In February 2017, four political scientists formed Bright Line Watch.
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But you see the bright line of how that happens.
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Bright line regulations focus on specific procedures and define rules.
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That's the bright line I'm trying to get you acknowledge.
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"There is not a bright line answer here," says Mudge.
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There is no bright line between Bret Stephens and Sean Hannity.
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Meanwhile, their critics see a bright line in terms of power.
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In practice, people don't always see it as a bright line.
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But that is a clear bright line in the Attorney General guidelines.
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Now the bright line of death has been drawn across his life.
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LEE: SO THERE IS NO BRIGHT LINE, IS THERE A DULL LINE?
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"There is established in the law a pretty bright line," Schulz said.
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But there is a bright line between Morgan and Hutchinson: Medicaid expansion.
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When you've just got a bright-line rule, you don't need the regulators.
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The bright-line model is far more specific in terms of procedural detail.
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KS: Well, the Newton wasn't successful but the iPhone ... it's a bright line.
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Regulatory requirements tied to bright-line thresholds are particularly prevalent in banking regulation.
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"We must shine a bright line on this darkest of crimes," said Stoltenberg.
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Once off, the bright line of wagons creeps between stations barely a minute apart.
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But in all of these cases, the administration isn't crossing an unprecedented bright line.
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The trouble is that it's not a bright line he's cared to draw elsewhere.
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For example, they're trying to create a bright line for when somebody is impaired.
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To be sure, any bright-line rule leads to arbitrary outcomes at the margins.
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SAUNDERS: LOOK, I DON'T THINK IT'S A BRIGHT LINE THAT WE'RE GOING TO DRAW HERE.
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We still live in a country that paints a bright line between accusation and fact.
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In that case, it is a very bright-line situation where a crime was committed.
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There is no way to draw clear, bright line rules for any of these things.
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That bright line of dishonor, emanating from the Swift Boaters, extends into the foreseeable future.
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This bright-line rule has prevented government entanglement in the affairs of houses of worship.
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"That at least offers some assurance that they're trying to create a bright line," he said.
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It's like we had these ideas and we saw them ... No, it's the same bright line.
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The 2015 order has three "bright line" rules: no blocking, no throttling, and no paid prioritization.
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Most importantly, in the inset you can see a bright line blasting from the plus symbol.
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ROSS: YEAH, THERE'S NO BRIGHT LINE LEVEL OF THE STOCK MARKET THAT'S GOING TO CHANGE POLICY.
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While there's no bright line for when a condition counts as coercive, there are some standards.
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Clinton was trying to use that influence to draw a bright line and exclude extreme viewpoints.
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It's the guise of bright-line rules with contradictory flexibility and inconsistency, rendering them mostly worthless.
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Rifkin said the majority opinion simply applied the bright-line test that Illinois Brick already established.
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The Horowitz report could blur any bright line separating the conduct of Trump and his critics.
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There are issues the caucus doesn't address — social issues, bright line issues that don't come up.
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"They've crossed a very, very important bright line, and it's not good," Schweizer told The Washington Post.
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Steinberg says if he had to draw a new bright line, he would draw it at 218.
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The experience so far with bright-line model is that it is costly, time consuming and disruptive.
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For both Kim in real life and Keeping Up With The Kardashians this is a bright line.
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A bright line would appear, accompanied by a subtle buzz, moving sturdily along the path I drew.
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Hall: The US government tends to draw a bright line distinction between espionage and trade secret theft.
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We're not trying to create bright-line rules for heroin use or legal limits for other drugs.
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"There's no bright line level of the stock market that's going to change policy," Ross told CNBC.
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To my mind, it is easier simply to draw a bright line where it is clear: none.
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Monogamy is an approach to relationships built on one bright-line rule: no sex with anyone else.
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Firing Mueller would cross a bright line, even with Republicans who are supportive of the president's agenda.
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A few weeks ago, I attended a conference at Yale hosted by the Bright Line Watch group.
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But if you were looking for a bright line dividing one generation to the next, here is one.
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It also sought comment on whether to keep, modify, or eliminate the bright-line conduct and transparency rules.
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How do you think that attempt at a bright line for driving will be affected by increased legalization?
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His play, with its emphasis on the trial, is about justice, and is thus a bright-line tragedy.
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Without a clear bright-line birthright rule, the rules are up for grabs — and back to racial politicization.
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The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and Dodd-Frank Act are also examples of legislation based on the bright line model.
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It is time to reestablish a bright line that protects free expression, while also protecting religious and political viewpoints.
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THAT PEOPLE WILL PROPOSE TRANSACTIONS AND NOT KNOW WHETHER THEY HAVE CROSSED THAT BRIGHT LINE BECAUSE THERE ISN'T ONE.
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After nearly 50 years, the law marking a bright line between "family planning" and abortion will finally be respected.
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It would codify the three "bright line rules " of the FCC's 2015 order, banning throttling blocking and paid prioritization.
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The problem with the bright-line rules is that they often lead to injustice because they're not flexible enough.
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The not-one-more-dime camp, in part, is taking a bright-line stance against the detention of children.
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But then Trump came along and pretty much vandalized every bright line and was rewarded with the American presidency.
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"We made sure there was a bright line, that this was done by the museum and museum scholars," he said.
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That finding helped establish a relatively clear bright line about what agencies can and can't do in promoting their message.
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Birth thus established a sharp "bright line" that precluded legal liability for harm that occurred prior to a child's birth.
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Some coins have gotten a pass based on a variety of reasons, but "there is no bright line," she adds.
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Eliminating net neutrality's bright-line rules would shift the burden of enforcement against multi-billion dollar corporations onto beleaguered consumers.
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The report calls his 2004 marriage to Julie Chen a "bright line" ... after which the misconduct appears to have stopped.
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But by continuing to protect DREAMers, the Trump administration is drawing a bright line between them and all other unauthorized immigrants.
