Proceedings began with the swearing in of non-affiliated peer Lord Collins of Mapesbury, a former Law Lord whose position as Justice of the Supreme Court disqualified him from participation in the Lords between 2009 and 2011.
Kerr also pointed out that there's a conflict of interest when the executive branch, which oversees law enforcement in the state, is in a position to block laws that would limit the powers of law enforcement.
Ms. Schlanger returned to her faculty position at the University of Michigan Law School soon after but remains an adviser to Homeland Security.
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California's employee-privacy protections would place firms in the "untenable position of having to violate either state law or their Finra obligations, " the group wrote in a letter to Mr. Brown.
As for major investment project, our position is based on the primacy of the law.
Anapata is a kind of recruiting company, which leveraged her position as co-president of Stanford Women in Business, to charge law firms to meet job seekers from a number of student groups.
But, as is often the case, the passage of a law mandated this moral position.
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In the U.S. meanwhile, the legal landscape changed after the Department of Justice reversed its position on a key law that the government had previously maintained made online poker illegal.
In 2011, 100 University of Michigan law school graduates walked out of Portman's commencement address to protest his position on gay rights after circulating a petition trying to get him removed as the event's speaker.
My primary position is as the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law, at New York University School of Law.
Hagel also said the Wilkerson case raises the question of whether it is necessary or appropriate "to place the convening authority in the position of having the responsibility to review the findings and sentence of a court-martial, " particularly when military law allows for a rigorous appeal process.
Is it fair to put bar staff in the position of having to face verbal or physical abuse to enforce this law?
And so Wilson Livingood, who is, by the way, the first professional law-enforcement officer to serve in the position of sergeant at arms, he is the one to be retained by the Democratic majority from the previous Republican majority.
Gloria Wilson Shelton, of Maryland, to be a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims for the term of fifteen years, vice a new position created by Public Law 110-389, approved October 10, 2008, which was sent to the Senate on June 22, 2011.
You see, in 1998, Napolitano ran for state attorney general, and it wasn't considered a wise political move to take a position that put her at odds with law enforcement for the sake of illegal immigrants who can't vote.
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The Department of Justice has consistently taken the position that online poker violates U.S. law.
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"China is in a position to invest more than other economies in the world at this period of time, " Law said.
Twerski, an expert on warning labels at Hofstra University School of Law, who wrote a brief (that supported the manufacturer's position) in the case.
The Department of Justice years ago took the position that the federal Wire Act of 1961 prohibited all sorts of online gambling even though the law itself seemed to only apply to sports betting.
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Federal prosecutorial efforts against online poker have in recent years focused on the role of payment processors, making it seem to some that the government does not have a high degree of confidence in its position that facilitating for-money online poker violates U.S. law, specifically the wire act.
Professor Tessa Davis of Tulane Law School has taken the IRS and the Tax Court to task over their position on fertility treatment.
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