Sentences with phrase «drops appeal of ruling»

In an article titled Ottawa drops appeal of ruling that gave no jail time to aboriginal man published in The Globe and Mail edition of August 30, 2016, Sean Fine described Justice Green's ruling as a «19,000 word cri de coeur against the over-incarceration of indigenous people and a rebellion against a convention in which traffickers are sentenced according to the quantity of the drugs they were selling.»

Not exact matches

Lehrer noted that, shortly after gaining Gracie Mansion, de Blasio voluntarily dropped Mayor Michael Bloomberg's appeal of a federal judge's 2013 ruling that the NYPD's controversial «stop - and - frisk» policy was unconstitutional.

He dropped appeals of a judge's ruling on stop - and - frisk and he settled the long - running wrongful conviction case for the «Central Park Five.»

The majority of Bloomberg's likely replacements — including City Council Speaker Christine Quinn — vowed to drop any appeal the city files against the judge's ruling.

Mayor de Blasio followed through Thursday on his promise to drop the city's appeal of a judge's ruling that stop - and - frisk is unconstitutional.

In light of her diagnosis, the charges against her were dropped in December, but the Erie County District Attorney's Office said it plans to appeal the ruling.

Yesterday the Obama Administration announced it would drop its appeal of a district court ruling ordering the Food and Drug Administration to make Plan B contraception available over-the-counter to women and girls of all ages.

But here, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at New York City ruled in 2015 in Martin v. Hearst Corp. that a woman, whose arrest records were expunged under Connecticut's erasure law after prosecutors dropped charges against her, could not force a newspaper to remove stories about her arrest from online archives.

British science writer Simon Sing is free and clear of libel claims brought by the British Chiropractic Association (BCA), reports Mark Henderson of The Times of London, after the BCA dropped all charges just weeks after a landmark ruling from the Court of Appeal allowing the fair comment defense.

WASHINGTON — Planned Parenthood Federation of America president Cecile Richards released the following statement hailing tonight's announcement by the Obama Administration that they are dropping their appeal to a court ruling this April lifting the age and point of sale restrictions on emergency contraception: