Sentences with phrase «standing legal distinctions»

Last year London's mayor, Boris Johnson, effectively voiced support for this point of view, writing in The Telegraph that: «At present that law is being systematically broken — or at least circumvented — by the use of the Uber app», and adding: «Until Parliament has the guts to change the law we must uphold the existing and long - standing legal distinctions between black cabs and minicabs.»

Not exact matches

Matthew Ladner, senior advisor at the Foundation for Excellence in Education, snapped, «If there is a moral difference between redneck governors standing at the school house doors to keep kids out of school with a baseball bat, and union bosses wanting to go into schools to kick kids out of schools with legal baseball bats, the distinction escapes me.»

This distinction is why the courts have ruled that FEA and its partners don't have standing, and why legal challenges to tax - credit scholarship programs around the country have been largely unsuccessful.