Sentences with phrase «taking legal action against members»

The case was brought by the British Columbia government, which wanted to test the constitutionality of the law before taking legal action against members of a breakaway Mormon sect that practises polygamy at their Bountiful settlement in the southeast of the province.

Not exact matches

Decisions had to be made from time to time as to where or when services of the church would be held; the church needed to be told of the impending visit of an apostle, or of some prophet or teacher from abroad; a question has been raised as to the good faith of one of these visitors, and there must be some discussion of the point and a decision on it; a fellow Christian from another church is on a journey and needs hospitality; a member of the local congregation planning to visit a church abroad needs a letter of introduction to that church, which someone must be authorized to provide; a serious dispute about property rights or some other legal matter has arisen between two of the brothers and the church must name someone to help them settle the issue or must in some other way deal with it; a new local magistrate has begun to prosecute Christians for violating the law against unlicensed assembly, and consideration must be given to ways and means of meeting this crisis; charges have been brought against one of the members by another member, and these must be investigated and perhaps some disciplinary action taken; one of the members has died, and the church is called on for some special action in behalf of his family in the emergency; differences of opinion exist in the church on certain questions of morals or belief (such as marriage and divorce, or the resurrection), differences which local prophets and teachers are apparently unable to compose, and a letter must be written to the apostle — who will write this letter and what exactly will it say?

We reserve the right, but do not undertake the obligation to: (a) monitor or review the Sites and the Applications for violations of this Agreement and for compliance with our policies; (b) report to law enforcement authorities and / or take legal action against anyone who violates this Agreement; (c) refuse, restrict access to or the availability of, or remove or disable (to the extent technologically feasible) any Contribution or any portion thereof that may violate this Agreement, the law or any of our policies or are excessive in size or burdensome without prior notice to you; (d) manage the Sites and the Applications in a manner designed to protect our and third parties» rights and property or to facilitate the proper functioning of the Sites and the Applications; (e) screen our users or members, or attempt to verify the statements of our users or members and / or (f) monitor disputes between you and other users or to termination or block you and other users for violations of this Agreement.

Lutfur Rahman should take legal action against this action — the views of local party members speak for themselves!

Members of the Occupy Rochester movement are taking legal action against the city of Rochester for its plan to ending the Occupy encampment in Washington Square Park.

The situation has gotten so out of hand that even Ramapo residents who are members of the town's large Orthodox Jewish population are taking legal action against the town for not upholding zoning laws.

We reserve the right to take legal action against you, if you should place information on your profile that is against our terms and conditions, immoral, illegal, adult / pornographic or if other members feel insulted by your profile.

don't nobody knock message boards: i participate in three which are absolute mustard: given the right kind of people and enough mutual association, they are the best way to swap ideas and even cooperate on projects (case in point: the TMF banking board successfully staged a fight against the Irish minister of finance to defend a bond widely held by its members — including legal action and political lobbying): there is something about the mechanism of general conversation in a small group of like - minded friends that can really take off

«The EU needs to demonstrate that it is serious about addressing the problem and taking action against member states that do not fulfill their legal obligations,» Siakor said.

In cases where Member States do not respect their obligations under EU law, the Commission can take legal action against them in the form of infringement proceedings before the Court of Justice under Article 258 TFEU.

For example, labor unions can — and often do — provide legal services on behalf of their members... Tenants» associations can provide emergency legal assistance to contest evictions; similarly, while landlords» associations can offer emergency legal assistance to take action against unruly or destructive tenants.

In many circumstances, the victim or surviving family members may have reason to take legal action against a property owner who failed to provide adequate security that could have prevented such dangerous events.

I have been appointed Belgian member of Fraudnet, the global network of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC — Commercial crime services), that provides fraud victims with a first local - point - of - contact service using legal specialists that can help, and the resource of a global network of partners to investigate and take action against fraudsters in foreign jurisdictions, increasing the chances of recovering losses (http://www.icc-ccs.org/home/fraudnet).

When I hear of local bar associations in the U.S. taking legal action against the providers of reputable online legal services on the ground of their unauthorized practice of law, or when I hear that senior general counsel in the U.S. have said that nonlawyers should not be permitted to deliver legal services because only lawyers can achieve the requisite ethics standards required of a legal adviser, or when I hear of opposition to various forms of liberalization on the part of members of the ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20, I want to challenge whether this is about protecting clients or protecting lawyers.