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" For Republican elected officials, there's a bright line between all of that and bragging about "grab[bing] them by the pussy.
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Either way it seems like a lot of carriers are trying to dance through the bright line rules of net neutrality.
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KERNAN: SPEAKER, THE PRESIDENT YESTERDAY AND GARY COHN THIS MORNING REITERATING WHAT THEY CALLED A BRIGHT LINE ON THIS 153% RATE.
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I'M EXCITED HE SAID A RED LINE, BRIGHT LINE, WHATEVER LINE YOU WANT TO CALL IT. I COMPLETELY AGREE WITH THAT.
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I mean it just, it literally plays out and it's a very bright line that I can see between those two.
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It's increasingly hard to draw a bright line between strategically sensitive information and the trivial data of 21st-century daily life.
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"There's no bright line level of the stock market that's going to change policy," Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said last month.
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What no one seems to agree on is a bright line about how many citizens would have to feel this way.
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Since the launch of Trump's presidency, Bright Line Watch has conducted repeated surveys of political scientists on the state of American democracy.
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They understand very clearly that there's a bright line between video games, or playing with their nerf guns, and using real firearms.
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Back in 2015, the FCC didn't put forth a definitive bright-line rule because there simply weren't enough examples to create one.
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The United States, with a historical legacy of bright-line models, is facing uncertainty in light of a new administration taking office.
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Given how she had crossed a bright-line boundary with her statement, the President had to believe she would escalate the conflict.
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It is possible that we don't have any bright-line net neutrality rules at the FCC at the end of this proceeding.
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In this case, it's such a bright line between what they have to say and how much money they're taking from them.
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In dissent, Justice Gorsuch said he preferred a bright-line rule to a fuzzy test that he said created uncertainty and unfairness.
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The bright line between the healthy and the diseased, those who "have" a disease and those that don't, grows dimmer every day.
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Bright Line Watch conducted the survey by contacting 9,820 faculty members from 511 institutions represented at the American Political Science Association meeting.
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Will DOL revert to the previous bright line standard that had been in place for decades regarding the reporting of persuader activity?
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And keep in mind the racist background, which in the 1860s Republicans were focused on overturning with a clear bright-line rule.
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Populists like to think that there is a bright line between right and wrong: overstep it and you should go directly to jail.
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This week, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) offered a mixed metaphor as a substitute for our bright line rule protecting speech.
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Mr. Trump's takeover of the Republican Party has blurred the bright-line ideological distinctions that defined the right for the past eight years.
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But the lie that there is a bright line between the online world and the "real" one has been well and truly debunked.
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The Senate leader made it a point to draw a bright line between his conference and Trump's remarks about Duke before taking questions.
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Put another way, the Ghostbusters kerfuffle is driven by the idea of drawing a bright line in the sand that nobody can cross.
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Laurence Tribe, a constitutional-law expert at Harvard, points out a small but fascinating caveat to this bright line between governmental and private censorship.
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"It's time for California, once the leader, now the laggard, to join the majority of jurisdictions in implementing a bright line rule," he adds.
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I mean, I think we need to draw a bright line here, that you shouldn't be editing germ-line cells, human germ-line cells.
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But Insoo and his co-authors say the primitive streak is one of many possible limits, not a "bright line" where human life begins.
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Stakeholders will seek bright line rules requiring transparency and prohibiting blocking and throttling from the place the debate always should have taken place: Congress.
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Gonzalez-Badillo's proposed rule to fill that gap is a bright-line requirement that officers get a warrant before damaging a suspect's personal effects.
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Virginia M., a case involving an estranged lesbian couple and a child, the Court of Appeals opted for a definition with "bright line" clarity.
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Second is the board's upending of its bright-line test for determining whether a business entity is the joint employer of another company's employees.
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"I'm a bright line person," says one investor (or limited partner, in industry parlance), who isn't an investor in either DFJ or Sherpa Capital.
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I'm most interested in the bright line that Pinker draws between the empirical spirit of science and the unreasoning obscurantism he suggests otherwise prevails.
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We need to draw a bright line between what happens in the workplace and what happens in the privacy of our apartments (or kitchens).
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A candidate's position on this proposal — along with "Medicare for all" — is a bright line that separates the liberals and moderates in the party.
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But hours later she was unemployed because she touched the third rail of racism, and ABC executives concluded she had crossed a very bright line.
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Nice people with nice families, but you have to have some bright line rules here, or we won&apost have order in a lawful society.
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This debate highlights the bright-line distinctions between America's political parties and the rigid expectations that increasingly guide their positions and those of their candidates.
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And there isn't an obvious bright line about what kind of speech is turned into a threat or an incitement when there's a gun involved.
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Civil libertarians see a bright line in terms of law — they have to protect a particular legal principle unconditionally, because otherwise the principle will disappear.
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Friday's proposal "sets a bright line on total credit exposures" between the largest, regulated financial companies, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said in prepared remarks.
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Kelly often draws a bright line between campaigning and governing, and pushes Trump to "evolve" from some of his blunter rhetoric on the campaign trail.
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Animals still lack rights, but the bright line separating them from people has been dulled by sentience laws and rulings in India, Argentina and Colombia.
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This lack of any bright line between pathology and eccentricity, Schwarz argues, has allowed Big Pharma to get away with relentless expansion of the franchise.
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In the class action context, Laster said, the bright line for preclusion is class certification, because certification makes all class members parties to the case.
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There say bright line between drinking beer which I gladly do and which I fully embrace and sexually assaulting someone which is a violent crime.
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The Bright Line Watch project is doing important work, keeping track of whether experts think specific norms and boundaries in American democracy have been transgressed.
