Sentences with phrase «several state statutes»

[FN98] Much has been said in the joint custody debate about * 792 the importance of parenting plans, and several state statutes specifically refer to them.

The federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) and several state statutes regulate employment background screening.

The plaintiffs, a group of students and school districts, sued, arguing that several state statutes stood in the way of all students receiving the education guaranteed to them under the state constitution.

Wu says while a grand jury will have to determine whether any actual crimes were committed, he says alleged interference by Cuomo's staff in an ethics commission sending out subpoenas is potentially in violation of several state statutes, including conspiracy to perform official misconduct and the hindering of prosecution.

Not exact matches

The Jewish organization alleges religious discrimination and unfair business competition, on the basis of several California statutes, including the state's civil rights act, which prohibits the refusal to engage in a business transaction on the basis of race, creed, religion, color, national origin or sex.

Starting with California, several states enacted statutes prohibiting the mislabeling of food that is identical to the requirements of the FDCA and NLEA.

After 1941 investigations revealed corruption in horse racing, several states broadened their statutes to include sports other than baseball.

As Robert Freeman, executive director of the New York State Committee on Open Government, has said in several opinions regarding the disclosure of pistol permit data beyond names and addresses, «the only instance in which records must be withheld would involve the case in which a statute prohibits disclosure.

After weathering several hours of decidedly negative reaction to her amended legislation changing the statute of limitations for cases of personal injury caused by pollution, state Sen. Kathy Marchione has decided to go back to the original version of her bill.

Contain a cancellation provision that appears tailored to this statute and the statutes of several other states.

With one notable exception (spurring long overdue changes in some state laws), the implementation of this mammoth statute has confirmed several humbling, hoary lessons of federal policymaking, including the limited ability of Uncle Sam to drive education reform.

In states making AYP determinations under the ESEA statute, AYP calculations based on assessment scores must be disaggregated; that is, they must be determined separately and specifically not only for all students but also for several demographic groups of students within each school.

The case supported by Students Matter, Davids v. New York, challenges several job protections embedded into state statute, including «last in, first out,» which generally requires districts to lay off teachers in reverse seniority order.

The state has used equalized wealth levels for maintenance and operations funding (not facilities funding) for various tiers of funding; however, as noted further below, there are several statutes that contribute to the lingering inequities of the Texas school finance system.)

GEO Group is being sued by the State of Mississippi over «several statutory and common law claims, including violations of various public servant statutes, racketeering activity, antitrust law, civil conspiracy, unjust enrichment and fraud.

In September, the state board must resolve several important policy questions that arise from implementing a complex statute.

It is run by the state, it has clearly worded and publicly accessible statutes and rules, it shows publicly the odds of winning, it also shows the distribution of all wins, it informs the public and the overseeing public authorities how the revenues are spent, it even shows the statistics of each drawing (and cumulative statistics) going back several months.

Sure, there is no global binding treaty, yet, but there are several national governments, several US states (with economies that rival many nations), and a myriad of US cities and counties that have ordinances, statutes and laws in place to lower CO2 emissions.

The project is actively pursuing several other important archives that are missing from the collection, Malamud said, including Supreme Court Briefs and multiple versions of the annotated statutes of the 50 states.

In the New York state legislature, several credit check bills have made their way through the Assembly and Senate, however there are no current statutes to address the situation.

I take leave to say that the New York statute, in the particulars here involved, can not be held to be in conflict with the Fourteenth Amendment without enlarging the scope of the Amendment far beyond its original purpose and without bringing under the supervision of this court matters which have been supposed to belong exclusively to the legislative departments of the several States when exerting their conceded power to guard the health and safety of their citizens by such regulations as they in their wisdom deem best.

The Volokh Conspiracy blog notes in this post, however, that several states have enacted statutes that impose a duty to rescue crime victims or report crimes.

When a Florida resident gets into a car accident, several factors can affect the insurance claims and lawsuits that might result, including Florida's status as a no - fault state, how long drivers have to file court cases after a crash (statute of limitations), and Florida's «pure» comparative fault rule.

I based this on searching through the statutes of several states with mountains, as well as the web pages for some parks.

During the 2014 - 2015 legislative session, via House Bill 252, Georgia representatives finally axed several statutes that have little businesses existing in the 21st century — and one of those decrees was the State's criminal defamation law.

Instead, it included sweeping revisions to several statutes, resulting in several new requirements for employers doing business in New York State:

In many instances, Randy's cases have involved direct challenges to state motor vehicle franchise statutes, and he has successfully argued several cases before state supreme courts that have involved challenges to the constitutionality of those statutes.

«Net Neutrality» is not an issue of first impression: there are several decades» worth of federal statutes, legislative history, and administrative and regulatory laws, federal court opinions, federal - state preemption issues, and Congressional, political, and campaign finance issues to comprehend — and a rich and long scholarly (and non-scholarly) bibliography to peruse.

These days, since there is now a right to appeal a criminal conviction under state law or federal statute (but not the U.S. Constitution), a writ of habeas corpus is only brought when direct appeals of a conviction have been exhausted, often several years after the original conviction (which makes a writ of habeas corpus only useful for convictions involving long sentences of incarceration).

Several states, including Indiana, have passed statutes allowing wrongful death claims for unborn children at various stages of gestation, and courts in other states have recognized causes of action related to fetal death.

Fourth, in § 160.203, several criteria relating to the statutory grounds for exception determinations have been further spelled out: (1) The words «related to the provision of or payment for health care» have been added to the exception for fraud and abuse; (2) the words «to the extent expressly authorized by statute or regulation» have been added to the exception for state regulation of health plans; (3) the words «of serving a compelling need related to public health, safety, or welfare, and, where a standard, requirement, or implementation specification under part 164 of this subchapter is at issue, where the Secretary determines that the intrusion into privacy is warranted when balanced against the need to be served» have been added to the general exception «for other purposes»; and (4) the statutory provision regarding controlled substances has been elaborated on as follows: «Has as its principal purpose the regulation of the manufacture, registration, distribution, dispensing, or other control of any controlled substance, as defined at 21 U.S.C. 802, or which is deemed a controlled substance by state law.»

There are several reasons for this: first, in many states, anti-SLAPP statutes exist, which allow a malicious prosecution defendant to seek early dismissal of the case.

Several states developed statutes or borrowed from other statues to govern the role.

Several states, including Illinois and Missouri, have statutes that declare psychological factors are «non-material» and do not have to be disclosed to prospective buyers.

The issue of independent contractor status of real estate salespeople is also addressed in several state real estate statutes.