Sentences with phrase «right acts»

Legal or legislative actions are often the fastest way to make overdue societal changes, e.g. the civil rights acts in the 60's.

Now even if you are dumb enough to believe that all is OK with the world and there are no reasons to have the voting rights act on the books.

Starting with the things it did right the acting by the children in the movie is simply superb.

It is to pray with his concern for the inner motive out of which all right acting proceeds.

As for your silly «agenda» nonsense, gays are not a «special interest group» anymore than blacks were before the civil rights act was passed.

The courts can change district lines only if it's determined they violate the federal voting rights act.

Conway argues that the Suicide Act 1961 is in conflict with Article 8 of the Human Rights Act of 1998.

New Yorkers and our congressional representatives should welcome and support the new [amended] Voting Rights Act of 2014 which updates the Section 4 coverage formula.

Despite flexible working being enshrined in law for over 20 years (under section 80F of the Employment Rights Act in 1996), it is only recently that it has become less of a «nice to have» and more deeply engrained in the legal sector.

The Aboriginal Land Rights Act of 1976 was the first Australian law that allowed a claim of title based on traditional association with property.

I wrote about the meaning and purpose of section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act in a previous Slaw post.

In today's Congressional Corner, Massachusetts Representative Richard Neal discusses the Civil Rights Act with WAMC's Alan Chartock.

California FMLA legal information including Family and Medical Leave Act lawsuits and California Family Rights Act complaints

The civilian employment of individuals who join the United States military, either through call - up or by volunteering, is protected by the federal Uniform Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 («Act»).

A supervisor who neglects to follow up on a complaint of sexual harassment may be liable under the Alberta Human Rights Act for failing to take prompt and appropriate action.

The Canadian Human Rights Act protects individuals from discrimination based on sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, marital status, age, disability, or religious or political affiliations.

As you recruit, be aware that the federal Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination in hiring, firing, promoting, and other actions affecting employees on the basis of their membership in a protected class: race, color, sex, age, religion, disability, and national origin.

To that end, states are allowed to change their voting procedures as they see fit with the exception of those states, counties and municipalities that are singled out in the Voting Rights Act as needing to be pre-cleared by the Department of Justice before they can make any changes to their voting policies.

Note that the Voting Rights Act applies to the the states of Arizona, Texas, Alaska, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and Virginia but also to ** jurisdictions **.

He said he would accept the inclusion of «sexual orientation» in the Canadian Human Rights Act if it were «clearly defined, but not if it were used as a precedent for further benefits like marital status,» the magazine stated.

It resembles the «paycheck protection» provision of the federal Employee Rights Act, a bill which would allow private - sector employees to refrain from supporting unions» political operations.

The 1965 Voting Rights Act requires states to create and preserve districts in which minority voting groups can elect their candidate of choice.

OAR used NAR's polling services, along with a $ 95,000 Issues Mobilization Grant, to put together an aggressive campaign to promote the Protect Property Rights Act, which was signed into law in May.

Sathyapalan, Jyothis (2010): Implementation of the Forest Rights Act in the Western Ghats Region of Kerala.

In this article, Oliver Hayes of Balance Legal Capital considers uncertainties for claimants and funders with regards to the new UK collective action regime, which was introduced by the Consumer Rights Act on 1 October 2015.

Zundel was a human rights section 13 case... the first one that included hate messages on the Internet... A landmark case confirming that the Canadian Human Rights Act does apply to material posted on the Internet.

She said she also called for the implementation of the Child Rights Act in all states of the federation.

It does not explain why the Human Rights Act needs repealing or even amending.

On June 28, 2006, the Supreme Court of the United States issued an opinion that threw out one of the districts in the plan as a violation of the 1965 Voting Rights Act because of racial gerrymandering.

The group is claiming the law violates the 1964 Civil Rights Act which banned discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex and national origin.

«Today, July second, 1964,» he said, «The president of the United States signed the Civil Rights Act into law in the East Room of the White House.»

The Court clearly distinguished a complaint under the Canadian Human Rights Act from an offence under the Criminal Code.

«There is no doubt the Civil Rights Act gave a big boost to desegregation,» said James E. Ryan, the dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education and an expert on education law.

-LCB- Title -RCB- This Act shall be called and may be cited as the «[Legal Consumer's Bill of Rights Act]».

It goes on to state that «foremost among our recommendations is a new Workplace Rights Act, to herald a new era of workplace decency and compliance with the law.»

I encourage everyone to reflect on the life of Martin Luther King Jr. and his efforts to pass the Civil Rights Act when thinking about our partisan problem.

«I'd personally like to see the Human Rights Act go because I think we have had some problems with it,» she said.

Is section 13 of the Human Rights Act still relevant today to ensure people are not posting hate speech on the Internet?

On the one hand it commendably commits the government categorically to retaining the Human Rights Act while leaving open whether it might be preserved as a separate Act or subsumed within a new Bill of Rights.

As set out in more detail on our page concerning which laws apply, the Canadian Human Rights Act only applies to a very small subset of workers in Ontario.

- Price excludes tax, tag, title and Warranty Rights Act fees.

Section 19.1 (1) of the Canadian Human Rights Act provides that: The Governor in Council may, for the benefit of persons having any disability, make regulations prescribing standards of accessibility to services, facilities or premises.

In October, Sens. Ron Wyden and Rand Paul introduced the bipartisan USA Rights Act, which aims to reform Section 702 and «end warrantless backdoor searches of Americans» calls, emails, texts and other communications that are routinely swept up under a program designed to spy on foreign targets,» according to a press release from Wyden's office.

Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act bans workplace harassment based on race, religion, national origin and gender.

Johnson struggles to heal a distraught nation while simultaneously, against all odds, getting JFK's historic Civil Rights Act passed through an incredibly divided Congress.