Sentences with phrase «rights under existing laws»

A couple of months ago, I wrote about recent animal rights jurisprudence in which plaintiffs instituted actions as owners of animals, to enforce rights under existing laws.

He said gays are part of a «very well - heeled community» that can achieve its rights under existing laws through the courts and contracts.

A credit repair business and its salespersons, agents, and representatives, and independent contractors who sell or attempt to sell the services of a credit repair business, shall not do any of the following: (1) Charge or receive any money or other valuable consideration prior to full and complete performance of the services that the credit repair business has agreed to perform for or on behalf of the consumer; (2) Charge or receive any money or other valuable consideration solely for referral of the consumer to a retail seller or to any other credit grantor who will or may extend credit to the consumer, if the credit that is or will be extended to the consumer is upon substantially the same terms as those available to the general public; (3) Represent that it can directly or indirectly arrange for the removal of derogatory credit information from the consumer's credit report or otherwise improve the consumer's credit report or credit standing, provided, this shall not prevent truthful, unexaggerated statements about the consumer's rights under existing law regarding his credit history or regarding access to his credit file; (4) Make, or counsel or advise any consumer to make, any statement that is untrue or misleading and which is known or which by the exercise of reasonable care should be known, to be untrue or misleading, to a consumer reporting agency or to any person who has extended credit to a consumer or to whom a consumer is applying for an extension of credit, with respect to a consumer's creditworthiness, credit standing, or credit capacity; or (5) Make or use any untrue or misleading representations in the offer or sale of the services of a credit repair business or engage, directly or indirectly, in any act, practice, or course of business which operates or would operate as a fraud or deception upon any person in connection with the offer or sale of the services of a credit repair business.

Not exact matches

Having served under both Republican and Democratic presidents, we recognize each new Administration's right to pursue different policies within the parameters of existing law and to ask Congress to change the laws that protect public health and the environment as it sees fit.

How the Liberals are navigating the two sides in the debate is laid out in more than 150 pages of documents obtained by The Canadian Press under the access to information law that outline how the issue is complicated by existing human rights decisions, the requirement to accommodate workers whose addictions constitute a disability, workers» privacy rights and actually proving impairment, particularly from cannabis.

The DOL disagreed with the assertion that the rule creates a new private right to sue, «arguing that the applicable cause of action is breach of contract, which already exists under state law,» said Erin Sweeney, counsel at Miller & Chevalier, who has also served as senior benefit law specialist at DOL.

If the Russian government tries to use the coercive power of law to unite them under the Moscow Patriarchate, will the Russian Orthodox Church vigorously protest and insist on the right of Kyivan Patriarchate parishes to exist, even though it regards them as schismatic?

The new Conscience and Religious Freedom Division of the existing Office of Civil Rights (OCR) enforces existing laws designed to protect conscience rights, including new provisions under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that specifically allow providers and insurers to decline abortions and assisted suRights (OCR) enforces existing laws designed to protect conscience rights, including new provisions under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that specifically allow providers and insurers to decline abortions and assisted surights, including new provisions under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that specifically allow providers and insurers to decline abortions and assisted suicide.

The foregoing license includes the right to exploit any proprietary rights in such material, including, but not limited to, rights under copyright, trademark, or patent laws that exist in any applicable jurisdiction.

«Nothing the governor will propose would expand access to abortion but rather only codify existing rights under federal law and court precedent in to state law.»

Even if continental shelf extensions were conferred all the way to the North Pole — unambiguously in the overlying water column — high seas still would exist beyond sovereign jurisdictions, where more than 160 nations have rights and responsibilities under international law.

This report, co-authored by Safal Partners and Public Impact for the National Charter School Resource Center, examines federal requirements under civil rights laws and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, and state laws governing charter school recruitment, retention, enrollment of EL students and their accountability for EL student performance; requirements and current challenges related to EL data reporting; and whether existing laws are adequate to address the needs of this growing population of ELs in charter schools.

The report also recommends that the Departments of Education, Health and Human Services, and Justice collect demographic information on bullied students to use in assessing the level of protection that exists for vulnerable groups under civil rights laws.

Nothing in this Act shall be construed to deny, impair, or otherwise affect any right or authority of the Attorney General or of the United States or any agency or officer thereof under existing law to institute or intervene in any action or proceeding.

You do not have to wait to apply for relief because you have the right to raise these defenses under existing law.

The right of any person to any future payment under this title shall not be transferable or assignable, at law or in equity, and none of the moneys paid or payable or rights existing under this title shall be subject to execution, levy, attachment, garnishment, or other legal process, or to the operation of any bankruptcy or insolvency law.

