John E. McArdle, a spokesman for Mr. Bruno, said any such grants "were for legitimate governmental purposes".
To some extent, addresses are public, through real estate tax rolls and voting registration records, the latter technically available only for scholarly, journalistic, political or governmental purposes.
It also pushes for aggressive measures to prevent hackers breaking copyright protection, although that comes with some exceptions: protection can be broken in the course of "lawfully authorised activities carried out by government employees, agents, or contractors for the purpose of law enforcement, intelligence, essential security, or similar governmental purposes".
It also pushes for strong measures against hackers who seek to break copyright protection, but also stipulates that protection can be broken in "lawfully authorised activities carried out by government employees, agents, or contractors for the purpose of law enforcement, intelligence, essential security, or similar governmental purposes".
Historically, the ability to create servitudes with benefits in gross has been severely limited, but the need for transportation and utility easements that serve individuals and businesses and the need for covenants that serve conservation, preservation, and governmental purposes led to a relaxation of the limits in the 19th and 20th centuries.
On behalf of five of the six judges who heard the case, the chief justice at the time, B.P. Sinha, wrote: "It would be difficult to hold that Parliament which is competent to destroy a state, is, on account of some assumption as to sovereignty of the state, incompetent effectively, to acquire by legislation property owned by the state for governmental purposes".
Money authorized for one specific, legitimate governmental purpose cannot be used for a totally different, unrelated purpose".
Lawyers for GCHR allege that competing for profit-making contracts for consultancy services overseas is not a "governmental purpose".
Where the choice of service is truly private and the governmental purpose is secular, government help does not endorse religion.
The mere assertion of a laudable governmental purpose, of course, should not immunize a race-conscious measure from careful judicial inspection.
We concluded that the provision was born of animosity toward the class of persons affected and further that it had no rational relation to a legitimate governmental purpose.
