• The tribe contends that the original 1,280-acre reservation, which was set aside for Chief Shab-eh-nay and his band , has never been extinguished by Congress , a claim that has not been tested. (indianz.com)
  • In 1997, the US Supreme Court ruled the constitutional separation of powers prevented Congress from applying the RFRA to state laws, prompting states to adapt their own RFRA laws. (tribtown.com)
  • Through RFRA, according to Kennedy, Congress essentially had changed the meaning of the Free Exercise Clause in the First Amendment from the interpretation provided by courts. (justia.com)
  • If Congress were allowed to do so, it would infringe on the judiciary's authority under the separation of powers doctrine. (justia.com)
  • The Court returned to its state action doctrine from the 19th-century Civil Rights Cases in limiting the prophylactic power of Congress. (justia.com)
  • The Court defended the power of its own precedent in Employment Division v. Smith, the case that had caused Congress to enact RFRA, from legislative overrule. (justia.com)
  • 2) commit to Congress the power 'to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting' the lands of the United States, but the settled course of legislation, congressional and state, and repeated decisions of this court, have gone upon the theory that the power of Congress is exclusive, and that only through its exercise in some form can rights in lands belonging to the United States be acquired. (professorbainbridge.com)
  • And so we are of opinion that the inclusion within a state of lands of the United States does not take from Congress the power to control their occupancy and use, to protect them from trespass and injury, and to prescribe the conditions upon which others may obtain rights in them, even though this may involve the exercise in some measure of what commonly is known as the police power. (professorbainbridge.com)
  • It results that state laws, including those relating to the exercise of the power of eminent domain, have no bearing upon a controversy such as is here presented, save as they may have been adopted or made applicable by Congress . (professorbainbridge.com)
  • The District Court concluded that by enacting RFRA Congress exceeded the scope of its enforcement power under 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment. (prop1.org)
  • Held: RFRA exceeds Congress' power. (prop1.org)
  • Congress enacted RFRA in direct response to Employment Div., Dept, of Human resources of Ore v. Smith, 494 U.S. 872 , in which the court upheld against a free exercise challenge a state law of general applicability criminalizing peyote use, as applied to deny unemployment benefits to Native American Church members who lost their jobs because of such use. (prop1.org)
  • The Amendment's design and 5's text are inconsistent with any suggestion that Congress has the power to decree the substance of the Amendment's Clause's meaning cannot be said to be enforcing the Clause. (prop1.org)
  • The Amendment's design has proved significant also in maintaining the traditional separation of powers between Congress and the Judiciary, depriving Congress of any power to interpret and elaborate on its meaning by conferring self-executing substantive rights against the States, cf. (prop1.org)
  • RFRA is not proper exercise of Congress' 5 enforcement power because it contradicts vital principles necessary to maintain separation of powers and the federal-state balance. (prop1.org)
  • The principal object of the suits, as is said in one of the briefs, is to test the validity of these asserted rights, and, if they be found invalid, to require the defendants to conform to the legislation of Congress, or, at their option, to remove from the government lands. (findlaw.com)
  • Whenever this court is required to pass upon the validity of an act of congress, as tested by the fundamental law enacted by the people, the duty imposed demands, in its discharge, the utmost deliberation and care, and invokes the deepest sense of responsibility. (openjurist.org)
  • The power to lay direct taxes, apportioned among the several states in proportion to their representation in the popular branch of congress,-representation based on population as ascertained by the census,-was plenary and absolute, but to lay direct taxes without apportionment was forbidden. (openjurist.org)
  • Union v. Long Island R.R.. The Court upheld this measure, saying: "When Congress authorized the states to impose such taxation, it did no more than gratuitously grant them political power which they theretofore lacked. (oliveirafaturi.com.br)
  • In the former case, he asserted broadly that "the states have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden, or in any manner control, the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress to carry into execution the powers vested in the general government. (oliveirafaturi.com.br)
  • 3. Under Article III of the Constitution, Congress established courts to adjudicate cases and controversies as to claims of infringement of individual rights, whether by unlawful action of private persons or by the exertion of unauthorized administrative power. (justia.com)
