According to this modification, staff at the Department of Education will defer to the judgment of campus officials as to what constitutes an emergency as long as the officials have a rational justification for acting.
These principles provide – when developed by statutes that reflect the intent of the principles – a legal justification for acting, even though scientific causation is either incomplete or perhaps unavailable.
It has been suggested that the self-medication hypothesis has too often been used as a justification for not acting to curb cigarette smoking in this population despite the fact that nicotine is not regarded as the most appropriate therapy for any mental health problem, and that even if it were, cigarettes would not be an appropriate form of administering it [ 37].
If these conditions are satisfied there may indeed be a sound legal justification for acting without the Senate in signing the United States up for a new global climate agreement in Paris.
A third possible justification for acting now — and this is one that Fed officials would never acknowledge publicly — is politics.
The secret document provided the justification for acting despite an executive order banning assassinations, a federal law against murder, protections in the Bill of Rights and various strictures of the international laws of war, according to people familiar with the analysis.
We also provide some game-theoretic justification for acting in a semi-myopic way.
His comments, in a lecture on civil and religious law given at the Royal Courts of Justice, were swiftly rebutted by the prime minister's spokesman, who insisted British law would be based on British values and that sharia law would be no justification for acting against national law.
Equally unsurprising was the government's use of the compensation culture as part of the justification for acting, though even Lord Young in his review of health and safety accepted that it did not exist in reality (although it clearly does in perception, which some argue has much the same effect).
Senior lawmakers from both parties are questioning the administration's justification for acting without first consulting members of Congress and whether the deal put the nation's security at further risk.
