Schools with a history of allowing administrators "to exercise a lot of discretion, case by case" in enforcing policy could find themselves in legal trouble, she said.
The mechanism in question shifts the possibility of acceptance earlier in the process (at the stage of charging) through guidelines for the exercise of prosecutorial discretion in cases of voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide.
In letters sent late Wednesday to several Democratic lawmakers, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said she was clarifying guidelines that enforcement officers had used when applying a policy of prosecutorial discretion in cases of illegal immigrants with no criminal convictions.
Most notably, it does not consider the subject matter of what the justices are voting upon, when in reality the Supreme Court has a lot of discretion about the types of cases it undertakes.
"ICE exercised prosecutorial discretion in a number of cases for health or other personal reasons," he added, without specifying the number of families that might have been spared. .
Judges have "a lot of discretion" in cases involving normally law-abiding people who use violence when their homes are burgled, the Home Secretary Alan Johnson said yesterday.
Soloway believes the President's newly articulated position on DOMA could weigh heavily in the exercise of discretion in cases involving binational same-sex married couples.
Hinch's insistence that judges have far too much discretion about who they put on the register is wrong – there is no discretion in the vast majority of cases, one exception being where it is a child who has committed the offence.
Department of Homeland Security data analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University shows that "prosecutorial discretion," once used in thousands of cases a month, has dwindled to a few dozen.
Where cord around the neck is recorded at the discretion of the accoucheur (37 cases, 97 controls), there was an association between tight nuchal cord and CP (OR=5.4, 95% CI 1.4 20.4) and, in controls only, between Apgar score <7 at 1 min (OR=16.9, 95% CI 1.4 456.3).