  • I tell its story here against the background of the American devotion to religious liberty and the power granted Congress after the Civil War by the fourteenth amendment. (ucpress.edu)
  • A would-be imitator of America, revolutionary France, adopted a statute guaranteeing freedom of religious opinion shortly before Congress adopted the Bill of Rights, in which the free exercise of religion was set out as our first freedom. (ucpress.edu)
  • The doctrine of enumerated powers indicates that the Constitution extends Congress authority to exercise only those important, well-defined but few powers actually enumerated in the Constitution, mostly in article I, section 8. (lonang.com)
  • If the power at issue is not given to Congress, the statute exercising same, is unconstitutional as beyond the scope of delegated Congressional power. (lonang.com)
  • We live in an age where neither the Congress, the President or the Courts believe their power is limited in any but the most extreme sense by the Constitution's express terms. (lonang.com)
  • Congress must be confined to its enumerated powers if for no other reason than the fact "that power which is not given by the Constitution, which the Convention refused to give, and which has been taken or recommended to be taken in contempt of it, is the offspring of rank usurpation. (lonang.com)
  • The Court has shown itself willing to let Congress do just about whatever it will as far as the doctrine of enumerated powers is concerned, imposing restraint on Congress chiefly by adjusting its construction of the Bill of Rights, as primate pleading and thinking may periodically, psychologically or politically dictate. (lonang.com)
  • In fact, however, the first line of defense against a Congress that will not restrain or control itself, is to demand that the exercise of such power be based on a specific Constitutional delegation. (lonang.com)
  • The remedy for a party, religious or not, with some complaint about education and a Congressional statute, is to first demand that Congress justify the exercise of its power by proving that it was granted a general power over education. (lonang.com)
  • The Court reached this result by claiming that the fourteenth amendment's prohibitions on the exercise of state power also legitimately incorporated the first amendment's restraints on Congress against the states. (lonang.com)
  • 1. The Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) is a federal law passed in 1993 that is intended to prevent other federal laws from substantially burdening a person's free exercise of religion. (erlc.com)
  • 3. The RFRA states that the government shall not substantially burden a person's exercise of religion even if the burden results from a rule of general applicability, unless it is in furtherance of a compelling governmental interest and is the least restrictive means of furthering that compelling governmental interest. (erlc.com)
  • Although, in refining the definition of governmental action that unconstitutionally "advances" religion, the Court's subsequent decisions have variously spoken in terms of "endorsement," "favoritism," "preference," or "promotion," the essential principle remains the same: The Clause, at the very least, prohibits government from appearing to take a position on questions of religious belief or from "making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community. (pepperdine.edu)
  • Specifically, the RFRA test says that government cannot "substantially burden" religious freedom unless the action furthers "a compelling governmental interest" using "the least restrictive means" possible. (tribtown.com)
  • RFRA had required courts to use strict scrutiny when reviewing any regulation that substantially burdened the free exercise of religion, even if it did not intend to discriminate against religion and was generally applicable. (justia.com)
  • The Court thus saw both horizontal (judiciary-legislative) and vertical (federal-state) separation of powers concerns in the enactment of RFRA. (justia.com)
  • But in 1997 in the case of City of Boerne v. Flores , the Supreme Court ruled the RFRA exceeded federal power when applied to state laws. (erlc.com)
  • Appellee first filed an answer to this petition, denying certain allegations thereof, and he later filed a motion to dismiss the action upon the ground that K.S.A. 8-259 (a) purports to impose nonjudicial functions upon a court and is thereby violative of the separation of powers' doctrine of the Kansas constitution. (justia.com)
  • and (2) to provide a claim or defense to persons whose religious exercise is substantially burdened by government. (erlc.com)
  • identifying web-links of portals containing information related to mobility issues (i.e. entry conditions, visa requirements, work permits, etc.) and, finally, specifying focal points with ministries, governmental organisations, local authorities, professional associations and chambers capable of offering information or assistance in terms of overcoming mobility obstacles. (europa.eu)
  • Engage relevant departments of the health ministry and other relevant governmental ministries and agencies in the development of the initial RRAs and ongoing updates. (who.int)
