Sentences with phrase «use federal common law»

Not exact matches

Alhough students» scores on the Common Core - aligned state tests won't be used for teacher and principal evaluations, the growth scores will still be calculated and used for school accountability to comply with federal law, a state Education Department official said.

The new law expressly forbids the federal government from mandating the use of tests scores in teacher evaluation and from mandating the use of Common Core standards.

Their use of historical 18th century legal materials has expanded beyond the typical view of using historical common law to maintain a conservative legal outlook, and has now covered seemingly every conceivable aspect of American federal court practice that comes under a historical question or issue.

To summarize, there is no authoritative method of creating an electronic seal in the common law provinces; the federal statute is almost inactive; and Quebec's statute, if its sealing provisions are used, does not serve the same function as in the rest of the country.

On April 25, 2012, the Federal Government announced that they will appeal the March 26, 2012, Ontario Court of Appeal decision striking down Canada's prostitution laws, specifically, Criminal Code provisions prohibiting «keeping or using a common bawdy house» (section 210) and the «living off the avails of prostitution» provision (section 212 (1)(j)-RRB- as unconstitutional to the Supreme Court of Canada.

While Florida and federal laws are clear on the rules regarding classifying employees vs. independent contractors, there are still common tricks that employers will use to keep employees from collecting full compensation and benefits.

It's possible that the registrant of the trademark abandoned the federal trademark registration, but is still using the mark — and so still has common law trademark rights.

Comment: A few commenters asserted that the requirement to include a statement in which the patient acknowledged that information used or disclosed to any entity other than a health plan or health care provider may no longer be protected by federal privacy law would be inconsistent with existing protections implemented by IRBs under the Common Rule.

For example, because model codes of evidence had been used as the foundation for decades of American law school evidence courses, and judges» and lawyers» comparative analyses, the «codification versus common law» issue played only a very small part in the debates preceding the enacting of the U.S. Federal Rules of Evidence.

Attorneys for both plaintiffs and defendants will find comprehensive coverage of such matters as: the advantages and disadvantages of suits based on strict liability, negligence and breach of warranty; the use of state consumer protection statutes; the duty to warn and its innumerable ramifications; the liability of the manufacturers, retailers and other potential defendants in the distribution chain; successor liability; federal preemption of common law claims; monitoring product safety during design, manufacturing and distribution; causation theories in actions involving multiple manufacturers; product misuse and alteration; the elements of proof needed in an action; recovery for economic loss; punitive damages; and the government contractor defense.