Sentences with phrase «prejudicial against»

The appellate court finds that the family court was not biased or prejudicial against Mother.

Similar to the «flagpole» approach, with one difference: the lawyer hopes that if he / she makes enough arguments, whatever their merits, perhaps the judge will «give him one» so as not to appear prejudicial against him.

I'll be the first person to admit that I've been overly prejudicial against Forza in the past.

But this is prejudicial against companies that are not vertically integrated.

Not exact matches

By contrast, LGBTQ advocates argue that violence and bias against transgender people is a very real problem exacerbated by prejudicial laws.

«It would permit Ontario to retaliate against any jurisdiction that undertook prejudicial actions against Ontario's economy.

Also, they incite prejudicial action against Christians with their ill - informed misrepresentations of Christianity.

«In law, hate speech is any speech, gesture or conduct, writing, or display which is forbidden because it may incite violence or prejudicial action against or by a protected individual or group, or because it disparages or intimidates a protected individual or group.»

Theresa May said she wanted to be able to take action against those «who are acting in a manner that is not conducive to the public good and who are acting in a manner that is seriously prejudicial to the nation's interests.»

(Reuters)- Lawyers for once - powerful former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver asked a judge on Tuesday to throw out federal corruption charges against him because a top prosecutor made «prejudicial» public statements about his guilt.

Simon Danczuk MP, for sustained attacks against the Leader of the Labour Party notably in his column in the Daily Mail, conduct which is clearly prejudicial to the party and consisting of acts which are grossly detrimental to the party in contravention of the rules Chapter 2 clause 1 8.

The Governor warned against a pre-empt of the outcome of on going investigation, saying it will be prejudicial to the efforts of the law enforcement agencies, he however expressed confidence that the crisis is not an inter-ethnic, inter religious or inter regional conflict.

Laufer also called Friday's public disclosure of her secret memo «a highly prejudicial and perhaps politically - motivated act» and threatened reprisal, saying: «I specifically reserve all of my clients» rights and remedies to pursue action against you and your office.»

Aaron Schock's lawyers say witnesses in the case against the former congressman have been asked «distasteful, offensive,» and «prejudicial» questions about every part of Schock's sex life including whether he is ga... Read

And the Surrey MP claimed the Barnett Formula, which allocates spending in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland was «massively prejudicial» against the English.

Malloy implemented an extremely prejudicial evaluation system for teachers, brought in Common Core and its associated testing (SBAC), crushed the OPT OUT movement, reduced funding for public schools while increasing funding for Achievement First Charter Schools, increased funding for CONNCan (a private Charter School advocacy group), appointed Stefan Pryor (CEO of Achievement First) as Commissioner of Education, vastly increased standardized testing throughout the state, and tried to abolish of tenure for teachers, all endorsed and supported by Melodie Peters against the wishes of the membership in CT..

The Board of Directors may prefer charges against a member for alleged misconduct prejudicial to the best interests of the Club or the breed.

Any member may prefer charges against a member for alleged misconduct prejudicial to the best interests of the Club or breed.

Any member may prefer charges against another member for alleged misconduct prejudicial to the best interests of the Club or the breed.

Members are reminded that, according to the DCA Bylaws, charges may be preferred against a member by any other member (s) «for alleged misconduct prejudicial to the best interest of the Club or the Breed.»»

B. Any member may prefer charges against another member for alleged misconduct prejudicial to the interests of the breed or the club.

Any member may prefer charges against a member or a local member club for alleged misconduct prejudicial to the best interests of the Society or the breed.

Any member may prefer charges against a member for alleged misconduct prejudicial to the best interests of the Club or the breed.

An individual member may prefer charges against another individual member for alleged misconduct prejudicial to the best interests of the club.

Any member in good standing may prefer charges against another member for alleged misconduct prejudicial to the best interests of the Club or the breed.

46 The exception does, however, appear to be applicable only where a prejudicial sanction is imposed, not for penal purposes, but as a prophylactic measure to protect society against future wrongdoing by that person.

Given the pervasiveness of modern communications and the difficulty of effacing prejudicial publicity from the minds of the jurors, the trial courts must take strong measures to ensure that the balance is never weighed against the accused.

However, the prejudicial nature of such evidence must be carefully considered against its probative value.

Defendants argue that this court should strike the two sentencing allegations for three reasons: 1) The allegations are prejudicial surplusage; 2) The government does not have statutory authority to include sentencing allegations in an indictment; and 3) Presenting sentencing allegations to a jury for proof beyond a reasonable doubt to increase defendants» sentences violates the constitutional principles of separation of powers and the prohibition against the legislative branch delegating its powers to the executive branch.

The harassment campaign against Ms. Dyke also added to the corporation's unfairly prejudicial conduct.

The Ontario Business Corporations Act (OBCA) provides broad remedial options for directors, officers, shareholders, and other «complainants» to correct oppressive or prejudicial actions by or against a corporation.

When balanced against the prejudicial effect of allowing evidence of professional liability insurance, the potential for bias in this case is so remote as to warrant exclusion.

In addition, the trial court must balance the probative value against the prejudicial effect of the old convictions on the record under Rule 609 (b) for an abuse of discretion.

Unfortunately, «your» prejudicial comment is based upon basic ignorance of the English language and the inability to get to the truth of the matter in favour of your emotional slant against someone with whom you might regularly disagree with his political opinions.

Courts must evaluate the behaviour against the provisions of the provincial condominium act to see whether it is «oppressive and unfairly prejudicial» towards either the corporation itself or the other owners.

Madame Justice Simpson's statement «While I have no doubt that CREA will behave responsibly and abide by the terms on which its intervention has been allowed...» suggests that Madame Justice Simpson holds an already prejudicial mindset against CREA as an entity that typically does «not» behave responsibly unless bribed to do so.