  • This doctrine is elementary to testing the Constitutionality of Congressional power. (lonang.com)
  • This approach keeps the exercise of Congressional power within its constituted limits and does not encourage attorneys, judges or Justices to deface the Constitution's Bill of Rights with their own version of a politically correct or socially desirable result. (lonang.com)
  • 42, Wirtz was specifically reaffirmed in Fry v. United States,43 in which the Court upheld the constitutionality of presidentially imposed wage and salary controls, pursuant to congressional statute, on all state governmental employees. (oliveirafaturi.com.br)
  • First of all, a Congressional statute implicating education and religion is not properly framed for litigation under the religion clauses of the first amendment unless the statute is first sustained under the Constitution's enumerated powers doctrine. (lonang.com)
  • This means that it includes clear common law tasks, functions or powers as well as those set out in statute or statutory guidance. (ico.org.uk)
  • You do not need a specific statutory power to process personal data, but your underlying task, function or power must have a clear basis in law. (ico.org.uk)
  • You should be able to specify the relevant task, function or power, and identify its statutory or common law basis. (ico.org.uk)
  • 3 It argues that government establishment of religion can chill the free exercise of religion, and that Establishment Clause jurisprudence should incorporate the concept of chilling. (harvardlawreview.org)
  • In 1990, the U.S. Supreme court ruled in Employment Division v. Smith that the First Amendment did not cover "generally applicable" laws which burdened the free exercise of religion. (tribtown.com)
  • Flores stated that the local zoning authorities had placed a substantial burden on the free exercise of religion because the congregation of St. Peter's had expanded to the point where the existing structure was no longer sufficient. (justia.com)
  • No nation had ever guaranteed in a written constitution that the nation would enact no law prohibiting the free exercise of religion. (ucpress.edu)
  • These prohibitions are meant to protect individuals from intrusion by state governments and to keep the states from intruding on the enumerated powers of the U.S. federal government. (wikipedia.org)
  • The new language specifically states that it does not negate any rights available under the Constitution of the state of Indiana, particularly Article 1 Section 3, which states - "No law shall, in any case whatever, control the free exercise and enjoyment of religious opinions, or interfere with the rights of conscience. (tribtown.com)
  • He argued that the government lacked a compelling state interest under the strict scrutiny test. (justia.com)
  • True, for many purposes a state has civil and criminal jurisdiction over lands within its limits belonging to the United States, but this jurisdiction does not extend to any matter that is not consistent with full power in the United States to protect its lands, to control their use, and to prescribe in what manner others may require rights in them. (professorbainbridge.com)
  • This article talks about the police power of the state and how it should be lawfully exercised by the government under the Philippine Constitution. (ndvlaw.com)
  • The most powerful tool of the state in regulating liberty is police power. (ndvlaw.com)
  • Generally, police power is that inherent and plenary power in the State which enables it to prohibit all things hurtful to the comfort, safety and welfare of society [ Rubi vs. Provincial Board , 39 Phil 660]. (ndvlaw.com)
  • As held in the landmark case of Smith Bell & Company vs. Natividad (G.R. No. 15574], police power is the most essential, insistent and illimitable power of the state. (ndvlaw.com)
  • Since police power is essential to the survival of the state, it is far-reaching in scope. (ndvlaw.com)
  • Otherwise stated, as we cannot foresee the needs and demands of public interest and welfare in this constantly changing and progressive world, so we cannot delimit beforehand the extent or scope of police power by which and through which the State seeks to attain or achieve interest or welfare. (ndvlaw.com)
  • Despite the awesome nature of police power, such right of the state is not absolute. (ndvlaw.com)
  • However, the idea of EPCOT was instrumental in prompting the state of Florida to create the Reedy Creek Improvement District (RCID) and the cities of Bay Lake and Reedy Creek (now Lake Buena Vista), a legislative mechanism, enshrined in laws like the Reedy Creek Improvement Act, allowing Disney to exercise governmental powers over Walt Disney World. (wikipedia.org)
  • [2] The object or purpose of governmental action should be the various kinds of "redistribution" that characterize the "regulatory welfare state. (heritage.org)
  • [11] Justice John Paul Stevens, writing for the majority in Kelo , had issued something of an invitation to the states: "We emphasize that nothing in our opinion precludes any State from placing further restrictions on its exercise of the takings power. (heritage.org)
