Sentences with phrase «cases against the state»

«For years we have been relying on federal prosecutors to bring the lion's share of corruption cases against state officials,» Kaminsky said.

Subsequently the African Human Rights Court after studying the case of Mr.Woyome has also established a prima facie case against the state and has ordered the state to appoint its lawyers by Tuesday 8th August, 2017 and then thirty clear days thereafter to file its defence.

Long Island Sen. Todd Kaminsky, a former federal prosecutor who was elected in 2016 running on an anti-corruption platform following Skelos» conviction (but was not involved in either the Silver or Skelos cases), released a statement saying the Silver decision demonstrates the need for state lawmakers to stop relying on the feds to bring corruption cases against state - level elected officials, and also pass more anti-corruption measures, which lawmakers declined to do this past session.

It comes in the case against state Sen. Malcolm Smith (D - Queens), who stands accused of scheming with officials in New York City and Rockland County to raise funds for his one - time attempt to switch parties and run for mayor as a Republican.

The case against state Senate aide Robert Nickol was sent to an Albany County grand jury during an appearance in Albany City Court on Thursday.

If Sugarman had attempted to bring a case against the state party or most of the other incidents of party activity that have been heavily scrutinized in recent years, most of the evidence she brought while making her case against the county parties would be inapplicable.

A renowned Columbia University Medical Center oncologist who has been lauded for a career spanning nearly a half - century is the key witness in the multimillion - dollar bribery and kickback case against state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, sources said Thursday.

The case against state Senate aide Robert Nickol was sent to an Albany County grand jury during an appearance in Albany City Court today.

It is the only case against any state's top - two system that has been filed by minor parties Read more»

ALBANY — Federal prosecutors in the corruption case against state Senator Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, on Thursday filed a 164 - page letter detailing the application for a wiretap against the two defendants.

The case against State Sen. Dean Skelos, 67, former majority leader, contends that Glenwood funneled a $ 20,000 payment to the senator's son and helped him get work as a consultant at an environmental technology company, a field in which he had no experience.

An Albany County Court judge Monday turned down a motion to dismiss a corruption case against State Sen. Robert Ortt, R - North Tonawanda, on a claim that he was improperly denied a chance to speak before an Albany County grand jury on March 23.

In a 90 - minute closing argument, Christopher P. Conniff, a defense lawyer, told jurors that the case against State Senator Dean G. Skelos and his son, Adam, amounted to little more than distractions, snippets of conversations taken out of context, and self - serving lies from two central witnesses.

Sean Ryan [email protected] The Wisconsin Department of Transportation had better fix its public hearing process and justify its decisions or it will end up back in court, according to grass - roots organizers who won a federal case against the state.

Responding to rulings by the New Hampshire Supreme Court in the several Claremont cases against the state's school finance system, the state made major changes in 1999, switching from a local to a statewide property tax.

The case against the state, brought on behalf of nine students from schools throughout California, is being pushed by Students Matter, led by Silicon Valley entrepreneur David Welch.

It comes a week after another judge ordered a preliminary injunction favoring the Guilford and Durham school districts, which brought a similar case against the state.

State superintendent Glenda Ritz's case against the State Board went before a Marion County judge Tuesday, Nov. 5.

The two parties couldn't agree on how to interpret the insurance contract, and Jakubowicz filed a case against State Farm, asking the courts to decide.

While this looks like a good deal for governments in the short run, in the long run it has led governments to exercise less oversight of what these secretariats do, and arguably gives secretariats an incentive to be more entrepreneurial, which tends to help generate more cases against states in the long run.

A qualified Miami boat accident attorney can advise an accident victim on whether they may have a case against the state.

However, cases against the state or local governments have a different requirement.

Although government actors are held to the standard of maintaining reasonably safe roadways, it can be more difficult for plaintiffs to prove a negligence case against a state or municipal body when compared to a case against a private party.

The High Court has ruled that in a case against the state which did not directly affect the liberty of the subject, there was no irreducible minimum of disclosure of the state's case which the court would require.

Topics of discussions will include claimants» pre-arbitration considerations in cases against State respondents; unique tools available to State respondents in treaty arbitration; immunity of execution on the assets of States and State - Owned Enterprises; and the evolution of investor - State dispute settlement.

The government's suspicion of lawyers bringing their clients» cases against it extends to judges who decide cases against the state.

the Western Australia Aboriginal Legal Service is considering proceeding with a number of joined cases against the State alleging breach of fiduciary duty.

Not exact matches

WASHINGTON, May 1 - A District of Columbia federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by state bank regulators against the U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich wrote in her decision tossing out the case, issued late on Monday.

He reiterated that the facts of the case did not warrant charges pressed against the former secretary of state.

Second, the electoral college got stuck in to provide a last line of defense against public stupidity — in case you didn't know it, the electors aren't legally bound to vote as their state's majority has.

In that case, the United States would need to lock in its success there if it hopes to make any headway against ISIS forces intact in Syria, against potential Iranian efforts to profit from the group's setbacks, and against the ethnic and religious demons that have long haunted the Iraqi state.

