"Tidewaters such as Lloyd Harbor, Reynolds Channel and the Great South Bay are all now subject to permitting discretion of the towns in which such waters are located, rather than the local villages," Mr. Rivkin said.
The STB settled a dispute over whether or not, as Big Oil argued, federal regulation of railroads extend so far as to deny local governments land use permitting discretion over oil companies' proposed oil train projects.
This paper suggests that in order to increase the share of own-revenues of the regions, policymakers may consider permitting greater discretion to districts to set effective property tax rates, within the overall limits set by the central government.
There is a general catch-all which permits some discretion, he says, but adds: "I wouldn't want to say things of that kind could never be considered... but it wouldn't necessarily be our primary focus.
Military prosecutors said this fall that they planned to file new charges with Ms. Crawford, who is permitted wide discretion under the Pentagon's rules for its Military Commission system of prosecuting detainees at Guantánamo.
Some two dozen states have adopted a version of Stand Your Ground, giving concealed-carry permit holders wide discretion over when they can shoot another person.
The Commissioner may, at the Commissioner's discretion, permit an organization to disregard the rules of this paragraph (e) and to determine any liability under section 4911(a) based upon its own taxable year.
'(e) An alien being re-examined may introduce as witnesses before the board such physicians or medical experts as the board may in its discretion permit, at his own cost and expense, * * *.' 42 Code Fed.Reg.Reg
The court distinguished earlier cases protecting the Jehovahs Witnesses ministry because those cases either involved a flat prohibition on the dissemination of ideas, e.g., Martin v. City of Struthers, 319 U. S. 141 (1943), or an ordinance that left the issuance of a permit to the discretion of a municipal officer, see, e.g.
(iii) The Trial Chamber may, in the exercise of its discretion, permit enquiry into additional matters.
Only in exceptional circumstances could a judge, at his or her discretion, permit such a visit.
