Sentences with phrase «very significant amendments»
Bill C - 29 is the long - awaited government response to the five year mandatory review of PIPEDA and contains a number of very significant amendments that, if passed, will alter the landscape of privacy law compliance in Canada.
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If reviewers rejected the last allowed amendment, researchers had no choice but to start over with a new idea, or with a very significant reconfiguration of the old idea.
Given that the Federal Government very recently made significant amendments the Trade - marks Act — indeed, the most significant changes to the Act since 1956 — and specifically chose not to make revisions to the official mark provisions despite this criticism, perhaps one should question whether such official mark rights should be so significantly limited judicially.
This apparently means that employees may be disciplined for their official capacity speech, without any First Amendment scrutiny, and without regard to whether it touches on matters of «public concern» — a very significant doctrinal development.»
«Time for back - bench and opposition amendments has been squeezed and the result is a Bill that threatens seriously to undermine some very significant rights.
Even a very incomplete list gives an impression of the large number of significant opinions he has written: seminal administrative law cases such as Chevron v. NRDC and Massachusetts v. EPA, the intellectual property case Sony Corp v. Universal City Studios (which made clear that making individual videotapes of television programs did not constitute copyright infringement), important war on terror precedents such as Rasul v. Bush and Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, important criminal law cases such as Padilla v. Kentucky (holding that defense counsel must inform the defendant if a guilty plea carries a risk of deportation) and Atkins v. Virginia (which reversed precedent to hold it was unconstitutional to impose capital punishment on the mentally retarded), and of course Apprendi v. New Jersey (which revolutionized criminal sentencing by holding that the Sixth Amendment right to jury trial prohibited judges from enhancing criminal sentences beyond statutory maximums based on facts other than those decided by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt).