Sentences with phrase «challenge the case against»

The federal judge presiding over the corruption trial of former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, his wife Linda, and former Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto has denied all defense motions challenging the case against them.

Nicholas Lemann, in The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy, builds an even more challenging case against the dominance of standardized tests in education.

The lawyer could also challenge the case against Dr. Palmer, not just its factual accuracy but also the legitimacy of people who happily eat bacon from pigs raised in factory farms acting outraged by the death of one lion.

He says that while there is a case for protecting vulnerable witnesses, a situation can not be allowed to develop in this country whereby people are liable to be convicted where they can not effectively challenge the case against them.

We prepare a thorough analysis of the prosecution's evidence so we can challenge the case against you.

Not exact matches

Those sponsors vet against Riot's cultural tenets and challenge the hiring manager's case.

Europe's second - highest court has rejected a request from the U.S. government to intervene in Apple's challenge against an EU order to pay back taxes of up to 13 billion euros ($ 15.3 billion) because it failed to prove a direct interest in the outcome of the case.

The coalition against the pipeline is already challenging the first permit granted to ETP by the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources with a case filed by the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic, with a court date set for Jan. 4, 2018.

It's a fairly interesting challenge that Wynne is making, having a provincial government coming out against federal legislation in this sense, but as the province has the duty to enforce the Criminal Code, her asking for options so publicly is an interesting case.

A federal judge has ruled in favor of an anonymous customer of the bitcoin exchange Coinbase against the Internal Revenue Service, permitting the unnamed bitcoiner to challenge the agency's summons and proceed with their case anonymously.

The socialist case against capitalism has never, to my knowledge, challenged the productivity of the free market.

The Challenge of Peace, without reference to the logic of prima facie duties, replicates the structure of Childress» argument exactly: just war theory begins with a presumption against war, and the just war criteria function to override this presumption (or to show that it should not be overridden) in particular cases.

I am disappointed that no one has significantly challenged the case I made for the moral significance of war in Against the Nations — except for Paul Ramsey in his wonderful book Speak Up for Just War or Pacifism.

The challenges for the pouch in this industry are manifold, primarily encompassing consumer quality expectations and etiquette in wine, technical compatibility with product content (for example in beer) and even in some cases government policy being against economy products and packaging in an effort to reduce alcohol consumption, such as in Turkey.

Spoor said that there was overwhelming evidence against the meat processor, although admitted proving causation for the estimated 1,000 cases of listeriosis could be challenging.

If that's the case the league will be even more competitive next season, but if United can show what they have done in recent games, especially against City then there is no reason why they can not challenge for trophies on all fronts next season.

The case instituted against Senate President, Bukola Saraki, and his Deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, challenging their election as principal officers of the Senate has again being adjourned to June 1.

The difference now is that the people around Gordon Brown are also making the case against choice and diversity - and challenging the key elements of the Blair settlement.»

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) used the case of Jayson and Charlotte Carmichael, who successfully challenged the bedroom tax at the Supreme Court, to prevent other people from relying on the Human Rights Act when appealing against benefits decisions at the first tier tribunal.

I have marshalled a considerable case against and see no worthy opponents from Labour have discounted them from being anything of a local challenge.

The latest annual report from the Civilian Complaint Review Board makes clear for the first time that the NYPD is challenging more and more cases and taking so long to do so — an average of almost nine months in the second half of last year — that scores of cases in which the agency already had substantiated allegations against police officers are being bogged down in delays.

McCall not only gave Cuomo cover back when it looked like he might again mount a primary challenge against a black gubernatorial candidate (in this case, a sitting governor — the first African American to hold the post, David Paterson), but also stood by him when other black leaders were complaining about the lack of diversity on the statewide Democratic ticket.

The case, which is being brought by the British Humanist Association (BHA) and Richmond Inclusive Schools Campaign (RISC), challenges the legality of the process by which the schools were set up, outside of competition by the back door, and is the first ever challenge against new schools because of religious discrimination.

The federal judge presiding over the corruption trial of former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, his wife, Linda, and former Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto has denied all defense motions challenging the government's case against them.

Zanetor Rawlings, National Democratic Congress» (NDC) Parliamentary Candidate for the Klottey Korle Constituency in the Greater Accra Region, has through her lawyers asked an Accra High Court to throw out a case brought against her by incumbent MP, Nii Armah Ashietey, seeking to challenge her candidature.

The two, Alistair Nelson and Godwin Ako Gunn, allegedly threatened to «finish» the Supreme Court judges if they made any judgment against the Electoral Commission in the ongoing court case challenging the validity of the voters» register.

