Sentences with phrase «presented as amendments»

The provisions presented as amendments have been voted down by GOP lawmakers.

The bill was presented as an amendment to a package of bills by majority party Republicans.

Not exact matches

Just as the 1st Amendment protects your freedom to believe in what ever religion you wish — no matter how ridiculous — it gives Bill Nye the right to speak his mind and present his belief in science.

Correctly presenting itself as the guardian of the First Amendment's non-abridgment clause, the church fought Illinois, Oregon and Wisconsin statutes that would have given the government a foothold in church - related schools.

Present «women's issues» like the Equal Rights Amendment and abortion to the congregation for such individual and corporate action as money raising and letter writing.

(«Nothing we have said here indicates that such study of the Bible or religion, when presented objectively as part of a secular program of education, may not be effected consistent with the First Amendment.»)

This effort, like that of the NCBCPS, relies heavily on the distinction made by Justice Thomas Clark in the 1963 Supreme Court decision forbidding devotional reading of the Bible in public schools: «Nothing we have said here indicates that such study of the Bible or of religion, when presented objectively as part of a secular program of education, may not be effected consistently with the First Amendment.»

He repeated it when his amendment had come back from the Committee on Reconstruction in its present form as section 1 of the Fourteenth Aamendment had come back from the Committee on Reconstruction in its present form as section 1 of the Fourteenth AmendmentAmendment.

«There is a serious defect in the amendment that has been presented to this House, because it would have the consequence - which I think is quite obvious when you look at it - that because of the discriminatory nature of the favour it gives to humanists, as opposed to other secular organisations, that it would have the consequence of making it incompatible with the [European] Convention [on Human] rights,» he said.

The committee's mandate, as noted earlier, is to streamline all the proposals for constitutional amendments and by that, determine the «substance and workability» of each proposal and present their report, which shall be in the form of a draft constitution to national conference, through national council for consideration and adoption.

«The minor alterations submitted before the Legislature today involve the re-allocation of approximately $ 1.5 million out of the nearly $ 1.7 billion county budget, and if passed in full as presented today without any further amendment, will be signed into effect by me,» Poloncarz said in a statement.

The report of the Budget Committee to the County Legislature concerning amendments to the County Executive's tentative budget shall be presented to the Legislature and laid on the table at least forty eight hours prior to the annual meeting for budget adoption as prescribed in this section.

Perry versus United States confirms the 14th Amendment as applying to all US bonds, past and present.

The amendment became necessary following the inability of the commission to present its report on April 30, 2018 as stated under C.I. 105.

At Ball State, through the involvement of «First Amendment watchdogs,» Gonzalez's «lectures and writings will be subject to scrutiny throughout his probationary period lest unscientific views be presented as fact in science courses,» Inside Higher Ed notes.

The NRA presents itself as a civil rights group dedicated to upholding and defending the Second Amendment to the US Constitution — the one about the right to «keep and bear arms».

Even the ways in which Lincoln skirted the law and worked the system — doing things that are, in his own words, «impeachable» — to pass the amendment (up to and including, the film suggests, delaying the end of the Civil War to leverage more votes) are presented as pure fait accompli: the known ends justifying the at - times - questionable means.

But making the amendment battle the spine of the story has allowed Spielberg to present Lincoln simultaneously as someone very simple and very complex.

These exhibitions, and the controversial works they presented, sparked a larger international and ongoing debate about public funding for the arts, censorship and other First Amendment concerns, as well as the definition of that which is considered art.

While criteria for determining ratings were defined prior to the rating period, some clarifications and amendments were required as specific situations presented themselves» So the paper itself concedes a degree of subjectivity and states that the criteria were fine - tuned to deal with unforeseen cases, which is exactly what we saw on the online forum.

While criteria for determining ratings were defined prior to the rating period, some clarifications and amendments were required as specific situations presented themselves» Cook very specifically and in plain language stated that the reviewers were both independent and anonymized.

And given that the paper is open that» criteria for determining ratings were defined prior to the rating period, some clarifications and amendments were required as specific situations presented themselves» I am unconvinced that the research protocol as described WAS broken.

