Sentences with phrase «federal court judge ruled»

In what could become the largest - ever employer - related settlement claim, a Federal Court judge ruled that school bus contractor, First Student, is part of a proposed $ 5.9 million settlement fixed to criminal background checks that were conducted without written permission.
Almost a year after the Federal Court struck down the health care restrictions to refugees, a second Federal Court judge ruled in Y.Z. v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) that restrictions imposed on some refugee claimants to an appeal body called the Refugee Appeal Division violated s. 15 of the Charter.
The ruling came less than a month after another federal court judge ruled that a similar climate case, brought by the cities of San Francisco and Oakland, should be tried in federal court.
LOWER MANHATTAN — Disgraced former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver can stay out of jail while fighting to overturn his corruption conviction, a Manhattan federal court judge ruled Thursday.

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In a court ruling authorizing the arrests, Brazilian federal judge André Duszczak said «Faria and other BRF officers sought to cover up claims of possible food contamination, as shown in certain laboratory tests, made by a former employee in a labor lawsuit.»
Federal Court Judge Michael Phelan ruled that forcing patients to buy marijuana through the mail from a licensed producer was an «arbitrary and overbroad» violation of patients» charter rights.
Separately on Tuesday, a judge for the U.S. Federal Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, ruled narrowly in favor of the subsidies in a case called David King.
Judge Andreas Korbmacher said on Thursday the country's highest federal administrative court would rule on Feb. 27 on an appeal brought by German states against bans imposed by local courts in Stuttgart and Duesseldorf over poor air quality.
The federal appeals court in New York ruled that Aereo did not violate the copyrights of broadcasters with its service, but a similar service has been blocked by judges in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.
The focus of their appeal will be a Federal Court judge's ruling that vacated the court order about two weeks after the raid on Lackman's Court judge's ruling that vacated the court order about two weeks after the raid on Lackman's court order about two weeks after the raid on Lackman's home.
Heather Dietrick, president and general counsel of Gawker Media, said in a statement that soon after Mr. Bollea sued the company in 2012, three state appeals court judges and a federal judge «repeatedly ruled that Gawker's post was newsworthy» under the First Amendment.
The Supreme Court declined to hear the Trump administration's appeal of a federal judge's ruling ordering the government to allow DACA recipients to renew their protected status.
The federal judge overseeing the case in Texas against the Department of Labor's fiduciary rule on Wednesday denied considering all but two of the eight amicus briefs filed in the court, allowing only the briefs filed by the Financial Planning Coalition and the American Association for Justice.
On 6 August 2013, Federal Judge Amos Mazzant of the Eastern District of Texas of the Fifth Circuit ruled that bitcoins are «a currency or a form of money» (specifically securities as defined by Federal Securities Laws), and as such were subject to the court's jurisdiction, [274][274] and Germany's Finance Ministry subsumed bitcoins under the term «unit of account» — a financial instrument — though not as e-money or a functional currency, a classification nonetheless having legal and tax implications.
Judge Weinstein's ruling is important, as it is the first federal court decision to address — and agree with — the CFTC's determination that virtual currencies are commodities as defined by the CEA.
On March 6, 2018, Judge Jack B. Weinstein of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York ruled that virtual currencies are commodities under the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) and therefore subject to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's (CFTC) anti-fraud and anti-manipulation enforcement authority.1 Granting the CFTC's request for a preliminary injunction against the defendants who allegedly engaged in deception and fraud involving virtual currency spot markets, Judge Weinstein noted that «[u] ntil Congress clarifies the matter,» the CFTC has «concurrent authority» along with other state and federal administrative agencies and civil and criminal courts over transactions in virtual currency.2
That wasn't even Olson's case, but with assists from a federal district court judge who came out as being in a same - sex relationship only after ruling and retiring, and elected officials who chose to forgo their traditional duty to vigorously defend state law, Olson and Boies did succeed in disenfranchising millions of Californians on a procedural technicality.
An appeals court has upheld a ruling by a federal judge that effectively overturned his conviction in the sexual assault and murder of Teresa Halbach more than 10 years ago.
It was in 1969 that Judge James McMillan of the Federal District Court ruled that the district had been intentionally segregated» virtually all black students went to all - black schools» and ordered a district - wide busing system to achieve integration.
CNN: Pizza magnate wins temporary ruling on contraception coverage dispute The billionaire founder of Domino's Pizza has won a temporary court victory, with a federal judge blocking enforcement of part of the health care reform bill requiring most employers to provide a range of contraception and reproductive health services.
A day before the one - year anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act, which had barred same - sex marriages from federal recognition, a divided three - judge panel of the 10th Circuit Court ruled...
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell had imposed a four - game suspension on Brady for his involvement in DeflateGate, but Judge Berman ruled in Brady's favor on appeal to federal court.
For example, in case number 87 C 10746, Gutzmacher v. Public Building Commission, in U.S. District Court for the Northern District ofIllinois, Eastern Division, Senior Federal District Judge James B. Parson ruled on Dec. 4, 1989 that the Public Building Commission was enjoined from discriminating against all forms of religious expression and ordered the Public Building Commission to permit Gutzmacher to erect a nativity scene display during the Christmas season,» added Scholten.
Manhattan federal prosecutors told the judge who sentenced Dean and Adam Skelos last week that the government won't push for them to go to prison until at least three - plus months after the U.S. Supreme Court rules in a pending case on anti-corruption laws.
