Sentences with phrase «case of any public institution»

In the case of any public institution (charter schools have argued in court that they are private corporations), any land transaction will generate revenue that is given back to the public.

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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.

Banks should be public institutions — and foreign banks should not be permitted except for bank branches performing a limited array of services, as long has been the case in the United States.

And, not least, public confidence in deposit - taking institutions had to be restored, using guarantees and in some cases public injections of capital.

I propose to study first an archetypical case: a secularization that occurred swiftly, with little anticipation, then a rush of public events, then a formal severance between the parties, and lastly a slow, even protracted process whereby the spirit and loyalty and identity of the institution is drained of manifest faith.

Implicit in the doctrine of church - state separation that the Supreme Court enforced in this case is the assumption that religious symbols such as the yarmulke, while appropriate for private religious devotion in home or synagogue, have no legitimate place in any public institution.

Think - tank Activities SOAAN will progress in stepwise fashion in order to develop the outputs mentioned above: Step 1) Review existing science and actions: An overview or survey of the existing science on the topic, including a discussion of the limitations of scope, empirical data, and their reliability and applicability to the organic sector's understanding of best practice; Step 2) Actors engagements: Identification in both public and private sectors of the institutions and individuals active on the topic and their respective roles and networks, so that SOAAN and the organic sector then moves to engage them, along with think tanking activities; Step 3) Think tank: Development of the model, the strategy and promotional / advocacy tools through think tank efforts including piloting cases to gain experience and showcase practicability; Step 4) Synthesis: Publication of the results, tools and recommendations.

«Previous studies have also noted that the financial condition of the most troubled institutions is, to a large extent, a product of an inefficient expense structure, revenue challenges associated with a patient mix that approaches 90 percent public payers and charity care, and overwhelming liabilities (including debt issued long ago for physical plant improvements that, in some cases, are obsolete),» the health department said in its announcement.

With three weeks to go in the legislative session, advocates are still pushing for passage of a Child Victims Act that would do away with the statute of limitations on child sex abuse cases, create a one - year window so survivors who can't bring cases under current law could do so, and treat public and private institutions the same.

Because of this — and because the possible fraud was discovered outside the research group's home institution — the case must proceed in a public fashion.

The study, which analyzed 210 lawsuits involving First Amendment claims by professors and college instructors against public colleges and universities from 1964 - 2014, found that educational institutions won more than 73 percent of cases in federal and state courts.

Research integrity and its impact on the role of institutional review boards in public institutions in Brazil: A case study

Research integrity and its impact on the role of institutional review boards in public institutions in Brazil: A case study Presenter: Carlos Alberto Guimarães, University Hospital / Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil Co-author: Sonia MR Vasconcelos, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (IBqM / UFRJ), Brazil

In a few cases, research institutions such as the Mayo Clinic and CERN have also developed a reputation for being seen as authoritative sources of science news and information for the public.

The movie presents a strong case for dramatic changes in the way the general public looks at contact sports, especially football, and to the way the institutions in charge of those sports conduct their play.

For jobs in healthcare, employers were substantially less likely to call back applicants with credentials from a for - profit online institution than those from a public institution — but, importantly, only in cases where the job doesn't require an external indicator of quality such as a professional license.

In other cases, it has involved turning elements of civil society and the private economy into arms of government policy — by requiring compliance with policy goals that are foreign to many civil - society institutions or consolidating key sectors of the economy and offering protection to large corporations willing to act as public utilities or to advance policymakers» priorities.

Coming in the wake of the recent Supreme Court decision to uphold race - conscious admissions policies at the University of Texas at Austin — a case in which Garces authored briefs on behalf of 444 social science researchers — the Schuette case will rule on changes to the admission system at public postsecondary institutions in the state of Michigan.

Many of the controversies explored in this book involve education, and Viteritti makes a strong case for resisting the urge to drive religion from the public (school) square, for allowing religious institutions to perform some public functions, and for granting deeply religious parents greater accommodations when their children attend public schools.

The case ricocheted through Colorado to the U.S. Supreme Court and back to Colorado again, where the state supreme court is set to reconsider its ruling against vouchers on the grounds of Colorado's Blaine Amendment, which prohibits public funding of religious institutions.

In the other case, however, it found that the misdiagnosis by a public institution of a deaf boy as retarded constituted «medical malpractice.»

Federal policy plays an important role in the financing of postsecondary education at institutions by providing grants to low - income students and access to loans to all students, in both cases on similar terms regardless of whether the funds are to be spent at a public, for - profit, or private, non-profit college.

The Supreme Court, in cases culminating in Agostini [v. Felton], has established the general principle that state educational assistance programs do not have the primary effect of advancing religion if those programs provide public aid to both sectarian and nonsectarian institutions (1) on the basis of neutral, secular criteria that neither favor nor disfavor religion; and (2) only as a result of numerous private choices of the individual parents of school - age children.