A Bronx judge ruled today that Councilman Fernando Cabrera could stay on the ballot in his primary challenge against State Senator Gustavo Rivera, tossing the case because Mr. Rivera's team failed to properly serve a subpoena to a petition carrier for Mr. Cabrera who allegedly collected fraudulent signatures.

«If taking press conferences is leading the region, I guess that's the case,» Walter said when asked about the challenge of running against an incumbent perceived as a leader during last November's blizzard.

The general rule of thumb is to gather three times that number to safeguard against challenges, which in this case are all but certain to come.

Regardless, he's making a strong case for how unlikely it is there would be a legal challenge against churches for not conducting gay marriages.

Since taking over from the rather more liberal, Kenneth Clarke Grayling has attacked human rights as «political correctness», proposed dramatic restrictions to the right of individuals to challenge the state through judicial review, imposed significant restrictions on access to lawyers with no - win no - fee cases, moved the government back on to the course of building more (and bigger) prisons — despite the evidence against them — and is set on dramatically privatising up to 70 % of the probation service ceding state responsibility for offenders to commercial enterprises.

State GOP Chairman Ed Cox suggested the recent call for a review by Cuomo into the handling of the Weinstein case was driven by politics as it came the same day actress Cynthia Nixon announced a Democratic primary challenge against the governor and at a time when his office is being sued over its handling of a sexual harassment claim against a former aide.

According to him, he would ensure that no Nigerian was put through the brutality of abduction, violence in whatever form or forced marriage, even as he challenged all stakeholders to rise up and take a decisive action to stem what he termed, the unacceptable cases of violence and intimidation against Nigeria children.

It was learnt that although the anti-graft agency had challenged Justice Nganjiwa's suit at the Supreme Court, it decided to also write to the NJC so that fraud cases against other judges would not be scuttled.

Webber was also considered among several Republicans who could potentially challenge Sen. Bob Mendez, a Democrat, who can now run for reelection without facing bribery charges after the U.S. Department of Justice dropped its corruption case against him.

«The political consequences for challenging petitions — for bringing a ballot - access case against your opponent — has grown significantly, in terms of editorial support and claiming some sort of good - government mantle,» he said.

More than a dozen documents reveal for the first time that despite political pushback against U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan, key interests in the state are searching for ways to comply in case legal challenges fail.

The two - time Oscar winner, now 101, is challenging a California appellate court's decision to throw out her case against Ryan Murphy and the cable network.

The required inquiry into «entanglement» has been modified and questioned, and in one case we have upheld state action against an Establishment Clause challenge without applying the Lemon test at all.

The challenge is finding ways to celebrate all learners in your classroom, and in this case you'll have to work against the natural mechanics of most games.

Education Next's legal beat columnists Martha Derthick and Josh Dunn wrote about the case as it worked its way through lower courts in Colorado, noting that a state supreme court ruling against the vouchers on Blaine Amendment grounds could open the way for a challenge to Blaine Amendments before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Fourth and fifth - grade students argued the case for or against term limits for members of Congress and Supreme Court justices at the finals of the Rendell Center for Civics and Civic Education's Citizenship Challenge.

The report came under criticism recently in an opinion piece written by Paul E. Peterson, director of Harvard's Program on Education Policy and Governance, in a report that challenges the «case» against Rhee and can be found on the website of the publication Education Next.

More on the federal suit filed against Connecticut, backed by Students Matter, the California - based group that recently challenged teacher tenure in the Vergara vs. California case.

The case, brought forward two years ago by Silicon Valley entrepreneur and education activist Dave Welsh, challenged the court to weigh teacher job protections against a student's constitutional right to equal access to a quality education.

They are also among the most challenging cases to be brought or defended against.

Such clauses have been successfully challenged by the U.S. in cases against companies including General Electric Co. and Westinghouse Electric Co., and Delta Dental Insurance Co., an insurer and service provider, Salop said.

Here, the action takes place in family court, where a successful judge faces personal challenges as well as a complicated case that pits faith against medicine.

This memo was issued after the circuit court of appeals asked for guidance in a case against United Student Aid Funds (USA Funds) challenging the assessment of collection costs.

In the Chevron and Fidelity cases stable value fund use as opposed to money market fund use was questioned; a case against Intel filed last year included an allegation of too many nontraditional assets in its target - date fund (TDF) offerings; and the Johnson case challenged the use of custom TDFs.