Sentences with phrase «dollars the state court»

He even hit the Cuomo for not honoring Gov. Eliot Spitzer's plan to reimburse the city billions in education dollars the State Court of Appeals determined Albany owed in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity decision, and for favoring the proliferation of charter schools.

Not exact matches

Acting New York State Supreme Court Justice Lori Sattler has lost over one million dollars after falling victim of an email scam, NY Daily News reports.

A court in Washington has ruled that the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) violated the state's finance disclosure law when it funneled millions of dollars in dark money from its major corporate members to the campaign that defeated a 2013 ballot initiative to label food containing genetically modified organisms, or GMOs.

On May 2, 2014, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York gave preliminary approval to a settlement of $ 280 million to resolve claims against JPMC that it misled investors in billions of dollars» worth of mortgage backed securities.

A judge on the Ohio Court of Claims ruled that Mr. Jackson is owed more than one million dollars by the state.

Under the California provisions, for example, the state supreme court invalidated a program providing fourteen dollars» worth of purely secular books for the use of children enrolled in religious schools.

Trump has appointed a pro-life Supreme Court justice, banned federal dollars from funding abortion overseas, and signed a law allowing states to withhold funding for abortion providers.

One could also attach a special surcharge to copyright enforcement actions in federal court - many state courts finance a variety of low dollar programs that way.

More than a decade after the state's highest court ordered New York lawmakers to spend billions of dollars more a year on schools, Governor Cuomo and his top aides are moving further away from ever fulfilling the order, say critics.

Court papers say the charges announced Thursday come from «two overlapping criminal schemes involving bribery, corruption, and fraud in the award of hundreds of millions of dollars in State contracts and other official State benefits.»

The ethics commission's first meeting comes on the same day that State Senator Carl Kruger pleaded guilty in federal court in Brooklyn to felony charges, for accepting more than a million dollars in bribes to maintain what prosecutors called a lavish lifestyle, including a large house owned by a former mafia boss and a Bentley automobile.

A former top aide to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo — described in court papers as his «right - hand man» — was charged Thursday with taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from companies looking to score state - funded contracts.

New York state owes NYC public schools nearly $ 3 billion dollars but has yet to comply with the court order mandating that aid.

He was arraigned before the court for fraudulently duping a foreigner of the sum of $ 4,100 (Four Thousand, One hundred United States Dollars) in an inheritance scam.

Representatives of the state Public Service Commission were in court Monday defending their decision last August to award a multibillion dollar, 12 - year subsidy to a group of upstate nuclear power plants along Lake Ontario.

For three solid years, this city agency (and inspector general's office that is governed by New York State), continue to conceal evidence that could have restored my job, career, pension and retirement benefits, but chose to look the other way, while I had to spend tens of thousands of dollars defending myself in court for charges that never existed, and that were exposed to the MTA Inspector General after an oral argument hearing on May 9, 1991 revealed the deception and cover up.

As Cuomo and lawmakers seek to wrap up budget negotiations this week, a state appeals court threw a $ 69 million wrench into the talks, lifting a stay that allowed the state to hold off from releasing millions of dollars that were earmarked for failing schools but has been tied up in litigation.

Hundreds of Nassau businesses have filed lawsuits against the county in state court, contending hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines imposed on them by the county assessor are excessive and illegal.

The AQE's Billy Easton says a 2005 order from the state's highest court that said several billion more dollars need to be spent to ensure that education is truly equitable, has never been fulfilled.

Mr. de Blasio courted Mr. Silver and forged a strong working relationship with the speaker, who played an instrumental role in securing hundreds of millions of dollars in state funding for his universal prekindergarten expansion.

Nixon's criticism mirrored an op - ed she published last month that slammed Cuomo for his support of charter schools and for proposing to eliminate the so - called Foundation Aid formula for funding public schools, which critics argued would deprive districts of billions of dollars that they are still owed under 2006 court decision that found the state had underfunded public education.

Streamlining the courts alone could save the state hundreds of millions of dollars.

He says the panel does have to consider the money, at a time when the state has not fulfilled a court order that said the state needed to spend billions of more dollars school funding, and at a time when a new property tax cap might lead to lay offs of teachers and school program cut backs.

In particular, he hit the governor over his failure to deliver the billions of dollars that the state's highest court determined Albany owed New York City schools in the 2003 Campaign for Fiscal Equity v. State state's highest court determined Albany owed New York City schools in the 2003 Campaign for Fiscal Equity v. State State case.

(WBEN) The court ruling that vacates former State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's conviction, if upheld, could mean taxpayers will pay likely millions of dollars for his defense in a series of trials.

State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is moving to seize millions of dollars of allegedly ill - gotten assets from a series of «Medicaid mills» run by a businessman who was a dentist in the former Soviet Union, according to papers filed in Brooklyn Supreme Court.

