Sentences with phrase «significant number of amendments»

A significant number of amendments focused on the bill's highly qualified teacher provisions, which have flown under the radar in light of more dramatic changes to the legislation's accountability components.

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The key argument is over amendment 7, tabled by Dominic Grieve, the Conservative former attorney general and backed by a significant number of Tories, as well as the opposition parties.

Even a very incomplete list gives an impression of the large number of significant opinions he has written: seminal administrative law cases such as Chevron v. NRDC and Massachusetts v. EPA, the intellectual property case Sony Corp v. Universal City Studios (which made clear that making individual videotapes of television programs did not constitute copyright infringement), important war on terror precedents such as Rasul v. Bush and Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, important criminal law cases such as Padilla v. Kentucky (holding that defense counsel must inform the defendant if a guilty plea carries a risk of deportation) and Atkins v. Virginia (which reversed precedent to hold it was unconstitutional to impose capital punishment on the mentally retarded), and of course Apprendi v. New Jersey (which revolutionized criminal sentencing by holding that the Sixth Amendment right to jury trial prohibited judges from enhancing criminal sentences beyond statutory maximums based on facts other than those decided by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt).

This Bill, if passed, would make a number of significant amendments to the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act («PIPEDA «-RRB-.

After a recent review of Alberta's employment law, the Alberta government tabled Bill 17, Fair and Family - friendly Workplaces Act on May 24, 2017 to make a number of significant amendments to the Employment Standards Code and Labour Relations Code.

In 2008, a number of significant amendments to the Ontario Human Rights Code came into effect.

On November 16, 2017, shortly before passing the Bill, the legislature made a number of significant changes to Bill 148, including adding an amendment to the Occupational Health and Safety Act (the «OHSA»).

In addition Mr. Nightingale has been co-counsel on a number of significant cases, including Abebe v. Gonzales, 493 F. 3d 1092 (9th Cir 2007)(finding applicant ineligible for 212 (c) relief for crime of violence, in the absence of a corresponding ground of inadmissibility), in which a petition for rehearing en banc is currently pending; Magana - Pizano v. INS, 200 F. 3d 603 (9th Cir.1999)(establishing eligibility for relief from deportation for those in immigration proceedings before the effective date of the statutory amendments eliminating relief, and for those who pled guilty before that date in reliance on being eligible for such relief), and Barahona - Gomez v. Reno, 167 F. 3d 1228 (9th Cir.

Bill C - 29 is the long - awaited government response to the five year mandatory review of PIPEDA and contains a number of very significant amendments that, if passed, will alter the landscape of privacy law compliance in Canada.

The Court cited a number of reasons, including that it is not appropriate for an appellate court, twice removed from the parties» initiating motion, to grant this relief; the appellants have not had the opportunity to make full submissions on this new issue; the «irregularity» that State Farm seeks to correct was intentional; the delay in seeking the alternate relief was significant; the pleadings would be deficient and unable to support an ongoing action by the Trustee without further amendments; and State Farm is a sophisticated party.

The 2008 amendments made a number of significant changes to the Queensland land rights Acts, including allowing Registered PBCs to hold the land for the native title holders of that land.