Moyo told the civil service that the army was moving to protect them against the purge, and told the judiciary that the aim was to «ensure that as an independent arm of the state you are able to exercise your independent authority without fear of being obstructed as has been the case with this group of individuals.»

Meanwhile, Netflix's success with the Avery case has even paved the way for an Investigation Discovery follow - up television special on the case that aired last month, while former Wisconsin District Attorney Ken Kratz is reportedly writing a book about his experience leading the state's prosecution against Avery and Dassey.

Featuring a star - studded cast (Cuba Gooding Jr., John Travolta, Sarah Paulson), the series highlights some of the trial's most prominent themes, such as fame and race, while focusing on how the state's prosecution tried to build its criminal case against Simpson only to watch it come undone.

District Judge Barbara M.G. Lynn agreed June 27 to allow the three lawsuits against DOL's rule that are pending in the state to be consolidated, and both parties filed a motion asking that the judge render a decision in the case as soon as October.

Her notable cases also include Ford Spark Plugs, as well as multiple cases against Hyundai for a dangerous safety defect in the side air bag system of its Tiburon model vehicles, as well as class - action lawsuit against Hyundai Motor America and Kia Motor Company after regulators announced the companies overstated the fuel economy for many vehicles they sold in the United States, culminating in a settlement worth more than $ 255 million.

So too is our state, and so far, we've won 5/5 court cases against our very own President.

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.

For instance, the criminal case against former minister of economic development Aleksey Ulyukayev — initiated in 2016 by Igor Sechin, head of the state - owned oil company Rosneft — was evidently part of Sechin's struggle against Prime Minister Dmitriy Medvedev's government over power and resources.

Mr. Lighthizer brought such trade cases against foreign actors for decades as a lawyer for the steel industry, and he has criticized the World Trade Organization for interfering in what he sees as the United States» efforts to enforce its own laws.

The case against Bombardier, an industry of strategic importance for Canada, is likely to further strengthen Canadian resolve to fight the United States in the Nafta negotiation.

A state judge in Massachusetts ruled Wednesday that the Massachusetts Attorney General can move forward with a potentially gigantic data breach case against the credit reporting firm Equifax.

Also March 20, 2018: New York state Judge Jennifer Schecter rules against Trump's lawyers» motion to dismiss the defamation case by Summer Zervos, citing the Supreme Court's ruling in Clinton v. Jones that presidents are not immune from civil suits.

In December 2012, he added Gawker as a defendant in the state court case that he had already filed against Heather Clem and Bubba Clem.

In the article, the MSM propagandist states such things as: 2017 has seen, according to his one time Goldman Sachs source, a «dramatic crash in [physical gold coin] demand,» that interest in gold coins is linked to «political conservatism, or anarcho - libertarianism» and «end of the world right wing sentiments,» that gold has been implicated in a «conspiracy to commit money laundering,» that gold is «financed by people in the narcotics trade,» that it comes from «illegal mines and drug dealers in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador,» that «the federal authorities assume the NTR Metals [case] represented only a fraction of illegally sourced and financed gold,» that therefore the US attorney is broadly investigating the gold industry, that gold is «produced by exploited workers,» that «crude [gold] extraction techniques create serious and lasting environmental damage,» that gold plays an important part in «tax evasion,» that it is related to American gun sales, which the author abhors; that «drug dealers [use] gold imports as a way of laundering their proceeds,» and that «they came to realize that illegal gold [is] an intrinsically better business» than drug dealing; to name but a few of the aspersions cast against gold in the short article.

The Case for Banning Payday Lending: Snapshots from Four Key States (June 2013) This report outlines the battles against the payday lending industry in states with strong usury cap protections, such as New York and North Carolina, and in states like California and Illinois with weaker laws that allow payday lenders to charge triple - digit APR loans that trap people in a cycle ofStates (June 2013) This report outlines the battles against the payday lending industry in states with strong usury cap protections, such as New York and North Carolina, and in states like California and Illinois with weaker laws that allow payday lenders to charge triple - digit APR loans that trap people in a cycle ofstates with strong usury cap protections, such as New York and North Carolina, and in states like California and Illinois with weaker laws that allow payday lenders to charge triple - digit APR loans that trap people in a cycle ofstates like California and Illinois with weaker laws that allow payday lenders to charge triple - digit APR loans that trap people in a cycle of debt.

The sale and filing are intended to preserve the value of GMG's pioneering digital news business, safeguard the jobs of journalists and other staff, and allow GMG to fund the appeal against the $ 130 million judgment in the Hulk Hogan case against the company in a Florida state court.

On the surface, United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer appears to have made an ironclad case against China in the so - called Section 301 report issued on March 22.

The Ninth Circuit's case grew out of a complaint filed by four doctors and three terminally ill patients against a Washington State statute making it a crime to knowingly cause or aid an attempted suicide.

Prosecutors in the case of two Christian pastors men accused of crimes against the Sudanese state have... More