Sentences with phrase «by federal sanctions»

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Flynn has acknowledged that he misled the federal agents by telling them that the issue of US sanctions on Russia had not been discussed when, in fact, it had.

Getting sanctioned by federal regulators, being banned from the business, having to shutter labs and void two years - worth of blood testing, and being sued by Walgreens, investors and customers, is not how entrepreneurship is supposed to work.

The move, first reported by Bloomberg Law, would scale back a 2013 Obama - era policy, known as Directive 307, which had expanded the DOL's ability to investigate and sanction federal contractors that showed a pattern of paying female workers and employees of color less than their white male colleagues.

Recently the social form of this utilitarianism has been given high sanction in an official statement made by the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America.

My marriage is however sanctioned by the state and federal governments.

It is one of seven test sites sanctioned by the Federal Aviation Administration and an anchor for a 50 - mile corridor that allows drones to fly beyond line of sight.

Federal officials had the power to sanction schools with high opt our rates by withholding funding, and the state's education commissioner said a few days ago that she was talking to officials and would not rule out the sanctions compete.

One of Manhattan's hottest properties, 650 Fifth Ave., is secretly controlled by the Iranian government in violation of US sanctions, government lawyers told a Manhattan federal jury Tuesday.

A New York federal judge granted Jay Z $ 8,000 in attorneys» fees in a lawsuit filed by an artist who claims to have helped create the logo for Roc - A-Fella Records, after the plaintiff and his attorney were sanctioned in December for failing to produce discoverable evidence.

Owners of the cart, called the Wandering Dago, sued the state and are now asking a federal judge to sanction the state for «spoliation» of emails sent by former Cuomo adviser Bennet Liebman to officials in the executive chamber.

As a result of a landmark settlement between the French Bank BNP Paribas and regulators at the State and Federal level, New York State will be paid over $ 3 billion dollars by BNP Paribas due to their repeated violations of U.S. laws and sanctions.

Federal officials had the power to sanction schools with high opt out rates by withholding funding, and the state's education commissioner said a few days ago that she was talking to officials and would not rule out the sanctions compete.

As a condition of the receipt of federal funds to support the education of individual students, schools should be required to participate in an open enrollment process conducted by a state - sanctioned authority.

This exacerbated the inherent risk - aversion and «box - checking» request for proposal processes in state education offices and school districts by adding federal sanctions to the list of risks they already faced in their procurement processes.

We propose that as a condition of the receipt of federal funds to support the education of individual students, schools be required to participate in an open enrollment process conducted by a state - sanctioned authority.

Mr. Martin and the executives on the Civic Committee of the Chicago Commercial Club, who blame the teachers union for contributing to academic failure by imposing restrictions on teachers and administrators alike, used the threat of federal sanctions to pressure the city to put many schools into private hands, outside union jurisdiction.

Superintendent David Schuler, who is president of the national School Superintendents Association, believes Illinois and other states were likely required by the federal government to determine why too few students took the exams, and he doesn't think sanctions would be involved.

Because movement conservatives of that time such as William F. Buckley Jr., and Barry Goldwater didn't view state - sanctioned racism as the great moral question that it was, because their fetish for preserving tradition led them to believe that the federal government didn't have the obligation to address segregation, because of their concerns about communism and the expansion of federal government, and because they viewed the civil disobedience by activists such as Martin Luther King (as well as their push to force social change) as an affront to the order they craved, they essentially gave succor to Jim Crow segregationists even if that wasn't their original intent.

The NCLB law applies strict sanctions if certain educational goals are not met by 2014, like limitations on Title I funding for low - income students and federal intervention in low - performing schools.

In the present context of schools» heightened accountability for instruction and student outcomes, non-school sanctioned activities result in less instructional time, conflict with important instructional activities, and may diminish the school's ability to increase student achievement as required by federal and state mandates.

Torlakson, a strong critic of NCLB, has asked Duncan to freeze federal sanctions that soon would cover 80 percent of California schools for failing to meet requirements that all students become proficient in reading and math by 2014.

They voted for undetermined standards in order to avoid financial sanctions from the federal government for not having 100 % proficiency (an impossible goal) as specified by No Child Left Behind.

Any person found to have intentionally breached the security of the test system may be subject to sanctions including, but not limited to, disciplinary action by a local board of education, the revocation of Connecticut teaching certification by the State Board of Education, and civil liability pursuant to federal copyright law.