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In the Title II Order, despite virtually no quantifiable evidence of consumer harm, the Commission nevertheless determined that it needed bright line rules banning three specific practices by providers of both fixed and mobile broadband Internet access service: blocking, throttling, and paid prioritization… Today, we revisit these determinations and seek comment on whether we should keep, modify, or eliminate the bright line and transparency rules.
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Moreover, Pai's proposed policy doesn't just concern Title II —it also looks at the other "bright line" net neutrality rules, like no blocking or paid prioritization.
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So, I think the fallback, my sense of the fallback is that they have to draw a bright line between speech and action in the world.
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Reynolds says this is happening because in a litigious and highly charged era, adults want a "clear, bright line" to follow rather than exercising critical thinking.
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Former Vice President Joe Biden tried to draw a bright line between himself and the two more-liberal senators to his left and right on healthcare.
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Bright Line Watch, a survey of more than 1,500 political scientists on the state of democracy in America, has so far not recorded an existential threat.
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There's no bright line about when something counts as a war that Congress must approve, and when it's simply a military action the president can direct.
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This law, however, really cuts through a lot of the cruft of the past few decades and clearly establishes the "bright line" rules consumers know and understand.
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"A bright line between commercial and investment banking, although less complicated, may inhibit the necessary lending and capital markets activities to support a robust economy," he wrote.
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Democrats have rebuked these conservative measures, arguing that, without the Title II distinction, there would be "no cop on the beat" to enforce those bright-line rules.
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Yes, that's right — the FCC (and net neutrality advocates) thought no throttling was so important, the FCC established a prohibition on it as a bright-line rule.
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Sorkin: Do you think that Congress should actually write an insider trading law and put a bright line on exactly what it is and what it isn't?
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Norquist said that Manchin knows that the administration has drawn a bright line at setting the corporate and pass-through rates at 2202 percent and 2628 percent.
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Every trader at every hedge fund and on every trading desk at every Wall Street firm knows where the bright line is between legal and illegal trading.
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Moody's barrister Adrian Huggins opened the proceedings at the Hong Kong court on Wednesday arguing there must be a"bright line" between regulated and non-regulated activities.
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There should be a bright line between Congress's power to investigate for legislative purposes and its power to investigate in service of another constitutionally specified power: impeachment.
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What would be nice would be to devise some convenient bright-line rule presidents could propose that would prevent the government from being suborned by special interest.
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He's drawing a bright line: If President Trump does any of these things, Obama himself will be compelled to get back into the arena to defend them.
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Research conducted by Bright Line Watch, the group that organized the Yale conference, shows that Americans are not as committed to these norms as you might expect.
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The release of the Bright Line survey comes at a moment when Trump has once again defied traditional norms and constraints concerning the treatment of political opponents.
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As for the American public's commitment to democracy, Bright Line Watch partnered with the polling firm YouGov to see if the public had really become so coup-curious.
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The Fed even put out a Frequently Asked Questions page on Friday that sought to draw a bright line between the moves and what happened during the crisis.
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But tainted does not seems to bother Huffington, because she sees a bright line between then and now, between the ugliness of last week and the bright future.
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Party leaders have been generally and unnecessarily sheepish about calling for Trump's impeachment, but this would be a perfectly defensible place for them to draw a bright line.
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Such a finding would leave the FCC unable to implement its bright-line regulation of the Internet under either Title I or Title II of the Communications Act.
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There is no bright line between the world and the games that happen in it, and no way that the latter could exist totally untouched by the former.
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"There are relatively few areas of campaign finance law that is a bright line, but in the case of private jets it is a clear violation," Weiner said.
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"There is a bright line between drinking beer, which I gladly do, and which I fully embrace, and sexually assaulting someone, which is a violent crime," he said.
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Underscoring what is likely to be a bleak reality for any of Mr. Jordan's political opponents, Ms. Tullis drew a bright line between the scandal and the congressman.
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The survey was the second by Bright Line Watch, a group formed by academics after the presidential election to study democratic performance in the United States over time.
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"It isn't a bright line, and it isn't a science," Mr. Loeser said of the way companies weigh their handling of an employee who has stirred public controversy.
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" In briefs they encouraged the courts to adopt a bright line rule that requires a "heightened, particularized showing for any state criminal subpoena for a President's personal records.
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But the opposite is true: By drawing a bright line between federal immigration enforcement and local policing, the California Values Act would promote smarter, more effective law enforcement.
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Like so much these days at the border, which is often seen as a bright line between Mexico and the United States, exactly what took place is blurry.
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He preferred bright-line rules to legal balancing tests, and he was sharply critical of Supreme Court opinions that did not provide lower courts and litigants with clear guidance.
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"Congress' inclusion of the phrase 'properly joined and served' addresses a specific problem — fraudulent joinder by a plaintiff — with a bright line rule," wrote Judge Chagares for the panel.
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" Kavanaugh, 53, continued, "There is a bright line between drinking beer, which I gladly do and which I fully embrace, and sexually assaulting someone, which is a violent crime.
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But he straddles the murky line between lawyer and media flak, a dual role that is highly valued but dangerously blurs what should be the bright line of representation.
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Can you paint a very bright line for us with respect to where you think that authority ends that might reassure those people who say, 'Where does it end?
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The bright line between right and wrong was crossed over 45 years ago when the Supreme Court created a right for the taking of innocent life in the womb.
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" On the other hand, she said, "people hide behind the notion that there's a bright line between ideology and action, but some ideologies are inherently more violent than others.
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While Roberts cannot remove or suspend a justice, he can use this position to reaffirm a bright-line rule of conduct — the same that applies to lower-court judges.
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There is a much deeper tradition of demagogy in American politics — it runs like a bright line through the history of the South — to which Mr. Trump is heir.
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The Chamber's brief warned the 9th Circuit that if it allows trial courts to carve out exceptions to China Agritech, it will blur the Supreme Court's bright-line rule.
