Sentences with phrase «say the law unfairly»

He said the law unfairly targets «law - abiding, taxpaying citizens more than it hurts the criminals.»

Critics of the legislation, which is among the most strict in the nation, say the law unfairly targets law - abiding gun owners.

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The law, seen as a test - case in Europe's effort to rein in harmful social media content, has caused some speech to be removed unfairly, critics say.

The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts dismissed the claim, saying the law was intended to prevent a car manufacturer from opening a dealership that would compete unfairly with a franchise that sells the same cars.

Klein says he hopes they pass bills to reform New York City's «stop and frisk» law, which critics say unfairly burdens young African Americans, and the immigration bill known as the Dream Act.

Kolb said he voted against the strict gun control measures approved by Cuomo and the Legislature after the Sandy Hook, Connecticut, shootings in 2012, saying they unfairly harm law - abiding gun owners.

The governors said they believe the law unfairly and perhaps deliberately punishes high - tax states, whose residents will have to pay more in total taxes if they are no longer allowed to fully deduct their state and local taxes from the federal tax forms.

Though the bill must ultimately be accepted at the state level, a group of city council members, including Manhattan representatives Melissa Mark - Viverito, Robert Jackson and Ydanis Rodriguez, is voicing its support for the legislation via a resolution that was proposed to the council on Wednesday, saying the current law unfairly affects people in their communities.

Two proposed NYC Council initiatives aimed at changing law - and - order practices that critics say unfairly target minorities and the indigent have taken different paths, with one gaining steam as the other stalls.

Mr. Molo, in rejecting the government's charge that his client's actions were illegal, said Mr. Silver's referrals of patients with asbestos claims to the law firm Weitz & Luxenberg was a means of getting «economic justice» for them, many of whom were blue - collar workers who had «unfairly and unjustly» contracted mesothelioma, a particularly deadly form of cancer, through work with asbestos.

New York State United Teachers had sued, because they said, State Ed had unfairly changed the terms of a May 2010 teacher evaluation law.

Two proposed City Council initiatives aimed at changing law - and - order practices that critics say unfairly target minorities and the indigent have taken different paths, with one gaining steam as the other stalls.

Democrats have hailed the legislation as helping to curb the spread of illegal firearms, but Republicans have said the law has unfairly penalized law - abiding sportsmen.

Klein says he hopes the new coalition will ultimately be judged on policy, by passing bills to reform New York City's Stop and Frisk law, which critics say unfairly burdens young African Americans, and by passing a bill known as the Dream Act.

Councilors said they crafted the law to help developers whose building projects were unfairly blocked or delayed by the planning commission.

About 100 people who have been diagnosed with mental illness sat silently at a budget hearing on the state's mental health budget to protest provisions in the law that they say unfairly «stigmatize» them.

Attractive women in law enforcement aside, this was a gritty, Emmy - nominated series, which was nothing like the fluff of, say, «Charlie's Angels,» with which it was sometimes unfairly compared.

The lawsuit is the first of what many analysts expect will be numerous legal challenges around the country following a landmark decision in June by a California Superior Court judge who struck down the tenure system there as unconstitutional under state law, saying it unfairly saddled students in high - needs schools with low - performing teachers.

The bill was authored by Assemblyman Tony Mendoza of Artesia who said he was inspired to write this law after his constituents expressed concern that they were being treated unfairly by the practice of screening credit reports as part of pre-employment background checks.

Savone's lawyer Brian Radnoff, a partner at Lerners LLP, says his client was treated unfairly by the law society as it would not allow production of vendor and lender documents the defence considered vital to its case and yet still moved for disbarment.

For years, campaigners had been saying that the law had been acting as a dragnet indiscriminately and unfairly ensnaring young people, mainly from ethnic minority communities, as part of a misconceived clampdown on the menace of gang culture.

The obstructionists, in Stewart's view, included county prosecutors, the trial judge, the assistant public defender who represented him at his first trial (which ended in a mistrial), the private defense lawyer who represented him between the two trials, jail officials he says unfairly denied him access to the law library and the state Attorney Grievance Commission.

Let's say you unfairly received a traffic ticket in Indiana and you decide you want to contest it in court, but you need to know exactly what the law says about your alleged infraction.