As per the plan, not a single state reached the proficiency goals, and schools could only escape sanction by the federal government if they were granted a waiver — which Duncan would only grant to states who would agree to more testing.

Obama's rollback comes in the form of a waiver package: States that seek relief from NCLB's provisions — including the 100 percent proficiency requirement in reading and math by 2014, increasingly harsh sanctions against schools deemed as «failing» or the strictly dictated use of federal education money — will have to adapt certain administration - mandated reforms.

The No Child Left Behind Act is a much - maligned decade - old federal education law that called for regular standardized tests, disaggregation of testing data by racial subgroup, and increasing sanctions for states that fail to meet proficiency standards leading up to a requirement of about 100 percent proficiency by 2014.

ESSA, signed by President Barack Obama in December, eliminated the entire federal government's role in arbitrating the performance of schools and meting out sanctions on those that failed.

The Cooper Union is obligated by federal law to inform its students of its policies and sanctions related to copyright infringement.

Her research and curatorial projects are determined by the specific socio - political conditions: OtherIS (2011 - ongoing) is a curatorial platform of video art relating to the US - sanctioned countries; Avant - Guide to NYC (apexart, 2009) redressed historical referents of art in the city within the present; Custom Car Commandos (Art in General, 2009) cross-sectioned the auto industry in crisis with the image industry; Soap Box Event by Pia Lindman (Federal Hall National Memorial, 2008) practiced performance of free speech; among numerous other projects since 1995, when she curated the Third Annual Exhibition of Soros Center for Contemporary Art in Vilnius, Lithuania (1995) in the post — Soviet conditions at the emergence of global networks.

Michael Kennedy, HSI / Australia director, said: «If the Japanese Government sanctions whaling in Antarctic waters by Kyodo again this year, as we fear it will, and Kyodo continues to ignore the 2008 injunction and the decision of the Federal Court, it is critical that the Australian Government raises this issue with the Japanese Government in the most forceful way possible.»

Siding with the Fourth, Seventh, and Eighth Circuits, the Supreme Court held a federal court exercising its inherent authority to sanction bad faith conduct by ordering a litigant to pay the other side's legal fees is limited to awarding the fees the innocent party incurred solely because of the misconduct or — put another way — to the fees that party would not have incurred but for the bad faith.

That is the argument being made by the Recording Industry Association of America in asking a federal court in New York to impose sanctions on lawyer Ray Beckerman, in part due to his postings on his blog, Recording Industry vs The People.

It should be noted in this context, however, that such protection has been somewhat confined by a recent decision of the Federal Supreme Court of September 2016 relating to a case of insufficient observance of AML duties by the sanctioned financial institution.

«The prohibition against involuntary servitude does not prevent the State or Federal Governments from compelling their citizens, by threat of criminal sanction, to perform certain civic duties.»

Here is the issue presented for review in this case: Whether a federal court is required to tailor compensatory civil sanctions imposed under inherent powers to harm directly caused by sanctionable misconduct when the court does not afford sanctioned parties the protections of criminal due process.

Comment: One commenter suggested that a notice of information practices that omits disclosure for voluntary reporting of fraud will chill internal whistleblowers who will be led to believe — falsely — that they would violate federal privacy law, and be lawfully subject to sanction by their employer, if they reported fraud to health oversight agencies.

CrowdJustice does some due diligence to ensure none of the parties to the lawsuit are subject to any kind of national or international sanctions (such as Securities and Exchange Commission violations, federal or international court matters) and verifies that the case in question is under active litigation by a licensed attorney.

If letters and private documents can thus be seized and held and used in evidence against a citizen accused of an offense, the protection of the Fourth Amendment declaring his right to be secure against such searches and seizures is of no value, and, so far as those thus placed are concerned, might as well be stricken from the Constitution... The tendency of those who execute the criminal laws of the country to obtain conviction by means of unlawful seizures and enforced confessions, the latter often obtained after subjecting accused persons to unwarranted practices destructive of rights secured by the Federal Constitution, should find no sanction in the judgments of the courts which are charged at all times with the support of the Constitution and to which people of all conditions have a right to appeal for the maintenance of such fundamental rights.

Medicare Supplement insurance plans are not linked with or sanctioned by the U.S. government or the federal Medicare program.

VTech Electronics agreed to a $ 650,000 settlement payment and sanctions by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to resolve charges it...

Financial institutions are regulated by the federal government and are subject to criminal and administrative sanctions if they offer services to marijuana businesses.