Sentences with phrase «says under existing law»

Wu says under existing law, several state officials are empowered to take some kind of action.

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Clinton said she favored covering the children of undocumented immigrants under existing health care laws, as part of a larger fix to improve immigration laws.

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.

The cabinet will decide on Friday how to treat bitcoins under existing laws, said people familiar with the matter, adding that banks and securities firms will not be able to handle bitcoin as part of their main business, suggesting the crypto - currency will be treated more as a commodity, like gold.

He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt of a degree in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by fraud, by injustice, by avarice — in a word, by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist) in situations of misery, of hunger, of subhuman life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»

Legislators in Connecticut have passed what some are saying are the nation's toughest new gun laws — banning high - capacity magazines, creating a weapon offender registry, requiring universal background checks for firearm purchases and adding more types of guns under an existing assault weapons ban.

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Dinallo also announced a six - point agenda for investigating public corruption, which includes stringent new disclosure requirements for charities (like, say, the Bronx - based Soundview, which Cuomo says Espada looted of more than $ 14 million), using the Tweed Law to investigate the misuse of public funds, and pursuing election law violations under the existing Executive LLaw to investigate the misuse of public funds, and pursuing election law violations under the existing Executive Llaw violations under the existing Executive LawLaw.

Since the Supreme Court has now prevented itself from acknowledging the question of whether Barack H. Obama is or is not an Article II «natural born citizen» based on the Kenyan / British citizenship of Barack Obama's father at the time of his birth (irrespective of whether Barack Obama is deemed a «citizen» born in Hawaii or otherwise) as a prerequisite to qualifying to serve as President of the United States under the Constitution — the Court having done so at least three times and counting, first before the Nov 4 general election and twice before the Dec 15 vote of the College of Electors — it would seem appropriate, if not necessary, for all Executive Branch departments and agencies to secure advance formal advice from the United States Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel as to how to respond to expected inquiries from federal employees who are pledged to «support and defend the Constitution of the United States» as to whether they are governed by laws, regulations, orders and directives issued under Mr. Obama during such periods that said employees, by the weight of existing legal authority and prior to a decision by the Supreme Court, believe in good faith that Mr. Obama is not an Article II «natural born citizen».

«New York's roadways continue to become littered despite the fines that exist under current law,» DeFrancisco said.

Between 2003 and 2013, the bill's sponsors say, 60,000 people have been arrested under the existing law.

Many of the children appearing in New York courtrooms have legal recourse to stay in the country under existing law, due to the dangers they faced at home, Mr. Annobil said.

The Conservatives have said such measures would be illegal under existing law and the forthcoming equality bill.

He downplayed the chapter amendment, saying there is a «typo» in the bill that refers to a special certification under subdivision 6 of existing law, when it's actually subdivision 9.

Under existing law, New York is one of only 10 states that allows prosecutors to withhold evidence until the day a trial begins, he said.

«Under existing laws, the two most powerful people in the Senate and Assembly were convicted of felonies and are going to jail...» DeFrancisco said.

Mark F. Emery, an Oneida spokesman, said the Cuomo administration might instead «bring gaming to the state promptly and assuredly under already - existing laws by working closely with its in - state Indian nations to enjoy immediate revenue sharing, which would benefit the entire state.»

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 Home Office spokesman said the commitments could all be carried through under existing immigration laws.

A spokesman for Christie, Kevin Roberts, said the governor has the authority under existing state law to leave the program.

Pruitt said mercury should be regulated under existing law, but questioned the cost - benefit analyses EPA did to justify regulations.

Liz Hill, a DeVos spokeswoman, said later Wednesday that panel members had asked questions about a voucher program that doesn't exist yet and about topics not covered under federal law.

Eight education advocacy groups last week wrote to Cerf opposing approval of virtual schools, raising objections from the cost, to the fact they say the state does not have legislative authority to approve online charters under existing law.

The new arrangement means Canadian banks would report «relevant» information on accounts held by U.S. residents or citizens to the Canada Revenue Agency, which would share it with the IRS under existing tax treaty rules — making it consistent with Canadian privacy laws, said senior government officials.

But the plain result is clear, said Brendan Cummings of the Center for Biological Diversity, one of the lead environmental groups behind the years - long legal push on greenhouse restrictions under existing laws:

Eric Steenstra, president of Vote Hemp, said Hemp History Week supporters plan more than 100 events focusing on local hemp farming history and the sampling of hemp products, hoping to generate 50,000 signed postcards to the Department of Justice asking to allow United States farmers to grow non-drug varieties of cannabis under existing state laws.

I will take a mathmatical appoach in my second appoach in articulating the dilemma of duality, or why science can not explain it self, Science is fit indeed to discover the laws of an already existing and functioning cosmos, but powerless to explain, via it own methods how it, «everything inclusive» came to be, and logically it must still admit that the mystery exists, and is forever beyond science, or «under the shell» as you say.

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.

Under Vermont law, no new State of Vermont was created at that time, but rather the same state continued to exist, and Congress said that the entity that had petitioned them for admission was «the State of Vermont», and they were granting the petition.

Experts also said that the term «aggravated felony» does not exist under criminal law, despite its use as grounds for...

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.

«Everything that is proposed here is possible under existing law,» says Wexler, also a therapeutic jurisprudence consultant for the National Judicial Institute of Canada.

Giving the lead judgment, Lord Justice Underhill said there was provision for «exceptional circumstances», which meant the system could not be said to be so unaffordable that no effective remedy existed under EU law.

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 importance.

The SFC said it has sent letters to seven cryptocurrency exchanges in Hong Kong OR with connections to Hong Kong telling them not to trade in digital currencies which are securities as defined under existing securities law.

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].