Sentences with phrase «supreme authority of a state»

The supreme authority of the State ought to let subordinate groups handle matters and concerns of lesser importance.»

Like the Nazis, they advocate the supreme authority of the state (fascism), which in turn supports their scientific research to support their cause (in the 1930s, it was superiority of the white race).

Not exact matches

The state's environment minister has picked three legal professionals to conduct a review into the Environmental Protection Authority, in the wake of the Supreme Court's ruling on the Roe 8 highway project last month.

The notice, which calls on local authorities to «create and refine platforms for exposing defaulted borrowers» by the end of the year, was jointly issued by China's Supreme People's Court, the Chinese Communist Party's Publicity Department and the China Banking Regulatory Commission, according to the state - run Xinhua News Agency.

What appears to have been a carefully crafted strategy then unfolded: The state authorities acted; Griswold and Buxton were charged, tried, convicted, and fined $ 100 each; and the lower court decision was upheld by the relevant Connecticut appellate courts (including the splendidly named «Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors»).

In the United States, the Louisiana state Supreme Court ruled last year that state law does not require a priest to notify authorities after hearing evidence of child abuse from a child making a confession.

Catholic authorities justify the right of the State to inflict capital punishment on the ground that the State does not act on its own authority but as the agent of God, who is supreme lord of life and death.

WHEREAS, the senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and Just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs of men and of nations, has by a resolution, required the President to designate and set apart a day for National prayer and humiliation:

In this Wycliff stated clearly the later reformation principle of the supreme authority of scripture and as a consequence of this, he sought to make the knowledge of the scripture more general.

We are happy to report in response to a lawsuit filed against the Commonwealth's regulatory use of priority habitat screening to protect endangered species, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled unanimously to affirm the state's authority under the Massachusetts Endangered Species Act (MESA).

No Supreme Court case has ever held or implied that Congress's Commerce Clause authority is limited to individuals who are presently engaging in an activity involving, or substantially affecting, interstate commerce... if Congress can regulate even instances of purely local conduct that were never intended for, or entered, an interstate market, we think Congress can also regulate instances of ostensible inactivity inside a state.

This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.

This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanstate shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanState to the contrary notwithstanding.

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».

Police are guarding the home of one of the Capital Region's most prominent state Supreme Court judges, Thomas Breslin, after he received a death threat that authorities deem genuine.

In Section 287 (1)(2)(3) of the 1999 Constitution, the decisions of the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, Federal High Courts, High Courts of State and FCT and other subordinate courts, shall be obeyed and enforced in any part of Nigeria by all authorities and persons including President Buhari and his AGF.

Only in New York would an antigun zealot appeal to the authorities of a city that has been slapped for their unconstitutional laws by the Supreme Court of the United States.

A state Supreme Court judge ordered the New York City Housing Authority to conduct lead inspections on thousands of apartments with young children.

A state Supreme Court judge Tuesday ordered the Long Island Power Authority to pay Nassau school districts the full amount of tax payments billed by the county for the 2015 - 2016 school year.

The suit, filed in state Supreme Court in Albany, comes after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency denied the broad majority of the loan — $ 482 million — which state officials at the Public Authorities Control Board and later the Thruway Authority had approved over the summer.

Under Supreme Court constitutional interpretation, since individual states never had the original sovereign authority to unilaterally change the terms and conditions of service of federal officials agreed to and established in the Constitution, such a power could not be «reserved» under the Tenth Amendment.

The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously reversed the conviction of a former Massachusetts - based investment manager who authorities say threatened to expose an alleged affair involving DiNapoli's chief counsel in an effort to win a $ 35 million state pension contract.

A state Supreme Court judge ordered the Long Island Power Authority to pay Nassau school districts the full amount of tax payments billed by the county for the 2015 - 2016 school year.

The Founding Fathers only said in the U.S. Constitution about presidential elections (only after debating among 30 ballots for choosing a method): «Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors...» The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly characterized the authority of the state legislatures over the manner of awarding their electoral votes as «plenary» and «exclusive.&rState shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors...» The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly characterized the authority of the state legislatures over the manner of awarding their electoral votes as «plenary» and «exclusive.&rstate legislatures over the manner of awarding their electoral votes as «plenary» and «exclusive.»

In a judgment dismissing the claim, Justice Rilwan Aikawa held that following the decision of the Supreme Court in the case of Attorney General of Ondo State vs Attorney General of the Federation and 36 Others (2002), that ICPC had a statutory duty to investigate allegations of corrupt practices made against any person or authority in Nigeria and that neither the claimants nor the court has the discretion to stop a statutory agency of government from performing its duties.

The three - judge appeals court panel said in its order Thursday that the Supreme Court should rule on whether voiding the law is the proper remedy for an open meetings law violation and whether a court has the authority to stop the secretary of state from publishing it.

However, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled, in Newberry v. U.S. 256 U.S. 232 (1921), that Congress's authority to regulate elections did not extend to party primaries or nominations and so struck down the 1911 amendment's spending limits.

Justice Gerald Connolly of state Supreme Court in Albany dismissed three lawsuits that sought to overturn Black's appointment, ruling that the state education commissioner was within his authority to excuse her from the credentials normally required for the post.

The State Supreme Court has rejected a lawsuit that alleges the Metropolitan Transportation Authority acted inappropriately in its sale of the Vanderbilt rail yard...

New York State Supreme Court Judge Bruce Cozzens Jr. of Nassau County ruled that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Commuter Tax was unconstitutional on the grounds that the law is «a special law, which does not serve substantial state interest&raState Supreme Court Judge Bruce Cozzens Jr. of Nassau County ruled that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Commuter Tax was unconstitutional on the grounds that the law is «a special law, which does not serve substantial state interest&rastate interest».

The U.S. government's authority to regulate air pollution nationwide, often against the wishes of Republican - leaning states, could face new curbs when the Supreme Court takes on two high - stakes cases in coming months.

In a 5 — 4 decision against the EPA, the Supreme Court majority decided that the scientific evidence (some of which came from the agency itself) suggested that Massachusetts and other states were experiencing harm from global warming and that the EPA had the authority to redress it.

«We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America... appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States...» — Declaration of Independence

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March 11, 2013 • A state Supreme Court justice said the regulations overstepped the authority granted to the New York City Board of Health.

Similarly, the Utah Supreme Court rejected the claim brought by the state school boards association that the statute authorizing the state board of education to approve and supervise charter schools represented an unconstitutional expansion of the state board's authority into the area of local schools.

Congress exceeded its constitutional authority when it amended the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 to cover states and their political subdivisions, such as cities and school districts, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last week.

In the same motion, the State also asked the Supreme Court to grant the Commissioner of Education authority to waive LIFO in Newark and similar districts.

The state Supreme Court struck down the law, however, finding that any attempt to take education authority away from the superintendent violated Article X of the state constitution, which vests all authority for the «the supervision of public instruction» in the superintendent.

Connecticut's Supreme Court ruled that the state had failed to follow its laws and ordered that the democratically elected board of education be reconstituted and given back the authority to run the City's schools.

When John Marshall was appointed as the fourth chief justice of the United States by President John Adams, the Supreme Court had few cases, no genuine authority and met in the basement of the U.S. Capitol.

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About Blog RIPL has been cited as persuasive authority by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and parties petitioning the United States Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari.

Like most states, in Michigan (where I'm licensed, but not currently practicing), pursuant to the Michigan Constitution, the Michigan Supreme Court has exclusive authority over the regulation of lawyers and the practice of law.

It will be a declaration, in my deliberate judgment, that the sovereign power of the people of the United States and Union must hereafter remain incapable of action over territory to which their rights in full dominion have been asserted with the most rigorous authority, and bow to a jurisdiction hitherto unknown, unacknowledged by any department of the government, denied by all through all time, unclaimed till now, and now declared to have been called into exercise not by any change in our Constitution, the laws of the Union or the States, but preexistent and paramount over the supreme law of the land.

14 In its 1949 decision in Van Lom v. Schneiderman, 187 Ore. 89, 210 P. 2d 461, the Supreme Court of Oregon merely held that it lacked authority to order a new trial even though an award of damages was excessive under state law.

The post from Lyle Denniston at SCOTUSblog reports on yesterday's Supreme Court argument in which the state of Arizona and the federal government argued for — and got Justices supporting — the broad proposition that police who encounter someone in a public place should have the authority to frisk that individual any time they fear he may be «armed and dangerous,» even if they have no suspicion that any crime has been or is being committed.

Selections in the current issue, for example, range from «Laugh Track,» in which Boston University School of Law associate professor Jay D. Wexler studies the relative senses of humor of the justices of the Supreme Court, to «The Original Meaning of the 21st Amendment,» which examines recent Supreme Court cases involving wine sales across state lines, to «A Lawyer in Baghdad,» in which Brett H. McGurk shares insights acquired during five months as associate general counsel to the Coalition Provisional Authority.

While counsel are required to cite a reported series where available, the Civil & Criminal Practice Directive entitled «Citation of Authorities» states that copies provided to the Court may be reproduced from an alternate electronic database provided the reported decision contains numbered paragraphs and the paragraph numbering is the same in the electronic source (slightly different instructions apply where the citation is to the Supreme Court Reports).

They include two legal - aid lawyers from Texas who will discuss their role in last year's Texas Supreme Court ruling ordering the return of children taken into custody by state authorities in the raid on the Yearning for Zion Ranch.