Sentences with phrase «case against an administration»

According to the Supreme court's recent decision regarding prop 8 it does not matter since is we do not have standing to bring a case against an administration for failure to enforce laws.

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WASHINGTON — Canada has filed a sweeping trade case against the United States at the World Trade Organization, lobbing a diplomatic grenade at the Trump administration's «America First» approach amid an increasingly embattled trade relationship between the longstanding North American allies.

China's National Copyright Administration and National Office Against Pornographic and Illegal Publications on Thursday jointly publicized 10 typical cases on copyright infringement and piracy of 2017.

I think there is a technocratic case to be made against the Obama administration's handling of the period preceding the events in Libya.

As it turns out, these poor fellows may not have been vagrants but merely exercising their constitutional rights: The Obama Administration recently filed a legal brief in a case out of Boise arguing that, in certain circumstances, outlawing sleeping in public violates the Eighth Amendment proscription against «cruel and unusual punishment.»

«Also obvious to Nigerians now is the use of the fight against corruption as means of settling scores with perceived enemies as is the case with key PDP leaders including its Spokesman, an action that is ostensibly aimed at silencing the opposition from looking in and exposing the incompetence, and the double standard of the administration.

There were as many as five complaints of sexual harassment made against employees in the mayor's office during the de Blasio administration, City Hall officials said, but they refused to say how the perpetrators in those cases were disciplined.

I may yet be proved right in the future when no corruption cases in the judges» corruption cases are pending before the courts or when this government decides to investigate my allegations against the John Mahama government in the use of unconstitutional covert agents during his administration.

Sixteen state attorneys general — including New York's Eric Schneiderman — along with Washington D.C. filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in support of the state of Hawaii's case against the Trump administration's latest ban prohibiting travel from several majority - Muslim nations.

The committees collection and distribution of money factor into a growing criminal case against New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration, and upstate Senate races in 2014.

And she said she will pursue policies and cases now in motion, including more than 100 lawsuits that Schneiderman filed against President Donald Trump and his administration.

A federal judge has officially «severed» the corruption trials against eight individuals in a case that began with an alleged bid - rigging probe of the Cuomo administration's Buffalo Billion program — setting one of the trial dates in the midst of the governor's expected re-election bid.

And she says she will pursue policies and cases now in motion, including over one hundred lawsuits that Schneiderman filed against President Trump and his administration.

«Anyone who has a case against any man of God should swear an oath, proceed to the law court and face the rigours, rather than engage in media trial and character assassination, which have become the hallmark of this administration.»

The group revealed startlingly, how Dr Amoako Tufuor nearly wrecked President Kufuor's government with a rape case against a Dutch diplomat working at the School Feeding Office «Amoako Tufuor nearly messed the administration of President Kufuor with the raping of the Dutch woman officer working at the School feeding office as agent for the Dutch Organisation which sponsored the School Feeding Program.

In the case of the comptroller against the Department of Social Services, DSS is claiming that the financial information on about a dozen wards of the state under its administration is not subject to comptroller scrutiny.

But unlike many, the several agencies and officials who regularly monitor, regulate, or litigate against the mayoral administration are put in an awkward situation, annually appealing for funding in a dynamic that can hamper their ability to carry out charter - mandated duties and, in some cases, lead

According to statement, «the question remains, if not to mortify, dehumanize and break our National Publicity Secretary, who has been very vocal against the APC administration, and of course to send a signal to others critical of the government, what else would have informed the decision to produce him in court in handcuffs, even when his case does not border on security threat?»

The widespread case against Jonathan was that he was incompetent and that his administration was grossly corrupt.

The mission of CFS is to provide excellent laboratory services in support of the administration of justice and public safety for the citizens of Ontario by: 1) providing scientific examinations and interpretations in cases involving injury or death in unusual circumstances, and in crimes against persons or property; 2) presenting independent objective expert testimony to courts in Ontario; 3) conducting research; and 4) presenting educational programs on forensic science for agencies using forensic science services.

But last week, after extensive coverage in the NZZ am Sonntag newspaper and criticism from its own faculty about its handling of the case, it launched an official investigation into the original allegations: that a leading professor there, astrophysicist Marcella Carollo, mistreated graduate students for more than a decade, while the administration ignored complaints against her.

