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After the oil and gas industry failed to block Section 1504 through legal action, it appealed to its friends in Congress for help.
In the UK, the South Wales police and the Metropolitan police face legal action from Liberty and Big Brother Watch, respectively, for their use of automatic facial recognition.
In the US, the city of Orlando, Florida, has abandoned its trial of Amazon’s Rekognition facial recognition software.India’s biometrics system also faces legal challenges.
India’s biometrics system also faces legal challenges.
And legal, regulated options for safeguarding savings and accessing credit would reduce reliance on the black market or the informal economy, where financial exploitation flourishes.
He has created a network of military and security forces that report directly to him, often outside the legal command structure.
This is not merely a question of increasing the rate of legal immigration, but also of strengthening the quality of integration .
In fact, it was largely a necessary concession to Germany’s Constitutional Court, which had argued that the bailout measures lacked a proper legal basis.
Legal limbo is the result.
Those doing the improvising, unfortunately, are not only UNMIK, but criminals, both international and domestic, who revel in a legal vacuum.
Given today's legal ambiguity, there appear to be few obstacle to moves by the Kosovars to establish their own governing institutions.
So far, he has done nothing to counteract the legal nihilism against which he himself has spoken.
The French government, in this same spirit, has gone after public-sector workers’ extravagant pension benefits, as well as the legal retirement age, trying to increase it from 62 to 65.Anybody can grasp how child benefits for the wealthy or retirement at only 62 is unjustifiable.
Today, many African women are not only expected to fulfill traditional roles, such as raising children and caring for the elderly; they also face legal and social discrimination regarding land and property ownership, inheritance, education, and access to credit and technology – in addition to oppressive sexual mores and violence.
The compounding benefits of ending legal, economic, and gender discrimination are vast.
According to Ghana’s Lands Commission, less than 2% of the country’s 800,000 cocoa farmers have a legal right to the land they cultivate.
Honoring all three of those legal obligations simultaneously is impossible if Congress refuses to raise the debt ceiling, but raising the debt ceiling without Congressional approval, though illegal and an impeachable offense, was the least-bad choice.
It is also why a free press that reports these problems, congressional hearings that investigate them, and a recent set of Supreme Court decisions that give detainees legal recourse are also so important.
Farm work is one of the only professions in which national legal protections are regularly ignored.
Or you can go shopping in the US – buy anything you want, as long as it is legal.
Though law-enforcement, anti-trafficking, and child-protection agencies have long known about these abusive practices, solutions – such as employment schemes, legal immigration status, and improved health-care access – remain absent.
But they rejected demands for formal acceptance of legal liability.
In a domestic legal system, an entity whose land was, say, flooded would have a claim to compensation from the entity that had caused the damage.
By contrast, in most developed economies, well-functioning postal systems and strong legal frameworks mean that products can be purchased online and delivered without a second thought.
If the EU made a commitment to admit even a mere 300,000 refugees annually, most genuine asylum-seekers would view their odds of reaching their destination as good enough to deter them from seeking to reach Europe illegally – an effort that would disqualify them from legal admission.
In fact, polls show that 25% of the public support gay marriage and 35% favor legal civil unions for gay couples (the position advocated by Kerry).
In any case, the political consequences overshadow legal or bureaucratic issues.
Its member countries have strong legal frameworks and well-functioning societies.
Germany, for example, plans to impose a legal minimum wage, as other countries have done in the past.
So, having a legal framework with clear and common rules to which all countries are committed is critically important – and the only assurance we have that action will be taken to protect the most vulnerable.
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