(b) This section shall not repeal, amend, modify, or diminish any right or power to charge and collect charges, fees, interest, or an interest surcharge existing under any other applicable state or federal statute, nor repeal, amend, or modify Public Law 96 - 221, enacted by the United States Congress and approved March 31, 1980, nor Section 5 - 2A - 24.

This ambitious target is grounded in intensive analysis of cost - effective carbon pollution reductions achievable under existing law and will keep the United States on the right trajectory to achieve deep economy - wide reductions on the order of 80 percent by 2050.

The target is grounded in intensive analysis of cost - effective carbon pollution reductions achievable under existing law and will keep the United States on the right trajectory to achieve deep economy - wide reductions on the order of 80 % by 2050.

Under existing human rights law, an employee who commits drug - related misconduct, refuses to admit that he or she has a substance dependency problem and / or to take any steps to address the issues does not need to be accommodated and can certainly let be «let go».

The government wishes to make a clean break as soon as possible by transferring existing EU law rights into domestic law, and granting eligible EU citizens and their family members «settled status» under domestic law (or the ability to acquire it, within a limited time).

Given that such an interpretation would merely constitute a precision of existing rights, it would not breach Article 51 (2) of the Charter by extending the rights granted under EU law [126].

David Fraser of McInnes Cooper in Halifax said that challenges exist when it comes to balancing privacy rights with freedom of expression under Canadian law.

To prepare for the process, a corporation's principals should evaluate all existing assets and liabilities of the corporation and the potential impact dissolution may have on the corporation's rights and obligations under its agreements and applicable law.

Cass Sunstein, in an article on animal rights, answers unequivocally that animals can not be granted standing in their own right under existing American laws, since Congress has reserved standing to «persons», and many laws expressly reserve enforcement to persons, not animals (In the most famous of these cases, a dolphin named Kama was found not to have standing to challenge a transfer of its location under the Marine Mammal Protection Act: Citizens to End Animal Suffering and Exploitation v.

Gee, have no law firms under the existing regime every failed, or disappeared with the client's money — it seems to me that there have been a number of instances of just that on the LSUC's plate right now.

Bencher Raj Anand says the words in the requirement reflect existing obligations under the Human rights Code and the law society's Rules of Professional Conduct, which hold lawyers have a «special responsibility» to advance equality.

While animal rights as such are still not recognized under the law, animal welfare laws, notably those against cruelty, do exist in Canada and other countries — a clear indication that animals are not considered «mere» chattels anymore.

Clearly, discriminating against employees or clients, in contravention of our existing duty (under the Ontario Rules) not to discriminate (and Ontario Human Rights law) would run afoul of that obligation, but then, we already have an explicit (and distinct) obligation which addresses such conduct.

On existing human rights case law if the government did proceed with its plans, Neil Parpworth, De Montfort University, says: «I would have thought it likely that if the new Bill of Rights sought to protect essentially the same rights as those protected under ECHR (and therefore HRA 1998), the body of human rights jurisprudence which has arisen under the Act will have an ongoing relevance and imporrights case law if the government did proceed with its plans, Neil Parpworth, De Montfort University, says: «I would have thought it likely that if the new Bill of Rights sought to protect essentially the same rights as those protected under ECHR (and therefore HRA 1998), the body of human rights jurisprudence which has arisen under the Act will have an ongoing relevance and imporRights sought to protect essentially the same rights as those protected under ECHR (and therefore HRA 1998), the body of human rights jurisprudence which has arisen under the Act will have an ongoing relevance and imporrights as those protected under ECHR (and therefore HRA 1998), the body of human rights jurisprudence which has arisen under the Act will have an ongoing relevance and imporrights jurisprudence which has arisen under the Act will have an ongoing relevance and importance.

The law does not work for landlords as it exists and the existing process under the law removes rights of landlords that other property owners are entitled to and enjoy.

