Sentences with phrase «power over the courts»

While the North Carolina Constitution was radically changed after the end of Reconstruction and during the Jim Crow era to restore some legislative power over the courts, judicial elections remained.

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The stand - off also comes amid a growing campaign by politicians, regulators and courts across Europe to rein in Google's power over the Internet search market and the impact it has on deeply ingrained social norms around personal privacy.

A Miami - Dade Circuit Court judge has ruled that Coral Gables can't force FPL to upgrade infrastructure and trim trees around power lines, but that the city can sue the utility for breach of contract over its response to power outages following Hurricane Irma.

In a federal court filing, Waymo, Google's autonomous vehicle unit, said it was scaling back some of its claims over Uber violating its patents on LiDAR, a remote - sensing system powering Waymo's driverless car technology.

For most of the hour - long session, the court's conservatives appeared skeptical about imposing new limits on the president's national - security powers over immigration.

The two provinces have been embroiled in court battles over rates set out in a decades - old deal, which gives Québec 34 per cent ownership and lower costs to purchase the power.

Readers of First Things should by now be well - acquainted with the heated national debate - in part inspired by these very pages - over the role and legitimacy of the modern Supreme Court, armed with the power of judicial review, in a country that proclaims itself to be self - governing.

He also argues that parents exercise certain «sole and inviolable» lawmaking powers over their children in the areas of custody, care, upbringing, discipline, and education, which the Supreme Court has acknowledged in many cases under the due - process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

If the Supreme Court somehow obtained jurisdiction over this independent sovereign power, according to Coons it would not be acting «either as or for the state, but as the arbiter of legal sovereigns who need a way to live together by some rule more humane than naked power.»

The point is not that we should rule the offensive illegal, which is why the courts are correct to strike down efforts to regulate speech that some people do not like, and even most speech that hurts; the advantages of yielding to the government so much power over what we say have never been shown to outweigh the dangers.

There are men who have power — there are mayors over cities, police commissioners, United States marshals, governors; there are legislators, both in the Senate and Congress; there are members of various courts and cabinets.

In Reynolds the Court recognized that «religion» is not defined in the Constitution but agreed that even if the state had no power over opinion, it was free to regulate actions.

Imagine someone in the government with power to censor serious debate over the origins of life, and you will understand the power of the court injunction in the Louisiana disclaimer case.

That democracy can be made to work, that by the scientific method we can gain mastery over the latent resources of the universe, that trial by jury is practicable, that torture is a foolish method of seeking evidence in the courts, that chattel slavery is a failure — such things we take for granted, not because we individually are wiser than our forebears, who disbelieved them all, but because we share in a social tradition which we did not even help to create, but which has shaped and conformed our thinking with irresistible power.

See also, for example, Fluer Anderson, «Producers in Power Push» (The Australian Financial Review, 20 October 2014, page 5), Fluer Anderson and Katie Walsh, «Cold shoulder for carve - ups» (The Australian Financial Review, 22 October 2014, p 11), Editorial, «Open economy is good for the farm» (Australian Financial Review, 21 October 2014, p 58), Lexi Metherell, «Agriculture green paper to spark debate over water, competition» (ABC Radio, The World Today, 20 October 2014) and Joe Kelly, «Green paper canvasses court orders to break up businesses» (Dynamic Business, 20 October 2014).

Mostly he enjoyed exercising power over his employers, fancying himself the final court of appeal for players and fans.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

You here «''»» http://ghanapoliticsonline.com Thanks The court by virtue of the powers conferred on it by the constitution assumed jurisdiction over the constitutional provision and initiated a hearing to enable it interpret the said provision.

The U.S. Supreme Court cleared much of President Donald Trump's travel ban to take effect this week and agreed to hear arguments in the fall, giving the president at least partial vindication for his claims of sweeping power over the nation's borders.

The government's high court defeat over its solar power feed - in tariff cuts is being celebrated by campaigners today.

Speaker Paul D. Ryan, R - Wis., applauded a court ruling that settled a lawsuit over the powers of the House and executive branch.

Both sides appear to be committed to resolving their differences rather than going ahead with a constitutional clash in the courts over the Scottish government's power to hold a referendum on its own terms.

Amid the fallout of the Greek Eurozone crisis, one of our contributors expanded on left - wing concerns around the EU with this look at the secret TTIP deals, which could see investor courts granted powers over national parliaments as part of a broader EU - US agreement.

A state Supreme Court justice has thrown out a petition by Rensselaer County District Attorney Joel E. Abelove that sought to undo the state attorney general's power to take over cases in which unarmed civilians are killed by police.

The Court considered Items 29 and 36 of the Exclusive Legislative List of CFRN and held that «Inland Waterways was not one of the items over which the National Assembly was given power to legislate and the National Assembly did not designate the Peninsular of Lagos Lagoon as an International Waterway.

Rather, over the years the courts have assumed more power for themselves, and for whatever reason, Congress has meekly accepted this.

