Sentences with phrase «such equal protection under the laws»

The GOP has been a consistent advocate of the 14th Amendment, which they wrote and passed, that embodies such equal protection under the laws, and the other Civil War Amendments

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SLAVE MARKET FOODS: Studies, and a bit of common sense, show that classifications on the socio - economical scale such as low income, inner city and / or ethnic minority [Hispanic / Black] predisposes consumers (who are equal under the law to protections against harm) to diabetes, obesity and other health risks as grocery stores in their area tend to sell lower qualities foods while food producers price high quality (or even halfway decent) foods out of reach.

However, this effort failed in 1973 as a result of the Supreme Court's ruling in San Antonio v. Rodriquez that such claims did not have a basis under federal equal protection laws.

Whenever an action has been commenced in any court of the United States seeking relief from the denial of equal protection of the laws under the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution on account of race, color, religion, or national origin, the Attorney General for or in the name of the United States may intervene in such action upon timely application if the Attorney General certifies that the case is of general public importance.

78 However, the absence of such an autonomous and uniform definition under European Union law of the concepts of social security, social assistance and social protection and the reference to national law in Article 11 (1)(d) of Directive 2003/109 concerning those concepts do not mean that the Member States may undermine the effectiveness of Directive 2003/109 when applying the principle of equal treatment provided for in that provision.

Giving providers assurance that guidelines can be used only in their favor may be an important step toward gaining their support; but allowing such one - sided use of evidence in a court of law raises disturbing questions of fairness and of validity under the U.S. Constitution's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments» due process and equal protection mandates, and under state constitutional principles as well.

Where the Minister certifies by notice, published in the Canada Gazette, that any country that is not a treaty country grants or has undertaken to grant, either by treaty, convention, agreement or law, to citizens of Canada, the benefit of copyright on substantially the same basis as to its own citizens or copyright protection substantially equal to that conferred by this Act, the country shall, for the purpose of the rights conferred by this Act, be treated as if it were a country to which this Act extends, and the Minister may give a certificate, notwithstanding that the remedies for enforcing the rights, or the restrictions on the importation of copies of works, under the law of such country, differ from those in this Act.