It's far from clear that the proposed ban would be enforceable, or would do enough to overcome cutbacks in cleaning stations and tracks.
Anna Ciezadlo makes an only-in-the-New-York-Times sort of argument about a proposal to fine people who eat in the subway: It's far from clear that the proposed ban would be enforceable, or would do enough to overcome cutbacks in cleaning stations and tracks.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet Anna Ciezadlo makes an only-in-the-New-York-Times sort of argument about a proposal to fine people who eat in the subway: It's far from clear that the proposed ban would be enforceable, or would do enough to overcome cutbacks in cleaning stations and tracks.
"History has demonstrated that memoranda of agreement, which are not court-enforceable, are not robust enough to remedy longstanding problems," Gupta said.
"History has demonstrated that [MOAs], which are not court-enforceable, are not robust enough to remedy longstanding problems," added Vanita Gupta, the president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and former head of the Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department under Obama.
However, if they do reference Sharia, they should absolutely be free to enter into such contracts and have them be enforceable, assuming they are specific enough for a judge to safely enforce without the judge overreaching and trying to interpret what Islamic principles teach.
Many agreements include clauses that are not clear enough to be enforceable.
The design challenge is to find performance standards specific enough to be meaningful and enforceable but not so specific that they eliminate the very flexibility in means that performance-based regulation is trying to promote.
On Monday, General Kaplinsky told a reporter that Israel thought it would have another week before international pressure built up enough to work out an enforceable cease-fire.
Although the court's ruling was not enforceable outside its jurisdiction, it was disruptive enough that many hospitals in the country, and even in neighboring Austria and Switzerland, recommended that doctors refrain from carrying out circumcisions until legal clarity could be created.
