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The letter says that vague laws on the use of campaign money create a tremendous «potential for abuse,» and notes, «In hopes that this shortcoming will be addressed in the upcoming legislative session, I am forwarding a copy of this letter to Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader Dean G. Skelos, and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.»

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Other than making vague promises to place more police officers on the streets, encouraging DNA testing for death - row inmates and calling for the need to reduce recidivism by investing in «proven community - based law - enforcement programs,» the Democrats» policy solutions over the past eight years have done little to dismantle the carceral state that they helped create.

«Antitrust is highly discretionary and the antitrust laws in the U.S. are rather vague and it really depends on who is doing the antitrust enforcement, and that is the big unknown as we go forward,» said Bloom.

Reston's God, like the one Bellah described, is typical of the God of civil religion, is on the vague and austere side, «much more related to order, law, and right than to salvation and love.»

Food and Drink - Fall 2011 -(Page 58) > p PRODUCERS food law The Laws of the Label If you can avoid making vague or misleading claims on food labels, you might be able to avoid a class - action lawsuit.

But aside from the pedestrian proposals on offer, there was the usual litany of vague, meaningless and misleading promises about future law.

What is more unfortunate is seeing numerous people within Labour and on the left joining in, perceiving in some vague unspecified way that Laws» misguided attempts to protect his private life and Alexander's significantly less misguided decision to only pay the amount of tax he was legally obliged to were somehow the moral equivalent to the more eyewatering examples of house flipping that Labour ministers got up to in the last parliament.

Former Senate Leader Joseph Bruno, a Republican, was convicted on corruption charges in 2009 — only to see the conviction vacated after the Supreme Court deemed the law used to convict him too vague.

Law gives the U.S. government the power to control and regulate all navigable waters, but is vague on what other waterways the EPA is empowered to regulate.

If the 1996 law's language was vague, Congress made the message clear by cutting the CDC's budget by $ 2.6 million — exactly the same amount the agency had spent the previous year on gun violence research.

The firm aims to mine moon rocks to sell on Earth, and vague laws mean it probably can

Laws are vague on the subject, but some legal experts suggest treating the moon as just another frontier: The first to go to develop a financial stake in a patch of lunar land would be able to claim property rights.

Scalia believed his job in education cases was to read and apply the text of the law, and not allow his personal views on education to come in through the backdoor via free - ranging interpretations of vague statutory and constitutional provisions.

The rally took place just a few days after the Milwaukee School Board and administration on Friday rejected a controversial proposal that would have resulted in the takeover of some schools, saying the state - mandated plan was vague, the funding plan unclear and elements conflicted with state law.

The law was amended in 1999 under Gov. Gray Davis, requiring school boards to evaluate teachers based on state test scores as they «reasonably relate» to a teacher's classroom performance, a vague term that effectively made it easy for districts to avoid the law.

However, in many states, charter school laws are vague on an authorizer's legal role in investigating or remedying special education complaints.

The law on taking proper measures to verify identity when a lender sees a fraud alert is extremely vague.

Governments have created new laws and new crimes based on vague legal concepts.

There, students can find a section called «Running on Oil» and read a page that touts the industry's environmental track record — citing improvements mostly attributable to laws that the companies fought tooth and nail, by the way — but makes only vague references to spills or pollution.

When nobody can put anything on them beyond some vague guilt - by - association charge that could never hold up in a court of law, it then becomes obvious why this global warming crisis begins to look like it may fall apart.

This vague law is not a very satisfactory basis for an agreement on rights for a relatively vulnerable group.

The real problem is whether or to what extent we can aggravate the legal situation of EU citizens by disapplying the legislative provisions on limitation periods for criminal proceedings, if we rely only on such vague and open - ended provisions of EU law like Article 325 TFEU.

«Denying a lawyer's right to free expression on behalf of a client in a court of law in favour of a vague definition of civility and its application after the fact fetters and chills the lawyer's ability to engage in vigorous advocacy,» Groia argues in his factum, «in turn damaging the public interest, as well as infringing [on] the ability of an accused or client to make full answer and defence in a judicial proceeding.»

Maybe it's bad for federal law to impose such an obligation on employers, whether because the law is too vague, imposes unduly on private employers, imposes unduly on coworkers, gives an undue preference to conscientious objectors (it has been interpreted to apply to nonreligious conscientious objectors as well as religious ones), or something else.