There is, of course, the story of a supposedly free press — in this case, The Washington Post — going up against an unhinged presidential administration that is trying to undermine their attempts to expose a vast litany of government sins.

In any case, the Obama Administration lacks much in the way of leverage against California's move (and similar steps that could be taken by other states still under No Child) because it has effectively shredded the law, both through the waiver gambit and by blessing moves by states that are, in substance, little different than what California has done.

The Trump administration's Justice Department was expected to be less aggressive in its pursuit of False Claims Act cases against the mortgage industry.

On the same day the Center filed comments against the proposed standards, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denied an administration request to revisit the court's November 2007 ruling in our case against the Department of Transportation, once again affirming that fuel economy standards must be set at the maximum feasible level to save oil, reduce greenhouse gas pollution and protect consumers.

Supreme Court to decide whether to hear oil companies and Alaskan native case against Trump administration for listing seal as threatened due to climate change

Based on this film, it would appear the anti-Trumpers have a serious case against the new administration's view of catastrophic climate change on snowmen genocide.

New York lawyer, law professor and American Lawyer contributor Scott Horton brings us an update on the Spanish case against former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and five other former Bush Administration officials over their role in the so - called «torture memo» authorizing the use of extreme interrogation techniques at Guantanamo.

«After all, the Supreme Court, in the 2004 Rasul decision, had firmly rejected the Bush administration's claim that U.S. courts did not have jurisdiction to hear cases against the Guantanamo detainees.»

In the case before Lamberth, Taitz filed a FOIA suit against the Social Security Administration, alleging that the president is linked to 39 Social Security numbers.

Senior U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor, ruling in a case brought against the Bush administration by the American Civil Liberties Union and others, issued a 44 - page opinion finding that the National Security Agency's wiretap program violates the First and Fourth Amendments to the Constitution, the separation of powers doctrine, statutory law and the Administrative Procedures Act.

Represent a group of disabled employees of the Social Security Administration in a class action case that alleges that the Social Security Administration discriminates against employees with targeted disabilities by creating a glass ceiling and limiting promotions and other career advancement opportunities.

While he'd planned to cover familiar historical cases such as Marbury v. Madison and more recent cases such as Obergefell v. Hodges for his Beijing students this past spring, he found that his students were captivated by the travel ban litigation and emoluments clause lawsuits against President Donald Trump's administration.

The claim against Angela and Alexandra related to an interest which they would receive on completion of the estate administration, and the case was a «recast» of the 2014 Israeli application brought against the administrator.

In an article in the current New York Review of Books, «The Torture Memos: The Case Against the Lawyers,» Georgetown law professor David Cole examines the role and culpability of the lawyers of the U.S. Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, who, under the Bush administration, wrote memoranda approving of and authorizing torture by the CIA.

A lawyer and his or her legal team can help you gather all of the paperwork necessary to build a solid claim, present your case before an Administrative Law Judge or Federal Court Judge and cross examine any witnesses the Administration may bring to testify against you.

The Court ultimately ruled in a 5 - to - 1 decision that the evidence gathered in the illegal search (i.e. the presence of illegal drugs) must be excluded from the case against her under Section 24 (2) of the Charter on the grounds that the admission of such evidence at trial would bring the administration of justice into disrepute.

Public Citizen Litigation Group, often working with the experts in our Health Research Group, brings cases against the Food and Drug Administration to further transparency, ensure compliance with statutory requirements, and compel action on safety matters too long delayed.

In 2013/2014, 39 % of cases completed in adult criminal courts included at least one offence against the administration of justice among the charges.

The court must be convinced that the information obtained in the earlier mandate could be used against the client in the current case, and that there would be a material threat to the fair and efficient administration of justice.

Legal Times: «Wednesday's decisive Supreme Court ruling against Wyeth in a landmark pharmaceutical product liability case may also close off a major front in a hard - fought battle by businesses and the Bush administration to insulate national corporations from state tort litigation.»

Betsy MacKenzie at Out of the Jungle notes that a Spanish court has agreed to consider a criminal case against six former Bush administration officials over allegations they enabled and abetted torture by justifying the abuse of terrorism suspects.

Generally there is no provision against cancellation of a policy except in case of a Medicare where you need to apply to the Health care Financing Administration (HCFA) if you choose to get private insurance.

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