  • Known as GridEx V, a national exercise in which Wisconsin is one of only two full-scale participants, the two-day training scenario held at the Wisconsin Department of Military Affairs in Madison and other sites in southeastern Wisconsin is the latest in a series of exercises in the state dating back to 2017 focused on the power grid. (wi.gov)
  • In May 2018, thousands across the state participated in the Dark Sky exercise that also simulated a long-term mass outage. (wi.gov)
  • Gov. Tony Evers speaks to officials from Wisconsin Emergency Management, the Wisconsin National Guard, other state agencies, natural gas and electrical utilities, and non-governmental organizations responding to an exercise scenario at Wisconsin's emergency operation center Nov. 14 as part of the GridEx exercise. (wi.gov)
  • GridEx V comes on the heels of two power grid events in Wisconsin over the summer, including one caused by a straight-line winds that resulted in a massive tree blowdown in northern Wisconsin and another in Madison, where a fire at a downtown substation knocked out power to thousands, including many state agencies. (wi.gov)
  • Gov. Tony Evers visited the exercise on Thursday to get a first-hand glimpse at how WEM, the Wisconsin National Guard and other state agencies prepare for potential emergencies. (wi.gov)
  • As you can see, there is representation from all over the state and from just about every organization, because that's what it takes," Dr. Darrell Williams, Wisconsin Emergency Management administrator, said while addressing those participating in the exercise at the state's emergency operations center. (wi.gov)
  • Wisconsin activated its state emergency operations center for the exercise. (wi.gov)
  • 6 state laws or policies that discriminate against transgender people must be 'substantially related to a sufficiently important governmental interest. (nakedcapitalism.com)
  • and hence it cannot rightly be deemed to be within an implied restriction upon the taxing power of the national and state governments which the Constitution has expressly granted to one and has confirmed to the other. (oliveirafaturi.com.br)
  • 61 State autonomy is both limited and protected by the terms of the Constitution itself, hence-ordinarily, at least-exercise of Congress's enumerated powers is not to be limited by "a priori definitions of state sovereignty. (oliveirafaturi.com.br)
  • This appeal concerns constitutionality of K.S.A. 8-259 (a) as it pertains to a hearing in district court based on an appeal from an order by the vehicle department of the state highway commission revoking a driver's license for refusal to submit to *727 a chemical test to determine blood alcohol content pursuant to K.S.A. 8-1001. (justia.com)
  • If the person so arrested refuses a request to submit to the test, it shall not be given and the arresting officer shall make to the vehicle department of the state highway commission a sworn report of the refusal, stating that prior to the arrest he had reasonable grounds to believe that the person was driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor. (justia.com)
  • New Hampshire even had a provision that only Protestants could be elected to the state senate, and as this body elected that state's United States senators, New Hampshire indirectly violated article VI of the constitution, which stated: "no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States. (ucpress.edu)
  • 2465, 49 L. Ed. 2d 245 (1976), and argues that the ADEA, like the Fair Labor Standards Act ["FLSA"] in National League of Cities, deprives it of its freedom to exercise integral *1197 state governmental functions because it must comply with federal employment policies and practices. (justia.com)
  • In other words, the Supreme Court decided in 1940 that the First Amendment, which up until that time had not been recognized as a limitation on the power of a state government, was then and thereafter a limit on the states by virtue of the due process clause in the fourteenth amendment. (lonang.com)
  • In so ruling, the Court decided to apply the balancing test of Sherbert v. Verner, 374 U.S. 398, which asks whether the law at issue substantially burdens a religious practice and, if so, whether the burden is justified by a compelling government interest. (prop1.org)
  • Justice Blackmun's opinion for the Court in Garcia concluded that the National League of Cities test for "integral operations in areas of traditional governmental functions" had proven "both impractical and doctrinally barren. (oliveirafaturi.com.br)
  • It was further argued that Parliament through the Energy Act established the Energy & Petroleum Authority (hereinafter referred to as 'the Authority') as well as the Energy & Petroleum Tribunal (hereinafter referred to as 'the Tribunal') and vested the entities with powers and duties to deal with all disputes within the energy sector which include such like the Petitioner's herein. (kenyalaw.org)
  • Topics of discussion include preparedness at air, sea and land points of entry and exit, and coordination of response between governmental entities. (who.int)
