Sentences with phrase «primary purpose of the law»

The primary purpose of the law which Marcotte submitted on April 9, 2011 is to protect the privacy of grieving families of soldiers, police officers and firefighters who have died in the line of duty.

Any exemption from reporting payments to governments that object to such disclosure would defeat a primary purpose of the law.»

The primary purpose of the law is to help persons, who have been adopted or whose birth parents have terminated their parental rights, to obtain information about themselves and their birth relatives.

Not exact matches

Its primary purpose was to enable Congress to enact civil rights laws that would override the Black Codes that Southern states adopted after the abolition of slavery in order to deny to black persons the same civil rights as whites.

I said, «One's faith should not be the primary reason for enacting a law,» This is based of the «secular purpose» portion of the Lemon Test (re: Lemon v Kurtzman).

In a submission to the Department for Exiting the European Union (DExEU) ahead of the Bill's committee stage the CIOT argues that the uncertainty arises where the Bill deviates from its primary purpose: which is to preserve the existing law as at exit day.

Consistent with NSBA's position as outlined in its «friend of the court» (amicus) brief, Justice Samuel Alito delivered the Court's unanimous opinion and found that the school officials in this case should not be viewed as law enforcement agents, and the statements made by the young child to the teachers were not given with the «primary purpose of creating an out - of - court substitute for trial testimony.»

Two Illinois courts of appeals held that Illinois» tax credit for educational expenses is constitutional because it has a clearly secular legislative purpose of ensuring a well - educated citizenry and relieving public expense, has the primary effect of effectuating those purposes, and involves no more government entanglement with religion than many other state tax laws.

While the primary purpose of the program is to help charter schools, «Finance school building projects, including the construction, purchase, extension, replacement, renovation or major alteration of a building to be used for public school purposes,» the law does allow charter school companies to seek grants to, «Repay debt incurred for school building projects, including paying outstanding principal on loans which have been incurred for school building projects.»

law enforcement — any organization publicly funded and with primary purposes of preventing crime, reduction or control of crime, or criminal law enforcement falls under this category.

Regardless of what your state laws deem as homesteaded property, for federal bankruptcy purposes, a homestead is your primary residence, the place in which you and your family live.

The new law limits interest deductions to the purchase of a primary residence with no deduction for interest on loans for home improvement or other purposes.

The Bill's drafting has been described as «ugly and complex», a result of the multiple purposes being addressed simultaneously in a single piece of primary legislation: the Bill seeks both to select key choices available to EU members states under GDPR and incorporate and position a mirror GDPR regime to take effect seamlessly on Brexit an event that would otherwise automatically repeal all GDPR provisions under UK law.

A second possibility to avoid an ultra vires ruling would be that the CJEU interprets the decision on OMT in conformity with primary law in a way that would not interfere with the purpose of OMTs.

Too many students now make the pursuit of an A the primary if not the only purpose of taking a law course.

A primary purpose of ReInvent Law is to provide a new element of education through research and experimentation on endeavors designed (1) to solve problems faced by the legal profession including access to justice concerns and (2) to create new vehicles for the delivery of legal services.

any public or private communication made by or on behalf of a lawyer or law firm about that lawyer or law firm's services, the primary purpose of which is for the retention of the lawyer or law firm.

It is possible that if the sole or primary purpose of your app is to facilitate copyright infringement - for instance, by linking to copyright - infringing material - you may be liable under local laws.

The AG suggested, in reference to the first question referred for a preliminary ruling, that the Court must declare that it has jurisdiction for the main reason that the HTSs should be regarded as acts of the institutions, bodies, offices or agencies of the Union for the purposes of Article 267 of the Treaty on the functioning of the Union («TFEU»), which is the primary law basis of the cooperation between the CJEU and the national courts via the preliminary ruling system.

Improving law firm management and leadership is the primary purpose of this blog and we are always open to your ideas.

It is well - known that the status of retained EU law post Brexit was originally left undefined by the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill, save that it is classified as primary legislation for the purposes of the Human Rights Act 1998.

In addition, whilst direct EU legislation now has different statuses, we are left with provisions of EU legislation that are akin to delegated legislation when determining how they can be amended, whilst being treated as primary legislation for the purposes of the Human Rights Act 1998, and akin to primary legislation as regards the ability of EU - derived law to disapply UK legislation enacted prior to exit day.

All retained direct EU law, the Committee says, should be treated as domestic primary legislation for all purposes, including for the purpose of determining whether it is subject to the exercise of delegated powers contained in legislation other than this Bill.

We recommend that the legal status that should be accorded to all retained direct EU law for all purposes is that of domestic primary legislation, as directly effective EU law is closely analogous to domestic primary legislation.

However, it did not consider it possible to lay down any formula capable of satisfactorily distinguishing between retained direct EU law that should be treated for this purpose as primary legislation and that which should be treated as secondary legislation: «We therefore conclude that on balance, and applying a constitutional precautionary principle, it is preferable to treat all retained direct EU law as primary legislation... Henry VIII powers which might be used to amend or repeal this law are a considerably narrower category than the more general and far broader category of secondary legislative powers to which retained direct EU law would otherwise be vulnerable were it designated as secondary legislation.»

«To succeed in an action for malicious prosecution, a plaintiff must prove that the prosecution was: (1) initiated by the defendant; (2) terminated in favour of the plaintiff; (3) undertaken without reasonable and probable cause; and (4) motivated by malice or a primary purpose other than that of carrying the law into effect,» said the ruling.

The CEO of one organisation for which I used to work (not a law firm) once made a statement: «Do not hold any meeting unless the primary purpose of that meeting is to add value to a client or to the clients in general.»

For the AG, the purpose of Article 3 (2) can not be to entitle the EU «to «affect» rules of primary EU law or to» alter their scope» by concluding an international agreement.

The primary purpose of the Moot Court program is to provide an opportunity for law students to improve oral advocacy and brief writing skills through participation in appellate and trial advocacy competitions.

(a) «Advertisement» means any public or private communication made by or on behalf of a lawyer or law firm about that lawyer or law firm's services, the primary purpose of which is for the retention of the lawyer or law firm.

The primary purpose of this San Diego criminal lawyer website is to give you a clear understanding of what our law firm is all about, how our knowledge can help get your case dropped or reduced, and help you understand the basic laws governing your charges.

Yet, the distinction between interpretation and application of EU law as a matter of primary jurisdiction or as a matter of fact is irrelevant for autonomy purposes.

On December 4, federal Industry Minister James Moore announced that the final regulations implementing portions of Canada's Anti-Spam Law (CASL) will exempt commercial electronic communications sent by or on behalf of a registered charity where the primary purpose of the communication is to raise money for the charity.

On December 4, federal Industry Minister James Moore announced that the final regulations implementing portions of Canada's Anti-Spam Law (CASL) will exempt commercial electronic communications sent by or on behalf of a registered charity where the primary purpose of the communication is to raise...

Many members mistakenly believe the view that their college's purpose is to protect them; colleges tend to see their primary role as the protection of the public as mandated by their governing legislation and by - laws.

A course falls into this category if the primary purpose of the course is to learn the law applicable to technology.

The Committee recognises that this would make «even technical and mundane elements of retained direct EU law immune from the use of non-Henry VIII delegated powers», but concludes that it is infeasible to «lay down in the Bill any formula capable of satisfactorily distinguishing between retained direct EU law that should be treated for this purpose as primary legislation and that which should be treated as secondary legislation».

The primary purpose of pretrial detention prior to a deportation is essentially the same as pretrial detention prior to a criminal case that could result in incarceration: to avoid having to go out and arrest the person all over again for the violation of law (civil or criminal as the case may be) of which they are accused.

Tom Morrison, associate, Rollits, says: «In an attempt to comply with the law some organisations have lost sight of the primary purpose of a privacy notice; to enable individuals to ascertain how their personal information will be handled, rather than to tick a box saying that a section of the Data Protection Act 1998 has been complied with.

Other than empowering State Attorney Generals to investigate and pursue legal action against violating companies, the primary purpose of data breach notification laws is to ensure that if personal information belonging to platform users and service consumers is compromised, then the target of the breach is under obligation to duly notify any person whose data has been leaked.

However, a handful of states have passed laws disregarding divorce decrees obtained out of state if evidence suggests the divorcing couple established residency in that state for the primary purpose of speeding up the divorce process.

For purposes of calculating child support, the law considers a parent to have primary physical custody when the child lives with the parent for at least 243 nights a year.

The law provides that the primary purpose of a charity must be pursuing its charitable purpose.

The alienating parent's primary purpose for indoctrinating into the children a campaign of denigration against the target parent is to gain leverage in the court of law.