Sentences with phrase «against the department for»

In a major ruling, the British Humanist Association (BHA) has won its case against the Department for Education (DfE) over its refusal to publish a list of all groups proposing to establish Free Schools.

Acting for interested parties in the West Coast Judicial Review, an attempted challenge to UK franchising by the Rail Unions and by Enfield borough Council against the Department for Transport.

The Administrative Court has granted an application for judicial review brought by Drax Power Ltd against the Department for Energy and Climate Change («DECC»).

Not exact matches

Catherine Lhamon, the Department of Education's assistant secretary for civil rights, said in a statement that the government would «vigorously enforce Title IX's prohibition against discrimination on the basis of sex, including gender identity, in every applicable school.»

The U.S. Department of Energy has begged for new authority to defend against weaknesses in the grid in a nearly 500 - page comprehensive study issued in January 2017 warning that it's only a matter of time before the grid fails, due to disaster or attack.

But the Washington Post's Glenn Kessler offers an alternative — and in our view, more credible — explanation for why the administration edited down the talking points, suggesting that the emails reveal a «bureaucratic knife fight» that pitted the State Department against the CIA.

The U.S. Justice Department filed criminal charges against a unit of Panasonic for falsifying financial books and records to conceal payments to sales agents.

At Google, an audit of their pay practices by the Department of Labor found «systemic compensation disparities against women pretty much across the entire workforce,» showing, one official has said, six to seven standard deviations between pay for men and women in nearly every job category.

Reports emerged on Thursday that the U.S. Justice Department is poised to file a civil lawsuit against the firm for selling over 100,000 vehicles that emit excess diesel emissions.

The suit was brought against the Department of Health and Human Services by March for Life, a group that holds annual marches in Washington, D.C. opposing the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that legalized abortions in the U.S..

As a senator, Sessions criticized the Justice Department in 2009 for dismissing three defendants from a voting rights lawsuit against the New Black Panther Party after allegations of voter intimidation outside a Philadelphia polling place.

Though in her second campaign for Senate in 2012 — against Connecticut Democrat Chris Murphy, a member of the Senate Small Business Committee who is in favor of her confirmation — she did support a plan that proposed to fold the SBA into the Department of Commerce.

The New York Times» Jim Stewart discusses the latest on the antitrust lawsuit from the Justice Department against AT&T over their bid for Time Warner.

David Goodfriend, Goodfriend Government Affairs president, discusses whether AT&T can expedite its lawsuit against the Department of Justice for blocking the company's merger with Time Warner.

The Pentagon on Thursday confirmed that there was a hacking attempt this past weekend against an online financial services portal that Citigroup manages for Defense Department credit card holders.

On Tuesday, the Justice Department indicted McClendon in a conspiracy in which two unnamed companies agreed not to bid against each other for oil and gas leases in northwest Oklahoma between late 2007 and early 2012, a charge he denied.

Krasner: I have — like a lot of civil rights lawyers, like a lot of activists — been beating my head against the wall of the DA's office and the [Philadelphia] police department for a long time because the DA's office in Philly was not enforcing the law against police.

Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a legal brief in an appeals court case, arguing against workplace discrimination protection for employees who are gay.

She joined Promontory from the Department of Homeland Security, where she served as the deputy undersecretary for cybersecurity and communications and led responses to cybersecurity threats against corporations, civilians, and the government.

Jewish department - store owners unquestionably influence newspaper policy in cities where they are numerous like New York but the influence is rather negative (against criticism of Jews) than positive (for particular Jews or particular Jewish programs).

The FDA, two state departments of health and The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid have also opened probes against the company.

The Health Department has taken just one action against an oil company in the past three years, citing Continental Resources for oil and brine spills that turned two streams into temporary toxic dumps.

The sudden surge in personal attacks against Rosenstein and Mueller seems like it's coming in response to a Justice Department investigation into Cohen for payments he made to women who say they had affairs with Trump.

He has attacked former FBI Director James Comey for releasing memos he claims are classified, and briefly blocked a Democratic memo from the House Intelligence Committee over its inclusion of classified information, yet he grandstands against redactions insisted upon by his own Justice Department.)

The Department of Justice defended the rule when it filed papers in July in a Washington district court arguing against the case filed by the National Association for Fixed Annuities.

As the last witness for the defense in the Justice Department's legal battle against AT&T's $ 85.4 billion deal to buy Time Warner, Mr. Stephenson portrayed the 140 - year - old phone giant as being in an existential crisis and in need of the deal with Time Warner to compete against tech companies.

The coalition against the pipeline is already challenging the first permit granted to ETP by the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources with a case filed by the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic, with a court date set for Jan. 4, 2018.