In that case Jepsen and Malloy used public funds to come to the defense of Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, when Pryor decided that while the law required that Paul Vallas could only stay on as the head of Bridgeport's school system if he completed a school leadership program at a Connecticut institution of higher education, Pryor would allow Vallas to stay if he only took a three - credit independent study class instead.

Louisiana's voucher program suffered an additional challenge in May when, in an unrelated case, the Supreme Court of Louisiana upheld a lower court's ruling that the voucher program violates the state's constitution by illegally diverting money earmarked for public schools to private and religious institutions.

The first is the insurance risk premium, which stems from the fact that producers of goods for public consumption (such as coffee, base metals, and petroleum), as well as the producers of these raw materials, wish to transfer the risk of price fluctuations to speculators, which in most cases are financial institutions.

In some cases, animal behaviorists working in the private sector or at large public institutions may earn a yearly salary of $ 90,000 or more.

In addition to broadly engaging with subjects such as the dystopian character of the contemporary city, the consequences of industrialization, or the lack of cultural and public spaces, this group of artworks also leads us to explore and question the role that an institution, such as Fundación / Colección Jumex, can potentially play in its immediate surrounding, in this case, Ecatepec.»

This case study, the first in the series, explores the recent history of commercial spaceflight, and the path NASA has taken to stimulate private - sector activity, in order to extract lessons for the nuclear industry and its public - facing institutions.

The point here is not just about bad PR handling of a case like the MMR affair, it is that something about public and scientific institutions which makes them first prone to garbage, and then to over act in response to its own failing — like rather gracelessly trying to recover from an accidental trip, to save face.

This case study, the third in the series, assesses the «biotech - pharma networked model» of innovation in relation to the nuclear industry's players, regulators, and public institutions.

In case T - 82 / 09, Dennekamp v Parliament, the request for public access to documents was sent to the EP following the adoption by the institution of an additional pension scheme for Members of the European Parliament (MEPs).

There is a strong case for arbitral institutions to recognise and reflect on the public policy issues that lay behind the exclusion of all funding elements from costs awards in civil litigation.

Personal injury cases, termination and employment law issues, and criminal law matters are examples of emergency situations where one should at least have a basic understanding of the first points of contact — whether a lawyer, government institutions, or other public authorities such as the police.

The Commission will be allowed to initiate review and inquiries into incidents of «tension and conflict» in a community, institution, industry or sector of the economy, as well as, authority to initiate or assist in cases where it is of the opinion that it is in the public interest to do so, which will invariably influence the direction of human rights litigation.

In that time, Melissa has represented a number of governmental institutions and their elected officers including the Maricopa County Attorneys» Office, the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and the State of Arizona in a number of high profile cases involving a range of issues including negligence, Section 1983 liability, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the Equal Educational Opportunities Act, and cases involving the United States and Arizona constitutions.

He represents clients before national courts at all instances and arbitral institutions in civil and administrative cases, provides legal advice to Lithuanian and foreign private clients and contracting authorities, including the European Commission, on the legal aspects of public procurement and pre-commercial procurement.

In California, the Elder Abuse Law requires health practitioners, public and private caregivers, and law enforcement agencies to report cases of elder abuse (California Welfare and Institutions Code § 15601).

The Advocacy Center assists with a variety of legal issues including, public benefits (Medicaid), special education, advocacy for rights of residents of institutions including nursing homes and prisons, cases involving issues of inaccessibility or discrimination, community integration, and issues related to self determination.

The choice of the mechanism belongs to the ODR provider (in our case, the Department of Justice or the Courts, as PARLe is mostly geared towards public institutions).

One wonders if the Court of Appeal had any notion, in creating its apparently limited and modest remedy for the most outrageous cases, that it was creating a threat to the budgets of public institutions calculated (at least for publicity purposes) in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

The cases relate to the definition of research under fair dealing, the meaning of «to the public» in copyright law, and the scope of fair dealing in relation to educational institutions.

Social Worker — Duties & Responsibilities Successfully serve as a psychiatric social worker and practice manager for multiple institutions Perform crisis intervention, adult, geriatric, child, and adolescent case management and therapy Counsel patients facing depression, substance abuse, bipolar disorder, dementia, and schizophrenia Serve survivors of domestic violence, rape, robbery, child abuse, suicide, and other traumatic events Responsible for 24 hour on call crisis intervention for multiple hospital emergency rooms Complete psychosocial assessments to ensure appropriate patient diagnosis and care Design and implement treatment plans including medication and individual / group / family therapy sessions Attend weekly team meetings to assess patient progress and document in the DAP system Review psychometric and psychological reports and provide feedback to patients and families Provide clients and family members with guidance and referrals to community resources Maintain contact with family members and encouraged their involvement in patient treatment Performed discharge planning including nursing home placement, home health, medication needs, transportation and Passport screening, extended in - patient and out - patient mental health services Serve as public speaker, referral development committee member, and marketing / financial advisor