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A spokesman for Grassley, who's shepherded criminal justice talks as Judiciary Committee chairman, drew a bright line between the bill's treatment of "good time" credits and "earned time" credits.
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Warren had three points here: This stuff lacks the bright-line clarity of Warren's company-specific challenges, but it speaks deeply and broadly to how the economy is regulated.
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VH: I know we want to draw a bright line between The Onion and Full Frontal on the one hand, and Infowars on the other, but where is that line?
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A senior intelligence official told NBC News the message ultimately sent to the Russians was "muddled" — with no bright line laid down and no clear warning given about the consequences.
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That's a very clear bright line for content moderators to follow, not to mention that mistakes are fine: if one post accidentally gets blocked, the Chinese government really doesn't care.
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This is a puzzling assertion to make when the proposal itself asks over and over again whether the "bright line" rules of no blocking, no throttling, etc should be removed.
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Now that's getting chipped away, but when you're allowed complete immunity, you tend to ... I think there's a bright line between that and what happened to Facebook last year. Yeah.
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But Uber is attempting to draw a bright line between itself and its accused employee, who — unless a preliminary injunction orders otherwise — is still leading Uber's self-driving car unit.
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The stuff you're using today was ... It's a bright line between General Magic and everything you're doing today, so you should look at it and see where you came from.
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But there are important bright-line provisions - provisions in the statute that we thought had already passed the "national school board" test – that can and should be monitored and enforced.
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He wants public comment on whether the FCC should keep its "bright line" rules, and said his decision on the rules would depend partly on the comments the agency receives.
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Wong has been resolute in refusing to draw a bright line, as some progressives would, to rule out bankers, in part because banks are only one element in the pattern.
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And yet, many in Congress chose to overlook these bright line signs of Iranian imperialism and walk down the primrose path with a president on his way out the door.
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The new guidelines will reportedly call for a "bright line of physical as well as financial separation" between Title X services and organizations that perform or refer for abortion care.
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They also point to the increase in the use of Twitter and other platforms that make it more difficult to maintain a bright line between the official and the political.
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Pai wants public input on whether the FCC has the authority or should keep its "bright line" rules barring internet companies from blocking, throttling or giving "fast lanes" to some websites.
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Many skywatchers were delighted to spot a bright line of SpaceX's internet-beaming Starlink satellites pass overhead this weekend, but to astronomers, it was an ominous sign of things to come.
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"More learned individuals, especially in the field of antitrust, generally oppose bright line rules of either legality or illegality and prefer economic analysis," says antitrust scholar and law professor Marc Edelman.
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The boundary between Diana's sanity and insanity is not a bright line she stalks across, but a no man's land she wanders through, sometimes emerging on one side, sometimes the other.
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"It's really hard to draw a bright line," said Todd Weiler, a state senator in Utah who said that an old high school classmate of his keeps an emotional support pig.
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But there's no bright line we can draw where a policy can protect everybody — giving the defendant the fairest chance at defending himself and the victim's fairest chance for justice too.
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President Trump on Monday blasted those who subject police officers to "hostility and violence" while promising to draw a "bright line in the sand" to protect law enforcement across the country.
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The first thing we can say, therefore, is that age-of-consent laws that draw a bright line of sexual maturity at 18 or younger fail to consider the scientific data.
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"Can any democratic principle be called into question, or is there a bright line the public won't cross?" asks Brendan Nyhan, a Dartmouth political scientist who is one of the survey's authors.
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There's a very bright line when you're talking about someone being made to feel physically unsafe and like they can't leave the room, like you're standing between them and the door, right?
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The NPRM will have three elements: Reclassifying ISPs under Title I instead of Title II, eliminating the Internet Conduct Standard, and "seeking input" on the bright line rules on blocking and prioritization.
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Laura Reston observed yesterday that Republicans have seized on the KKK controversy surrounding Trump to claim that he has, at long last, crossed a bright line that no decent person can sanction.
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"The Democratic unity in opposing ACA repeal drew the kind of light-up-the-sky, bright line distinction between Democrats and Republicans that allows health care to become a voting issue," MoveOn.
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"There is a time now to draw a bright line in the sand," said Representative Christopher H. Smith, Republican of New Jersey, upbraiding the kingdom's "arrogance" as Ms. Cengiz nodded in agreement.
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Rules are rigid, and the most rigid are referred to as "bright line" rules because they're so straightforward to interpret: If you steal a loaf of bread, your hand gets chopped off.
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I wouldn't endorse this as a totalizing theory: Surely some forms of presidential offense deserve mention, and the distinction between Trump's words and the administration's ultimate actions are not a bright line.
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But the Office of Special Counsel suggested that a bright-line rule would be difficult to formulate, given that deciding which statements are impermissibly political necessarily turns on case-by-case facts.
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To me, it seems like white supremacists constitute a pretty bright line: If your site's entire purpose is to spew racial hatred, no respectable company is going to do business with you.
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But among the firms that traffic in information between Washington and Wall Street, one political insider's tips to a New York hedge fund crossed a bright line, the authorities said on Wednesday.
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In response, Mr Stewart pointed out that the anti-disparagement clause "is not a bright-line rule" and "it's not surprising that there is some potential inconsistency" given the office's 300,000 annual applications.
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But U.S. policy has long drawn a bright line between the two groups, helping Turkey combat the PKK even as U.S. military forces simultaneously partnered with the YPG militia to combat Islamic State.
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Without bright line rules that prevent that type of blocking, throttling, or paid prioritization, there's nothing legally to prevent Internet service providers from engaging in that type of meddling in our online experience.
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"There is no bright-line test when a company gets to a certain size or age to do these things," said Kevin M. Harris, head of the family business group at Northern Trust.
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Historically, national governments and international agencies have relied on two models for supervision of the financial system: the rules-based approach, also known as the "bright line" approach, and the principles-based approach.
