Case law

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New York Attorney General Reports · Aug 14, 1978

Ring, 65 Misc.2d 847 (Supreme Court, Nassau County), affd 39 A.D.2d 595 (1971), held that a wife's ownership of an establishment that serves liquor does not, per se, mean that her husband has an interest in the business. … "The law clearly states that marriage does not confer on the husband an interest in the wife's individually owned property .

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New York Attorney General Reports · Mar 14, 1994

Narrow exceptions to unlawful possession and use of a firearm have been established. Id., § 265.20(a)(7-a), (7-b). … It clearly refers to presence of an individual with a personal license to possess the firearm, not someone with a gunsmith or dealer license.

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Arkansas Attorney General Reports · Jan 11, 2002

In short, the term "regularly served" should be more clearly defined. 3. … Subsection 1(h) is confusing in designating January 1, 2002 as the reference date for determining what qualifies as a "Dry County."

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Louisiana Attorney General Reports · Apr 13, 1992

The terms of R.S. 22:1076 require that an insurer that wishes to qualify for the lower tax treatment must have invested one-sixth (1/6th) of its total admitted assets, less foreign reserve, within the state of Louisiana. … The Louisiana statute does not establish an arbitrary distinction but indeed, treats both equally. We hope that this answers your questions concerning this statute.

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Texas Attorney General Reports · May 27, 2003

However, the Tort Claims Act does not waive sovereign immunity for school districts "[e]xcept as to motor vehicles." Id . § 101.051. … students and their families through a school-based health center and provides a grant program for qualifying centers.

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Arkansas Attorney General Reports · Feb 17, 2004

The scope of practice defined here, and the areas specifically set forth, are part of an effort to establish the broad range of services offered within the profession. … The Arkansas Board of Examiners in Speech-Language Pathology Audiology has clearly adopted a policy against interfering with other hearing-related practices and professions.

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Arkansas Attorney General Reports · Dec 11, 1989

Under Section 1 of Act 432 of 1977 (A.C.A. 16-13-2803 ), the qualified electors of the Twentieth District shall elect one circuit judge and one chancellor, and under Section 1(a)(1)(Q) of Act 949 of 1987, an additional circuit-chancery … Walker. 1 Act 294 of 1989, Section 2 (a), establishes this separate division of the chancery court in each judicial district.

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Arkansas Attorney General Reports · Mar 24, 2009

Given that you are a public employee, I believe documents containing the requested information clearly qualify as "public records" under this definition, as would any other records maintained by your employer relating to … The FOIA does not define the phrase "clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy."

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Arkansas Attorney General Reports · Jun 17, 2008

Att'y Gen. 2005-300 (opining that the *Page 4 purposes set forth in A.C.A. § 6-21-108 "clearly qualify as effecting a `public advantage' to education consistent with the provisions of Article 14, § 1.") … Accordingly, I believe it will be necessary to establish as a factual matter that the deeding of the school building to Desha County sufficiently advances the McGehee School District's direct interests to constitute adequate

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New York Attorney General Reports · Jun 13, 1989

Duties may be established, for example, by statute or reasonable rule of the employer. … In our view, under current law governing the powers of peace officers not every peace officer will qualify as a public officer.

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Arkansas Attorney General Reports · Aug 31, 2000

The ADFA board members are nonsalaried appointees of a state commission, A.C.A. § 15-5-202 , and the president is a board employee, A.C.A. § 15-5-203 (b), which clearly locates them within the just recited definitions. … LR-C-99-307, held that ADFA is not an "alter ego" of the state that might avoid suit by invoking Eleventh Amendment sovereign immunity.

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Louisiana Attorney General Reports · Nov 29, 1999

The Court concluded that the statutory language clearly refers to food products. … This language clearly refers to Paragraph (H)(1)-(3).

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63 Op. Att'y Gen. 445 · Wisconsin Attorney General Reports · Oct 1, 1974

It cannot be denied that the riparian owners have only a qualified title to the bed of the waters. … McFarren, supra , which clearly distinguished the ordinary high water mark from a bulkhead line established under sec. 30.11 . "4.

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Colorado Attorney General Reports · Mar 24, 1976

The United States Supreme Court has clearly established that racial classifications may be used in order to overcome the effects of past discrimination. Thus, in Green v. … Even viewed in a light most favorable to plaintiff, the "preferential" minority admissions policy administered by the law school is clearly not a form of invidious discrimination. . . . . . . . .

Maryland Attorney General Opinion 106OAG111

Maryland Attorney General Reports · Nov 5, 2021

A statutory definition like GP § 1-113 is generally understood as establishing the default meaning of a term. … Laws, ch. 905, rather than a title clearly treating the statute as definitional, such as “an Act defining the terms ‘newspaper’ and ‘newspaper in general circulation.’”

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Arkansas Attorney General Reports · Jul 30, 2001

These provisions are qualified by several constitutional amendments. … The legislature thus clearly has the constitutional authority to impose temporal restrictions on the repayment of revenue bonds.

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Kansas Attorney General Reports · Aug 8, 2005

against allowing the exemption for one who does not clearly qualify. 10 Representatives of Michaels note that K.S.A. 2004 Supp. 79-201a First exempts federally owned property from state taxation and further point out that … Thus, the United States government remains the owner of the land itself and the land therefore clearly remains exempt from state property tax.

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Louisiana Attorney General Reports · May 31, 1991

Jurisprudence has long held that a person may have only one "domicile", which is a principal domestic establishment, but have more than one "residence". (Turner v. Alexis, App. 4 Cir. 1983, 436 So.2d 1346 .) … In conclusion, the law clearly states that a person must be an "actual bona fide resident" of the parish in which he offers to register as a voter to be eligible to register to vote in elections held in this state.

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Arkansas Attorney General Reports · Mar 20, 2009

Given that you are a public employee, I believe documents containing the requested information clearly qualify as "public records" under this definition, as would any other records maintained by your employer relating to … The FOIA does not define the phrase "clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy."

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Florida Attorney General Reports · Jun 19, 1975

Section 205.064 , F.S. (1974 Supp.), clearly exempts the qualified individual produce seller from payment of any local occupational license tax. … To so construe this section would be to establish an exemption, beyond the given limitation, in derogation of the principle that exemption sections shall be strictly construed against the taxpayer. State ex rel.