The federal judge overseeing the case in Texas against the Department of Labor's fiduciary rule on Wednesday denied considering all but two of the eight amicus briefs filed in the court, allowing only the briefs filed by the Financial Planning Coalition and the American Association for Justice.

CIP staff recommended the panel sustain allegations of misconduct against Delgado for violating department policy and Florida law.

In a separate case, the Justice Department filed civil charges against S&P in February 2013, accusing it of failing to warn investors that the housing market was collapsing in 2006 because it would be bad for business.

But legal experts have already begun to weigh in on the coming legal battle, and there seems to be a consensus that it might be tougher for the Justice Department to lobby against this vertical integration, because blocked mergers in the past have typically been among direct competitors.

The Treasury Department says this type of annuity «can provide a cost - effective solution for retirees willing to use part of their savings to protect against outliving the rest of their assets, and can also help them avoid overcompensating by unnecessarily limiting their spending in retirement.»

The three - year, # 110 million UK Department for International Development (DFID)- funded Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Extremes and Disasters (BRACED) 1 programme aims to build the resilience of up to 5 million vulnerable people against climate extremes and disasters.

The statement from Mr. Clapper and the Department of Homeland Security, which is primarily responsible for defending the country against sophisticated cyberattacks, said the intelligence agencies were less certain who was responsible for «scanning and probing» online election rolls in states around the country.

The U.S. Justice Department had just filed a 198 - page lawsuit against Barclays in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York replete with allegations of breathtaking securities fraud.

Most Supreme Court watchers are predicting that a majority of justices will side with the petitioner — Mark Janus, a child support specialist for the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services — against labor in Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31.

Plaintiffs in the court case that threw out the Department of Labor's fiduciary rule declared «complete victory» against the rule and said the way is now clear for the Securities and Exchange Commission to create a new standard that would apply across financial disciplines.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has filed a lawsuit against digital payment processor Payza for allegedly operating an unlicensed money service business that processed more than $ 250 million in transactions.

Thrivent Financial for Lutherans became the sixth plaintiff to lob a complaint against the Department of Labor's fiduciary rule when the insurer filed a suit in late September challenging the class - action waiver requirement under the rule's best interest contract exemption, or BICE.

For years he waged war against his neighbors, calling police, fire inspectors, the health department, and trying every bureaucratic means to shut the ministry down or push it out.

In those cases the court deferred to the judgment of the Air Force that the free - exercise claim of a Jewish officer who wore his yarmulke on duty could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of correctional authorities that the free - exercise claim of a Black Muslim to attend Friday afternoon religious services could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service that building a logging road through a national forest was necessary despite the damage to religious practices of Native American tribes in that area; it deferred to the Internal Revenue Service's ruling that Bob Jones University was not entitled to tax exemption because of its religiously motivated rule against interracial dating and marriage on campus; it deferred to the judgment of the secretary of labor that a religious community must pay its members the minimum wage for work they performed in the group's business although the members said they had religious objections to being paid for their work.

February 2011 — Although he filled posts in the State Department, for more than two years, Obama did not fill the post of religious freedom ambassador, an official that works against religious persecution across the world; he filled it only after heavy pressure from the public and from Congress.

The document provides the Justice Department's legal rationale for the controversial policy of using lethal force against U.S. citizens fighting on behalf of terrorist groups.

The suit against the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Waller County jail was settled for a combined total of $ 1.9 million — Texas Department of Public Safety will pay $ 100,000 and the Waller County jail will pay $ 1.8 million.

For instance a US Education department report concerning American public schools shows large scale contemporary abuse, with little action being taken against admitted offenders.

In a new filing that revised the original complaint against USDA to reflect the department's move to withdraw the rule, the Organic Trade Association was joined by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) and the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) as co-plaintiffs in the suit.

The Department of Agriculture and Water Resources is responsible for the assessment of the Basin states» progress against these milestones.

In the Treasury restructuring, many of the staff whose positions are being scrapped have been given the option of taking a redundancy payout or applying for new «contested roles» where they are vying against colleagues to stay on in a streamlined department.

Despite vandalism in one of the five multilocation field trials in August this year, data are being readied for submission to government regulators who will review Golden Rice against international standards for biosafety, according to Antonio Alfonso, coordinator of the biotechnology program of the Philippine Department of Agriculture (DA) and leader of the Golden Rice project at the DA - Philippine Rice Research Institute (DA - PhilRice).

The California Department of Pesticide Regulation issued a Section 18 Emergency Exemption for the use of Hero ® EW Insecticide against the polyphagous shot hole borer (PSHB) on Monday April 11, 2016.