Sentences with phrase «by a private citizen on»

A qui tam claim is one form of a whistleblower case where a lawsuit is filed by a private citizen on behalf of the state or federal government against a person or business that is allegedly defrauding an arm of the state or federal government.

Not exact matches

Bezos's proposal comes just after Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, announced this week that the company has plans to send two private citizens on a trip around the moon by 2018.

A new cybersecurity law there forces American companies to keep data on Chinese citizens stored within China, while Chinese state - media have run public service announcements warning about private data collected by Apple's iPhones.

So sad that you don't see the difference between a billboard posted next to a highway — paid for by private funds — and religious dogma and prayer being forced on citizens and paid for by tax dollars.

1) Charities spend their income on necessities, such as food and utilities, which ever - so - slightly re-orients our economy toward recession - resistant products, rather than luxuries 2) Charities spend their money quickly, but on independent schedules, making for a smoother stimulus effect on the economy 3) Charities make purchases tax - free, meaning that $ 1 spent by a charity generates a full $ 1 of private economic activity; furthermore, much of those tax revenues are recovered as income tax on the grocery stores, utility companies, etc. that might not have received that income otherwise 4) Charitable giving is by far the most democratic way to improve society; from birth control to bombers, government assuredly spends money on something you don't like, and charitable giving restores your say - so 5) Charitable donations are tax deductible, meaning you keep those tax dollars in your local community 6) Charitable donations provide the funds necessary for volunteers to serve the needy, thus giving «the average citizen» a chance to meet and interact with the needy, breaking down stereotypes

Although many of these claims challenge the veracity of «organic,» «healthy,» and «100 %» claims on labels, several states are affording new opportunities to attack ingredient labels — an area that federal courts have traditionally found to be preempted (barred) by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with no private right of action for individual citizens.

Your example of Jimmy Jones is a useful one, but is the distinction between Jones and (say) Arkady Dvorkovich that while both may be private citizens and both could be approached by reporters, Jones is not on the «political stage» while Arkady might be considered to be so?

Yes, I am arguing that the core principle which Powell argued in 1968 - that not having first / second class citizens depended only on the public authorities not discriminating, but that they have no business in the choices which are made by private citizens or organisations, or whatever reasons lie behind them - was pretty much settled in the late 1960s and»70s.

I seem to remember him saying this morning that the memos were written by a private citizen and unclassified but the statement on CNN makes it sound like he wrote the memos to cover his butt and that they are official accounts from his side of what happened.

Democratic 2016 frontrunner Hillary Clinton also spoke at the conference, and she pledged that if elected, she would advance President Barack Obama's policies on immigration, particularly those impacting childhood arrivals and parents of citizens and legal residents, and go a step further by closing private immigration detention centers.

«A consultant according to the state's highest court refers to persons or entities retained by the city,» he added, pointing out that the mayor's advisors are private citizens who are not on the city's payroll, which is the basic requirement for shielding communications.

«For private property claims, 197 countries at one time or another had a basis by which private citizens could make claims on land and not make payment.

His freshman effort was a story of tragedy and triumph — and one that brought about immense public, private, and academic discourse on the state of America, as experienced by its second - class citizens.

We will not, said BB&T, «lend to commercial developers that plan to build condominiums, shopping malls and other private projects on land taken from private citizens by government entities using eminent domain.»

Private citizens who want a ticket must undergo a month - long online course, followed by 4 - 6 weeks of training in Houston, Texas, and a training course on the Aurora Station.

The final part of the exhibition presents a show within the show curated by a prominent contemporary industrial designer, featuring spy tools used by the GDR and the Soviet Union on their citizens: technological instruments capable of breaking down the barriers of the private sphere, selected for the prophetic beauty of their rational design as related to contemporary computers and smartphones.

We should be addressing the meanings that divide us on an issue like this, because they divide us on lots of things — not just the use of violence by individuals of one race on those of another, or even the use of it by the police against private citizens, but also matters as diverse as whether climate change is occurring or whether schools should vaccinate pre-adolescent girls against HPV.

If they don't like any of the particular options that fit the best available evidence on sea level rise, or don't like the particular ones that they suspect a majority of their fellow citizens might, they can be expected to try to stigmatize the municipal and various private groups engaged in adaptation planning by falsely characterizing them and their ideas in terms that bind them to only one of the partisan cultural styles that is now (sadly and pointlessly, as a result of misadventure, strategic behavior, and ineptitude) associated with engagement with climate change science in national politics.

About the William J. Clinton Foundation Building on a lifetime of public service, President Bill Clinton established the William J. Clinton Foundation with the mission to improve global health, strengthen economies, promote healthier childhoods, and protect the environment by fostering partnerships among governments, businesses, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and private citizens to turn good intentions into measurable results.

It seeks a society characterized by freedom of thought for individuals, limitations on power, especially of government and religion, the rule of law, the free exchange of ideas, a market economy that supports relatively free private enterprise, and a transparent system of government in which the rights of all citizens are protected.

He mobilized the support of 80,000 citizens and 35 deputies of the Legislative Assembly to sign a petition calling on Costa Rica's president to halt the practice and close private docks to the landing of international ships, as dictated by existing customs legislation.

Limbaugh denied having making this statement, so he turned the tables, posting the letter on eBay for sale as a «priceless memento» of the folly of Senior Majority Leader Harry Reid and 40 other senators, who attempted to «demonize a private citizen by lying about his views.»

Hence, if a citizen of India is not denied admission purely on the basis of his / her religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth, his admission to a restaurant or a hotel owned and operated by the government or private concerns may be prohibited as the rights of admission may be reserved with the management of the premises.

It may be that there is a deficit of accountability, engagement and information between the state and its citizens, but should that gap be plugged by imposing burdens directly on private sector bodies?

If an injury occurred in the scope of the employee's job or the employee was acting on behalf of the government, then the FTCA allows private citizens to sue the government for damages caused by the negligence of federal employees.

The private lives of individual citizens are protected by ensuring that proper limitations on the use of surveillance of individual citizens are observed by government.

The system — which is run by the private sector operating on a commission basis — allows citizens to avoid the woeful government infrastructure and saves them from traveling to government offices, lining up for hours, or being extorted for a bribe by corrupt officials.

I have no need to, nor should I, go into a comparison of the financial circumstances of a corporate citizen versus a private citizen, but each of the two citizens is entitled to competent counsel, entitled to pursue their claim on the basis of advice received by each of those counsel, and that is what happened here.

California state law prohibits citizens from breaching one another's privacy by horning in on private conversations.

In the US, I don't think there is any broad law that applies to any information on you held by any private company, however, in this digital world and when dealing with the internet - based companies, most concerned citizens would probably get away with making it seem as if they're from Europe, and requesting such information anyways.

Habeas corpus has a symbolically central place in the law because it was the primary means by which a private individual could contest government authority over a person in a court of law where the citizen was in theory at least on an equal footing with the state.

Faced with a security expert telling her that Amazon Echoes could easily be used by law enforcement to spy on private citizens, Cranz shrugs, writing, «I don't especially care.»

For realtors to be seconded by FINTRAC as «investigators» is no different than making it the official policy of Canada to encourage private citizens to spy on their neighbours and to report them to a secretive agency.

Robert Bailey: The threat of cyber-crime is incredibly serious — more dangerous and more commonplace than ever before, as unwitting citizens on public and private networks are targeted daily by a host of cyber criminals.