Yes, we should demand continuous improvement in meeting our state standards but we should not impose excessive or detailed mandates.
A court, either upon a voluntary settlement by the parties or an actual judicial finding of a pattern or practice of violations, such as racial profiling or excessive force, can mandate changes under consent decrees with federal monitors.
Anne M. Northup, a former Republican congresswoman from Kentucky whom Mr. Obama appointed to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, said an excessive number of new mandates was harming the toy market.
The two-coach mandate is excessive and the fine ridiculous.
The key obstacle was now perceived to be the complexity of the organization, caused by unclear roles, conflicting unit mandates, and an excessive number of management layers, as well as by an increase in the number of technical documents generated in the engineering processes.
— Amar'e Stoudemire responded like the perfect company man during the preseason when addressing the N.B.A.'s mandate to curtail excessive complaining by issuing technical fouls.
That amount is twice the threshold that the House had provided in earlier legislation, a response to the outcry from small businesses that a mandate would be an excessive burden and could force them to lay off workers.
Your Sept. 17 news article about "overtime fatigue" correctly identifies many of the problems unaddressed by federal and state laws regulating overtime work (like employers' mandating increasingly unrealistic and dangerously excessive hours of work).
What the insurance industry really wants is to escape tough state rules, like those that prohibit excessive profit, overhead and executive salaries in California, or mandate an affordable lifeline auto insurance program for low-income drivers.
