Sentences with phrase «which constitutional issues»

An indication of the importance accorded to the issue among the public is that, when asked which constitutional issues should be prioritised, the «way that England should be governed now that Scotland has a parliament and Wales an Assembly» emerged in a very clear second place.

The Supreme Court is subject to that obligation, as is every court before which the constitutional issue is raised.»

Not exact matches

[105] On January 8, 2008, to address ongoing structural budget issues, Governor Corzine proposed a four - part proposal including an overall reduction in spending, a constitutional amendment to require more voter approval for state borrowing, an executive order prohibiting the use of one - time revenues to balance the budget and a controversial plan to raise some $ 38 billion by leasing the Garden State Parkway, the New Jersey Turnpike, and other toll roads for at least 75 years to a new public benefit corporation that could sell bonds secured by future tolls, which it would be allowed to raise by 50 % plus inflation every four years beginning in 2010.

That permanent injunction will allow the judge more time to consider the constitutional issues raised by State Question 755, which was approved by voters earlier this month.

More recently, Billy Graham has weighed in on hot - button issues, including supporting North Carolina's constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, which voters passed earlier this year.

No doubt, there should be a thorough parliamentary debate on the issue, but instead of forcing a decision in this parliament, which could well be as controversial and divisive as the ill - fated referendum, I strongly agree with Nick Clegg that by far the best and most dignified way out of the current mess would be to ask the people in the proper constitutional way by calling an snap general election:

However, on the same day, the judges on the Ninth Circuit Court, which upheld the first TRO in February, issued an opinion1 that the revised Executive Order is constitutional.

According to them, much as they are «very much aware of the constitutional process the government is abiding by and wish to commend government for respecting the constitution of the state,» there are some issues «which do not only undermine our sovereign rights as indigenes of the Volta Region of Ghana but also violate some sections of the 1992 constitution».

«This issue has zero to do with birth control, which is easily available, and everything to do with Senator Gillibrand's doctrinaire liberal agenda, which is in direct contradiction to our Constitutional freedoms.»

«We want to point out that in any discussion with our partners we have to start from a fundamental constitutional principle, the same in the US and Romania, according to which the debates, decisions and votes in the Parliament take place in the name of the sovereignty of the people and can not be the object of any form of pressure,» reads the quoted communiqué issued by the heads of the two Chambers.

Particularly on constitutional issues (in which I admit I'm most interested — and it seems Nick C is too), it seems to me that the agreement, as it stands, offers a lot of room for some productive LD - Labour agreements, in opposition to the Conservatives.

Susan Lerner, with Common Cause, which has worked on the redistricting issue for decades, says the constitutional amendment, however, won't reform anything.

Just on constitutional reform, which continues to be a big interest for you: looking back at the sweep of New Labour in office under Blair and now Brown, hasn't it been a big failure really on what Roy Jenkins called «breaking the mould» issues: Lib - Labbery, elected second chamber - you must be disappointed with that record.

«Mr. Bloomberg's hypocritical support of constitutional protections, only when they don't impact the New York City budget, coupled with his uneducated and uninformed statements on the issue, serve to fan the flames of aggression, and undermine the potential for peaceful resolution of these matters, while perpetuating a long dormant policy of Indian termination which dates back to the days of General Custer's failed battle of Little Bighorn.»

This gives shadow constitutional reform minister Wayne David to attack him on the issue, which is currently being legislated on (not quite as glamorous as Lords reform, admittedly).

I define «constitutional» issues as distinct from «distributional» ones, which involve reallocation of resources (and the regulation of behaviour).

In August 1987, under FCC Chairman Dennis R. Patrick, the FCC abolished the doctrine by a 4 - 0 vote, in the Syracuse Peace Council decision, which was upheld by a panel of the Appeals Court for the D.C. Circuit in February 1989, though the Court stated in their decision that they made «that determination without reaching the constitutional issue.»

At issue was the constitutionality of the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission, which was established by state constitutional amendment in 2000.

Issues like the DREAM Act, which provides tuition assistance for undocumented immigrants, and ethics reform such as the constitutional amendment the governor first proposed in December for term limits and limiting outside income for state officials, lack the «political will,» he said.

And that «if payments have been made to the 2nd and 3rd Defendants under agreements other the two * dated 26th April 2006 *, which were terminated, issues relating to those payments would have to be determined in a forum other than this Court (Supreme Court) and in a different action, since they do not come within the issue of constitutional interpretation raised by the Plaintiff's writ».

Normally, that by itself, should shield any one of the states which enacted Traditional Marriage protections against interlopers entering the state and demanding that their fake Sodomite «marriage» be recognized as valid, but in this day and age of a runaway judiciary, it is best that we somehow pass a Constitutional Amendment defining Traditional Marriage and / or slapping the hands of rogue jurists away from the issue altogether.

Susan Lerner, with Common Cause, which has worked on the redistricting issue for decades, says the constitutional amendment won't reform anything.

Haruna Iddrisu also raised what he termed constitutional issues and strongly registered his disapproval to portions of the agreement which demand that disputes relating to the agreement shall not be referred to local or international court.

Indeed, there are many aspects of the coalition government's programme of which we approve, notably its commitment to constitutional reform and enhanced civil liberties, and the willingness of the Work and Pensions Secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, to make poverty and dispossession a defining issue of our political discourse.

