Sentences with phrase «propose legal standing»

Justice William O. Douglas was the first prominent American jurist to propose legal standing for environmental objects.

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Lively, with representation by Liberty Counsel (an evangelical legal organization), responded that in both the U.S. and Uganda he exercised constitutionally protected speech rights; that he opposes violence and neither committed nor plotted any; that Uganda did not in fact pass a proposed draconian anti-gay law, and that in any case Uganda's political institutions, instead of himself, are responsible for its political decisions; and that the court lacks jurisdiction and the plaintiffs lack standing.
But even in an environmental - impact statement, it is the effect of the proposed activity only upon human welfare which has legal standing.
He called the legislation a disturbing, blatant political ploy that will make New Yorkers less safe, and one that's being proposed without a legal leg to stand on.
In fact, the confusion has led the ABA Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services to propose changes to the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct.
The deal represents the first time non-lawyers will stand to profit from a law firm as shareholders and is more than double the size of that proposed by Perth firm Integrated Legal Holdings last year, which is still pending regulatory approval.
Updated proposed changes to the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct regarding information about legal services has been posted on the website of the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility.
A draft law was proposed at the conference of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress reading that virtual currency should get the same legal status in China as physical assets.
The Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs proposed in its 1983 Report Two Hundred Years Later, the insertion of a clause in the Constitution along the lines of s105A in which the Commonwealth is empowered to make agreements with representatives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
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