Sentences with phrase «arguing against the department»

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Others in the Department of Justice have argued that the knowledge produced would be useful in ensuring against voter fraud.

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.

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.

Depending on what it says, Trump could argue that it provides evidence of deep bias against him at the FBI and use it as a pretext to fire top Justice Department officials he perceives as insufficiently loyal, like Rosenstein.

In George Marshall's State Department Policy Planning Council, Niebuhr argued that humanity's sinfulness made necessary political strategies that balanced power against power.

Nevertheless, because it was located within an academic department, it did little more than argue with others in that department against dualism and in favor of the relevance of scientific knowledge.

U.S. courts should not play a role in reviewing or restraining targeted killings, argues the Justice Department lawyers, since it would effectively enable them to «supervise inherently predictive judgments» by the president and his national security advisers «as to when and how to use force against an enemy against which Congress has already authorized the use of force.»

The U.S. Justice Department has filed court papers in a New York case arguing that a major federal civil rights law does not protect employees from discrimination based on sexual orientation, taking a stand against a decision reached under President Barack Obama.

The comptroller argued the claims were part of a disturbing upward trend — the 2,846 claims filed against the Department of Correction in fiscal 2015 is 73 percent higher than the number of claims filed in fiscal 2013, 1,643.

As New York moves to decriminalize low - level offenses, arguing enforcement is «rigged against communities of color,» other large cities are coming under pressure from the Justice Department — now led by former head of the U.S. Attorney's office in Brooklyn, Loretta Lynch — to do the same thing.

The Department of Transportation also testified against the legislation at a hearing Wednesday, arguing that enforcing the permits would be costly and divide residents.

The lawsuit includes 15 schools the United Federation of Teachers and the NAACP saved last year when they filed a similar suit against the Department of Education, arguing that the city had failed to provide enough community feedback.

The Parks & Recreation and Deveopment Services departments advised against it, arguing that losing the 3.5 acres of joint - use park space would be tough to make up in the peninsula community.

On appeal, Burdine's argued successfully against Equity that Equity should be 100 % responsible for the damages because the parking garage operators had the duty to keep the garage safe, not the department store.

In that case, the company was joined by the ACLU, arguing against the North Carolina Department of Revenue's attempt to acquire customer purchase histories.

(Indianapolis, Ind.)-- Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky (PPINK) today filed suit against the Indiana State Department of Health in U.S. District Court, arguing that Senate Enrolled Act 371 (SEA 371), legislation that singles out one health center in Lafayette for unnecessary new restrictions, is discriminatory and unconstitutional.

In its lawsuit against the CFPB, PHH argued that the arrangement was lawful under Sec. 8 (c)(2), as interpreted and applied by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which administered RESPA until 2013, at which time CFPB took over the function.