  • Pursuant to the terms of the contract and authority delegated to them under § 10(1) of the Act of July 2, 1926, and § 1301 of the Second War Powers Act, agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation were auditing his books and records at his place of business during business hours with the consent and cooperation of his employees. (casetext.com)
  • Whereas pursuant to the said letter, HOPEWELL has agreed to construct and operate and NAPOCOR has agreed to accept a 100 MW gas turbine power station upon the terms and subject to the conditions hereinafter set forth. (findlaw.com)
  • What once defined the limits to governmental power becomes the prime subject of affirmative governmental action. (heritage.org)
  • As heretofore stated, the constitution divided federal taxation into two great classes,-the class of direct taxes, and the class of duties, imposts, and excises,-and prescribed two rules which qualified the grant of power as to each class. (openjurist.org)
  • The power to lay duties, imposts, and excises was subject to the qualification that the imposition must be uniform throughout the United States. (openjurist.org)
  • exercising official authority (for example, a public body's tasks, functions, duties or powers) which is laid down by law. (ico.org.uk)
  • Control over the RCID is vested in the landowners of the district, and the promise of an actual city in the district would have meant that the powers of the RCID would have been distributed among the landowners in EPCOT. (wikipedia.org)
  • Fictional protestors confront Soldiers from the Wisconsin Army National Guard's 32nd Military Police Company at an entry control point at a power substation in Racine County Nov. 13 as part of GridEx, an exercise that tested Wisconsin's capacity to respond to the effects of a long-term mass power outage. (wi.gov)
  • We adapted a broth microdilution method for determining chlorhexidine MICs, poured panels, established quality control ranges, and tested Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, and Enterobacter cloacae complex isolates collected at three U.S. sites. (cdc.gov)
  • The objectives of this National program are to increase the proportion of Americans who have their blood cholesterol measured, to increase the proportion of Americans who know their blood cholesterol level, to encourage people identified as having high blood cholesterol to seek professional advice, and to increase the proportion of people with high blood cholesterol who adhere to their cholesterol lowering regimen of diet, weight control, exercise, and taking prescribed medications. (cdc.gov)
  • The decision's congruence and proportionality test resonated in three areas of constitutional doctrine: Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Eleventh Amendment, and the First Amendment. (justia.com)
  • The enumerated powers doctrine has been judicially anesthetized and no court appears interested in its revival. (lonang.com)
  • This could not be justified within the enforcement powers granted to the legislatures by Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment, since rights are not enforced by changing their definition. (justia.com)
  • The 32nd Military Police Company received the mission to assist local law enforcement with securing the power substation, a scenario that served multiple purposes. (wi.gov)
  • [7] In particular, the lower courts have fashioned a two-pronged organizational standing test asking whether the group has (1) identified an activity that conflicts with its mission and (2) made volitional counter-expenditures in response. (virginialawreview.org)
  • 6 And while the issue of chilling religion does not come up frequently, courts that have mentioned it have accepted the proposition that religious exercise can be chilled. (harvardlawreview.org)
  • and that therefore the newspaper observations and reasonings (I named no author) against a test , in favor of any one denomination of Christians, and the sacrilegious injunctions of the test laws of England, etc., combated objections which did not exist and was building up a man of straw and Knocking him down again. (tripod.com)
  • If the governmental act does not satisfy the lawful subject and lawful means test, then the act is struck down as unconstitutional. (ndvlaw.com)
  • If you could reasonably perform your tasks or exercise your powers in a less intrusive way, this lawful basis does not apply. (ico.org.uk)
  • In the 1963 case Sherbert v. Verner the Court expressly adopted the constitutional exemption model, under which sincere religious objectors had a presumptive constitutional right to an exemption because of the Free Exercise clause. (erlc.com)
  • The first test is whether the custom exists, i.e. whether the existence of an ingrained practice can be ascertained. (yu.edu)
  • The third test has to do with the existence of a logical rationale substantiating the practice. (yu.edu)
  • b) The question whether a particular practice would constitute governmental proselytization is much the same as the endorsement inquiry, except to the extent the proselytization test requires an "obvious" allegiance between the government and the favored sect. (pepperdine.edu)