The formula was set up to address a decade - old court order known as the Campaign for Fiscal Equity that said the state was underfunding schools by billions of dollars.

A year later, in December 2011, after six years in court, the state agreed to accept just $ 5 million, roughly 17 cents on the dollar of what auditors said the casinos owed, sparking questions of special treatment.

The practice of using taxpayer dollars to settle sexual harassment claims lodged against public officials was upheld in 2008 after a taxpayer filed suit in State Supreme Court to challenge a $ 500,000 settlement paid to woman who accused Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's then - counsel, Michael Boxley, of rape.

The Alliance for Quality Education's Billy Easton says New York has fallen far behind in carrying out an order issued eight years ago form the state's highest court saying schools, particularly the poorest districts, deserve billions of dollars more in state funding each year.

Up to 1,000 people, including the president of New York's NAACP, Hazel Dukes, will hold a rally at the Capitol today to try to convince state lawmakers to fulfill a 2006 court order to spend billions more dollars on New York's schools each year.

The letter hits the state for not meeting a court order to provide needy schools that were traditionally underfunded billions of dollars more in aid, an obligation Cuomo has repeatedly argued has been met.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork / AP)-- New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, the top Democrat in the state Legislature, was handcuffed and hauled to court Thursday on charges that he used his office to extort millions of dollars in kickbacks and bribes.

The appellate division of New York State Supreme Court on July 28 declined to rule on the allegations in a lawsuit filed by the UFT and a coalition of community groups and parents on Jan. 5, 2010 that the New York City Department of Education was misusing hundreds of millions of dollars in Contract for Excellence funds earmarked for smaller class sizes.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, today, May 3, 2016, arraigned one Ighofose Oyoma before Justice E. A. Obile of the Federal High Court sitting in Warri, Delta State on a 7 count charge bordering on Conspiracy, Forgery and Obtaining Money by False Pretence to the tune of Nine Thousand Two Hundred Dollars ($ 9,200).

«A decade ago, New York's highest court ruled that our state must hand over billions of dollars to improve public education — but that money has not materialized,» said Zakiyah Ansari, the advocacy director of the Alliance for Quality Education, which organized the Jan. 10 press conference on the City Hall steps to kick off the lobbying push.

MANHATTAN SUPREME COURT — Disgraced former State Comptroller Alan Hevesi will go before a new Manhattan judge next week to be sentenced for up to four years for his role in defrauding the state's multi-billion dollar retirement State Comptroller Alan Hevesi will go before a new Manhattan judge next week to be sentenced for up to four years for his role in defrauding the state's multi-billion dollar retirement state's multi-billion dollar retirement fund.

On August 23, 2010, Judge Royce Lamberth of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia issued a preliminary injunction against the National Institutes of Health (NIH) guidelines allowing federal dollars to fund projects in which embryos were destroyed to derive new stem cell lines.

That paved the way for a bizarre 2011 trial court decision holding that the state was underfunding education by billions of dollars each year.

An analysis in our recently published book examines the NAEP test - score trends in the four states that have implemented court remedies the longest, and demonstrates that, despite spending increases amounting to billions of dollars, the achievement patterns in three of them — Wyoming, New Jersey, and Kentucky — are largely unchanged from what they were in the early 1990s, before the court - ordered remedies commenced.

And the court stuck to a method of correcting that problem that Gov. Christine Todd Whitman dearly hoped it would abandon: dollar - for - dollar spending parity between the state's neediest cities and its...

In its next term, the Supreme Court will again consider whether it is legitimate for a state to forbid individuals from choosing to use public dollars for religious instruction.

How many total dollars these suits have contributed to the rapid increase in education spending is unknown, but we do know that, since 1989, adequacy lawsuits have been launched in more than 30 states, and a vast majority of them have resulted in a court award to plaintiffs mandating more money for schools.

Legislatures gave teachers collective bargaining rights, the courts began instructing the schools on disciplinary procedures, regulations multiplied, the United States gained a national department of education, and state and federal dollars poured into the system.

Schools, the court said, are capped at what they can raise locally, and there is no state requirement forcing them to raise local tax dollars.

Tennessee's supreme court ordered the state last week to find a more equitable way to pay teachers, creating a quandary for lawmakers and the next governor that may cost the cash - strapped state hundreds of millions of dollars.

As amicus curiae in many federal and state courts, NSBA continues to urge courts to refrain from joining a troubling wave of nationwide efforts to divert public tax dollars away from public schools to fund private entities.

The Ohio Supreme Court, for instance, found that state law dictates that everything a private charter school company purchases with public dollars — from desks to computers — belongs to the private company, not the public.

Estimates say that complying with the Court's decision will require the state to spend an additional 1.5 — 2 billion dollars more per year on public education.

Indiana students can continue to attend private schools using state dollars, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.