Sentences with phrase «provides precedent»

It also provides a precedent (i) for holding the director of the corporate debtor personally liable for oppressive acts, and (ii) for claiming a large punitive damages award against an evasive judgment debtor.

The case provides a precedent to rely on, says Sara Perry, a marketing, advertising, and entertainment lawyer with Heenan Blaikie LLP.

Further, this case provides precedent for other class actions that may arise against online gaming operators.

At this point, NPR listeners could hear Senator Specter picking up what sounded like a large and heavy chart (which the host described as «very small print») listing the 38 cases in which Roe v. Wade, which provides the precedent for legal abortion, has been upheld as the law of the land.

It also provides precedent supporting a judge's authority to issue an order to allow a child to attend the private school based on the best interests of the child.

The gallery director, Cecilie Hollberg, who took the civil action, described it as a «historic victory, which provides a precedent».

For such painters as Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, John Currin, Elizabeth Peyton and Chris Ofili and even such sculptors as Robert Gober, to name but a few, Alice Neel provides a precedent, an outlook on the world and on art that acts as some kind of model.

Although the Los Angeles CRRE program was far from perfect, it provides a precedent for large - scale, district - wide CRP professional development.

If the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) stalemate provides a precedent, President Obama will use an executive order to raise the debt limit, invoking the 14th Amendment as his constitutional bedrock.

If a policy is introduced with a purpose and it does not meet that purpose, a previous case from 1968 against the minister for agriculture, fisheries and food provides the precedent for judges to make an unlawful ruling.

They recognized the necessity for making modifications in the law and they used tradition to provide precedents.

Ebright: The primary risks are accidental release through accidental infection of a lab worker who then infects others — for which there are many precedents — and deliberate release by a disturbed or disgruntled lab worker, for which the 2001 US anthrax mailings provide a precedent.

While her output of abstract work declined after 1930, she returned to abstraction in the mid-1940s with a new vocabulary that provided a precedent for a younger generation of abstractionists.

Thus, although one can not imagine Reinhardt feeling any sympathy for Josef Albers and the gregarious sunniness of his Homage to the Square, shored up as this long series was by the scientific positivism of his idea of visual research, it is nonetheless Albers's triumphant self - discipline and minimalist restriction, Albers's heritage of Bauhaus commitment to uncovering the donnees of perception, that provide a precedent for Reinhardt's black squares.

While her output of abstract work declined after 1930, she returned to abstraction in the 1950s with a new vocabulary that provided a precedent for a younger generation of abstractionists.

The proposal will provide another precedent for establishing National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for greenhouse gases, taking America one step closer to policy disaster.

In the not - too - distant past, legal stationers like Dye & Durham and Newsome & Gilbert provided precedents for a number of documents, notably including real estate transfers, and they worked pretty well.

Some legal victories won on behalf of corporations have actually provided precedents that worked in favor of human civil rights.

What if lawyers could opt - in to a database, which would provide precedents and legal memos to others?

Used properly, they should (and likely already do) make the quality of legal work better by providing precedents to people who might not otherwise have ready access to these documents.

Taran Virtual Associations, a domestic legal outsourcing company who provides precedents, templates, and research services, also has a lawyer coaching service.

Drafting Trusts and Will Trusts in Canada, 4th Edition KN210.K47 2016 - The aim of this book by BC lawyer Fiona Hunter, and England - based barrister James Kessler, QC, is to aid the generalist lawyer by discussing general and technical issues which arise in the drafting of trusts and wills trusts, and to provide precedents.

China for the first time called for new international law on killer robots, providing the precedent of the CCW protocol banning blinding lasers.

However, blockchains (such as Bitcoin's) provided some precedent, and obviously the investment paid off (ether, which was sold for 30 cents in the crowdsale, is now trading around $ 12.30).

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But Gathering strength goes further than the CAR strategies and provides precedents for developing Indigenous self - government that could be adapted to the Australian context.

The SAG process provided a precedent for partnerships between the Australian Government and the NHLF.

This talk will teach participants to: Understand the responsibilities of schools which use technology to meet educational needs Consider multiple lower, appellate, and Supreme Court cases which provide precedent and guidance when and how to intervene Determine how policy should be structured, and whether to move towards a prohibitive or permission atmosphere regarding devices Apply...

