Sentences with phrase «action on behalf of groups»

Overall, using supergroups takes attention away from individual groups of students, and with it, action on behalf of groups that need it.

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Darren DeLuca auctioned off B.C. bear hunt for Safari Club International fundraiser As a professional guide outfitter, Darren DeLuca has helped line the coffers of a U.S. political action group waging a global fight on behalf of trophy hunters.

By: Simone Liedtke 3rd May 2018 The Legal Resources Centre (LRC), Abrahams Kiewitz and Richard Spoor Attorneys, on behalf of thousands of mineworkers, on Thursday reached a class action settlement with the Occupational Lung Disease (OLD) Working Group, which represents various South African gold mining companies.

Further, a Dispute can not be brought as a class or other type of representative action, whether within or outside of arbitration, or on behalf of any other individual or group of individuals.

The United Church of Christ has continually played an active part in media advocacy, devoting much of the time of their Office of Communication to media criticism, lobbying, and organizing community and legal - action groups against the television industry on behalf of disenfranchised groups.

In the UK, Baby Milk Action coordinate a project monitoring the baby food industry on behalf of the Baby Feeding Law Group a coalition of leading health professional and mother support organisations.

Mike Brady, Campaigns and Networking Coordinator, Baby Milk Action signed the letter on behalf of the Baby Feeding Law Group and said:

Baby Milk Action, which monitors the baby food industry on behalf of the Baby Feeding Law Group (a coalition involving many of the signatories), has signed the letter, which beings:

(1) to protect and promote breastfeeding, as an essential component of their overall food and nutrition policies and programmes on behalf of women and children, so as to enable all infants to be exclusively breastfed during the first four to six months of life; (2) to promote breastfeeding, with due attention to the nutritional and emotional needs of mothers; (3) to continue monitoring breastfeeding patterns, including traditional attitudes and practices in this regard; (4) to enforce existing, or adopt new, maternity protection legislation or other suitable measures that will promote and facilitate breastfeeding among working women; (5) to draw the attention of all who are concerned with planning and providing maternity services to the universal principles affirmed in the joint WHO / UNICEF statement (note 2) on breastfeeding and maternity services that was issued in 1989; (6) to ensure that the principles and aim of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and the recommendations contained in resolution WHA39.28 are given full expression in national health and nutritional policy and action, in cooperation with professional associations, womens organizations, consumer and other nongovermental groups, and the food industry; (7) to ensure that families make the most appropriate choice with regard to infant feeding, and that the health system provides the necessary support;

Collective actions could allow approved organisations, like Citizens Advice Bureaux, (which saw an 18 per cent increase in employment discrimination enquiries in 2008/09) to bring claims on behalf of groups of people.

Another independent expenditure (or IE) group, New Yorkers for Independent Action weighed in on behalf of CM Cabrera who is a staunch supporter of school choice, charter schools and education tax credits for individuals and corporations that donate to public, private and parochial schools.

Meanwhile, those backed by the political action committee of the Buffalo Niagara Partnership failed to account for nearly $ 19,000 spent on their behalf by that group.

New Yorkers for Independent Action, a group that backs education law changes including a tax credit program to assist parents of children in private schools, allocated $ 139,000 on Jacobs» behalf towards the end of the contest.

They wore t - shirts with the slogan, «Time's Up Theresa», and were staging their protest on behalf of feminist group Sisters Uncut, which aims to take action for domestic violence services.

DFER is used as a political action committee and a «dark - money» bundling group that has poured millions of dollars into political campaigns on behalf of candidates who support the Common Core, the Common Core testing scam and the privatization of public educations through the massive expansion of charter schools.

A volunteer defensive driving group is proposing a class - action lawsuit against Ford Motor Company on behalf of owners of cars equipped with the automaker's MyFord Touch infotainment system.

Well the Consumer Law Group has filed a class action lawsuit at the Quebec Superior Court on behalf of individuals who have BlackBerry smartphones and who pay for a monthly data plan but were unable to access their email, BlackBerry Messenger service (BBM), and / or Internet for the period of October 11 to 14, 2011.

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer BewareIn April, the law firm of Giskan Solotaroff Anderson & Stewart filed a class action lawsuit against Author Solutions Inc. and its parent, Penguin Group, on behalf of three plaintiffs, alleging breach of c... -LSB-...]

Residents in New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, and British Columbia must choose to opt in, said lawyer Tony Merchant, whose firm Merchant Law Group LLP has launched a class action on behalf of Canadians affected by the Equifax data breach on August.

A class action suit is one filed on behalf of a group of people with similar claims.

A class action is a legal case filed by a single representative acting on behalf of a group.

Conteh explores the fact that people posses their power solely within the actions of a group, saying about the piece, «Africans who act solely on the behalf of the interests and concerns of African people are Africans in their most powerful form, bar none.»

Just wanted to let you know that I have filed a class action lawsuit on global warming in the International Criminal Court in the Hague, against all current leaders on all nations on Earth, in behalf of all future generations not born yet, forever and ever, as long as this human species shall last...... and for US$ 1 billion in damages, to be donated if case is accepted and won to groups fighting global warming now!

