Sentences with phrase «unconstitutional use of»

The North Carolina Association of Educators and the North Carolina School Boards Association have challenged the school voucher program in court, alleging that the program is an unconstitutional use of taxpayer funds that should be used for public schools only.

«The court's decision, along with the inspector - general bill I recently passed with my council colleagues, will go a long way to ending the unconstitutional use of stop - and - frisk in New York City,» the Democratic mayoral hopeful said at a press conference.

We look forward to the Court's decision on this blatant and unconstitutional use of power.»

«When we took away that policy, the city got safer three years running and the goal has to be to bring community together and you can't do that when you have the unconstitutional use of stop - and - frisk creating a wedge.»

Not exact matches

Gertner's first involvement in the («legal,» he jokes) Canadian marijuana market came after a 2000 Ontario Court of Appeals ruling that the government's pot prohibitions were unconstitutional because they did not include a carve - out for medical use.

The use of such agreements in the White House, per Marcus, is unprecedented and likely unconstitutional:

(As of this answer, the only time the no fly list has actually been challenged in court it was found unconstitutional, so lawmakers may also want to overhaul the process itself before expanding its use, or get rid of it completely)

I may yet be proved right in the future when no corruption cases in the judges» corruption cases are pending before the courts or when this government decides to investigate my allegations against the John Mahama government in the use of unconstitutional covert agents during his administration.

All my responses are on my website, martinamidu.com or Martin Amidu Speaks, some of which are under the headings: «Why Martin Amidu Is Not Using Government Or Party Channels For His Advocacy For Accountability And Transparency» dated 29th May 2012; «Fighting Graft And Corruption Under The National Democratic Governments Of Ghana» dated 3rdNovember 2013; On Galloppers, Settlements And The Hallowed Traditions Of The Office Of The Attorney General» dated 10th July 2012; and «Defending Citizens» Rights And Freedoms From Unconstitutional Conduct By Government And Its Unlawful Covert Agent» dated 11th November 2015: and many otherof which are under the headings: «Why Martin Amidu Is Not Using Government Or Party Channels For His Advocacy For Accountability And Transparency» dated 29th May 2012; «Fighting Graft And Corruption Under The National Democratic Governments Of Ghana» dated 3rdNovember 2013; On Galloppers, Settlements And The Hallowed Traditions Of The Office Of The Attorney General» dated 10th July 2012; and «Defending Citizens» Rights And Freedoms From Unconstitutional Conduct By Government And Its Unlawful Covert Agent» dated 11th November 2015: and many otherOf Ghana» dated 3rdNovember 2013; On Galloppers, Settlements And The Hallowed Traditions Of The Office Of The Attorney General» dated 10th July 2012; and «Defending Citizens» Rights And Freedoms From Unconstitutional Conduct By Government And Its Unlawful Covert Agent» dated 11th November 2015: and many otherOf The Office Of The Attorney General» dated 10th July 2012; and «Defending Citizens» Rights And Freedoms From Unconstitutional Conduct By Government And Its Unlawful Covert Agent» dated 11th November 2015: and many otherOf The Attorney General» dated 10th July 2012; and «Defending Citizens» Rights And Freedoms From Unconstitutional Conduct By Government And Its Unlawful Covert Agent» dated 11th November 2015: and many others.

Separately, 16 state attorneys general, including those from California and New York, spoke out against the executive order and warned that they will «use all of the tools of our offices to fight this unconstitutional order and preserve our nation's national security and core values.»

The process the Court used to change the Defense of Marriage Act was unconstitutional, and the result of the Supreme Court's rejection of the law is unacceptable.»

So if there is a caucus, it means there is caucus of imposition using the clout of the National leader to perpetrate there unconstitutional atrocities and probably they may said to be the

I insist that it is unconstitutional for this Government to use any covert agent for operations against citizens to hide its Gargantuan political corruption like Nerquaye - Tetteh's golden handshake of GH 400,000 when it knows that the Constitution and the laws of Ghana proscribes it from using the executive powers of policing, intelligence and security entrusted to it by the Constitution except in compliance with the existing law.