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"Historically I think there has been a bright line between the two, and we may see that line start to blur," said Dr. Dan Gebremedhin, a physician and investor with Flare Capital Partners.
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"We stressed the need for enforceable, bright-line rules to protect the open internet and guard against anti-consumer and anti-competitive activities," he wrote, adding that Amazon opposed the commission's proposed change.
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Still, the Trump family is facing enormous external pressure to do as much as it can to ensure a bright line between the president-elect's business brand and his role leading the country.
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The logic is simple: A bright-line rule may be less accurate, and produce less just results, than a balancing test; it is, however, much easier to apply and thus invites less litigation.
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United States, a drug case in which two defendants claimed that the other owned the box containing the drugs, the Supreme Court rejected a bright-line rule for when defendants should be severed.
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Under the FCC's Order, any functional equivalent of broadband internet access services offered by an ISP would be regulated if it violated the bright line net neutrality rules of the internet conduct standard.
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HR: But isn't it true, though, that you've got essentially national Progressives who have drawn such a bright line against cooperating with Republicans, cooperating with President Trump, even where they agree with him.
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The ruling is a victory for law enforcement, which argued in favor of a bright line rule that officers could follow that would also defeat possible frivolous claims from defendants objecting to their arrest.
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The bottom line: A YouTube that based its decisions on high-level principles rather than bright-line rules would create more work for itself, but also provide more accountability for the rest of us.
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Pai's proposed rulemaking would also "seek comment" on the so-called "bright line" rules—no blocking, throttling, or paid prioritization of internet traffic—likely meaning those rules would be watered down or even erased.
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With high stakes for both political parties ahead of the 2018 midterm balloting, and foreign agents ready to exploit familiar pathways of influence, Congress should draw this bright line in defense of American voters.
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Since presidents often act or seek actions that benefit them politically, a "bright line" needs to be established if we do not want to reduce impeachment to simply a discretionary power of the majority.
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The passage of such a law would draw a bright line between what is an authorized action by the DOJ and the FDIC and what is beyond the scope of their authority (i.e. coercion).
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Mr. Moonves's marriage in 2004 to Julie Chen, now the host of "Big Brother," appears to have been a "bright line" after which his sexual misconduct seemed to have stopped, according to the report.
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The official said the policy would require "a bright line of physical as well as financial separation" between programs that receive Title X funding and those that perform, support or make referrals for abortions.
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"The line between a political crisis and a constitutional crisis in a country with an unwritten constitution simply isn't a bright line," said Timothy Garton Ash, a professor of European studies at Oxford University.
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Although the Carpenter majority did not revisit Miller and Smith, it nonetheless put a substantial hole in the third-party doctrine by indicating it is no longer the bright-line rule it once was.
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Mr. Fahmy later wrote in a memoir that he had been convinced that Al Jazeera would maintain, and the Egyptian government would accept, a bright-line distinction between the sister Arabic and English networks.
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That fear is all the more potent on the other side of the bright line the Trump administration has drawn between DACA recipients and all other unauthorized immigrants — who are, universally, at risk of deportation.
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The fact of the matter is that, from the inside, it's not always easy to draw a bright line between doing your job and doing something in defense of your boss that is morally indefensible.
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The Congressional Budget Office, meanwhile, has warned that it won't count especially skimpy plans as coverage — but has not drawn a bright line of how generous a plan needs to be in order to count.
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But blocking wasn't the only kind of harm prevented by the net neutrality order: it also had bright-line rules against paid prioritization and throttling, where ISPs would limit or boost traffic to certain websites.
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When someone who comments on janky livestreams of NFL games in loopy aquamarine letters is taken aback by the carelessness with which the league manages its inherent violence, we may have crossed a bright line.
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The details: The FCC voted to remove the three "bright line" rules: no blocking, no slowing down content, and no offering websites to deliver their content faster to customers if they pay for the privilege.
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However, rather than addressing these "bright line" examples of unfair and deceptive acts and practices, many regulators seem more interested in using unfair, deceptive, or abusive acts or practices (UDAAP) as a subjective regulatory hammer.
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He's reckless actions violated Chinese regulations, crossed a bright line that dozens of countries have written into their laws, flouted nearly every rule of medical ethics, and exposed two girls to grave and unknowable risks.
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The president's request for a Justice Department inquiry into the Manchester leaks was the latest example of Mr. Trump's crossing what other presidents have considered a bright line insulating the department from White House influence.
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Even among many who otherwise generally endorse more complicated balancing tests for courts to use in resolving substantive legal issues, there is a broad consensus that bright-line rules are more appropriate for jurisdictional questions.
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Despite the preference of many commentators for bright-line jurisdictional rules, the Supreme Court has for many decades woven a jurisdictional complexity into the fabric of so-called "federal-question jurisdiction" of the federal courts.
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They are building brands not unlike any of the thousands of aspiring influencers on YouTube and proving the once bright line between adult and mainstream entertainment is becoming increasingly faded, one subscriber at a time.
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The NPRM first proposes to eliminate the general conduct standard, which ensures protection from discriminatory conduct not captured by the other bright line rules, including new practices in which an ISP might engage in the future.
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His comment underlines the fact that there is no bright line separating big data analytics and A.I. In both cases, data is the fuel and machine-learning algorithms are the engine of pattern recognition and classification.
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Swain said U.S. copyright law imposed a "bright-line" rule precluding recovery of statutory damages when the first of a series of infringements occurred before the works in question are registered with the U.S. Copyright Office.
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Lower court judges are confused about how to apply the Supreme Court's dictates in this area of the law, so more clarity from the high court — if not a definitive, bright-line rule — is in order.
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In his writing, Mr. Flake draws a bright-line distinction between his outlook on government and a competing vision, associated with Mr. Trump, that Mr. Flake describes as nationalist and populist in nature, the people said.