The fact remains, though, that it is up to national courts to shed more light on the somewhat vague notion «same situation of law and fact» (cf. cases C - 98 / 06 Freeport and C - 145 / 10 Painer).

The Commonwealth had created a new felony modeled on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, an obscure 20th - century federal law.15 It criminalized unauthorized use of any computer, an admittedly vague framing that in its federal incarnation had been interpreted to include activities as far - reaching as violating a website's terms of service.16 The device scanned a passenger's online personas for signs of criminal activity, and when it couldn't find a smoking gun (such as pictures of contraband or discussion of criminal activity), the CFAA gave Baley additional bites at the apple.17 Lying about your height in a dating profile was often a violation of a site's terms.

This could backfire on either side when certain portions of the language used may be intentionally vague or difficult to parse though for someone who doesn't practice law.

The second head is the tangle of legal requirements for those on the list: a knot of vague, illogical, ever - expanding, and sometimes contradictory laws that even lawyers, judges, and law enforcement have difficulty interpreting.

But the right approach is now surely to recognise, as de Smith's Judicial Review, 7th ed (2013), para 11 - 028 suggests, that it is inappropriate to treat all cases of judicial review together under a general but vague principle of reasonableness, and preferable to look for the underlying tenet or principle which indicates the basis on which the court should approach any administrative law challenge in a particular situation.

The report also objects to fines by regulatory authorities that have no understandable scale proportionate to the seriousness of the offence and reliance on laws that use vague and undefined concepts such as «adequate procedures» and «fairness».

The Bill, which had its first reading last week, seeks to answer concerns that the current law on libel is costly, vague and uncertain, and is stifling debate by encouraging self - censorship.

For now, there are only vague laws that are able to prevent companies from using the «in - game footage» tag on any recordings of gameplay that have gone through editing since it was originally recorded.

The initiative was originally worded in such vague and misleading terms that it failed to make clear the far - reaching effects the initiative would have on Nevada law.

79 DOS 99 Matter of DOS v. Pagano - disclosure of agency relationships; failure to appear at hearing; proper business practices; unauthorized practice of law; unearned commissions; vicarious liability; fraudulent practice; jurisdiction; ex parte hearing may proceed upon proof of proper service; DOS has jurisdiction after expiration of respondents» licenses as acts of misconduct occurred and the proceedings were commenced while the respondents were licensed; licensee fails to timely provide seller client with agency disclosure form prior to entering into listing agreement and fails to timely provide agency disclosure form to buyer upon first substantive contact; broker fails to make it clear for which party he is acting; broker violates 19 NYCRR 175.24 by using exclusive right to sell listing agreement without mandatory definitions of «exclusive right to sell» and «exclusive agency»; broker breaches fiduciary duties to seller clients by misleading them as to buyer's ability to financially consummate the transaction; broker breaches his fiduciary duty to seller by referring seller to the attorney who represented the buyers when he knew or should have known such attorney could not properly protect seller's interests; improper for broker to use listing agreements providing for broker to retain one half of any deposit if forfeited by buyer as such forfeiture clause could, by its terms, allow broker to retain part of the deposit when broker did not earn a commission; broker must conduct business under name as it appears on license; broker engaged in the unauthorized practice of law in preparing contracts for purchase and sale of real estate which did not contain a clause making it subject to the approval of the parties» attorneys and were not a form recommended by a joint bar / real estate board committee; broker demonstrated untrustworthiness and incompetency in using sales contract which purported to change the terms of the listing agreement to include a higher commission; broker demonstrated untrustworthiness and incompetency in using contracts of sale which were unclear, ambiguous, vague and incomplete; broker failed to amend purchase agreement to reflect amendment to increase deposit amount; broker demonstrated untrustworthiness in back - dating purchase agreements; broker demonstrated untrustworthiness in participating in scheme to have seller hold undisclosed second mortgage and to mislead first mortgagee about the purchaser's financial ability to purchase; broker demonstrated untrustworthiness by claiming unearned commission and filing affidavit of entitlement for unearned commission; DOS fails to establish by substantial evidence that respondent acted as undisclosed dual agent; corporate broker bound by the knowledge acquired by and is responsible for acts committed by its licensees within the actual or apparent scope of their authority; corporate and individual brokers» licenses revoked, no action taken on application for renewal until proof of payment of sum of $ 2,000.00 plus interests for deposits unlawfully retained