Therefore, having found use of the NHIS card for registration as a voter to be unconstitutional, the Supreme Court had power to order the Electoral Commission to remove or delete the affected registrations from the register of voters and provide all affected persons a fresh opportunity to be registered as voters using a constitutionally - compliant form of identification.

The NDC is a political party and can not use its subordinate constitution to gag citizens from the exercise of their constitutional rights to speak against unconstitutional conduct and actions of a Government even if it supported it to come to power.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone has vetoed a widely - supported bill that banned the use of drones on county parkland, saying the law's privacy stipulations would be unconstitutional.

State Green Party Co-Chair Michael O'Neil called the Republican's write - in tactic «reprehensible» and «potentially unconstitutional,» accusing him of using the Opportunity to Ballot process to «steal» Row E for this election.

«We said the use of the NHIS card is, therefore, unconstitutional and so they should take the opportunity to clear the register of those undesirable persons... period, that's it».

AG Eric Schneiderman is investigating the Buffalo Police Department's use of traffic checkpoints and enforcement sweeps inside public housing developments, after a complaint filed by members of Black Lives Matter Buffalo and other community groups accused the department of engaging in a «repeated, persistent and widespread pattern of unconstitutional policing.»

«In our view, following the previous decision of this court in the Abu Ramadan case (supra) by which the use of the cards for registration was declared unconstitutional, the continued presence of names on the register that derive their identification from the said cards renders the register not reasonably accurate or credible.

Those cases, they argue, declared the use of NHI cards for the purpose of registration to vote as unconstitutional, and so the Supreme Court was wrong in treating registration with those cards in the present case as essentially voidable, and not void.

He held that it was unconstitutional, illegal and unlawful for the PDP and its National Working Committee to have conducted the primaries from which the sacked legislators emerged using the lists of delegates other than the ones produced from the ward congresses held on November 1, 2014.

Common Cause / New York and the Citizens Budget Commission, in a joint statement, said, «Providing staff to private schools, including rules concerning salaries and work requirements, would be an inappropriate, indeed probably unconstitutional, use of government funds and regulatory oversight for non-public, religious purposes.

Aliero said, «The Senate observes that the present Revenue Allocation Formula has been in operation before the commencement of this democratic dispensation in 1999; it is aware that there is no extant Act of the National Assembly accepting the present Revenue Allocation Formula, which means the formula in use now is unconstitutional;

we've got a lot more police time and energy freed up because we are not doing some of the things we used to do like the unconstitutional stops and the marijuana arrests that are unnecessary,» the mayor said.

Currently the department uses 60 cameras in five precincts and one public service area that oversees a city housing complex — the first phase of a rollout ordered by a federal judge who ruled in 2013 that the department's use of stop - and - frisk was unconstitutional because it disproportionately targeted minorities.

«Most importantly, going by the APC government's use of the so - called anti-corruption fight to harass, intimidate, arrest and detain opposition figures, there is no doubt that categorising whatever is termed as a hate speech as an act of terrorism is unconstitutional and an attempt to gag Nigerians, especially the press.

According to the New York Times, the court ruled that the law was unconstitutional because it «deprived owners of the right to determine how their property would be used.»

The Supreme Court on July 30, 2014, declared the use of the card unconstitutional, holding that the Provision permitting the use of the card which was contained in the Constitutional Instrument (CI 72) was inconsistent with the Constitution.

Prof. Dankofa, among other things, in suit KDH / KAD / 236 / 2018 is praying the court to «declare that the action of the respondents (Kaduna State Government and Kaduna Geographic Information Service, KADGIS) in arrogating to themselves the power to punitively sanction the Applicants (Hunkuyi and his Company, Muna Investment Ltd) property, even if the Applicants were purportedly in default of payment of either ground rent or land use charge or for any other reason constitute a gross violation of Applicant Fundamental Human Right guaranteed under section 43 (1) and 46 (1) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) and therefore illegal, unconstitutional, null and void.»

