Sentences with phrase «wide discretion»

The court has wide discretion in allowing experiments, demonstrations, and tests, and the standard of review is abuse of discretion.

But states have been given wide discretion as to the definition of «sufficient means».

While state judges are guided by procedural rules, federal judges have wide discretion on how to run trials when it comes to emerging online technologies — with some guidance from precedent.

However, the court will inevitably continue to rely on the very wide discretion afforded by statute.

However, there is a limitation to such wide discretion.

It allows the judge and family wide discretion to develop a parenting plan with a feasible custody agreement.

But beyond that, states get wide discretion in setting goals, figuring out just what to hold schools and districts accountable for, and deciding how to intervene in low - performing schools.

A new survey suggests that big companies aren't good at telling law firms what they want, leaving the firms wide discretion to handle cases as they see fit.

A police officer has wide discretion in deciding whether to issue a citation or merely a warning.

Witnesses repeatedly criticized IFRS for stripping auditors of their ability to «exercise prudent judgment» — which is another way of saying it gives management wide discretion when reporting financials.

The Family Law (Divorce) Act 1996 gives the Irish courts extremely wide discretion over the distribution of a divorcing couples assets.

Section 9 of HA 1998 confers wide discretion on courts dealing with possession claims, which is sufficient to permit adjournments of claims in appropriate circumstances.

Legislator Bill Meyer, who was chairman at the time, said the Legislature allowed Mahoney wide discretion as she first filled out her staff to create new titles and bump salaries.

U.S. District Judge Saundra Brown Armstrong of U.S. District Court in Oakland, Calif., said the current Bush administration had argued that the Global Change Research Act granted wide discretion in the timing of the production and release of the reports.

On August 17, 2017, the Department of Education announced its illegally gutting of the gainful employment regulation by allowing all failing programs to enroll students without warning them, allowing all programs to appeal ratings based on data that may significantly overstate the actual earnings of their graduates, and giving Secretary DeVos wide discretion to change a program's rating.

This is a severe limitation, especially since most laws and administrative rules in China are broadly written to give the government wide discretion.

While there can be no doubt that s. 130 affords trial judges wide discretion, this does not preclude the courts from developing legal doctrine that is applied with consistency, just as they have done with the entitlement to costs.

The proposed rule provides wide discretion to the EPA administrator — and only the administrator — to grant exemptions to the transparency requirement on a case - by - case basis.

Constitutional law is complicated and justices have somewhat wide discretion to abuse their powers if they can wrap some legal language around their ideologically motivated decision.

And, despite concerns that one - size - fits - all teacher evaluation models would limit local autonomy, districts continue to have wide discretion even under «statewide» evaluation systems — and that's not entirely a good thing.

But he gave the district wide discretion in deciding which yardsticks to use to judge progress in learning its local academic standards.

Both s. 59 (1)(c) and s. 63 (3) of the Arbitration Act 1996, along with Article 31 of the ICC Rules, give an arbitrator wide discretion to award costs.

He said: «This is an uncomfortably wide discretion.

Therium's funding has a flexible mandate allowing Therium wide discretion to invest through the mechanism that best suits the client and the case (s).

According to this extensive story from the New York Times, «Where Faith Abides, Employees Have Few Rights» (Nicole Bengiveno, 10/9/06), courts have expanded the «ministerial exception» — which gives religious institutions wide discretion over employment - related decisions related to a «core expression of religious belief» — to apply in situations that do not, on their face, implicate religious issues.

It held that the trial court was within its rather wide discretion to decide discovery issues when it restricted the scope of the doctor's second deposition, especially since the list of questions was based on a document prepared by the plaintiff.

[49] The Rule, as written, gives the registrar wide discretion in determining the appropriate tariff amount.

This move by Sessions gave federal prosecutors wider discretion in enforcing federal drug law, but was ultimately aimed at slowing investment in the pot industry, which is exactly what is happening.

According to recital 12 and Article 6 (4) the national authorities should merely provide a written confirmation of their situation and enjoy wide discretion as to the form and format of that confirmation.

Nine states have «may issue» laws, in which law enforcement officials have wide discretion over whether to issue concealed carry permits; police chiefs can deny a permit if they deem the applicant to be at risk of committing violence even if there is not a criminal history.

All this suggests that Bharara will continue to be given wide discretion in how he conducts his job.

Since umpires are (a) human and (b) granted wide discretion to judge the degree of transgression, it is only natural that they often respond to the sum total of a player's «offenses.»

its illegally gutting of the gainful employment regulation by allowing all failing programs to enroll students without warning them, allowing all programs to appeal ratings based on data that may significantly overstate the actual earnings of their graduates, and giving Secretary DeVos wide discretion to change a program's rating.

Judge Sharpe has a very wide discretion in sentencing.

The Army Corps has wide discretion in this issue,» said Jan Hasselman, a lawyer with Earthjustice, which is representing the Standing Rock Sioux.

The biggest issue with non-GAAP metrics is that management has wide discretion to add income or remove expenses, which means they can easily manipulate the non-GAAP metrics.

Regulators have wide discretion to withhold licenses or take other action to disrupt logistics and other service businesses.

But countries have wide discretion in controlling access of foreigners.

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While California school districts will have wide discretion in spending the additional $ 1.25 billion in this year's budget to help them integrate new academic content standards, they must first adopt spending plans showing how the money will be used and then follow that up with detailed expense reports to the state.