Sentences with phrase «action lawsuit against the city»
Councilman Robert Cornegy and Rodriguez both warned of lawsuits against the Housing Authority with Rodriguez hoping aloud that families of kids found to have lead poisoning file a class action lawsuit against the city.
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Schneiderman today joined a coalition of 14 attorneys general and the City of Chicago in filing a motion to intervene in a lawsuit against EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's actions to halt regulation of leaks of greenhouse gas emissions and other harmful air pollutants from new sources in the oil and gas industry.
It is unfortunate that Mayor Thomas continues to invite legal action against the City and himself for advancing frivolous lawsuits and vexatious litigation.»
The pro-charter-school group Families for Excellent Schools said even more needs to be done to comply with state and federal bullying laws, which is why the organization is a plaintiff in a class - action lawsuit against DOE, filed in April 2016, along with 23 parents whose children have experienced bullying and harassment in city schools.
A nonprofit disability rights organization filed a class - action lawsuit against Uber, claiming the ride - hailing service discriminates against New York City riders with disabilities by not providing enough access to vehicles that can accommodate wheelchairs.
Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara, who joined the class - action lawsuit on the side of the dozen inmates and against the city, hailed the decision.
Manhattan lawyer Mark Warren Moody has filed a class - action lawsuit against the state and city Board of Elections to overturn the closed - primary system, saying no one should be shut out.
Parents have joined a class - action lawsuit filed last week against New York City for violating the rights of parents who have intellectual disabilities.
In March 2007, two Honda Civic Hybrid owners filed a class action lawsuit against Honda because their cars were averaging 31 miles per gallon — well below the advertised 49 mpg in the city and 51 mpg on the highway.
Instead, Martha Rudolph, who is one of the leading health and environmental regulators in the state as director of environmental programs for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, recommended «taking baby steps» on pushing climate action and cautioned that the City of Boulder's potential climate lawsuit against oil and gas developers might not be the best approach in pushing an environmental agenda.
New York City filed a lawsuit earlier this year against the world's five largest publicly traded oil companies, claiming «public nuisance» as a cause of action.
«Fire captains» discrimination suit reinstated»: The Omaha World - Herald today contains an article that begins, «Two Omaha fire captains on Monday won a federal appeal of a lawsuit that claims they were discriminated against under the City of Omaha's affirmative action plan.»
DOJ entrusted Allan to represent the United States in some of its most high profile cases including a large class action challenging the New York City Fire Department's (FDNY) pattern of discrimination against Black and Hispanic applicants - which settled for about $ 100 million - and the first - ever employment discrimination lawsuit that DOJ filed to protect the rights of a transgender individual.
John Hochfelder at New York Injury Cases Blog says a lawsuit against the city subway system on behalf of a grossly drunk patron who tried to board between train cars is the sort of action that brings litigation into public disapprobation and might even fuel interest in relatively far - reaching reforms, like loser - pays.
Parents and students have taken action against the U.S. Department of Education for rising levels of school violence and bullying in New York City school by filing a lawsuit.