For the purposes of this Agreement, «Intellectual Property Rights» means all patent rights, copyright rights, mask work rights, moral rights, rights of publicity, trademark, trade dress and service mark rights, goodwill, trade secret rights and other intellectual property rights as may now exist or hereafter come into existence, and all applications therefore and registrations, renewals and extensions thereof, under the laws of any state, country, territory or other jurisdiRights» means all patent rights, copyright rights, mask work rights, moral rights, rights of publicity, trademark, trade dress and service mark rights, goodwill, trade secret rights and other intellectual property rights as may now exist or hereafter come into existence, and all applications therefore and registrations, renewals and extensions thereof, under the laws of any state, country, territory or other jurisdirights, copyright rights, mask work rights, moral rights, rights of publicity, trademark, trade dress and service mark rights, goodwill, trade secret rights and other intellectual property rights as may now exist or hereafter come into existence, and all applications therefore and registrations, renewals and extensions thereof, under the laws of any state, country, territory or other jurisdirights, mask work rights, moral rights, rights of publicity, trademark, trade dress and service mark rights, goodwill, trade secret rights and other intellectual property rights as may now exist or hereafter come into existence, and all applications therefore and registrations, renewals and extensions thereof, under the laws of any state, country, territory or other jurisdirights, moral rights, rights of publicity, trademark, trade dress and service mark rights, goodwill, trade secret rights and other intellectual property rights as may now exist or hereafter come into existence, and all applications therefore and registrations, renewals and extensions thereof, under the laws of any state, country, territory or other jurisdirights, rights of publicity, trademark, trade dress and service mark rights, goodwill, trade secret rights and other intellectual property rights as may now exist or hereafter come into existence, and all applications therefore and registrations, renewals and extensions thereof, under the laws of any state, country, territory or other jurisdirights of publicity, trademark, trade dress and service mark rights, goodwill, trade secret rights and other intellectual property rights as may now exist or hereafter come into existence, and all applications therefore and registrations, renewals and extensions thereof, under the laws of any state, country, territory or other jurisdirights, goodwill, trade secret rights and other intellectual property rights as may now exist or hereafter come into existence, and all applications therefore and registrations, renewals and extensions thereof, under the laws of any state, country, territory or other jurisdirights and other intellectual property rights as may now exist or hereafter come into existence, and all applications therefore and registrations, renewals and extensions thereof, under the laws of any state, country, territory or other jurisdirights as may now exist or hereafter come into existence, and all applications therefore and registrations, renewals and extensions thereof, under the laws of any state, country, territory or other jurisdiction.

These two common law torts exist in addition to the statutory right or cause of action available to a plaintiff under the privacy legislation.

Even in states where domestic partners enjoy many of the same legal rights as married couples, existing federal law might not extend certain benefits that are not exclusively under state jurisdiction.

I've seen what happens to many of these people in court, when they stand up and try to explain to the judge how they are «Mennonites» who can't be found guilty under the Constitution because it's a violation of their rights dating back centuries before America existed, or when they challenge the judge's right to preside over their case because of some arcane law, or that red light cameras are unconstitutional because they do not get to confront their accusers, again, I cringe, because I know what's coming.

There was acknowledgment that international humanitarian and human rights law applies to all new weapons but views were divided as to whether the weapons would be illegal under existing law or permitted in certain circumstances.

The evidence does not establish that group rights and interests exist in the Wongatha Claim area under WDCB traditional laws and customs.

In that case the High Court held that native title rights defined under the NTA must be rights and interests created by the Indigenous laws and customs that existed before the British acquisition of sovereignty over Australia.

In this context «society» is to be understood as a body of persons united in and by its acknowledgement and observance of a body of laws and customs... To speak of rights and interests possessed under an identified body of laws and customs is, therefore, to speak of rights and interests that are the creatures of the laws and customs of a particular society that exists as a group which acknowledges and observes those laws and customs.8

Also, the NIC Principles have not fully explored what can already be achieved under existing land rights legislation but instead recommends changes to land rights laws without a full understanding of their existing potential.

Were that not so, the laws and customs acknowledged and observed now could not properly be described as the traditional laws and customs of the peoples concerned... [I] t must be shown that the society, under whose laws and customs the native title rights and interests are said to be possessed, has continued to exist throughout that period as a body united by its acknowledgment and observance of the laws and customs», ibid., at [83], [87] & [89].

Existing law is often written in terms of competing rights of adults and, depending on the jurisdiction, either ignores the interests and rights of children — especially those under three - years - old — or subordinates the interests of children to those of adults.

However, no matter how useful and expedient the adoption of such a process may be to Government or the mining industry, it must not be used to reduce the existing rights of native title parties to their lands, both under current law and according to international human rights standards.

Where native title existed in its own right under the common law or where native title co-existed with other tenures - the native title could not result in the extinguishment or any derogation whatsoever of any rights granted by the Crown or by legislation.

Landlords who aren't aware of the exemptions, or who aren't aware that existing or prospective tenants are claiming rights under these laws, can be in for expensive legal battles brought on behalf of those tenants or prospective tenants.