Sentences with phrase «several federal courts»

While the federal agencies have been silent on this point, several federal courts have opined that despite the economic disadvantage to the buyer of going to a title company other than the seller's preferred provider, the buyer is free to go elsewhere, and therefore the seller's actions do not violate Section 9 of RESPA.
[67] Several federal courts published general guidelines for pro se litigants and Civil Rights complaint forms.
She is admitted to practice in New York, before several federal courts, and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; she anticipates being admitted to the SCOTUS bar in late June, 2016.
She has authored several amicus briefs in employment discrimination and constitutional cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and in other matters before the Colorado Supreme Court and several federal courts of appeals.
He is admitted to practice before several federal courts and the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
He is licensed to practice law in three States — Washington State, California, and Massachusetts — and several Federal Courts.
Ms. Espino MacLean has litigated cases in several federal courts, including the Fifth Circuit, Eleventh Circuit and Eleventh Circuit Courts of Appeals.
Recently, however, several federal courts and school beards have begun, largely on their own, to test strategies to integrate both housing and schools.
«Several federal courts have held that this language, incorporated from elsewhere in antidiscrimination law, allows religious organizations...
Several federal courts have agreed that the provision of the law is unconstitutional, a situation that practically ensures that the high court will step in.
The 11,000 megawatt (MW) Belo Monte Dam, which is set to be the country's second largest after Itaipú, has been beset by controversy and delays due to several federal court battles over its impact on local indigenous communities and the environment.
Although several federal court decisions indicate such fees are legal, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development disagrees and may challenge your company if it adopts a commission - plus - flat - fee form of compensation.

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Facebook, Snap, Google, and roughly 160 other technology companies told a federal court in Virginia on Wednesday to scrap President Donald Trump's new order banning travelers and refugees from several majority - Muslim countries.
A federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, on Tuesday granted a motion by the special counsel Robert Mueller's office to dismiss several charges brought against Rick Gates, the former deputy chairman of Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
With the president's party controlling the Senate by just one seat and the Senate holding not only the power to pass or block legislation, but also to confirm nominees to federal positions, including the Supreme Court, the race in Arizona to replace the departing Sen. Jeff Flake is one of several to watch this fall.
While Jesner suggests that five justices likely would rule that the federal courts should not recognize an ATS cause of action against American corporations for their overseas activities, several federal appeals courts have exhibited little willingness to limit the scope of ATS liability unless directly ordered to do so by the Supreme Court.
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) released details today surrounding a federal court enforcement action filed against several parties related to the cryptocurrency My Big Coin (MBC).
Debate over the high - profile litigation has roiled the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, one of several trade groups that sought to overturn the regulation in federal court in Dallas earlier this month.
As cases in federal court and several state courts delve into whether there is evidence that glyphosate causes cancer, a scientist with a consumer...
The several states have their constitutions, executives, legislatures, and courts, generally modeled after the Federal system and in any event not inconsistent with the Federal Constitution.
Harvard professor Nancy Cott told a federal court in San Francisco that child rearing was only one of several purposes of marriage, not «the central or defining purpose,» the Los Angeles Times reports.
Although many of these claims challenge the veracity of «organic,» «healthy,» and «100 %» claims on labels, several states are affording new opportunities to attack ingredient labels — an area that federal courts have traditionally found to be preempted (barred) by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with no private right of action for individual citizens.
Silver's retrial is one of several Albany corruption cases on the Manhattan federal court calendar this year.
He was indicted on several felonies in March and his lawyer said over the summer in federal court that his client was «seeking to resolve» the case and hopes to be «working something out.»
Hanna joins former Utah governor and presidential candidate Jon Huntsman, HP CEO Meg Whitman and ex-Vice President Dick Cheney in signing the amicus, which is being filed with the Supreme Court as justices prepare to take on several court cases challenging same - sex marriage laws, including the controversial Proposition 8 measure in California and the federal Defense of MarriageCourt as justices prepare to take on several court cases challenging same - sex marriage laws, including the controversial Proposition 8 measure in California and the federal Defense of Marriagecourt cases challenging same - sex marriage laws, including the controversial Proposition 8 measure in California and the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
The exchange was one of several wiretapped calls played on the first full day of testimony at the trial in federal court in Manhattan of Dean Skelos, 67, and Adam Skelos, 33, both of Rockville Centre, on charges they conspired to extort companies to hire Adam and used Dean's legislative power to help him succeed.
Glick says she's not backing any one specifically, but she says there are several openly gay judges in lower courts across the state, and at least one has been mentioned for a federal judgeship.
