.

The three analogies: (1) whereas a pre-electronic paper record can be symbolized by a piece of paper in a file drawer, an electronic record is like a drop of water in a pool of water, i.e., it is completely dependent upon its ERMS for its existence, accessibility, and «integrity» (as that word is used in the electronic records provisions of the Evidence Acts; e.g. s. 31.2 (1)(a) CEA); (2) if expert opinion evidence were rendered admissible in the way that electronic records are, there would be no evidence presented, nor cross-examination allowed, as to the qualifications of the expert witnesses, i.e., the «qualifications» of an electronic record being the state of records management of the ERMS in which it is stored; (3) going from a horse - powered transportation system to a motor vehicle - based transportation system has required a vast amount of new laws, regulations, and enforcement personnel, including police officers, judges, and lawyers, i.e., stepping up to a new technology requires that it be controlled by new laws and regulations, otherwise it will cause injury, damage, and injustice.

A lot of skills necessary for a successful law career can be developed equally as much, if not more, with a non-law degree — for example, an English literature degree requires you to take complex pieces of writing and analyse them closely, much like you might be doing with legal documents and cases.

If you're interested in defamation law you'd do well to read the recently published piece by Bob Tarantino, «Chasing Reputation: The Argument for Differential Treatment of «Public Figures» in Canadian Defamation Law,» (2010) 48 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 595 [PDlaw you'd do well to read the recently published piece by Bob Tarantino, «Chasing Reputation: The Argument for Differential Treatment of «Public Figures» in Canadian Defamation Law,» (2010) 48 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 595 [PDLaw,» (2010) 48 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 595 [PDLaw Journal 595 [PDF].

Everybody here over 45, with an OHLS LLB, or who has been out more that 10 years, or has a settled position doing something acceptably remunerative, regardless of how long it's been since you stopped regurgitating (sorry, graduated), put up your right hand if you can think of one valid reason to bother paying OHLS anything to issue you a piece of paper that has York U on it in bigger letters — oops, sorry, that says you can call yourself a Junior Dick (head)-- other than it's somehow more prestigious because it uses the same questionable Latin that would appear on what one gets from the School of Law and Bowling Alley Management in Effigy, S.D.

If your law firm's site is getting respectable traffic but having trouble converting that traffic into new clients, creating more content designed around long - tail keywords could be the piece of the puzzle you're missing.

If these laws were designed to prevent non-Canadian vendors from getting a piece of government business, they've done that quite well.

If you're interested in a rundown of artificial intelligence and the law, check out a piece I put together with ILTA in the past here.

These histories contain all the paper trail on bills that have become law: the different versions of the bill, the hearings, the conference reports, and all the other pieces you need if you're trying to interpret a law.

Such pieces, even if they're accurate, are snapshots of the law as it used to be.

work can be better tracked so that the law firm has a sense of how long it takes to complete certain pieces of work so they can better estimate the cost to do the work — especially useful if clients are asking for alternative fee arrangements

There are certain areas of law (not all) and compliance which the client or person can undertake if they have contacted the appropriate government authorities who enforce that piece of legislation and take preventative action.

If you run a paperless law office, adding a signature (digital or otherwise) is a piece of cake.

«Modifying data on a blockchain is very hard,» Oxford Law lecturer Michèle Finck told The Verge, «If you were to delete or modify data from the blockchain to comply with the GDPR's rights to amendment or the «right to be forgotten,» you wouldn't just change that piece of data, but the hash of the block containing the data and of all subsequent blocks.»

A good piece of advice if you intend to file a lawsuit against your landlord is to speak with an experienced Florida real estate lawyer to learn about your rights, because the law provides for the payment of attorney fees in the event the landlord is determined to have violated your lease agreement (which means, in many instances, the tenant will not have to pay any money to the lawyer, unless the lawyer wins the case).

If a piece of property is not yet technically listed, do you have whatever permission is required by your licensing law to solicit prospects for the property?