Sentences with phrase «claims in the public hearings»

Prepared reports for improvements such as cost effects on the public, environmental projects and collect data to support the claims in the public hearings.

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But in a public hearing in San Francisco on May 3, Waymo attorney Charles Verhoeven, took the claim a step further.

«As opposed to advocating for a more level playing field for those off all religions and none by stating thatChristian Churches have a unique position in British society and a particularly strong claim to be heard, he is supporting the increasingly strident lobbying of a minority of Christians for more influence in our public life and greater privilege for those with Christian beliefs.

On the allegations, we have heard the claims put in the public domain.

We need to make sure that we are in control over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect from him?nothing.

Abe claimed in a letter he wrote to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, that the public hearing was part of the political manipulation of the Governor Nyesom Wike - led Peoples Democratic Party's government in Rivers State.

Jurors weren't allowed to hear testimony that Bill Cosby's chief accuser was once hooked on hallucinogenic mushrooms or had her sights set on becoming a millionaire, but that hasn't stopped the defense from airing the explosive claims about Andrea Constand in the court of public opinion.

Images of injuries Heard allegedly sustained at the hand of Depp were published in People and a mutual friend wrote an essay corroborating her claims of abuse, but a public battle was waged when Depp's friend Doug Stanhope published a column claiming she was blackmailing Depp.

Common Core opponents claimed at a public hearing that teachers were not involved in the creation and development of the standards, or that their comments and feedback weren't used.

In response, MPS said R.M.M., as a private school student, had neither an individual right to a free appropriate public education nor a right to a due process hearing to claim that right.

Before a single child's information is turned over to any 3rd party, policymakers should give assurance to parents and educators that no harm will come to Tennessee school children by adopting the following principles: The state and districts should be required to publish any and all existing data sharing agreements in printed and electronic form, and include a thorough explanation of its purpose and provisions, and make it available to parents and local school authorities statewide; The Department of Education should hold hearings throughout the state or testify before the legislature to explain any existing data agreement, and answer questions from the public or their representatives, obtain informed comment, and gauge public reaction; All parents should have the right to be notified of the impending disclosure of their children's data, and provide them with a right to consent or have the right to withhold their children's information from being shared; The state should have to define what rights families or individuals will have to obtain relief if harmed by improper use or release of their child's private information, including how claims can be made; and finally, any legislation must ensure that the privacy interest of public school children and their families are put above the interests of any 3rd Party and its agents and subsidiaries.

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According to their marketing materials and testimony at legislative hearings, charter schools claim that their students score 10 to 30 percent better on master tests than do students in the nearby public schools.

An Oregon tribal leader and an environmental activist filed a petition for review Tuesday in Marion County Circuit Court, claiming officials didn't hold hearings or provide opportunities for public comment on an oversize shipment scheduled to depart Umatilla this month.

The situation doesn't appear to something that would be likely to have happened that way, much like the second half of the situation in the above - mentioned Gelbspan timeline situation, where he (as a private citizen whose only public appearance at that time in the matter was a solitary article he co-authored which briefly turned him into a skeptic) claimed an Assistant Attorney General allowed him to influence an official hearing in a major way.

Since this book is written by a sceptical French climatoligist who has no connection to the oil industry or the various liberterian think tanks and who claims indisputably, that the «greenhouse effect or global warming scenario is a myth» fostered on the general public by so called scientists, I would be very interested in hearing your rebuttal, because I am still in the process of forming an informed opinion.

Referring to the reasons of privacy and confidentiality which are perceived to underpin the choice of arbitration, Mance LJ noted that CPR 62.10 — which provides that hearings of an arbitration claim may be in public or private — was simply a starting point.

Specifically, setting the bar at «balance of probabilities plus» might encourage employers to settle otherwise unmeritorious claims where an interim order has been made (following a necessarily incomplete and superficial examination of the evidence and the parties» respective positions); and give successful employees unrealistic expectations as they move towards the full hearing, especially bearing in mind the absence of a statutory compensation cap in public interest disclosure cases.