Green Party leaders congratulated voters in Kent, Ohio, for passing Issue 43, which called for a constitutional amendment to end corporate personhood and abolish the legal definition of money as free speech, as well as establishment of an annual «Democracy Day» public hearing for residents to testify on the effect of big contributions from corporations and the wealthy on elections.

The lawmakers also resolved to separate the contentious sections of the bill, particularly those on which Buhari had raised constitutional issues.

«In the face of such orders and the ethical dilemmas to which they give rise, medical professionals likely would decline to serve as expert witnesses in lethal injection cases in the first place, robbing the parties and the courts of appropriate expert testimony that would assist them in accurately adjudicating the important constitutional issues this and similar cases present,» the authors write in the brief.

In Proposition 8, which made same - sex marriage unconstitutional, the companies argue that «recognizing the rights of same - sex couples to marry is more than a constitutional issue.

The class that I taught was a seminar in civics and citizenship for graduating seniors, in which we would wrestle with constitutional issues at work in students» lives, from campus speech codes to «broken windows» policing.

We asked former legislative council and labor lawyer Kenneth Dau - Schmitt to look over a law which limits collective bargaining rights for teachers, and he indicated there may be constitutional issues with a clause in the legislation which cuts teachers unions out of forming grievance procedures.

Twenty three states have passed e-waste recycling legislation, but these laws do not ban e-waste exports, which is an international trade issue, and not the constitutional jurisdiction of the states.

The application of constitutional law is complex, and certainly, the application of a reasonableness standard to how committee accounts for Charter values raises the difficult issue of different regulators reaching different conclusions about the extent to which the Charter protects freedoms or rights in similar situations.

Nothing in the opinion of this Court, therefore, may properly be regarded as an adjudication on the merits of the constitutional issues presented by these cases, which raise the question of the validity not of the private agreements as such, but of the judicial enforcement of those agreements.

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I almost landed in another federal agency's appellate office that practiced a very narrow issue before federal circuits across the country, but chose my current job because of the very broad swath of constitutional criminal issues we routinely litigate, which is endlessly fascinating.

This depends upon when a concept analogous to the principle of collateral estoppel (also known as «issue preclusion») in civil cases, in which facts previously litigated can bind a party in a later lawsuit, with or without constitutional double jeopardy dimensions, applies in criminal cases.

The proper remedy is not to abuse the LSUC's administrative authority to blackball TWU grads, but to lobby the BC government to end its statutory protection for TWU's conduct (assuming that doing so doesn't raise constitutional issues — which it might).

The Supreme Court in Stern determined that the constitutional distinction between Article III and Article I courts creates a separation of powers issue that requires limitations on those matters on which bankruptcy judges may enter final orders.

There are three requirements for Younger abstention to apply: (1) pending or on - going state proceedings which are judicial in nature; (2) the state proceedings must implicate an important state interest; and (3) the state proceedings must afford an adequate opportunity to raise any constitutional issues.

At the end of 2016, the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation issued a decree in accordance with which the amount of compensation for violation of exclusive rights can be reduced as compared with the minimal limits stipulated by the legislation.

Similarly, where clear conclusions can be reached on issues which might otherwise need referral to the Supreme Court, there is no need to make such a reference, whether on a constitutional issue or an issue of treaty interpretation (see paragraphs 40 - 42 of his judgment).

On recent redistricting fireworks in Pennsylvania — which are being decided under that state's constitution, and thus do not directly affect the federal constitutional issue or the situation in other states — see Nate Cohn, Matthew Bloch and Kevin Quealy, New York Times and Dave Wasserman, Cook Political Report.

In my Editorial in the latest issue of the Journal of World Investment and Trade (which this blog reproduces), I interpret this Convention as a piece of constitutional reform of the international investment regime and ask to which extent it can serve as a model for international investment law reform more generally.

Every time an issue of statutory interpretation, constitutional interpretation, regulatory interpretation, contract law, patent claim interpretation, etc. arises, there are inevitably scores of articles in which the author opens by lecturing us through the voice of Humpty Dumpty.

The judgment was handed down in an appeal filed before it on the ground that a Decree issued by one of the Emirates which restricted the right of the appellant to file a civil claim before the court of competent jurisdiction was unconstitutional because, it was said, that it denied the appellant's constitutional right to have unfettered access to the civil courts of the country.

The Alabama Supreme Court held that it could not consider the constitutional issues underlying the contempt judgment which related to the power of the State to order production of membership lists because review by certiorari was limited to instances

To the extent that Palmer suggests a generally applicable proposition that legislative purpose is irrelevant in constitutional adjudication, our prior cases — as indicated in the text — are to the contrary; and, very shortly after Palmer, all Members of the Court majority in that case joined the Court's opinion in Lemon v. Kurtzman, 403 U. S. 602 (1971), which dealt with the issue of public financing for private schools and which announced, as the Court had several times before, that the validity of public aid to church - related schools includes close inquiry into the purpose of the challenged statute.

Four of the seven SCC judges reached the decision which was released July 31, while the other three declined to deal with the issue, ruling the constitutional argument shouldn't be considered because Julie Guindon, the lawyer who launched the appeal, failed to give proper notice to federal and provincial authorities.

Equality rights, euthanasia, religion, terrorism and more, are all issues which we struggle to fit into our constitutional framework.

By contrast, as the Secession Reference also recognized, democracy — whether direct democracy, which was at issue in that opinion, or representative democracy, and whether accountable or otherwise — must be confined by constitutional limitations.