Sentences with phrase «supreme courts decide»

State supreme courts decide about 2,000 constitutional law cases every year, and these cases have far - reaching consequences.

And what's at stake now is likely to have a far bigger impact on the ACA than the much cited Hobby Lobby case, which the Supreme Court decided at the end of June.

The Supreme Court decided against the plaintiff Maetta Vance, an African - American kitchen worker.

But in March, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that the whistleblower protection afforded by Sarbanes - Oxley now applies to employees of contractors and subcontractors of publicly traded companies.

Benefit from resolution of tax matters During the first quarter of 2017, the Spanish Supreme Court decided, in the company's favor, an ongoing transfer pricing case with the Spanish tax authorities related to businesses Cadbury divested prior to the company's acquisition of Cadbury.

But we'll have to wait until next year to see if the Supreme Court decides in favor of small business.

Back in 2012, the Supreme Court decided in Miller v. Alabama that states may not sentence juveniles found guilty of murder to a mandatory life sentence without parole.

Such actions have revived concerns of more disruption if the Supreme Court decides to keep the other rebel lawmakers in custody.

Since the Supreme Court decided to hear the case in July, UPS has announced changes to its policy for pregnant workers.

Last year, the Supreme Court decided to hear a series of appeals against the statute, including that of Black and jailed former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling.

This time Black's persistence paid off: The Supreme Court decided to examine this long - criticized statute, ultimately striking down portions of it.

The Supreme Court decided that money = speach and that corporations have the same rights as American citizens!

Russia continues to tighten religious restrictions; this month, the Supreme Court decided to label Jehovah's Witnesses an extremist group and ban its activities (putting Russian evangelicals in a tight spot.)

The Supreme Court decided an important First Amendment case this past week.

Editor's note: Douglas Laycock, Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Virginia, represented Hosanna - Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School in the case the Supreme Court decided Wednesday.

With abortion clinics closing at record rates as abortions hit near - record lows and state restrictions hit near - record highs, a respected report released today reveals that U.S. abortions have dropped to their lowest rate since 1973 — the year the U.S. Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade.

Federal courts have blocked fetal pain laws in Georgia and Idaho, and in January the U.S. Supreme Court decided not to reconsider a ruling that struck down Arizona's version.

No matter what the Supreme Court decides, the legal debate will continue.

- June 2014: Supreme Court decided NOT to hear New Jersey's sports betting case, led by Senator Ray Lesniak (D).

The political parties showed no interest in the Constitutional Assembly election in 2010 which the Supreme Court decided to annul on flimsy if not illegal grounds.

Ever since the Supreme Court decided last month that an expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act should be optional, quite a few Republican governors have been vowing to take a pass.

I will say however that there is no single right answer and that even lawyers will disagree on what the rights are - and that it often isn't clear in a legal sense whether something is a right until the Supreme Court decides.

The Supreme Court decided not to review a lower court decision that upholds the city's right to refuse to provide space in city schools for religious groups.

The autocrat, who ruled the small West African nation for 22 years, will remain in office until the Supreme Court decides on a petition filed by Jammeh.

The Supreme Word on Genes — The Supreme Court decided in June that genes can't be patented.

Argentina's Supreme Court decided in 2009 that the punishment for marijuana possession without distribution to third parties was unconstitutional.

SE: Secretary of Education Arne Duncan recently stood at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, and said, «I think Dr. King would have been disheartened to see that 56 years after the Supreme Court decided Brown v. Board of Education, many schools are still effectively segregated in America.

If, for instance, the Supreme Court decides that a state underspends on education, how exactly should it remedy this?

Members of the National Council on Religion and Public Education said at the three - day conference that in the years since the Supreme Court decided the cases of Abington v. Schempp and Murray v. Curlett, the U.S. and other countries have entered a period of religious revival.

As the brief notes, the Supreme Court decided in 1973 that there is no federal constitutional right to education.

The Cleveland - only program was vigorously challenged, with the U.S. Supreme Court deciding on a five - to - four vote in 2002 that it was constitutional.

In the United States v. Texas, he Supreme Court decided, by a tied vote, to uphold the decision of the lower courts, blocking President Obama's administrative actions on immigration and placing the futures of more than 5 million immigrants in limbo.

If the Supreme Court decides to strike down agency - fee laws nationwide, the NEA and the AFT would be forced to recruit their members one by one; additional teacher hiring would not automatically swell the unions» ranks.

Before the U.S. Supreme Court decided Bush v. Gore in favor of George W. Bush, the Florida court had ruled in favor of Al Gore.

If the state Supreme Court decides to hear the case, then it will remain in effect until the court issues its opinion.

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The Supreme Court decided to take the case on appeal directly, rather than allowing the state Court of Appeals to hear it first.

1999 — The Wisconsin Supreme Court decides to review Vincent vs. Voight.

If the Supreme Court decides against the use of race in college admissions, it will erase many years of progress for campuses trying to be more diverse and inclusive.

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that it will take up the Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association case.

On June 30th, the Supreme Court decided to hear Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association et al, a case that could seriously change the way the public employee unions (PEUs) do business.

The Supreme Court decided that schools could not receive public funding if they engaged in religious instruction.

In the infamous Dred Scott case, the US Supreme Court decided that African Americans were not of America, and they had no rights that «a white man was bound to respect.»

Ironically, in the New York Times case, the Supreme Court decided that the newspaper was protected from liability for an ad it ran that was critical of Alabama officials and their actions against the civil rights movement.

And this week our state Supreme Court decided to pass on the case altogether — leaving in place the Court of Appeals» decision.

You may have heard of the disapointment in the 2009 bank charges test case where the Supreme Court decided that charges could not be assessed for fairness.

In a case that involved similar issues, the Supreme Court decided that in a Chapter 13, projected disposable income should reflect actual income rather than just historical income.

Texas» Supreme Court decided to distinguish between dogs and heirlooms «such as a wedding veil, pistol» — this is Texas — «jewelry, handmade bedspreads and other items going back several generations.»

The Hawaiian Supreme Court decided on a case in Oahu, Polo Beach, involving beach nudity.

The Supreme Court decided two key criminal justice cases Monday, upholding individual rights.