It is up to the individual to decide what constitutes religious practice so long as such acts do not offend public interest.
There's a discussion that's been heating up for a while in various corners of the internet, and now at a number of US colleges, about how we take in information, and whether that information should be treated with what essentially constitutes a warning label – so long as it's likely to impact anyone in an unfavorable way due to their personal background, emotional state and/or life experiences.
It's such a big problem, and has been around for so long, that it constitutes an academic topic of its own.
Courts generally defer to Congress's taxation decisions and definitions so long as they constitute a "genuine revenue-raising device," Professor Balkin said, and so the health insurance mandate is likely to pass muster.
But the path it takes will not be uninfluenced by the attitude of rival political leaders, and that, so far, has tended toward the view favored by Mr. Cameron, that the report itself constitutes the catharsis the families have so long demanded.
Citing a variety of recent court rulings, the watchdog groups also argued that one common rule of thumb — that such political activity is lawful so long does not constitute the majority of a non-profit group's expenditures — is not supported by federal law.
In testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Commissioner Koskinen reportedly stated that section 501(c)(4) groups can engage in political intervention so long as that constitutes less than half of their activities.
So to recap the CEOs' position: We need a Plan and government action, so long as it doesn't constitute government involvement in their business.
"There is a difference between impunity and immunity, and so long as this proposal maintains that distinction, it constitutes an advance," said Pamela Pereira, a lawyer for the Prats family and for a daughter of one of the people who disappeared.
There is only so long a central bank can fail to meet a legally constituted inflation target without losing credibility.
