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The company collects and remits taxes on rentals in the city, but hotel workers and housing advocates say the rules do not go far enough.

Civil rights advocates say the ruling will push the police and prosecutors to meet a higher standard in tracking cell phones.

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While stressing he was not advocating drug use, de la Madrid said the court ruling, which is for now limited to the litigants in question, showed it was time to act.

That rule isn't always followed, advocates say.

Nancy Smith, executive vice president and corporate secretary at AARP, said on a conference panel with Hauser that AARP will not only continue to advocate for the fiduciary rule but plans to assemble some members to act as «mystery shoppers» to see if advisors are complying.

Reform advocates say economic growth rates will plunge, undermining the ruling party's claim to power, if industries from energy to telecoms to banking that are controlled by state companies are not opened to competition.

HOWEVER, you do not have the authority to simply make up your own rules and should therefore not continue to say you are Catholic and write articles as such advocating your own thoughts and standards as though they are within the realm of Catholicism.

Batcha said that 99 percent of the 47,000 responses submitted to the FDA during the most recent comment period earlier this year found that consumers believe the organic seal indicates better animal welfare practices and advocated for the rule to become effective without further delays by Nov. 14.

* Schools say tough to buy different portion sizes * Move follows complaints that rule left some students hungry * Change won't undermine overall healthier standards - advocates By Susan Heavey WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (Reuters)- U.S. regulators are relaxing school meal rules aimed at reining in calories and portion sizes after some students, parents and lawmakers complained that new stricter policies left many children hungry.

The New York City public advocate said she won't seek an appointment to the seat but didn't rule out a future campaign.

New York City Public Advocate Tish James said initially that she would seek an interview, but announced on May 11 that she would not participate, though she is not ruling out a run.

New York City Public Advocate Tish James said initially that she would seek an interview, but announced on May 11th that she would not participate, though she is not ruling out a run.

Speaking at the event, paramount chief of the area, Oblempong Nii Kojo Ababio, said the reason for honouring Nana Akufo - Addo with the stool was because of his sterling career as a human rights lawyer who stood for the rule of law and advocated for the rights of the ordinary Ghanaian.

Last month Jeremy Corbyn also failed to categorically rule out a second vote, saying only that his party was «not advocating» a re-run of the 2016 poll.

In an age of instant communication, advocates for changing the voting rules say there's no reason to require voters be registered at least 25 days before the next election.

Advocates for ending that practice have said the Board of Elections can rewrite the regulation, given it was a board ruling in 1996 that created the loophole in the first place.

Good - government advocates said the real test of the coalition would come with the start of session, when the participants will have to divvy up resources and finalize a set of rules for moving legislation through the Senate committee system.

Advocates for stronger enforcement of campaign finance rules said the group's maneuver around the coordination ban effectively circumvents the limits on how much individuals can give to candidates.

«This ruling gives us more time to work with the Department of Health, elected officials and community advocates to develop alternative solutions that will keep LICH's vital services and good jobs in the community,» said George Gresham, president of 1199SEIU in a press release, who sought the restraining order along with the New York State Nurses Association, Concerned Physicians of LICH and others.

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to uphold the Citizens Union campaign - finance ruling on Monday could lead to a bolstering of laws here in New York, hopeful advocates say.

Flow control found support, however, on the Ulster County Legislature's Environmental, Energy and Technology Committee where Chairman Carl Belfiglio said he had advocated for the new rules since July.

Good government advocates say this shows the shortcomings of the state's conflict of interest rules.

As reported earlier, the legislature removed the ballot access improvements after the chair of the House Rules Committee said advocates for greater ballot access improvement had been rude to him, so he was removing those parts.

A federal appeals court says New York City doesn't have to require its fleet of licensed yellow taxis be wheelchair accessible, reversing an earlier ruling and upsetting disability advocates.

«If the governor is going to go ahead and green light this anyway, then the Department of Environmental Conservation needs the resources and the staff to oversee the state's laws and regulations,» says Katherine Nadaeu, with Environmental Advocates, who says without the additional staff the new rules would be just «words on paper».