... «Superior Court» is to be construed historically, and that... it connotes a court having an inherent jurisdiction, in England, to administer justice according to the law, as and being a part of, or descended from, and as exercising part of the power of, the Aula Regia, established by William the First, which had universal jurisdiction in all matters of right and wrong throughout the kingdom, and over which, in its early days, the King presided in peCourt» is to be construed historically, and that... it connotes a court having an inherent jurisdiction, in England, to administer justice according to the law, as and being a part of, or descended from, and as exercising part of the power of, the Aula Regia, established by William the First, which had universal jurisdiction in all matters of right and wrong throughout the kingdom, and over which, in its early days, the King presided in pecourt having an inherent jurisdiction, in England, to administer justice according to the law, as and being a part of, or descended from, and as exercising part of the power of, the Aula Regia, established by William the First, which had universal jurisdiction in all matters of right and wrong throughout the kingdom, and over which, in its early days, the King presided in person.

The court presided over by Justice Kweku Ackaah - Boafo held the Lands and Natural Resources Minister exceeded his powers by assuming the powers of an adjudicator.

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Senator Savino's bill S. 5152, which passed the Senate, would grant courts the power to make the assignee of an auto loan pay reasonable attorney's fees if a consumer sues the assignee and wins, over and above the limitation on assignee liability that currently exists in statute.

The ombudsman will have the power to order the agency to make repairs, to direct independent contractors hired through the court to perform repairs — and to fine NYCHA over delayed repairs, according to the consent decree, filed Friday in Manhattan federal court.

Control of the party has been challenged by two additional groups seeking to wrest power from a group led by Cuomo, leading a state Supreme Court judge to declare no one could claim leadership over the line until a majority of the candidates who ran last as WEP candidates sign off on the rules.

A faction fighting for control of the Women's Equality Party allied with Gov. Andrew Cuomo scored a victory in court this week as a five - judge panel struck down efforts by two competing groups to gain power over the ballot line.

«He has no power to impose additional punishment on prisoners over and above that which is imposed by the courts.

In a particularly damning judgement, three judges at the high court found Grayling had overstepped his legal powers by attempting to restrict legal aid to those who had been in the UK over a year.

One of the counts reads: «That you, Dr. Muazu Babangida Aliyu, being the governor (also known as chief servant) of Niger State from 2007 to 2015; Umar Mohammed Nasko, being the former Commissioner for Environment / Chief of Staff to Dr. Muazu Babangida Aliyu, sometime between April 7, 2015 and December 7, 2015 in Minna within the jurisdiction of this honourable court while being entrusted with dominion over money belonging to Niger State Government dishonestly converted to your own use the sum of N1, 090, 000,000, which formed part of the proceeds of the sale of 16 per cent shares of Niger State in the North South Power Company Limited and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 312 of the Penal Code.»

The aforementioned suit over a candidate's use of LLC money was settled out of court, so there hasn't yet been a clear test of what might be called the Sugarman Doctrine, which assumes underutilized power in the sections of election law prohibiting attempts to circumvent contribution limits and obfuscate the true source of campaign money.

The Federal High Court, Ikoyi Lagos, presided over by Hon. Justice Rilwan Aikawa has affirmed the powers of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other...

The 80 - year - old power broker is embroiled in a drama with his second wife, Katuria, who is fighting him in Mineola, LI, divorce court over custody of their two children, Luciana, 8, and Alfonso, 10,

Tory sources indicate that May is likely to push the legislation through the Commons without Scottish parliament consent, and hope that the UK supreme court will rule in her favour after a potentially crucial hearing on the Scottish parliament's powers over Brexit in July.

State Supreme Court judges are locked in a conflict over whether the state agency that investigates abuse allegations for facilities for people with developmental disabilities — like Sunmount in Tupper Lake — has the power to prosecute.

So I can announce today that we will now legislate to give the police new powers to require foreign nationals to hand over their passports, and make them declare their nationality in court.

She said the European Court of Justice would no longer have power over British courts.

The following week, the three met over a $ 386 dinner in Danbury, Conn., and, according to the court papers, discussed Competitive Power's business matters before the state and a job for Lisa Percoco.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, a Democrat whose staff is advising the commission, said last week that a deal was in the works to avoid a court battle over separation of powers, and how far an executive branch commission could probe the Legislature.

It gave former Mayor Bloomberg outsize power over the system, and helped make sure that teachers, parents and advocates had to fight at meetings, on the streets and in the courts to block his efforts to close schools and establish standardized test scores as the only measure of students and teachers.

One big challenge to U.S. efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions comes this week, as a federal circuit court hears arguments over a challenge to the White House's major climate change initiative, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) regulations targeting emissions from power plants.

NHS England has lost its appeal over a High Court ruling that it has the legal power to commission PrEP, a drug that has been shown to reduce the risk of HIV infection in people who are at high risk by more than 90 per cent.

«It was a massive rule that covered power plants all over the country... the court only gave a limited number of words to those challenges,» he said.