Sentences with phrase «allowed under state statutes»

The first, filed by a city resident and a member of the Hartford City Council, alleged that Coleman improperly used his annual taxpayer - financed update for political purposes and his campaign against Wooden, which is not allowed under state statutes.

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School districts in some states, including all five surveyed, may have additional protection under «recreational use» statutes, which offer immunity from certain claims against landowners who open their property to the public for recreational use.10 In states with broad recreational use statutes, such as Indiana, opening school kitchen facilities could be considered a protected activity under the law, depending on the circumstances of the use and other factors.11 However, in Massachusetts, protection for recreational activities extends only to purposes that are «scientific, educational, environmental, ecological, research, religious, or charitable,» 12 so the state's statute might not apply when districts allow for - profit groups to use school kitchens.

The options allowed under the USED guidance include using counts of Identified Students (either alone, or multiplied by 1.6 to approximate the number of children who would be approved for free and reduced - price lunches); counts of students from low - income families based on state or local income surveys; and Medicaid, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) assistance, Census (where available), or composite data authorized under the ESEA statute.

The lawsuit was filed under the state's Civil Remedy for Protection for Animals statute (Chapter 19A), a North Carolina law that allows a private citizen or organization to file suit to stop animal cruelty.

Tomorrow, the U.S. Supreme Court hears an incredibly important case called Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, stemming from a federal lawsuit brought under the Alien Tort statute, a remarkable federal law that allows people from countries outside the United States to sue foreign individuals and multinational corporations that commit human rights violations abroad - like torture, crimes against humanity, war crimes, genocide, disappearances, summary execution, that kind of thing.