Sentences with phrase «at protecting the public interest»

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Shoving people into positions of power at Federal agencies that were created to protect the public interest based on little more than Trump's gut instinct that his picks will show him the requisite personal loyalty that he demands is undermining the Federal government's ability to do its job.

Giving three extra seats on the board to the CEO was certainly founder friendly; that the expansion happened at the same time Uber accepted a $ 3.5 billion investment from Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, which came with a board seat, suggests Benchmark viewed the board expansion as a way to protect its own interests and influence as well.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

And these conclusions are (or should be) still relevant to contemporary debates regarding the family, since they make the case that the public, and therefore government, has a legitimate interest in stable families (up to a point, that is, the point at which children have been raised) and therefore in the sexual morality that protects the marital bond.

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Committee of Public Accounts chair Meg Hillier MP said: «The programme is at a critical juncture and the Department has some major decisions to make if it is going to protect taxpayers» interests and deliver all that the Government has promised from HS2.»

The NYS Office of Indigent Legal Services would have awarded Monroe County's Public Defender's office the money but the County blocked the grant, saying they don't want to protect parents» interests at the expense of the child's well - being.

Conversely, the WTO has been criticised for protecting the interests of Western pharmaceutical companies at the expense of public health, through the TRIPS (trade - related aspects of intellectual property rights) agreement.

«Ultimately, depositors» interests must be protected at all times and the public needs to be assured to boost confidence in the banking sector,» acting Secretary to Council, Peace Okantey, said in a release Thursday after the visit to the central bank.

That response drew yet another from the university and its public record custodian urging the state appellate court to either protect the competitive interests of Arizona's higher educational institutions by defending «the freedom, vigor, candor and integrity of the researchers who work there» or rule on its own that «the need to protect the confidentiality and privacy of the work done at Arizona's universities» outweighs the public's right to know.

«Ethics rules are not so much aimed at protecting us from ExxonMobil, but in ensuring that government officials are acting in the public interest rather than their own private interests,» said Kathleen Clark, a professor at Washington University Law specializing in ethics.

Unionized collective bargaining might also have addressed those issues, but it would have been done mostly behind closed doors and would have been accompanied by provisions to protect the narrow interests of the unions at the expense of the public interest.

In response to the Fourteenth Amendment claim, the court said that at some point, removing M.C. from the classroom and putting him in timeout might have gone so far as to deprive him of a protected interest in a public education, but the circuit judges, unlike the district court, concluded that 21 timeouts totaling approximately 12 hours over two and a half months did not go that far.

The purpose of school personnel certification is to protect the educational interests of students, parents, and the public at large by assuring that teachers in this state are professionally qualified.

However, Realtors then began pushing for licensing, at which point, Parham recognized that inspectors needed to have a seat at the table to ensure that their interests were protected, as well as the public's.

The public at large needs to understand that MORE than just animal welfare is at stake here, and animal lovers need to understand that the AVMA and all its state affiliates are concerned ONLY with the financial interests of its members, NOT with animal welfare, since they lobby against humane legislation to protect companion animals at every chance they get.

To protect their fossil fuel interests, which are at odds with the public's desire for a safe climate, clean water, and healthy air to breathe, the Kochs have spent the last several decades radically changing the face of American democracy, and investing major amounts of money in think tanks and other outlets involved in climate denial.

At a 10 a.m. teach - in about the importance of truth - tellers in science, GAP's Director of Education & Strategic Partnerships Dana Gold will educate attendees about the critical role that whistleblowers play in protecting the public interest and promoting science - based policy.

At the same time, more than 140 public - interest groups representing millions of Americans also sent a letter to Interior today urging that polar bears be protected as an endangered species.

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In recent years, [we have] seen situations arise where forestry development was putting local environmental and community values at risk, yet district managers could do little to affect the development and protect the public interest.

Different private and public, individual and collective, interests have to be balanced and harmonised in a transparent and accountable manner, especially when security and data - protection principles need to be implemented to protect citizens and citizens» rights at the same time.

A recent Supreme Court decision clarifies Canadian courts» discretion in granting standing to public interest groups to pursue litigation aimed at protecting the rights of vulnerable groups in Canada.

At least now, the public is receiving information about how many chances lawyers are given before the Law Society decides to act and try to protect the public interest.

Discussion at the meeting showed that all Council members «wrestled mightily» in their analysis of the applicable laws, he said, as well as the Society's regulatory mandate to protect the public interest in Nova Scotia.

At the same time, federal collateral consequences can serve public safety functions and protect government interests.

the public interest served by protecting the identity of the informant must outweigh the public interest in getting at the truth

It is useful to quote key observations by Stadlen J [at paras 126 - 129]: «In my view, notwithstanding the absence in the FTPP proceedings of some of the statutory and non-statutory safeguards which apply to criminal proceedings... [I] n deciding whether it would be fair to admit the hearsay evidence, the requirements both of Article 6 and of the common law obliged the FTPP to take into account the absence of all those [safeguards]... [I] n my judgment, no reasonable panel in the position of the FTPP could have reasonably concluded that there were factors outweighing the powerful factors pointing against the admission of the hearsay evidence... The means by which the claimant can challenge the hearsay evidence are... not in my judgment capable of outweighing those factors... The reality would appear to be that the factor which the FTPP considered decisive in favour of admitting the hearsay evidence was the serious nature of the allegations against the claimant coupled with the public interest in investigating such allegations and the FTPP's duty to protect the public interest in protecting patients, maintaining public confidence in the profession and declaring and upholding proper standards of behaviour... However, that factor on its own does not in my view diminish the weight which must be attached to the procedural safeguards to which a person accused of such allegations is entitled both at common law and under Article 6... The more serious the allegation, the greater the importance of ensuring that the accused doctor is afforded fair and proper procedural safeguards.

An account of the court proceedings could have been published in the public interest and at the same time the right to privacy of the children could have been protected.

Comment: One commenter expressed concern that our proposal to protect the individually identifiable health information about the deceased for two years following death would impede public interest reporting and would be at odds with many state Freedom of Information laws that make death records and autopsy reports public information.

At best opponents of TWU have glommed on to the requirement in paragraph 3 (a) that the BCLS uphold the «public interest in the administration of justice by (a) preserving and protecting the rights and freedoms of all persons».

We believe that the approach we have taken, a clarification of the important duty of loyalty, reflects the reality of the practice of law while at the same time protecting the public interest.

The U.S. Supreme Court found the government does have a legitimate interest in «ensuring public safety and order, promoting the free flow of traffic on streets and sidewalks, protecting property rights, and protecting a woman's freedom to seek pregnancy - related services,» and that the buffer zones at issue «clearly serve these interests.»

«Dave and our other investigators are at the front line of RECO's efforts to protect the public interest and enhance consumer confidence in the real estate profession,» says RECO registrar Joseph Richer in a news release.

It is her belief that the tools and marketing products and services licensed Realtors have developed to protect the integrity of real estate trade for the public must be made more accessible for use by different business models, unlicensed and unregulated corporate and private interests thereby eroding the very securities that are at the root of the values a Profession Real Estate representative provides.