And the Department of Health and Human Services is going to be focused on implementing the law in a way that maximizes the benefits of the law for people all across the country.
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Since a regime that does not respect the rule of law and the rights of its own people domestically generally disregards international legal norms as well, the perpetuation of such a government will inevitably have unsavory repercussions for populations beyond its borders, too.
The 12 judges based their ruling on the principle of salus populi ex supreme lex (the welfare of the people is the supreme law of any land), words perhaps more familiar to European lawyers than Pakistanis.
The government now dismisses the idea that one function of the law is to defend people against the arbitrary exercise of state power.
It's a career that has given her not only a sweeping overview of the American judicial system, but a practical understanding of how the law works in the everyday lives of the American people.
The law allows the detention of people urging the overthrow of the government.
By encouraging people to buy health insurance, the law will protect people from the strange whims of those people in hospitals to set prices.
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And then there's this whole political thing that we've been talking about where there's a constant drumbeat of undercutting of the authority of the law and telling people we're going to get rid of this as fast as we can.
The three said that without concrete proof of the burden imposed and proof of the numbers of people affected, the law could not be invalidated because it represents a legitimate attempt to prevent fraud in the future and inspire voter confidence.
Applicable during times of armed conflict, they form the cornerstone of international humanitarian law, setting rules for the treatment of people who are not participating in the fighting -- civilians, health workers and aid workers -- as well as for the wounded, sick or prisoners of war.
Well, yes, but really, bringing down the weight of the law on people who simply disagree with government over the numbers?
President Lukashenko has shown a total disregard for democratic values, the rule of law, and the human rights of his own people.
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The crafters of the law moved people away from employer based coverage and decreased the bill to taxpayers by having employers pitch in through a fine.
Dame Anne Begg, chair of the work and pensions committee, spoke in support of repealing the law preventing people who had suffered with mental illness for six months from standing as MPs.
We look at the criminal law for most of us, are people that violate the law and upset our society.
The Leaders committed to strengthen coordination on aspects of mutual interests in multilateral forums, reaffirming the commitment of both governments and people to the Rule of Law, democracy and full respect for human rights and fundamental liberties.
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But last autumn Congress revised the welfare law, limiting the number of people who could get such relief to 4, 000 a year.
"We have and will continue to urge the SCAF to relinquish power to civilian elected authorities and to respect the universal rights of the Egyptian people and the rule of law, " he told reporters.
The main effect of the new law was not an increase in the numbers of people working beyond the age of 65 but a big rise in severance pay for people leaving at what until then had been the mandatory retirement age.
It depends on the freedom of citizens to speak their minds and assemble without fear, and on the rule of law and due process that guarantees the rights of all people.
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One of the goals of the law is to foster creativity, so people will invest the skill and effort needed to create works to which they will own exclusive rights, such as books, paintings, music and movies.
Experts say it is increasingly important for patients to lock in a primary-care doctor soon because of expected increased demand for physicians starting in 2014, when the new federal health-overhaul law will add millions of people to the health-insurance rolls.
The reason that far more people are going bust now is not greater abuse of the law but rather far more people with large debts, she says an argument supported by many other independent studies.
"Congress wants harsh penalties doled out for these crimes because they don't want people defacing websites, but there has to be a way that we can bring the law into harmony with the realities of how people use technology today, " said Hanni Fakhoury, an attorney at the San Francisco-based nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation.
And they did it on the basis of their law and their practice so far as the release of people in serious medical conditions on compassionate grounds.
Could you explain how somebody who has spent almost her entire career, if not her entire career, working in the federal government or at Harvard has an understanding of how the law affects real people?
Officials of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees also say quietly that the returns from Egypt, insofar as they were prompted by near-destitution, risk violating one of the key principles of refugee law: the idea that people should not be sent back to their home country against their will.
The commitment of people to the law, says Yash Ghai, a professor at the University of Hong Kong, may be greater than their commitment to democracy.
Apparently this is scaring off at least some potential applicants: the number of people taking the Law School Admissions Test declined by 9.6% during the 2010-2011 academic year, to 155, 050, from 171, 500 in the previous year, according to the Law School Admission Council.
Many people would be unhappy with such a mixed outcome, but it is not the job of the law to make people happy.
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