Sentences with phrase «supreme over the majority»

Not exact matches

Percoco's trial is among several scheduled this year over alleged Albany corruption, including the re-trials of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan) and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R - Long Island), who had their unrelated convictions tossed due to a US Supreme Court ruling that acquitted former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell.

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.

A state Supreme Court judge ruled that none of the groups have a claim over the party's leadership as a majority of the statewide candidates who ran on the line last year have not signed off on a package of rules for the party.

Control of the party has been challenged by two additional groups seeking to wrest power from a group led by Cuomo, leading a state Supreme Court judge to declare no one could claim leadership over the line until a majority of the candidates who ran last as WEP candidates sign off on the rules.

The seven - member Supreme Court panel, presided over by the Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo, in a 6 - 1 majority decision, said the two are illegally in the country since the then government allowed them into the country without prior approval by Parliament.

Senate Democratic Conference leader John Sampson and Majority Leader Pedro Espada (pictured) had asked Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Joan Lobis to quash a subpoena from the IG's office demanding they hand over documents, e-mails and other information concerning the since - spiked deal.

The U.S. Supreme Court confronted the hard - edged politics of electoral redistricting, with justices divided over whether judicial intervention or allowing legislative majorities to manipulate maps posed a greater threat to democracy.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- The Supreme Court's conservative majority expressed varying degrees of concern Wednesday over a civil rights case brought by 20 firefighters, most of them white, who claim reverse discrimination in promotions.

Although the Supreme Court of Canada held in Christie that a «general access to legal services in relation to court and tribunal proceedings dealing with rights and obligations» is not a fundamental aspect of the rule of law (see paras. 23 - 27), it does not follow that the legal profession can preserve its monopoly over legal services free from government regulation or control of any kind, even when, as now, it has made legal services unavailable at reasonable cost to a large majority of the population.

The Supreme Court of Canada upheld s 329 of the Canada Elections Act in R v Bryan 2007 SCC 12 (15 March 2007) by a 5:4 majority and over spirited dissent.

U. L. Rev. 1461 (2016)(analyzing Supreme Court opinions for positive / negative sentiment, defensiveness, and Flesch - Kincaid Grade Level over time); Stephen M. Johnson, The Changing Discourse of the Supreme Court, 12 U.N.H. L. Rev. 29 (2014)(using Flesch - Kincaid test to describe brief readability during the Supreme Court's 1931 - 33 and 2009 - 11 terms); Ryan J. Owens, Justin Wedeking, & Patrick C. Wohlfarth, How the Supreme Court Alters Opinion Language to Evade Congressional Review, 1 J. Law & Courts 35 (2013)(analyzing cognitive clarity of Supreme Court opinions, and hypothesizing that the Supreme Court crafts less readable majority opinions when confronted by an ideologically hostile Congress in order to deter legislative review of their decisions).

The majority of the Supreme Court held there was an apprehension of bias, but it is the test set out in the dissent by Justice de Grandpré that has placed the decision in the top 100 cited cases — over 1,480 citations and counting:

While the Supreme Court of Canada rejected the approach taken by a majority of the BC Court of Appeal that the doctrine of interjurisdictional immunity protected InSite as a creation of the province's purported «core» legislative power over health issues — the SCC could not identify a «core» power over health exclusive to provinces, found that the ousting of criminal law from the domain of health could potentially create problematic «legal vacuums», and that the CDSA as a whole was still valid and applicable legislation — the Minister's decision to deny an exemption to InSite violated the claimants» section 7 Charter rights.

A poll NAR commissioned shortly after the Kelo decision found that a majority of REALTORS ® — just over 65 percent — opposed the Supreme Court decision because the property involved wasn't blighted.