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Whatever the merits of allowing certain state law claims to generate federal jurisdiction, unlike the bright-line rule for federal causes of action, not all state-law causes of action give rise to federal-question jurisdiction.
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They also said the move by OIA was illegal, because it would cross the bright line that is supposed to separate intelligence agencies that collect information abroad from those that collect information on US citizens and residents.
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Instead, there was a bright-line rule that says that unless an investor is wealthy (exceeding specified income and net worth tests), then with very limited exceptions, he or she cannot be offered shares in private companies.
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In defense, the network says it draws a bright line between its mainstream news content, from journalists such as Brett Baier and Chris Wallace, and its conservative opinion content from Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and others.
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In fact, while many employers are understandably unhappy with the administration's decision to increase the threshold — it does, after all, potentially raise their labor costs — they generally value the salary test precisely because of its bright-line clarity.
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"The U.S. and Europe need to draw a bright line around Poland and the Baltic States and tell Putin that he won't be allowed to destabilize them," Mr. Burns said, referring to the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin.
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" 20% corporate tax rate: "I am very excited [Trump] said that's a red line or bright line for us... we're going to stick the landing on that, and we're just as committed as the white house on that.
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Do you write rules that go on forever and ever and ever and ever and ever, or do you try to write rules that, yeah, they don't cover every contingency, but they're fairly clear, they're fairly bright-line?
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Trump took that call up a level on Monday morning, with two tweets that aimed to not only draw a very bright line between "us" and "them" but also to raise the stakes of that made-up fight.
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It just went on, it just seems like a lot of what's happened in the Russia thing, you can draw a very bright line, is that they were not cooperating in the way they used to, which is interesting.
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On Monday, he said he believes the agency made the right choice during last year's net neutrality proceeding by not creating a bright-line rule against zero-rating, the practice of not charging customers for some types of data.
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Tarlov's division had noticed that, more and more, their presentations on millennials were being interrupted by questions about Gen Z. "Reign Makers" represents the stolid if nonsensical effort of BDG marketers to draw a bright line between the two.
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In his testimony on Capitol Hill, Mr. Walker, Google's general counsel, sought to draw a bright line separating his company's services from social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, which has been an occasional subject of Google acquisition rumors.
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Bright Line Watch, which includes professors from Dartmouth, Yale and the University of Rochester, conducted the survey by contacting 280,290 political science faculty members at the 511 institutions represented at the American Political Science Association, of which 1,126 responded.
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"On its face, this seems to me an extraordinary proposition that documents could be destroyed in these circumstances," Jonathan Fisher, QC at Bright Line Law, a London-based barrister law firm which specializes in white collar crime cases, told Reuters.
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If in the future this baby girl has genetic children, they will inherit her genetic modifications "and that's always been a really bright line," said Knowles -- a line not to be crossed until rigorous scientific testing proves it is safe.
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"The country's founders included the emoluments clauses as a big bright-line rule," said Jed Shugerman, a professor at the Fordham University School of Law who helped write a legal brief in support of the plaintiffs in the emoluments litigation.
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In the cases now before the Supreme Court, a central issue is whether courts can draw a bright line between acceptable political maps and ones whose partisan aims overstep constitutional bounds, a question the justices have struggled with for decades.
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"Password sharing is something you have to learn to live with, because there's so much legitimate password sharing, like you sharing with your spouse, with your kids ... so there's no bright line, and we're doing fine as is," he said.
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Sen. Lindsey Graham drew a bright line on moving to impeach President Donald Trump: If the special counsel uncovered evidence that Trump's campaign colluded with Russia, and Trump knew about it, that'd be "it" for him, he told VICE News Thursday night.
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John Thune floated a bill that would have put in place the three bright line rules, but would have stripped the FCC not only of its authority under Title II, but also under another provision of the Communications Act (known as Section 706).
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Terry Iacuzzo, a longtime Little Italy clairvoyant and author who also teaches at the upscale Omega Institute, said she didn't know Keano, but she wanted to draw a bright line between her work and what she called the déclassé charlatanism of the storefronts.
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"Carpenter suggests that the third-party doctrine is less of the bright-line rule that the cases suggest and more of a fact-specific standard," Orin Kerr, a University of Southern California law professor who specializes in computer law, wrote for Reason.
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Unlike the job-duties test, which leaves significant room for interpretation, the salary floor serves as a clear, bright-line test for overtime eligibility, protecting workers from abuse, ensuring consistency across companies and industries, and limiting risk and human resources nightmares for employers.
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"The Protect Life Rule simply draws a bright line between abortion and family planning, stopping abortion businesses like Planned Parenthood from treating Title X as their private slush fund without reducing funding by a dime," said Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser.
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The likes of AT&T and Verizon will be limited in some ways — they can face penalties if they try to undermine their rivals, for example — but they won't be subject to preemptive, bright-line restrictions on how they manage their networks.
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It draws an incredibly bright line — here a legal nonperson who can be terminated for any cause, there a legal person whose killing is a grave offense — at exactly the moment Buttigieg's biblical reference invoked, the moment of first breath outside the womb.
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The order established the principles of the open internet in law, reclassifying internet service providers (ISPs) as "common carriers" under Title II of the Telecommunications Act; it also banned them from violating certain "bright line" rules, like blocking or prioritizing traffic to certain websites.
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"There is a lack of education among a lot of the small [wireless internet service providers], and they believe that if they meet the bright-line rules, then they've met the requirements," Bowles says, referring to the no blocking, throttling, and paid prioritization rules.
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"The proposal would require a bright line of physical as well as financial separation between Title X programs and any program (or facility) where abortion is performed, supported, or referred for as a method of family planning," an administration official said in a statement.
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To ignite it and light your candle, all you do is hold down the button — you'll hear a kind of high-pitched zapping noise and see a bright line of light at the head of the lighter — and lower it to the candle wick.
