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11 Jun 2020, 2:14 pm
Including such a provision is encouraging because an excise tax on tobacco is supposed to capture negative externalities and recover societal costs related to tobacco consumption. [read post]
23 Aug 2019, 8:25 am
A conviction for possession of a firearm in furtherance of criminal activity triggers the following mandatory minimum sentences: Simple possession: Five years Displaying a firearm: Seven years Possession or display of a short-barreled shotgun, machine gun or silencer: 10 years Discharging a firearm: 10 years Second or more such offense: 25 years The bottom line is in the current societal climate, it is wise to expect increased policing of gun crimes, and there is great… [read post]
16 Dec 2021, 2:00 am
” It stated an employer may not terminate an employee “for disability-related conduct that is not related to work performance and does not violate some work-place or societal rule. [read post]
13 Oct 2023, 2:53 pm
Indeed, this area of law (and societal policy) is evolving. [read post]
27 Oct 2023, 9:56 pm
The Broader Perspective From a broader societal perspective, every instance where a driver fails to stop for a school bus erodes the communal trust and safety we expect on our roads. [read post]
1 Jun 2011, 5:04 am
If it's more than a little disturbing, why have you wilfully taken the job of societal janitor? [read post]
29 Mar 2012, 8:52 am
Intellectual entrepreneurship requires a broad societal commitment to the rule of law and the importance of private enterprise. [read post]
4 Sep 2012, 12:02 pm
Courts and juries are required to look at a societal standard, as in what society would consider extreme unacceptable behavior. [read post]
3 Feb 2023, 12:23 pm
The civil law system is based on a combination of rules and guidelines that are often directed by a judge rather than being derived from more general societal norms. [read post]
30 Apr 2021, 7:18 am
” The employee needed to show that the contract either did not clearly explain the rights he was forfeiting or that it went against public policy (somehow goes against societal interests). [read post]
5 May 2010, 12:35 pm
What, other than the students' own belief (or their own awareness of a societal belief) that race determines intelligence, could have led them to debate the question they were debating? [read post]
6 Feb 2014, 7:03 am
Candidates articling at these places face, at best, a cash flow shortage until they actually receive the stipends later in the year; they also face the difficult choice between staying in a societally useful position and one that pays well enough to justify staying in law. [read post]
17 May 2010, 11:56 am
Rather, it seems to me that Justice Stevens — and in large measure Justice Kennedy’s majority opinion (see especially slip op pp. 16–24) — aren’t really applying a standard based on societal “evolving standards of decency,” or for that matter “knowledge” in the sense of knowledge of objective fact. [read post]
19 Apr 2010, 6:16 pm
The stigma of criminal sanction, the lasting societal taint it carries, and the threat of imprisonment or bodily harm all seem quantitatively different to me than a simple monetary incentive. [read post]
1 Apr 2016, 10:58 am
“In order to determine whether a duty exists, we examine the societal interest involved, the severity of the risk, the likelihood of occurrence, the relationship between the parties, and the burden upon the defendant. [read post]
26 Feb 2010, 11:50 am
The second strategy focuses on consequences: the baleful effects on heterosexual families of societal tolerance for homosexuality. [read post]
17 Feb 2009, 6:11 am
There were no laws we had to comply with and no one wanted to know how much any baby that resulted from those treatments was going to cost.All that changed when we stepped off the societally accepted way of making a family, the new-fashioned spin on the old-fashioned way, and decided to adopt.Once we were on the road to adopting the baby who ultimately became PunditGirl, we were required to be fingerprinted by the state and federal governments to make sure we had no criminal background. [read post]
20 Apr 2011, 3:01 pm
In the words of the court: By mandating that possession of such a small quantity of marijuana become a civil violation, not a crime, the voters intended to treat offenders who possess one ounce or less of marijuana differently from perpetrators of drug crimes. . .The statute does away with traditional criminal consequences, including the long-term and embarrassing effect that a criminal record has on employment or applying for school loans, demonstrating the intent of the voters to change the… [read post]
2 Nov 2016, 10:18 pm
For example, some courts have relied upon the “societal expectation” that parents assist with the cost of their child’s post-secondary education. [read post]
28 Oct 2007, 10:18 am
The dissent argued, with some force, that this analysis eviscerated the legislative intent to make the change non-retroactive.So, is it impermissible bootstrapping to say that a non-retroactive change in the law nonetheless gets retroactive effect because it demonstrates societal consensus rejecting a particular penalty as cruel and unusual? [read post]
