Sentences with phrase «action on behalf of public»

Rather than empowering and organizing the rank and file for progressive collective action on behalf of public education and everyday New Yorkers, our leadership pacifies our membership in exchange for feigned political influence.

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The class action, filed in United States District Court, Southern District of New York, and docketed under 17 - cv - 09903, is on behalf of a class consisting of investors who purchased or otherwise acquired Qudian's American Depositary Receipts («ADRs») pursuant and / or traceable to Qudian's false and misleading Registration Statement and Prospectus, issued in connection with the Company's initial public offering on or about October 18, 2017 (the «IPO» or the «Offering»), seeking to recover damages caused by Defendants» violations of the Securities Act of 1933 (the «Securities Act»).

We are currently advancing this approach on behalf of a multitude of foreign and domestic public and private pension funds, limited partnerships, and investment trusts in securities fraud actions against BP plc relating to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.

Thus Machen, unlike most of his conservative peers, then and now, opposed Bible reading and prayer in the public schools as well as Christian political action on behalf of Prohibition.

A political action committee that backs public financing, Friends of Democracy, is spending heavily on behalf of Senate Democrats to create a public financing program.

Less cynically, the leaders of ISIS may sincerely think that the Western way of life exemplified in rock concerts, large scale commercial banking activity contrary to Islamic law, and government institutions of countries that advance a way of life contrary to Islamic law in the world, is evil and that it is their duty to take action, on behalf of God, to punish this evil in a public way that discourages others.

In addition, SILVER thwarted the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption so that it would not learn of his illegal outside income, first by filing legal motions on behalf of the Assembly and taking other action to block the Moreland Commission's investigation into legislators» outside income.

Albanese, a lawyer, said the city often refused to indemnify public workers for actions taken «outside the scope of their employment,» and cited a case he handled on behalf of two security guards at an Upper Manhattan homeless shelter.

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.

The class action, filed on behalf of 14 needy Philadelphia students and 12 public - interest organizations, claims the university has not abided by an 1977 city ordinance that the plaintiffs believe requires Penn to provide 125 so - called «Mayor's scholarships» for each entering class.

Sixty Four Percent of Americans Support Affirmative Action The public opinion polling on behalf of AFC found that 64 percent of Americans support overall affirmative action for women and minorAction The public opinion polling on behalf of AFC found that 64 percent of Americans support overall affirmative action for women and minoraction for women and minorities.

The data should inform a call to action on behalf of students with disabilities in public schools across the country — both charter and traditional.

The Fund Education Now Legislative Education Report Card is compiled by parents and grades the actions of Florida legislators on behalf of public education and Florida's children.

The National School Boards Action Center (NSBAC) enables local school boards and the public to be more active in moving legislation forward and impacting federal regulations on behalf of America's students.

Last week, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal, which is located in Louisiana, ruled in favor of a class action lawsuit brought on behalf of about 7000 New Orleans public school employees who were wrongfully terminated when the State of Louisiana took control of 107 New Orleans public schools following Hurricane Katrina.

Superior Court Judge William F. Highberger today approved the landmark settlement in Reed v. State of California, et al., a class action suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, Public Counsel, and Morrison & Foerster, LLP, in February 2010 on behalf of students at three Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) middle schools.

Ms. Dixon was part of a team of civil rights attorneys representing African - and Haitian - American voters in NAACP v. Hood (a class action suit that arose out of the 2000 general elections), and she served as co-counsel in Anderson v. Jackson on behalf of African - American residents who challenged the demolition of public housing in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

On behalf of parents of public school students across Connecticut, I am writing to request that you add an agenda item to the April 6, 2015 State Board of Education Committee meeting to review and address the actions taken by your Interim Commissioner of Education and other State Department of Education staff as they relate to the issue of a parent's fundamental and inalienable right to opt their children out of the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing program and how local school districts should deal with children whose parents have opted them out of the SBAC testing.

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.

We are suing there on behalf of student teachers, who are attending public universities, who wish to teach, ultimately, in private schools, and who are forbidden, by actions of the state universities, from student teaching in religious schools.

(a) Whenever the Attorney General receives a complaint in writing signed by an individual to the effect that he is being deprived of or threatened with the loss of his right to the equal protection of the laws, on account of his race, color, religion, or national origin, by being denied equal utilization of any public facility which is owned, operated, or managed by or on behalf of any State or subdivision thereof, other than a public school or public college as defined in section 401 of title IV hereof, and the Attorney General believes the complaint is meritorious and certifies that the signer or signers of such complaint are unable, in his judgment, to initiate and maintain appropriate legal proceedings for relief and that the institution of an action will materially further the orderly progress of desegregation in public facilities, the Attorney General is authorized to institute for or in the name of the United States a civil action in any appropriate district court of the United States against such parties and for such relief as may be appropriate, and such court shall have and shall exercise jurisdiction of proceedings instituted pursuant to this section.

«These crash tests will give FHWA important data about how the ET - Plus performs, but they are only one action among several efforts we're undertaking on behalf of the American driving public.»

It presents alternatives to proposals that would damage rivers, identifies those who make the crucial decisions, and points out opportunities for the public to take action on behalf of each listed river.

Externalities may be addressed by either a tax / credit or some other public policy, public ownership and management of the commons, or privatization of the commons, or through court actions — each option may have it's own costs — for example, the large - scale privatization of the climate system may be impractical with given technology (analogy with toll roads), and even without that, it has at least an aesthetic cost (nature is supposed to be nature; and psychologically, humans may benifit from some amount of public space) and perhaps scientific (ie nature — in this context, nature as it is with relatively small impacts of humankind — is not nature if it is not being itself) costs; there may be inefficiencies in the court system that could be bypassed for issues that are easily addressed with legislation (unless we had a class - action lawsuit on behalf of all people now until the year).

The report presents alternatives to proposals that would damage rivers, identifies those who make the crucial decisions, and points out opportunities for the public to take action on behalf of each listed river.

The free rider problem is very much a non-sequitur in regards to AGW, since no positive outcomes based on the actions of others are being cited by the government that seeks the authority to intervene on behalf of the public good regarding AGW.

Answer: Yes, the Center for Science in the Public Interest has filed a class action on behalf of you and all other misled Froot - eaters.

Other public interest cases include unpaid overtime class actions against Canadian banks and other employers and minimum wage class actions on behalf of junior hockey players.

Housing & Benefits Team Our Housing & Benefits Team has the goal of supporting the criminal practice by aiding to stabilize the living situation of our Brooklyn clients by representing clients in administrative proceedings, eviction proceedings, affirmative actions seeking repairs as well as advocate on their behalf for access to public benefits.

«Unambiguous impropriety» amounts to a catch - all description of situations where the cloak of the without prejudice rule acts so as to shield some bad action on behalf of the party invoking it, and is in effect an exception based upon the rule of unconscionability — that such bad action should not be protected by a rule of public policy.

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.

Years ago, when I was Public Trustee in Saskatchewan, I was asked to approve a settlement of a personal injury action on behalf of a child, in which the settlement amount was reduced by the amount of the parents» contributory negligence.

Courts around the country drive much of the public's action on behalf of children who may have been or who are at risk of maltreatment.

Planned Parenthood Illinois Action engages in educational and electoral activity, including public education campaigns, grassroots organizing, and legislative advocacy, on behalf of commonsense policies that protect the reproductive health and rights of women, teens, and families.