Make a Climate Action Contribution on behalf of a US city, state, tribe, university, faith group, business, or cultural institution, and take part in a national effort to step up the fight against climate change and show the world, We Are Still In.

Earthjustice, with and on behalf of Appalachian groups, filed a friend - of - the - court (amicus curiae) brief to defend the EPA's historic action.

The below statement was planned to be delivered by Fadi el Masry of the International Federation of Liberal Youth on behalf of Youth groups and delivered to the informal plenary of the Ad - Hoc Working Group of the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP).

I knew that my actions taken on behalf of the protection of the environment were not confined to only myself; rather, they were shared by a whole group of youth leaders, the Sierra Student Coalition.

The Court considered the claims of the groups of creditors that had assigned their actions to the Appellant, and found that to the extent those claims were personal — alleging misrepresentations to themselves personally, investments they made in reliance on those misrepresentations, and resulting personal loss — the Appellant could not pursue the claims on their behalf.

A letter before action pursuant to Judicial Review proceedings has now been hand delivered to the Lord Chancellor's office on behalf of the Big Firms Group — an association of large criminal practices of which we are one.

In a class action lawsuit, one individual or a small group of individuals file a lawsuit on behalf of a large group because a company has injured them physically or financially.

The two consortiums of class counsel (referred to as the «Rochon Group» and «Koskie Group») brought similar proposed class actions on behalf of shareholders, albeit on the basis of pleadings that differed, since the Rochon Group relied on broader allegations.

Thanks to author Jonathan Harr and his book, A Civil Action, W.R. Grace will long be remembered as the antagonist in the tale of lawyer Jan Schlichtmann's pursuit of accountability on behalf of a group of citizens in Woburn, Mass..

Although toxic tort claims can be filed on behalf of an individual, they often seek compensation for a group of people, which is referred to as a class action lawsuit.

Motto v Trafigura [2011] EWCA Civ 1150 concerned Leigh, Day & Co's claim for # 100m costs for its group action on behalf of about 30,000 citizens of the Ivory Coast against Trafigura.

A class action is a legal proceeding commenced by a representative plaintiff on behalf of themselves and a group or class of people who fall under the same definition of a proposed class.

It co-ordinated the defence of the Sino - Forest Corp. class actions and other proceedings in Ontario, Quebec, the U.S., Singapore, and Australia, on behalf of entities in the Pöyry group of companies.

He acted on behalf of the former directors of ESG Group in an # 8 million negligence claim relating to their actions as directors.»

This proposed class action is brought on behalf of the approximately 60,000 Canadian taxpayers who participated in the Global Learning Group Inc. (GLGI) charitable donation program (the Program) between 2004 - 2014, but excludes those who sold the Program or were otherwise involved in its operations.

TORONTO, Aug. 13 / CNW / — This is to announce that today the law firms of Stevenson LLP and Bogoroch & Associates have been instructed to commence a class action on behalf of the representative plaintiffs, Giuseppina Santoro and Gianfrano (John) Santoro for damages sustained by the residents, homeowners and business persons as a result of the explosions which took place on Sunday, August 10, 2008 at the premises of Sunrise Propane Energy Group Inc..

The action was brought on behalf of a class of people defined as follows: The action relates to a transaction whereby $ 40,000,000 was taken from the participating policyholders» account of GWLAC and used towards the financing of the acquisition of London Insurance Group Inc. (the parent company of London Life Insurance Company) by GWLAC and Lifeco.

Consumer class actions are civil federal or state court cases brought by one or more individuals on behalf of themselves and a larger group or «class» of individuals who have suffered the same harm.

These lawsuits are similar to «class actions» commonly used in the United States, whereby cases can be brought on behalf of large groups of individuals, all of whom have allegedly been wronged by a company in the same way.

Paul, Weiss secured the dismissal of a securities class action on behalf of our clients, a group of banks that were initial purchasers of $ 15 billion of senior notes issued by Valeant Pharmaceuticals.

David specialises in commercial litigation including competition claims and claims on behalf of shareholders, and is Head of both the Litigation & Dispute Resolution Group as well as the Group Action Litigation department.

A class action is a form of civil action where one or a few plaintiffs can sue a defendant or a number of defendants on behalf of a larger group of people who claim the same type of loss from the same defendant of group of defendants.

Acting for the RBoS Shareholders Action Group on behalf of institutional clients and over 35,000 individual shareholders, bringing claims in excess of # 1 billion against RBS over its 2008 rights issue following the acquisition of ABN Amro.

Following its handling of the defence of the Sino - Forest Corp. class action in Quebec and its co-ordination of the defence of related class actions in Ontario and the U.S. on behalf of entities in the Pöyry group of companies, the firm is co-ordinating the defence of other proceedings by the Sino - Forest Litigation Trust against the Pöyry Group of companies in Singapore, China and Austrgroup of companies, the firm is co-ordinating the defence of other proceedings by the Sino - Forest Litigation Trust against the Pöyry Group of companies in Singapore, China and AustrGroup of companies in Singapore, China and Australia.

In 2011, a group of leading child welfare and early childhood development organizations published A Call to Action on Behalf of Maltreated Infants and Toddlers.

Foster City, Calif. — A securities class action lawsuit has been initiated in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on behalf of those who acquired locally based Webvan Group Inc. securities between November 4...