  • There's an enormous body of jurisprudence on The Equal Protection Clause, and I feel like I'm juggling power tools. (nakedcapitalism.com)
  • Today, its practical significance lies in the limitations which it implies upon the power of the States to deal with matters having a bearing upon international relations. (wikipedia.org)
  • For the most part, the Court indicated, states must seek protection from the impact of federal regulation in the political processes, and not in any limitations imposed on the commerce power or found in the Tenth Amendment. (oliveirafaturi.com.br)
  • In response to this usurpation, attorneys have tended to turn to the Bill of Rights and invoke it as a check on Congressional or other governmental abuse, as if the Constitution's first three articles provided no real limitations on federal power whatsoever. (lonang.com)
  • This is because they are considered to be carrying out functions of public administration and they exercise special legal powers to carry out utility services in the public interest. (ico.org.uk)
  • Part II explains how establishment can chill free exercise and makes the normative case for recognizing chilling. (harvardlawreview.org)
  • Justice Hendel's position was that this test needs to be honed and given an added, normative dimension. (yu.edu)
  • Isaiah 45:11 MSG) It is in exercise of the sovereign rights of a Sovereign God that we who were dead in sin were made righteous in Christ. (myilluminare.com)
  • 62 States retain a significant amount of sovereign authority "only to the extent that the Constitution has not divested them of their original powers and transferred those powers to the Federal Government. (oliveirafaturi.com.br)
  • This case requires us to decide whether the substantially advances formula announced in Agins is an appropriate test for determining whether a regulation effects a Fifth Amendment taking. (cornell.edu)
  • For Garcia, the exercise was wonderfully successful: "Students in both groups said the game made them feel excluded, confused, awkward, and foolish," which, for Garcia, accomplished the purpose of Haverford's program: "to raise student awareness of racial and ethnic diversity. (reason.com)
  • that I had no more idea of a religious test which should restrain offices to any particular sect, class, or denomination of men or Christians, in the long list of diversity, than to regulate their bestowments by tile stature or. (tripod.com)
  • Identify and involve multisectoral stakeholders and trusted community leaders in risk profiling exercise at national level. (who.int)
  • [6] "It is now widely accepted," this prognosticator concludes, "that property is not a limit to legitimate governmental action, but a primary subject of it. (heritage.org)
  • The respondent War Food Administrator was joined in this court upon a showing that he had been given powers concurrent with those of the Secretary. (justia.com)
  • Power of court to remove or substitute guardian. (bvsalud.org)
  • Power of court as to production of child. (bvsalud.org)
  • Power of court to order repayment of cost of bringing up child. (bvsalud.org)
  • Power of court as to child's upbringing. (bvsalud.org)
  • The chilling effect that establishment has on religious exercise is a primary instance of this harm of omission. (harvardlawreview.org)
  • This included the development of contingency plans for 14 governmental hospitals and 13 primary health directorates, in addition to the central units. (who.int)
  • GridEx is part of a national series of exercise focused on protecting and responding to threats to the power grid. (wi.gov)
  • During the exercise, participants worked through complex scenarios that included cyber attacks on the power grid, civil unrest, gas and propane shortages, and physical security threats to critical power infrastructure. (wi.gov)
  • RECITALS WHEREAS NAPOCOR has called for the development of new power facilities to meet the immediate power requirements of the Luzon Grid. (findlaw.com)
  • The California Horse Racing Board (hereinafter CHRB) took from each horse a post-race urine sample which was tested for the presence of foreign substances at a private laboratory. (findlaw.com)
  • In the early case of Holmes v. Jennison, Chief Justice Taney, referencing the Contract Clause, wrote an opinion which found that states had no power under it to honor an extradition request from a foreign government. (wikipedia.org)
  • 8 This Note makes the case that, whatever chilling's role may be in a free exercise case, it should be used in an Establishment Clause analysis. (harvardlawreview.org)
  • It states that China's three already-operational Type 094 Jin -class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs) may be joined by "as many as two more in various stages of construction. (thediplomat.com)
  • Examples include the border public health response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake and the subsequent cholera outbreak, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident caused by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, the repatriation of citizens during these disasters and the communication of health risk to travellers following the global resurgence of measles in 2011. (who.int)
