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The recent demise of "sue and settle"—the practice of federal agencies readily settling activists' citizen suits in such a manner that imposes substantive legal obligations on regulated entities has been a positive victory for administrative accountability and the rule of law.
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Unlike prohibited qualifications, these laws do not impose substantive requirements on candidates beyond those imposed by the Constitution itself; that is, these laws do not limit which candidates may run for office based on any particular information in their tax return.
"If limiting stop-and-frisk really did cause an increase in the homicide rate, one would expect it to happen in the jurisdictions that imposed substantive limits on stop-and-frisk, not just in the jurisdiction where data collection alone was taking place," Takei said, referring to Chicago.
The Court therefore found it necessary to impose substantive restrictions on the state libel laws to be applied to defamatory statements in labor disputes in order to prevent 'unwarranted intrusion upon free discussion envisioned by the Act.' Id., at 65, 86 S.Ct., at 664.
The idea is that the combined requirements of rationality (outside ethics), freedom, and happiness impose substantive constraints on all persons.
In a position reminiscent of J.S. Mill, Oakeshott argued empirically that people want to pursue their own life plans, and it is for this reason that governing ought to provide "general rules of conduct" and not "plans for imposing substantive activity" (1991: 424).
Even then the Swiss Federal Supreme Court imposed substantive conditions for any transfer of admittedly illegal origins to Philippine courts.
The adverse sequelae of excess GWG for both mother and child are well documented and include a number of adverse health outcomes (such as gestational diabetes, hypertension and preeclampsia), which impose substantive burden of our health system.
In spite of data limitations, the estimates reported here show that diabetes imposes a substantive economic burden on countries of the African Region.
The bank said in its letter that the S.E.C. had "consistently stated that it does not seek to enforce any particular compensation philosophy or impose any substantive judgments on the form or amount of compensation".
Speaking at the Law Society, Justice Albie Sachs of the South African supreme court reminded us that incorporated socioeconomic rights do not impose immediate substantive obligations but instead require progressive realisation – year on year securing higher standards for more and more people.
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