As reported earlier, the legislature removed the ballot access improvements after the chair of the House Rules Committee said advocates for greater ballot access improvement had Read more»

«They're done; they're real,» the advocate said of the city rules.

By repeatedly saying the seniority rules would force the Department of Education to fire many outstanding teachers, some teachers and education advocates think the mayor is implying that senior teachers are inferior to newcomers.

The statement said, «EFCC, as a law - abiding organisation and a strong advocate of rule of law as constantly shown and practiced by its head, Ibrahim Magu, should allow the court processes to reach its logical conclusion.

Ronnie Pawelko, general counsel for Family Planning Advocates, an organization that supports abortion rights, said the organization was «reviewing our options and determining our next steps» following the ruling.

Though, Rivers state Governor, Nyesom Wike has advocated for fairness and said at different fora that interested aspirants should be given an opportunity to contest, power - brokers in some LGAs in the State have refused to play according to the rules.

It hasn't happened yet as far as civil liberties advocates can determine from public legal records, but there are no specific rules or regulations against it, she says.

«The Mexican gray wolf recovery program has been hamstrung from the start, and this new management rule doesn't go nearly far enough to fix the problem,» said Michael Robinson, a conservation advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity in Tucson, Arizona, in a press release.

Nutrition advocates say if the rule stays, it will be a win for industry and a loss for kids.

District officials and some civil rights advocates hailed the ruling, saying that while the plan has largely integrated the schools, more time is needed to help boost academic achievement among African - American and...

In a unanimous 8 - 0 decision that advocates say expands the rights of special education students, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that school districts must give students with disabilities the chance to make meaningful, «appropriately ambitious» progress.

Education advocates Friday hailed the eleventh - hour defeat of controversial efforts to rewrite state rules on teacher evaluations that they said would have weakened initiatives in Los Angeles and elsewhere to improve the quality of public school instructors.

The State Board of Education is proposing some controversial new rules, which some private school advocates say threaten the very existence of some of these schools.

But earlier on Friday, charter school advocates asked Fields to delay the impact of the ruling, saying that state dollars for the charter schools would otherwise be stopped next week.

In fact, most of the competition lauded by choice advocates of proof of the market's power takes place within a regulatory framework, but DeVos» advocacy record says she does not strongly believe in fettering a school marketplace with such rules.

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But special education advocates at school of education across the state say the new rules open up a pathway for a college graduate without formal training to become a teacher, so long as he or she can pass a certification exam.

Housing advocates said the new rules will allow for more diversity in outlying DC areas and will help address the housing problems caused by the 1,000 new residents swarming into the area each month.

In a video touting the new climate rule, Obama's lead environmental advocate, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, said that if the rule moves forward, «We'll know we're doing all we can, together, to take action against climate change.»

Because of the tight limits on carbon pollution called for in the proposed rule, using CCS would become the only way to build any new coal - fired power plants, a restriction coal advocates have said will effectively kill the industry.

But advocates of the rules say they will bring huge public health benefits and spur jobs in plant retrofits and manufacture of pollution - control equipment.

Solar advocates were popping corks when a New Year's Eve ruling by an administrative law judge in Minnesota said that distributed solar arrays were a more cost - effective resource than natural gas to meet Xcel Energy's peak power needs.

«Today's ruling makes sure that coal mines can't build roads in Colorado's precious national forest roadless areas unless and until the Forest Service makes an honest accounting of the huge amounts of climate pollution that such mining may cause,» said Alli Melton, Public Lands Direction for Crested Butte - based High Country Conservation Advocates.

Beam notes that there are two kinds of cycling advocates: «Vehicularists» who say that bikes should act like cars, go where cars go and follow the rules for cars, and «facilitators» who demand an infrastructure of bike lanes, paths and separate bike - friendly rules.However Beam says that building bike lanes is just giving in to cars, giving up cyclist rights.

The administration has been meeting for weeks with California representatives and car manufacturers to broker a deal in which the state could ascertain the ability to regulate auto emissions, when Carol Browner (assistant to the climate on energy and climate) began advocating a national set of rules: «The hope across the administration is that we can have a unified national policy when it comes to cleaner vehicles,» Browner said, according to the Washington Post.