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In journalism, there is a bright line between making a character less identifiable for reasons of safety or privacy — using just a first name, not using a name at all, removing identifying details — and the creation of composite characters from elements of real people.
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President Donald Trump's lawyers have urged him not to discuss details of the unfolding Russia investigation with anyone outside his legal team, warning of a conversational "bright line" that could put aides and associates in legal jeopardy, according to current and former Trump aides.
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What they're saying: Vox Media's Peter Kafka and Nilay Patel both put it to Wojcicki that YouTube was too big and too heterogeneous to be able to operate a one-size-fits-all set of bright-line rules about which content stays up and which stays down.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday released a 58-page draft plan to reverse the landmark 2015 "net neutrality" order and disclosed the agency may withdraw "bright line" rules barring internet companies from blocking, throttling or giving "fast lanes" to some websites.
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While you cannot blame tech for the death of manufacturing in the U.S., you can still draw a very bright line between the benefits of being able to make all sorts of great devices invented abroad and on the cheap to nearly every part of the sector.
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"You can't blame leader Schumer for not wanting to twist the arms of red-state Democrats against home-state banking interests, but from the standpoint of the larger party messaging, it's a missed opportunity to not strike a bright-line contrast on behalf of consumers," he said.
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He said he had already done away with the high-level corruption that was rampant in previous governments, but said it was crucial to draw a bright line between criminal elements and authorities so that the two sides do not mingle as they had in the past.
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Bright Line Watch, a consortium of political scientists formed after the 2016 election, just released a survey of 2000 voters that shows public faith in 27 key democratic principles — ranging from the independence of the judiciary to constitutional limits on executive power — has declined across the board.
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The justices adopted the bright-line rule already used in most federal circuits, affirming an October 2018 ruling by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals against Nashville-based developer Ritzen Group Inc in its bid to revive a breach of contract lawsuit against the debtor, Jackson Masonry LLC.
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As powerful as the gene-editing technique Crispr is turning out to be—researchers are using it to make malaria-proof mosquitoes, disease-resistant tomatoes, live bacteria thumb drives, and all kinds of other crazy stuff—so far US scientists have had one bright line: no heritable modifications of human beings.
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In the sort of classic manufacturing supply chains at issue in Hanover Shoe, which involved allegedly inflated lease prices for shoemaking equipment, and Illinois Brick, in which the state claimed masonry contractors passed along inflated charges for concrete blocks, it's easy to discern a bright line between direct and indirect purchasers.
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"When you hear talks about immigration reform, it often assumes the existence of some sort of clear bright line between individuals who are not 'criminals' and individuals who are," explained Jennifer Chacón, a professor at Irvine's School of Law and an expert on the intersection of criminal procedure and immigration law.
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"Without reducing Title X funding by a dime, the Protect Life Rule simply draws a bright line between abortion and family planning, stopping abortion businesses like Planned Parenthood from treating Title X as their private slush fund," said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, an anti-abortion group.
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The proposed rule submitted last week, a copy of which was posted on the Department of Health and Human Services website, would bar clinics or programs that receive federal family planning funds from providing abortions or referring women to places that do, imposing what it calls a "bright line" of separation.
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The homeland security official said that the administration had drawn a "bright line" against taking babies from their parents because the government was unable to appropriately care for children that young, but could not immediately provide information about the age cutoff below which they would decline to take a child.
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During arguments in the Supreme Court cases last month, some justices questioned whether it was possible to draw a bright line between an acceptable political map and one that is too partisan, and others wondered aloud whether a growing public outcry against partisan maps might solve the problem without judicial intervention.
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The new guidance says that there is no "bright line" for determining whether someone should register as a dealer, but that a number of factors — such as selling even a small number of new firearms in their original packaging, making a profit and selling regularly at gun shows or online — could qualify.
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But to many of them, MPP feels like a bright line has been crossed: They are no longer being trusted to do their jobs, no longer allowed to use the discretion they are supposed to have as adjudicators to protect the integrity of the asylum system while upholding the principle of non-refoulement.
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This legislation includes three "bright-line" rules which companies cannot cross (they can't block content, create fast lanes, or throttle data — although T-Mobile is also accused of that), but the issue of zero-rating is treated more ambiguously, with the FCC saying it will evaluate complaints on a case-by-case basis.
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"I think the bright line is, and we've learned in high relief, is that a history of how someone has participated in elections -- not how they voted, but whether or not they voted -- is something, along with some of their identifying information, that we wouldn't release anyway, nonetheless really upsets people," Dunlap said.
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Here's the relevant language from that order: Clear, Bright-Line Rules Because the record overwhelmingly supports adopting rules and demonstrates that three specific practices invariably harm the open internet — blocking, throttling, and paid prioritization — this order bans each of them, applying the same rules to both fixed and mobile broadband internet access service.
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The group cited Nestle, a member based in Switzerland that has operations in the U.S. "There should be a very bright line between somebody working for the Russian government versus Americans working for a Dutch grocery story or a Canadian auto parts company," the organization's president and CEO, Nancy McLernon, told The Hill.
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A spokesperson for Facebook told Gizmodo that the company continues to be a strong supporter of net neutrality and believes its services fall in line with the bright-line rules that define the principle: no paid prioritization that provides internet fast lanes for services that pay, no blocking content, and no throttling or slowing connections.
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Net Neutrality legislation could be a good thing if it put into place the three bright line net neutrality rules — no blocking of content, applications and services; no throttling of the same; and no paid prioritization — and also gave the FCC unambiguous authority and flexibility to protect consumers and competition in the broadband market.
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SAUNDERS: I THINK IT MAKES FOR A GOOD CAMPAIGN PROMISE AND IT'S A POPULIST ISSUE AND YOU UNDERSTAND AND EMPATHIZE WHY, BECAUSE IT'S BAD BEHAVIOR AND IT'S HARD FOR THE PUBLIC TO UNDERSTAND IT, BUT THIS ISN'T SOMETHING THAT GOVERNMENT CAN SOLVE, BECAUSE IT ISN'T A BRIGHT LINE IT'S A FACTS AND CIRCUMSTANCES TEST.