  • It's very important that we test and exercise these types of missions in the event - hopefully it never happens - but in the event a large-scale power outage happens, we're already exercised and we're ready to respond and we can right away," he said. (wi.gov)
  • Daniel provided critical assistance with the mapping, El en Dexter, Uchechi Durunna and Ei- leen Henderson contributed important research assistance, and Lina Wal enberg provided assistance with translations. (lu.se)
  • chilling of religious exercise applies equally to expressing religion and the lack thereof. (harvardlawreview.org)
  • And instead of none, that no other religious test should ever he required, etc. (tripod.com)
  • A person whose religious exercise has been burdened in violation of this law may assert that violation as a claim or defense in a judicial proceeding and obtain appropriate relief against a government. (erlc.com)
  • Within the United States of America, governmental interagency planning efforts in the past decade have bolstered emergency preparedness planning, trainings, drills and exercises at the 20 points of entry that receive about 80% of inbound international airline passengers. (who.int)
  • It has been said the police power is so far - reaching in scope, that it has become almost impossible to limit its sweep. (ndvlaw.com)
  • the field and scope of police power has become almost boundless, just as the fields of public interest and public welfare have become almost all-embracing and have transcended human foresight. (ndvlaw.com)
  • During the first year, a mapping exercise of the existing legislation related to mobility obstacles in the countries of the western Balkan region was completed. (europa.eu)
  • Because of their common interest in prevention of carbon monoxide (CO) poisonings resulting from widespread use of small gasoline-powered engines and tools in enclosed or con ned spaces, the agencies elected to work together to produce a joint document to address this problem and provide recommendations for prevention. (cdc.gov)
  • The shorthand name for this legal test is "strict scrutiny. (tribtown.com)
  • On occasion, a would-be doctrinal rule or test finds its way into our case law through simple repetition of a phrase however fortuitously coined. (cornell.edu)
  • In this context, mention was made, inter alia, of the three cumulative tests proposed in the case law for determining the existence of a constitutional custom in a concrete case. (yu.edu)
  • Cities may use their police powers to implement generally applicable regulations protecting the health, safety, and welfare of citizens. (amazonaws.com)
  • 300 health workers on emergency medicine protocols and a simulation exercise was carried out in Hebron to test contingency plans. (who.int)
  • We are concerned here with three suits by the United States to enjoin the continued occupancy and use, without its permission, of certain of its lands in forest reservations in Utah as sites for works employed in generating and distributing electric power, and to secure compensation for such occupancy and use in the past. (findlaw.com)
  • 3. The powers of inspection were not transcended, since the inspection was made during regular hours, at the place of business, with the full cooperation of petitioner's staff, and without force or threat of force. (casetext.com)
  • They merely established a legal test for judges to use when deciding whether or not a government act goes too far in burdening someone's exercise of religion. (tribtown.com)
  • Yet it is precisely in such areas-which include hard-to-attribute cyber activities and other types of espionage-that observers of China's military development need the greatest governmental assistance. (thediplomat.com)
  • It will be particularly interesting to see how Beijing responds to such revelations, which further underscore the emerging contradictions between China's promotion of restrictive approaches vis-à-vis foreign military and governmental activities in the Near Seas (Yellow, East, and South China Seas) even as it pursues increasing access to such other strategic seas as the Western Pacific and the Arctic. (thediplomat.com)
  • The law requires a tribe to exercise "governmental power" over a potential gaming site. (indianz.com)
  • It is these rights that give us governmental authority over demons. (myilluminare.com)
  • If you can show you are exercising official authority, including use of discretionary powers, there is no additional public interest test. (ico.org.uk)
  • The point is that your overall purpose must be to perform a public interest task or exercise official authority, and that overall task or authority has a sufficiently clear basis in law. (ico.org.uk)
  • This test examines the relevant community's position on the behavior in question. (yu.edu)
  • Whereas HOPEWELL has caused the formation of a subsidiary Philippine corporation called HOPEWELL Tileman (Philippines) Corporation, for the purpose of undertaking certain of the work in 1 5 respect of the building and operating of the power station and performing other undertaking specified in this Agreement. (findlaw.com)
  • Power to establish trade centers - Facilities authorized. (wa.gov)