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However, the lenders are under no obligation to provide any such additional commitments or loans, and any increase in commitments or incremental term loans will be subject to customary conditions precedent.

The underwriting agreement provides that the obligations of the underwriters are subject to certain conditions precedent and that the underwriters have agreed, severally and not jointly, to purchase all of the ADSs and ordinary shares sold under the underwriting agreement if any of these ADSs or ordinary shares are purchased, other than those ADSs covered by the overallotment option described below.

They said Ross» investigation didn't provide evidence that imported steel is a risk to U.S. national security and warned that his recommendations set a dangerous precedent.

And because the issue of LLC ownership by IRA has no legal precedent, companies advertising home storage of IRA gold are careful to note that they don't provide legal advice, the Journal writes.

This MSN resource profiles important precedents between 2006 and 2017 where apparel brands provided compensation to workers when one of their supplier factories was closed and when the supplier failed to pay workers their severance and other lawful benefits.

There's also a historical precedent for Christian involvement in education, whether you look at the monastic schools of the middle ages or the wealthy benefactors providing education for the 19thcentury poor.

Experience, however, soon showed in what way they were to become the most dangerous; that the insufficiency of the means provided for their removal gave them a freehold and irresponsibility in office; that their decisions, seeming to concern individual suitors only, pass silent and unheeded by the public at large; that these decisions, nevertheless, become law by precedent, sapping, by little and little, the foundations of the consti.tution, and working its change by construction, before any one has perceived that that invisible and helpless worm has been busily employed in consuming its substance.

This rewriting of the record plainly comes from a late period, when opposition to the enslavement of fellow Hebrews had won its way to general recognition and when it seemed desirable to expunge from the historical record a precedent so dangerous as Solomon's example would provide.

Religious leaders also suggested the February exemption was still too narrow, possibly setting a precedent for the government to be able to compel religious groups to provide something against their conscience.

The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (Rule 43) provide that the competency of a witness to testify is to be determined by statute, precedent, or the law of the state in which the case arises.

While it will now be more likely that the justices will divide evenly on difficult cases, Justice Kennedy will remain the swing vote, providing a fifth vote for a majority of progressive justices (Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan), and remaining with the conservatives (Thomas, Roberts and Alito) in tie votes, which will leave the lower court's judgment in place and will not operate as binding precedent on lower courts.

Within EU law, there exists no precedent for what happens when a territory of an existing Member State becomes independent, and wishes to retain EU membership, and the treaties do not provide for such an event.

This would give a valuable precedent for other non-Eurozone states and provide us and the European Union with a more harmonious relationship.

«The Sixth Parliament of the 4th Republic before its dissolution, also resolved that residential and office accommodation should be provided to the outgoing President, HE John Dramani Mahama in line with convention and existing precedent,» it added.

But if the Cuomo administration provides any sort of special exemption to keep FitzPatrick operating, it will set a precedent across the state that may be hard to match.

Primary legislation (the statutes enacted by sovereign legislatures, such as the British Parliament) provides a framework which is complemented by secondary law, in the form of rules drafted by government agencies and court rulings which establish legal precedents.

«Fox vaccination in Europe provides a good precedent,» says Cleaveland.

The hearing provided the most formal legal test yet of whether fMRI lie detection meets the so - called Daubert standard for admitting evidence in federal court, and as such it could set an important precedent.

In the absence of any international body that would be an obvious fit to enforce international regulations on gene editing there are historical precedents — like stem cell research — for providing guidance and then leaving the specifics up to regional authorities.

Granick said she's not aware of any precedent for an Internet company «to provide passwords, encrypted or otherwise, or password algorithms to the government — for the government to crack passwords and use them unsupervised.»

The HFEA has been a very thoughtful, deliberative body that has provided rational oversight of sensitive research areas, and this establishes a strong precedent for allowing this type of research to go forward,» says George Daley, a stem - cell biologist at Children's Hospital Boston in Massachusetts.

Heineman ultimately settles on a pair of divisive figures from both sides of the border: On the one hand, Dr. José Manuel Mireles, the galvanizing leader of the Michoacán - based militant group Autodefensas, provides a welcome alternative to the weak efforts of the state's police to combat cartel - related violence; on the other, by virtue of taking the law into his own hands, his gun - wielding army sets a dangerous precedent.