Federal appeals court judges weighed whether they should consider Trump's previous statements supporting a complete ban on Muslims entering the country when ruling on his revised order to suspend travel from six Muslim - majority countries.
Recent rulings by federal and state courts have cast judges as the most potent critics of stop - and - frisk, raising questions about whether the city has sidestepped the Constitution in the drive to keep crime rates low.
The order will unseal just the narrative statements written by cops on the more than 850,000 dismissed summonses — and not identifying information about the person it was issued to or the cop involved, which will be redacted, according to the ruling by Manhattan federal court Judge Robert Sweet.
But political hopeful Philip Pidot is pressing for a new primary in federal court after a state court judge ruled he was eligible to run as a Republican ballot but there was not enough time to get Pidot's name on the primary ballot by last Tuesday.
Zimroth was tapped to monitor the department Monday by Manhattan Federal Court Judge Shira Scheindlin in a scathing ruling that found that police officers routinely violated New Yorkers» rights during stop - and - frisks.
U.S. District Court Judge Nicholas Garaufis in Brooklyn ruled Monday in favor of the Army Corps of Engineers, the Environmental Protection Agency and other federal agencies.
A federal judge handed indicted Albany politician Dean Skelos a pile of legal defeats Tuesday, tossing out his motion to dismiss two of his corruption charges and ruling that prosecutors can use all the evidence they scored by wiretapping his cellphone, new court papers state.
The announcement was made in court papers filed recently, as part of the ongoing remedy process stemming from the federal class action lawsuit, Floyd vs. City of New York, in which a judge ruled the police unfairly targeted people of color for stops.
Justice Adeniyi Ademola of Federal High Court 6 then adjourned the case to Wednesday last week for ruling on the two issues being sought by both prosecution and defence but the court failed to sit on that day because of a seminar organised for judges by the National Judicial Institute (Court 6 then adjourned the case to Wednesday last week for ruling on the two issues being sought by both prosecution and defence but the court failed to sit on that day because of a seminar organised for judges by the National Judicial Institute (court failed to sit on that day because of a seminar organised for judges by the National Judicial Institute (NJI).
An effort by Citizens United to block the state from enforcing donor disclosure rules has been tossed by a federal court judge on Monday, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office announce.
Judge Shira A. Scheindlin, 69, whose more - than -21-year tenure on the Federal District Court in Manhattan included a critical role in a controversial stop - and - frisk ruling affecting the Police Department, said she would resign from the bench in late April.
UPDATE: Late Friday, Albany federal district court Judge Gary Sharpe ruled that NY's congressional primary elections be moved to June 26.
U.S. District Court Judge Gary Sharpe has set June 26 to become the new primary date for federal elections in New York in a long - awaited ruling handed down this afternoon.
WAMC's Dr. Alan Chartok discusses the Supreme Court's decision not to hear the Trump Administration's appeal of a Federal Judge's ruling on DACA and the political clout of labor unions being challenged in the Mark Janus Supreme Court case that began Monday.
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Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott will likely have to immediately serve a six - game domestic violence suspension after a New York federal judge refused to issue a new ruling to hold off on the suspension pending a federal court challenge.
A New York federal judge ruled Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son can stay free on bail while appealing their convictions on corruption charges, saying jury instructions in their trial could be flawed in light of a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
It's known as Dillon's Rule and is named after John Forrest Dillon, who was appointed a Federal Circuit Court of Appeals Judge by President Ulysses S. Grant in 1869.
«We're taking this court action — which, as far as we can tell, is unprecedented for the City Council — because we strongly oppose Mayor Bloomberg in his attempt to block the implementation of the federal judge's ruling that we need to implement immediately,» Quinn said.
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn will file court papers tomorrow urging a federal judge to keep the NYPD's stop - and - frisk monitor in place while the Bloomberg administration appeals the ruling.
Caproni's decision comes a day after Manhattan Federal Judge Kimba Wood said Dean Skelos, 68, and his son, Adam, 33, could remain out on bail for at least three months after the Supreme Court ruled on the anti-corruption statutes.
She countersued in Manhattan federal court, but a judge ruled the United States did not have jurisdiction over an English court's decision, which prompted Lancman's bill.
The court ruling, by Manhattan federal Judge Paul Crotty, threw out New York's $ 150,000 cap on how much money an individual can contribute to independent political - action committees that back candidates.
That challenge lingered in the court system well after the freeze was lifted in 2007 and was not resolved until 2013 when a federal judge ruled not only was the freeze justified, but that the district did not need to give teachers credit on the pay scale for the years the freeze was enacted.
Justice Babatunde O. Quadri of the Federal High Court, Maitama, Abuja has adjourned to July 7, 2017 for ruling on a motion by the embattled former governor of Jigawa State, Alhaji Sule Lamido praying the court to return his case file to former trial judge, Justice Adeniyi AdeCourt, Maitama, Abuja has adjourned to July 7, 2017 for ruling on a motion by the embattled former governor of Jigawa State, Alhaji Sule Lamido praying the court to return his case file to former trial judge, Justice Adeniyi Adecourt to return his case file to former trial judge, Justice Adeniyi Ademola.
The 11 - page ruling, by Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein of Federal District Court in Manhattan, found that the city had overstepped its bounds in requiring, as part of a licensing process, that carwash owners buy a special bond within a two - tiered system: $ 30,000 for those whose workers were unionized or employers who agreed to monitoring, and $ 150,000 for all others.
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