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"Password sharing is something you have to learn to live with, because there's so much legitimate password sharing, like you sharing with your spouse, with your kids .... so there's no bright line, and we're doing fine as is," said Netflix co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings during Netflix's third-quarter earnings webcast in 2016.
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After nearly 50 years, the Trump administration will finally protect taxpayers from promoting abortion through Title X. The regulations will require a bright line of physical as well as financial separation between Title X programs and any program (or facility) where abortion is performed, supported, or referred for as a method of family planning.
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"I think we need a bright line so there's no issue to discuss, so there is no question of interpretation, so that there's not ambiguity, so that executive appointees are prohibited from donating," said Senator Michael H. Ranzenhofer, a Republican who represents the region between Buffalo and Rochester, and is the sponsor of the legislation.
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The survey was the first to be conducted by Bright Line Watch, a new project formed by four researchers — two from Dartmouth and one each from Yale and the University of Rochester — to study democratic performance in the United States after the 2016 election of Donald J. Trump, and to compare it with other countries.
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"It would set back survivors if we don't because the message to them would be, 'Here's another case where they're not believed,'" said Ms. Cordovilla, a longtime labor and women's rights advocate, drawing a bright line between the charges against Mr. Fairfax and the Virginia governor and attorney general who admitted they once donned blackface.
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Instead of providing a bright-line rule, the Court made this particular case go away and urged citizens, courts, and officials going forward to resolve such cases with, in Justice Kennedy's words, 'tolerance, without undue respect to sincere religious beliefs, and without subjecting gay persons to indignities when they seek goods and services in an open market.
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To qualify for Title X money under the new policy, an organization would have to have "a bright line of physical as well as financial separation" between family planning programs and facilities where abortion is "performed, supported, or referred for as a method of family planning," according to a summary of the proposal obtained by The New York Times.
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Drawing a bright line between these obviously conflicting interests has been a policy priority for the American Tort Reform Association (ATRA) for more than a decade, animating our drive to enact commonsense statutes — in 85033 states thus far — that promote accountability and transparency when public authorities feel compelled to hire outside counsel to initiate major litigation.
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Not that it matters anymore since the Federal Communications Commission, headed by telecommunications shill Ajit Pai, successfully killed net neutrality protections earlier this year, but AT&T's tiered unlimited plans that are strapped with limitations and its decision to offer access to properties it owns for free to its subscribers are cardinal sins against the bright line rules of net neutrality.
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The Robinson majority reversed the panel and ruled against the defendant, not on the specific facts of the case, but by establishing a bright-line rule that anyone who is armed also is per se "dangerous," even if that person may be lawfully carrying a firearm and there's nothing to suggest that he poses a threat to the police or public.
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"The proposal circulated today does not meet the criteria for basic net neutrality protections -- including bright-line rules and a ban on paid prioritization -- and will not provide consumers the protections they need to have guaranteed access to the entire internet," said Michael Beckerman, head of the Internet Association, a trade group that represents tech giants such as Facebook and Google.
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"The proposal circulated today does not meet the criteria for basic net neutrality protections — including bright-line rules and a ban on paid prioritization — and will not provide consumers the protections they need to have guaranteed access to the entire internet," said Michael Beckerman, head of the Internet Association, a trade group that represents tech giants such as Facebook and Google.
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While scientists are careful to stress that 2 degrees is not a bright line between climate safety and danger, they do note that as temperatures pass soar past that mark, the risks increase significantly, including the destabilization of ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica, rising sea-levels, more destructive heat waves and droughts, and the loss of vital ecosystems like coral reefs.
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And the risk is that we do this and people rightly turn away from the science; that they look at this and say this is horrible, we do not want scientists engaging in trying to create designer babies, and they turn against the whole establishment of CRISPR, Cas9, and gene editing, because we weren't willing to draw a bright line and put a marker down.
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According to the filing, the IA is focusing on three major areas: the removal of rules against blocking, throttling and paid prioritization distort competition and places the burden on consumers, the removal of well-established, bright line net neutrality rules harms internet companies' ability to reach customers across the country, and the new rules harm future growth in the internet ecosystem as a whole.
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Sheer simplicity, your average continental lager is both beautiful—those deep yellows and pissy oranges, that bright line of white foam that crests atop the ochre wave—and, just as importantly, a signifier of the fact that while you might be clad in over-priced workwear, conducting a obnoxiously loud conversation about the ins-and-outs of new media, you are still just a normal guy.
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In a statement sent to Gizmodo, Internet Association President & CEO Michael Beckerman argued that Blackburn's bill was better than nothing, but did not constitute a real solution:The proposal circulated today does not meet the criteria for basic net neutrality protections—including bright-line rules and a ban on paid prioritization—a nd will not provide consumers the protections they need to have guaranteed access to the entire internet.
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Danner rightly sees this not only as a tactical shift, but as a bit of ass-covering and, moreover, a political maneuver: After declaring the war on terror, they could ascribe the failure to stop the 803/280 attacks mostly to the previous administration, to its methods: as if the imposition of the state of exception, and the claim that the struggle to protect Americans from terrorists was in fact a "war on terror," marked a bright line between Republican and Democratic administrations.
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"During the meetings, we stated that Amazon has long supported net neutrality protections to ensure our customers can enjoy an open internet, and we emphasized that the company remains committed to that position," Gerard Waldron, a lawyer who represents Amazon and participated in the meeting, wrote in an account filed with the F.C.C. "We stressed the need for enforceable, bright-line rules to protect the open internet and guard against anti-consumer and anti-competitive activities," he wrote, adding that Amazon opposed the commission's proposed change.
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