Carvin did forcefully make some First Amendment arguments, but, in doing so, too often failed to observe that various opinions were not only permitted, but reasonable... Because Steyn and National Review have parted ways, Carvin and National Review seem to have been unaware of the long backstory and more or less presented the dispute (from National Review's perspective) as little more than a purely academic controversy over the validity of tree rings as a temperature proxy, leaving the judges completely mystified on why Mann, as opposed to any one of hundreds of scientists, was at issue.

Such amendments would not only present the advantage of ensuring that the Paris Agreement is not discarded for similar reasons than those invoked by the United States, it would also encourage the United States as well as other non-State Parties to reconsider their position on the Paris climate deal.

For Scott Greenfield at Simple Justice the First Amendment «journalistic principles» aren't as clear - cut, particularly where a guy's reputation is ruined and the newspaper itself presented only part of the story by failing to note that all charges against Feyissa were dismissed.

Insolvency deposits go up by 16.5 % for petitions presented after 31 May 2011 (Insolvency Proceedings (Fees)(Amendment) Order 2011 (SI 2011/1167)-RRB--- # 700 instead of # 600 on a creditor's bankruptcy petition, # 525 as against # 450 on a debtor's bankruptcy petition and # 1,165 in place of # 1,000 on a wind...

[5] In the months following the amendments to Rule 20, it has become a matter of some controversy and uncertainty as to whether it is appropriate for a motion judge to use the new powers conferred by the amended Rule 20 to decide an action on the basis of the evidence presented on a motion for summary judgment.

As a result, a patent owner seeking to amend claims at a minimum is required to present evidence that the proposed amendment must responds to a ground of unpatentability involved in the trial and does not seek to enlarge the scope of the claims or introduce new matter.

According to Sunstein, the robust protection now afforded to political speech protected as free speech (under the «clear and present danger» test) came about in the «I am your father» decisions of New York Times v. Sullivan (1964) and Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969), revisiting the meaning of the First Amendment and rethinking the law that had come before it.

2004 - present: Recognized as a «Massachusetts Super Lawyer» in the area of First Amendment / Media / Advertising

The question is whether they think the Guidelines are being treated as advisory in name only but mandatory in fact due to strict appellate review, which the Booker merits majority intimated would present a Sixth Amendment problem.

For this reason, the protection against unreasonable search and seizure guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment applies to telephone conversations.9 It also is recognized widely that the attorney - client privilege applies to conversations over the telephone as long as the other elements of the privilege are present.10 However, this expectation of privacy in communications by telephone must be considered in light of the substantial risk of interception and disclosure inherent in its use.

Nor can I discern in those First Amendment considerations that led us to restrict the States» powers to regulate defamation of public officials any additional interest that is not served by the actual malice rule of New York Times, supra, but is substantially promoted by utilizing this Court as the ultimate arbiter of factual disputes in those libel cases where no unusual factors, such as allegations of harassment or the existence of a jury verdict resting on erroneous instructions, cf. New York Times, supra, are present.

The Indiana Supreme Court hereby adopts the Indiana Parenting Time Guidelines, as drafted by the Domestic Relations Committee and adopted by the Board of the Judicial Conference of Indiana and all subsequent amendments thereto presented by the Domestic Relations Committee of the Judicial Conference of Indiana, as the Parenting Time Rule and Guidelines of this Court.

The provisions [s. 45] do not, for example, present interpreting the act of amendment as an expression of the legislature's opinion; they simply eliminate an a priori presumption («shall not be deemed»).

The present text includes the relevant amendments to the articles of the 1974 Limitation Convention, as provided for by the 1980 Protocol.

As proposed by the Insurance Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2008, there would be a rise in the foreign holding in insurance joint ventures from present 26 % to 49 % with corresponding voting right.

The cost of the increase in the number of future act processes under the amendments and the state practices adopted to administer these processes means, on their present funding, representative bodies are not able to respond to future act notices so as to ensure maximum participation of Indigenous parties in the native title process.

Illinois recently enacted amendments to the license law requiring that brokers under exclusive brokerage agreements provide such services as presenting offers, assisting in negotiating offers, and answering questions about offers and counteroffers.

The court first found that the bylaw language for making amendments to the bylaws was ambiguous as to whether «present» was intended to mean physically present at the vote or if the member could be considered physically present via proxy.