The resistors» latest gambit is a federal law suit (Goldstein v. Pataki) filed on October 26th in the Eastern District, charging that the use of eminent domain on behalf of Forest City Ratner and Atlantic Yards is unconstitutional.

Thus, they consider the use of embryonic stem cells for research purposes as unconstitutional.

The recent Supreme Court decision, Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1, ruled unconstitutional the Seattle and Louisville school districts» limited use of race in deciding which students got into overenrolled schools (Seattle) or which students could transfer schools (Louisville), limiting the scope of government intervention to preserve racial balance following the expansion of school choice.

Arne Duncan's aggressive use of «conditional waivers» from the NCLB mandates is both unconstitutional and unwise, and his ham - handed push for test - based teacher evaluations and school discipline quotas is apt to cause serious harm to America's schools.

They asked the court to dissolve the desegregation order and to hold the use of magnet school racial guidelines unconstitutional.

Opponents of voucher programs argue that they siphon essential funding from already meager public - school budgets to other schools and at their worst are unconstitutional, as they can use taxpayer - funded vouchers to benefit religious schools.

As per a more detailed post about this lawsuit, «The state's largest association for teachers filed a second lawsuit on behalf of a Knox County teacher, calling the use of the Tennessee Value - Added Assessment System (TVAAS), which uses students» growth on state assessments to evaluate teachers, unconstitutional.

The Nevada Supreme Court permanently blocks the voucher program, declaring the use of public school dollars to fund vouchers unconstitutional.

The Louisiana Association of Educators has sued the state of Louisiana to block it from using its main school budget to fund certain types of charter schools, saying such funding is unconstitutional.

The justices appeared to focus most of their attention on the first case they heard, one dealing with whether the law is unconstitutional because it siphons off state funds that can only be used for the operation of public schools.

With the final arguments now completed in the school funding case of CCJEF v. Rell, the judge has five months» worth of testimony to use when making the critically important decision about whether Connecticut's school funding formula is unconstitutional.

Using public funds, Connecticut charter schools are creating greater racial isolation — something that is nothing short of illegal and unconstitutional.

The 23 - page draft, approved by the animal board Aug. 13, comes on the heels of a decision by a county judge who determined that the state law the county used to try to have an 8 - year - old German shepherd named Cody killed was unconstitutional because it didn't give the dog's owner a chance to explain the circumstances of the attacks.

Under the color of law, unconstitutional animal welfare / animal cruelty laws often use clueless government officials as co-conspirators.

(1) it accepts the view that solutions based upon self - help, pro bono, and «greater use of technology,» can be good enough replacements for lawyers, for people who are not rich, which amounts to saying that «two - tier justice» is good enough for middle and low - income people (being the majority of the population, and tax payers financing the justice system), even though such is therefore probably unconstitutional;

But on the morning of his execution, the Supreme Court agreed to review Baze v. Rees, «a Kentucky case over whether unconstitutional pain and suffering was caused by a three - drug combination used in executions — the same lethal cocktail used in Texas,» according to the AP.

For example, where police use more force than necessary in conducting a search, a court may find the conduct of the search unreasonable and therefore unconstitutional.

In Carpenter v. United States, will the Supreme Court rule that investigators» warrantless use of Timothy Carpenter's cellphone records was unconstitutional?

Suppose that you are convicted of a crime, but after your conviction, a court holds as a binding precedent in another case, that the crime that you were convicted of is unconstitutional or otherwise invalid in your circumstances (e.g. in a U.K. scenario, you are convicted of trespassing on the walkway to someone's front door since that is private property, but a later precedent hold that members of the public are legally entitled to use such a walkway unless there is a «no trespassing» sign posted which no one disputes wasn't present in your case).

Two Michigan cases in 2003, Gratz v. Bollinger and Grutter v. Bollinger, reversed this holding, finding that a narrowly tailored admissions process which uses race to advance the interest of a diverse student body was not unconstitutional.