In another example of the mistrust (and perhaps misunderstanding) of LPP, there has been recent public criticism of solicitors claiming LPP in the context of parliamentary select committee hearings where their clients have not waived LPIn another example of the mistrust (and perhaps misunderstanding) of LPP, there has been recent public criticism of solicitors claiming LPP in the context of parliamentary select committee hearings where their clients have not waived LPin the context of parliamentary select committee hearings where their clients have not waived LPP.

«The matters to which the court must have regard include --(a) the financial value of the claim and the amount in dispute, if different; (b) whether it would be more convenient or fair for hearings (including the trial) to be held in some other court; (c) the availability of a judge specialising in the type of claim in question; (d) whether the facts, legal issues, remedies or procedures involved are simple or complex; (e) the importance of the outcome of the claim to the public in general».

Motion to be heard 12 (1) If a defendant against whom a proceeding is brought or maintained considers the whole of the proceeding or any claim within the proceeding has been brought in response to their expression or public participation, the defendant may, subject to subsection (2), bring an application for one or more of the following orders: a) To dismiss the proceeding or claim, as the case may be; b) For costs and expenses; c) For punitive or exemplary damages against the plaintiff.

Authorizes the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to appoint magistrates (rather than referees) in civil actions in the Court of Claims and authorizes a magistrate to disclose or refer to certain records or reports otherwise exempt from public disclosure in reparations hearings.

Likewise, there is no claim for looking at the neighbour's pretty house, parking a car legally but with malintent, engaging in faux photography on a public street, raising objections at a municipal hearing, walking on the sidewalk with dictaphone in hand, or just plain thinking badly of a person who lives nearby.

He has defended businesses in state and federal court and at the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (including in public hearings), against a variety of employment - related claims.

Practice Highlights His practice includes representing physicians and medical clinics in negotiating employment contracts, partnership contracts, joint venture contracts and establishment of medical corporations; representation of physicians and medical clinics in the purchase and sale of medical practices; representation of physicians, dentists, pharmacists, medical clinics, surgical centers, hospitals, clinical laboratories and nursing homes before the Illinois Department of Professional Regulation, Illinois Department of Public Aid, Illinois Department of Public Health and Federal Department of Health and Human Services in administrative license and recoupment hearings; representation of brokers and salesman before the Office of Banks and Real Estate; representation of physicians and other health care providers at internal hospital hearings involving termination or discipline of hospital privileges; representation of physicians in hearings before managed care providers to terminate the physician as a provider; representation of health care providers in criminal proceedings in federal or state court on charges related to Medicare and Medicaid vendor fraud and false claims; general and civil litigation related to medical care providers; and domestic relations.

He also acted as lead counsel for the General Service Small / General Service Medium customer class in a multi-week hearing before the Manitoba Public Utilities Board for the first Cost of Service Review of Manitoba hydro in over 10 years, and is acting for acting for SNC - Lavalin as a plaintiff in a multimillion - dollar coverage claim as against its insurer with respect to an E&O claim regarding a major infrastructure project in Manitoba.

Her case was heard by the Honourable Justice Stinson, who found in favour of the unnamed woman, creating a new tort of «public disclosure of embarrassing private facts» and awarding over $ 100,000 in damages and costs (the plaintiff brought her action under the Simplified Procedure which limits a claim of damages to $ 100,000).

So most civil disputes which go to a final hearing are decided in a forum where the cost of legal representation is not recoverable and public funding is not available, the so - called small claims court.

In public interest disclosure (whistleblowing) cases, the tribunal may hear a claim which is brought within three months of the act, or failure to act, to which the complaint relates (the Employment Rights Act 1996 (ERA 1996), s 48 (3)(a)-RRB-.

The case was heard in small claims court, being a venue open to the public.

The Toronto Real Estate Board is sticking so vociferously to its claims that Multiple Listing Service information routinely handed out by its own agents is such a violation of privacy in the wrong hands, Monday it tried to have the public removed from a Competition Tribunal hearing.