The court "dismissed all claims against the parent companies... since pursuant to Nigerian law a parent company in principle is not obliged to prevent its subsidiaries from harming third parties abroad, " Judge Henk Wien told the court.
If you have a funeral to attend, you need to have Friday off and you are deemed to have a funeral when the dead person is a parent, a sibling, a child, a spouse or partner, an in-law, a grand-parent, a cousin, an aunt, an uncle, a friend, a classmate, a nephew, a niece, a boss, someone you go to church with, a workmate, a neighbour and of course, a president.
You can't pass a law that makes a parent read to their child every night.
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The Capobiancos think the issue should be about whether the ICWA law can improperly block adoption proceedings voluntarily initiated by a non-Indian mother who had sole custody of her child, due to what the adoptive parents say is the Indian father's failure to establish a legal parent-child relationship under state law.
"Part of this is being a careful parent and part of it is being in law enforcement for so long, and knowing what kind of freaks are out there, " says Mr. Hill, a 46-year-old police lieutenant in Orange, Calif.
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The duty of a parent to support his child was a matter of law.
But Brown argues that he successfully established paternity under state law, and qualifies as a "parent" under the ICWA, thereby giving him proper control and custody of his daughter.
The current law grants birthright citizenship to anyone with a parent, a grandfather or a great grandfather who held Italian citizenship.
In January, Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal struck down an immigration law which ruled that children born before either parent had acquired Hong Kong residency were not themselves allowed to live in the territory.
As evidence for what it said was the need for updated rules, the FTC announced last week it was investigating an unspecified number of app developers which may have violated the law by gathering information from kids without their parent's consent.
This is a misconception of the law and citizenship should only be given, where either parent already has U.S. citizenship status.
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While Peter was in jail, awaiting trial for corruption, she took a job as a junior litigator, transforming herself into a single working parent, paying legal fees, sparring with her mother-in-law, and mulling a divorce.
But because of this law, nearly 7 million young people are able to stay on their parent's plans.
The American Bar Association, often considered the parent of the Independent Counsel Act, also has urged Congress not to reauthorize the law.
Both national and international law are clear on the issue: a child belongs with his surviving parent, unless that parent is unfit.
In 2007, the Williams Institute of the UCLA School of Law estimates that there were 65, 500 adopted children living with a gay parent in the United States.
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Freston is contesting a federal law that says that a child has to attend a public school first before a parent can sue for private school tuition reimbursement.
By law, children as young as 12 in California can get tested for STDs without a parent's consent.
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Under EU law, profits of such CFCs should not be subject to additional taxation in the country of the parent company if the subsidiaries are engaged in genuine economic activities.
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