"This is not an issue of compelling necessity," said Sherwin Belkin, a partner in Belkin Burden Wenig & Goldman, a law firm that has advised owners on how to use demolition applications to upgrade their properties.
And therein lies one of the stranger aspects of this period we are passing through: that the march toward war has also begun to focus public attention on an issue of compelling moral and ethical significance - and that is the issue of poverty and the future of the world's children.
It's "an issue of compelled speech", he says, symptomatic of the identity politics pushed by the "SJWs" and "postmodernist neo-Marxists" exerting a choke-hold over the "corrupted" humanities and social science departments of North American academia.
"Therefore, a subpoena has been issued to compel his attendance". .
The decision, the majority wrote, was not "tantamount to giving a New York law extraterritorial effect" but addressed a narrower issue: whether a New York court should issue a subpoena compelling the testimony of a journalist "when such a result is inconsistent with the core protection of our Shield Law".
The First Amendment says I am free to speak, but does not speak to the issue of me being compelled to say something I don't want to say.
They can can open investigations of their political opponents and can organize the votes needed to issue subpoenas to compel testimony or the delivery of documents.
House and Senate lawmakers issued subpoenas to compel the testimony of Enron's former chief executive, Kenneth L. Lay, while Congressional and state officials broadened their inquiries into why state pension funds and agencies invested and did business with Enron as it spiraled downward.
The facts of the case, a concession by Chicago and the text of the law at issue compelled a ruling in favor of the black firefighters, Justice Scalia wrote.
Even when neighbors complain of unsightly yards or noxious fumes, once those issues are addressed, compelling a homeowner to tackle the interior is problematic.
The scariness of these issues compels leaders to avoid them or deny they exist altogether.
