Sentences with phrase «court cases challenging»

She faces court cases challenging teacher tenure and job protections, the defection of historically loyal Democrats, growing apprehension over the Common Core, diminishing ranks, public relations campaigns painting her union as greedy and a complicated chessboard of state and local members with a variety of interests.

Nearly every election begins with court cases challenging the sufficiency of compliance with these laws as candidates strive to get on extra lines and to keep their opponents off them.

Hanna joins former Utah governor and presidential candidate Jon Huntsman, HP CEO Meg Whitman and ex-Vice President Dick Cheney in signing the amicus, which is being filed with the Supreme Court as justices prepare to take on several court cases challenging same - sex marriage laws, including the controversial Proposition 8 measure in California and the federal Defense of Marriage Act.

Highly publicized reactions to science and social science on the part of religious conservatives, as evidenced by lawsuits concerning the teaching of evolution in public schools and court cases challenging the influence of «secular humanism» on school textbooks, suggest that Habermas's forces of «secular rationality» have by no means carried the day.

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.

Public labor unions in New York won a key victory in the state budget with a provision that would lessen the impact of a U.S. Supreme Court case challenging their ability to collect dues from state workers.

Lesson 6 - Court case challenge role - play lesson: Putting the Pilots involved in the Bombing of Dresden on trial.

VANCOUVER — This morning, the BC Supreme Court released its judgment in an historic court case challenging the use of solitary confinement in Canada's federal prisons.

Most critically, they dusted off an all - but - forgotten 1978 Supreme Court case challenging a ban on corporate ballot initiative spending — First National Bank of Boston vs. Bellotti.

In order to bring a court case challenging a law or government decision, an applicant must be granted «standing» either because they are personally effected by the outcome of the case or because they are well situated to bring a case on a matter of legitimate public interest.

Not exact matches

Since the Miller v. Alabama ruling, hundreds of similar cases are being challenged again in the courts.

As a result, the Supreme Court is spending the anniversary hearing the fourth challenge to the law in as many years, in a case called Zubik v. Burwell.

Earlier this year, the Ohio Supreme Court agreed to hear a case challenging the use of the mortgage law by a payday lender named Cashland.

The firm lost its most prominent case to date, however: Kelo v. City of New London, in which it challenged a city's sweeping eminent domain powers before the Supreme Court.

After the decision, the Baltimore office of the public defender began reviewing hundreds of cases which hinged on StingRay technology, all of which could potentially be challenged as a result of the Maryland court ruling.

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.

In 1990, the Supreme Court of Canada had created a sophisticated legal test on workplace anti — discrimination claims, but, as the Court acknowledged in Tawney Meiorin's case, this test had proven to be complicated and challenging to use.

However, proving that price manipulation occurred can be challenging in the commodities markets, said Professor Verstein, so the CFTC sometimes settles cases rather than letting them play out in the courts.

«The Movants have had ample opportunity to intervene in the multiple cases challenging the so - called «Fiduciary Rule» in district courts around the country, in appeals in two other circuits courts, and in this appeal, which was decided by this Court more than a month ago,» the filing said.

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 points out that CFPB's reply does not challenge the Supreme Court's recognition that a federal court does not have jurisdiction in cases where the government lacks an authorized representaCourt's recognition that a federal court does not have jurisdiction in cases where the government lacks an authorized representacourt does not have jurisdiction in cases where the government lacks an authorized representative.

The federal agency has 90 days to challenge the decision before the Federal Court of Appeal, a move that could drag the case out even further, and delay any refund.

World Watch Monitor reports that Bibi's attorney Naeem Shakir challenged the testimony of the women who feuded with Bibi, arguing to the appellate court that their testimony had been hearsay because the complainant in the case had not heards Bibi's words himself.

The last - minute rewrite prompted a federal judge in September to dismiss challenges by Wheaton College and Belmont Abbey, but the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed to consider the cases.

Next week, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in NIFLA vs. Becerra, a case challenging current laws that force pro-life pregnancy centers to offer abortion info.

Cases of conversion in Malaysia have been plagued by official dissension and charges of apostasy as Muslim authorities challenged verdicts by secular courts in Shari`ah tribunals.

Rebit's case was different: he was not challenging his conversion to Islam, which would fit under Shari`ah court jurisdiction.

A lawsuit challenging the RFRA would seem to be an easier case for the Supreme Court to resolve than were the recent «flag - burning» cases.

«This makes Ossewaarde's case the first under the «anti-missionary» amendment to reach this level in the Russian courts, and the first to issue a challenge to the legislation itself,» Forum 18 reported.

Hancock's career accomplishments include working on the1990 antitrust case, United States v. Baker Hughes, in which the D.C. Circuit Court set a standard for establishing entry into a market as a defense in a merger challenge, and Omega Environmental v. Gilbarco, a Ninth Circuit case involving the legality of exclusive dealing arrangements.

If a state law or local law is thought to be in violation of a federal law or the federal Constitution, it can be challenged in court as such by someone who is deemed by the court to have standing to bring the case.

The suit was filed at the High Court, but Dr Zanetor filed an application of certiorari at the Supreme Court challenging the jurisdiction of the High Court hearing the case.

The state Supreme Court and Appellate Division Court had previously rejected the challenge brought by the Reform Party on the grounds the suit «had failed to name a necessary party» — in this case the executive board of the Working Families Party.

In this case, the federal mandate for individuals to purchase health insurance or else pay a penalty was challenged in court.

In a Sunday Times article, Mr Phillips referred to a High Court case being taken by the National Secular Society and an atheist former councillor challenging the holding of prayers in local council meetings as «nonsense on stilts», and said human rights legislation was undermined by using it to settle «parochial disputes».

Specifically, what precedent is available on the topics of due process and search and seizure that may inform the Court's decision should they take a case challenging the act?

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.

And we weren't asked for our input before Jeremy led on air pollution at PMQs: an issue we'd been doing a lot of work on, challenging government complacency and inaction in the context of the Client Earth court case and the Volkswagen scandal.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Feb. 28 will consider a challenge to the state's law, in a case that could affect other states, too.

A federal high court sitting in Abuja, has dismissed a case challenging the veracity of the academic credentials of President Muhammadu Buhari.

ALBANY - Top New York Democrats praised the U.S. Supreme Court's refusal Monday to hear a case challenging the state's assault - weapons ban, with Gov. Andrew Cuomo calling it a «victory for common sense gun control laws.»

The court of appeals handles all appeals except those in the supreme court's exclusive jurisdiction: challenges to the validity of a United States statute or treaty, the validity of a state constitutional provision or statute, cases requiring construction of revenue laws, the title to state office and cases where the death penalty is imposed.

[103] Both maps were challenged in state court, and the case had not been decided as of early September 2012; the 2012 elections continued as planned.

After failing to use his surrogates to block Dr. Zanetor Rawlings, daughter of NDC founder, from leading the constituency, Nii Armah Ashitey, after losing to Dr. Zanetor, officially showed how battle ready he was when he filed a case in court, challenging the selection of the medical trained daughter of former President Rawlings.

The Supreme Court this week heard two cases that could decide marriage rights for gay couples — one challenging Prop 8 in California and, today, another challenging the Defense of Marriage Act.

The US Supreme Court has ruled on the first of three pending cases challenging the Honest Services statute under which former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno was convicted back in December.

The decisions are currently being challenged before the U.S. Supreme Court, which will hear the case in March.

Since her victory, she has been confronted with several court cases — challenging her voter eligibility — from party members including incumbent Nii Armah Ashitey, whom she defeated.

«We are not ready to listen to any story from Kofi Adams or any other person because we are ready to challenge our case in court.

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.