Sentences with phrase «uniform system of laws»

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DTC is a limited - purpose trust company organized under the laws of the State of New York, a member of the Federal Reserve System, a «clearing corporation» within the meaning of the New York Uniform Commercial Code, and a «clearing agency» registered pursuant to the provisions of section 17A of the Exchange Act.

A 2012 state law prompted the overhaul of the state's existing quality rating system and required a uniform rating system for all early childhood programs that receive any public funding, including private providers, federally funded Head Start centers and pre-K classrooms in public and private schools.

Commission member Julie Underwood, a school law professor at UW - Madison and the former dean of the university's School of Education, said she wants the commission's work to build not from a total blank slate, but from the state Constitution's requirement of providing a «uniform system of education.»

The Florida public - school establishment is suing to repeal the Sunshine State's 13 - year - old school - choice tax credit and its new education savings accounts under the state's Blaine Amendment and its «uniformity clause,» which mandates that «Adequate provision shall be made by law for a uniform, efficient, safe, secure, and high quality system of free public schools...» The Florida Supreme Court previously struck down the state's voucher program under this provision in Bush v. Holmes (2006), on the grounds that the vouchers «divert [ed] public dollars» from «the sole means set out in the Constitution for the state to provide for the education of Florida's children.»

After protracted court proceedings, the Florida Supreme Court ruled in 2006 that the Florida Opportunity Scholarship Program, a universal voucher program, violated Article IX, section 1 of the Florida Constitution: «Adequate provision shall be made by law for a uniform, safe, secure and high - quality system of free public schools.

Given that the European Union's own resources include, as provided in Article 2 (1) of Council Decision 2007 / 436 / EC, Euratom of 7 June 2007 on the system of the European Communities» own resources (OJ 2007 L 163, p. 17), revenue from application of a uniform rate to the harmonised VAT assessment bases determined according to European Union rules, there is thus a direct link between the collection of VAT revenue in compliance with the European Union law applicable and the availability to the European Union budget of the corresponding VAT resources, since any lacuna in the collection of the first potentially causes a reduction in the second» (para. 26).

The latest issue of the Yale Law Journal contains a supremely sane and caustic attack by Judge Richard Posner of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals on the tendency of the Blue Book (Uniform System of Citation) to proliferate increasing thickets of rules and increasingly trivial sub-rules.

But what else should we expect from a system so diverse, so fragmented, so unregulated, so lacking in uniform and enforceable standards — and so beholden to the interests of law enforcement?

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The CLPA applies to divorce and other family law matters, and it creates a uniform system for the practice of collaborative law (also sometimes referred to as collaborative divorce, collaborative practice or the collaborative process).

The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation is compiled by the editors of the Columbia Law Review, the Harvard Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and The Yale Law Journal.

«But, divergence from state law, with the attendant consequence of forum shopping, is the inevitable (indeed, one might say the intended) result of a uniform system of federal procedure.

Canadian courts, legal periodicals, law faculties and lawyers rely on the Guide to maintain a uniform system of legal citation.

As has worked in the past, when the neutral citation system for Canadian courts was created and adopted, and equally a uniform naming convention for Canadian judgments, I would suggest the work be entrusted to a core working group supported by an advisory board representative of all the affected communities: the Courts (and the Canadian Judicial Council), the law publishers both print and digital (especially CanLII and Lexum), legal writing and research faculty, law librarians and practising lawyers from both our French and English legal communities.

- It creates a uniform system for the practice of collaborative law, which is a non-adversarial form of dispute resolution where all energy, time, and money is spent on reaching an agreement rather than fighting in court;

The CLPA applies to divorce and other family law matters, and it creates a uniform system for the practice of collaborative law (also sometimes referred to as collaborative divorce, collaborative practice or the collaborative process).

In 2016 the Florida Legislature passed the Collaborative Law Practice Act to create a uniform system of practice for the collaborative law proceLaw Practice Act to create a uniform system of practice for the collaborative law procelaw process.

Halsey told those assembled that the primary duties of the new organization would be to adopt a uniform method of doing business, make every effort to establish a unified system of real estate laws throughout the country, and of course eliminate the poorly qualified «curbstoners», who operated without a bricks - and - mortar office, and the untrustworthy sharks.