During a hearing, a three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals questioned whether California and other states had standing to challenge federal rules that provided the exemptions.
Section 45DA provides the exemption from the so-called "secondary boycott provisions" if their actions are "substantially related to environmental or consumer protection".
Our examination of the language and legislative history of § 6 o) indicates that the Selective Service System's interpretation fails to effectuate fully the purposes Congress had in mind in providing the exemption.
However, our examination of the sparse legislative history discloses that Congress had not one but several purposes in mind in providing the exemption, only some of which depend upon the existence of a family unit.
Article 6(1) of that law prohibited a person from acting as an intermediary in securities transactions without a license; Article 8 empowered the Minister of Finance to grant narrow exemptions from that prohibition, provided that the exemption could be restricted with a view to preventing undesirable developments in securities trading.
There is no way to satisfy all of the religious objections to the contraceptive coverage mandate, so "it is necessary and appropriate to provide the expanded exemptions," the Trump administration says in the new rules.
A little-noticed bill passed by the General Assembly this year provides for the exemption when the holiday eves fall on Sunday.
The compromise would provide California the exemption it has been seeking from a Clean Air Act provision that could require refiners to add 580 million gallons a year of ethanol to gas sold in the state.
In response to the lawsuit, the government invoked an exemption provided by the Freedom of Information Act for "law enforcement records," arguing that the plaintiffs were seeking investigatory material that would not be made available even in routine cases.
(The exemption provides the league with the broad power to negotiate enormous TV deals on behalf of teams as a single entity). The NFL, if you didn't know, is also dealing with a number of other PR crises.
H.R. 1505 would provide the Department of Homeland Security with exemptions from various laws on federal lands within 100 miles of the border.