Faulkner's comments came during a news conference announcing a Manhattan Supreme Court suit — first reported by The Post — over the $ 13.6 million in city money spent on lawyers who represented de Blasio and several «underlings» in connection with investigations by federal and city prosecutors.
Federal prosecutors have asked a district court judge for an anonymous and partially sequestered jury in the trial of man who allegedly has extensive contacts among ranking al Qaeda members and participated in a 2003 ambush that killed two American soldiers and wounded several others.
Rodriguez was joined in the Manhattan federal court suit by Letitia James, Melissa Mark - Viverito and Jumaane Williams, as well as several OWS activists.
Several of those federal prosecutions, though, have been troubled, especially after the Supreme Court issued rulings that narrowed the definition of public corruption.
; Patrick Akpolobolokemi, the former NIMASA Director - General was rough - handled and bundled into a van right in front of the court premises where a judge had just granted him bail; several persons are known to have been detained for periods far in excess of the constitutionally mandated 48 hours initially under spurious detention orders signed by magistrates courts in the Federal Capital Territtory!
Meanwhile, a U.S. appeals court in New York is set to take its turn today at considering the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act, a federal law restricting the recognition of same - sex unions that has already been struck down in several other places.
Sheldon Silver is swarmed by media Nov. 30 as he leaves Federal Court, where he was found guilty on several corruption charges.
In court papers filed last week, federal prosecutors say Suffolk District Attorney Tom Spota repeatedly protected Walsh from several investigations by County Sheriff Vincent DeMarco, a former protégé of Walsh's.
There are several other challenges to that decision still pending in federal court, however, from citizens groups, the city of Oneida and the towns of Vernon and Verona.
While New York is deeply blue in aggregate — Hillary Clinton carried Trump's home state by more than 20 points — the 2012 round of redistricting saw House seats drawn by a federal court rather than subjected to normal partisan gerrymandering, which made several seats politically competitive.
The Demonstration Project, which has been developed over a period of several years under the auspices of the AAAS - American Bar Association Science and Technology Section National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists, would be implemented over a period of five years, be national in scope, and available to the federal courts.
The policy was immediately challenged in federal court in several states, producing two rulings that blocked the ban from taking effect.
Flores v. Huppenthal (formerly Horne v. Flores and Flores v. Arizona) has been in federal court since 1992 and could very well stagger on for several more years.
After several months of protests and concomitant uncertainty for the 160,000 home - schooled children in the state, the court reversed the ruling to permit home schooling as a «species of private school education» and came surprisingly close to finding in the federal Constitution a right to home school.
With Senate hearings on U.S. Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. scheduled to begin Sept. 6, several education groups said last week that they were content to wait on opining about whether the federal appellate judge should become the high court's next associate jusCourt nominee John G. Roberts Jr. scheduled to begin Sept. 6, several education groups said last week that they were content to wait on opining about whether the federal appellate judge should become the high court's next associate juscourt's next associate justice.
This is not only as a result of Australia reportedly having one of the highest rates of infringement in the world — but also due to the legal victory in May of the owners of the film Dallas Buyers Club, in which the Federal Court ordered several Australian ISPs to hand over personal details of more than 4700 customers alleged to have illegally downloaded the film.
As well, while several federal circuits had followed Rowley, other courts had imposed a higher standard and still others had produced conflicting precedents.
He has also worked on several significant cases involving education financing, including M.A. v. Newark Public Schools, a case now in federal court; Cover is representing Newark special - ed students who say they haven't gotten adequate teaching.
Several Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court asked last week whether federal - court supervision of the Kansas City, Mo., school district has gone too far as the Court heard oral arguments in a major school - desegregation Court asked last week whether federal - court supervision of the Kansas City, Mo., school district has gone too far as the Court heard oral arguments in a major school - desegregation court supervision of the Kansas City, Mo., school district has gone too far as the Court heard oral arguments in a major school - desegregation Court heard oral arguments in a major school - desegregation case.
Several members of an American Indian tribe in rural South Dakota are suing the local school district in federal court, claiming its method for electing board members discriminates against Native Americans by weakening their voting power.
The decision is one of several in recent months by federal appeals courts grappling with cases involving students who create Web pages ridiculing school administrators or fellow students.
More than 200 classrooms have signed up to participate in the program, which will feature several attorneys and judges, including Justice Christine Durham of the Utah Supreme Court and Judge Dee Benson of the Federal District Court for the District of Utah.
As a trial attorney, he handled all sorts of criminal cases in state and federal court and he has represented approximately 30 people charged with homicide, including several who have faced the death penalty.
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