Sentences with phrase «favor of the rule of»

It's great news to the incredibly wealthy who are slowly tearing down the protections of the individual in favor of the rule of the corporation.

Just recently, late November 2013, we have witnessed a presidential fraud in Honduras, which comes to legitimize a previous coup d'etat, and all the human rights violations and violence being suffered by the peoples of Honduras, in particular against the first nations and Garifuna peoples, and in favor of the rule of organized crime in the region.

Not exact matches

The flood of seemingly bogus comments arrived at the FCC after comedian John Oliver asked viewers of his HBO show Last Week Tonight to write to the FCC in favor of the current net neutrality rules.

In January, a federal appeals court, ruling in favor of Verizon in its suit against the FCC, said the FCC may have overstepped its authority in its 2010 Open Internet ruling.

MILAN, April 23 - A judge ruled in favor of an appeal by Telecom Italia and its leading investor Vivendi to block a vote on some board director replacements proposed by activist fund Elliott at an April 24 shareholders meeting, a court document showed.

Thousands of electronic comments submitted to the FCC's website contain identical, duplicated messages that favor rolling back the 2015 rules, which were intended to protect websites and online services from being slowed or blocked by Internet service providers.

Through all of this, a particularly vocal constituency that favored maintaining net - neutrality regulations as they were prior to the court's 2014 ruling included a who's who of some of the most important technology companies, such as Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft.

So while there are certainly arguments to be made in favor of a rules - based Fed over the pure discretion of the current PhD standard, such reform should not be viewed as a solution to the real issue, which is a central bank having a monopoly on money at all.

A judge ruled in favor of the House in 2016, but an appeal filed by the Obama administration allowed the CSR payments to continue as the case moved its way through the courts.

But a ruling in favor of the two drivers bringing this test case could lead to dozens more coming forward and affect the firm's reliance on the self - employed.

The gift comes after a judge ruled in favor of the CEO in a lawsuit brought against him by his brother.

Separately on Tuesday, a judge for the U.S. Federal Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, ruled narrowly in favor of the subsidies in a case called David King.

That may all change by this coming summer, when the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule on two cases that have the potential to rebalance the scales in favor of small businesses.

In fact, a recent study in the American Journal of Public Health finds that the EPA «has moved away from the public interest and explicitly favored the interests of the regulated industries,» and is on the slippery slope to what scholars term «regulatory capture,» in which a government agency makes rules in the interest of an industry it's supposed to regulate rather than the public.

In this milestone week, with rulings that gutted the Voting Rights Act and overturned the federal Defense of Marriage Act, the court also made decisions that favored businesses.

Mendez is not the first time the court has ruled in favor of officers whose poor choices led to preventable harm.

On Wednesday, ex-President Vicente Fox said Mexico must consider legalizing opium poppies, while the Supreme Court made a second ruling in favor of recreational marijuana use after a landmark decision in 2015.

Considering that not one Democrat voted in favor of rolling back the Obama - era privacy rules, though, that could be a hard sell.

The court ruled in favor of Verizon, saying that the FCC did not have the authority to enforce its previous order, unless it reclassified Internet Service Providers (ISPs) as common carriers, essentially public utilities.

They say a ruling that favors Robins would open the door to millions of consumers banding together in class actions to sue them.

Mainland courts inclined to support Puerto Rico's sovereignty have precedents that can be used as a basis for rulings in favor of the defense.

In June 2016, the Supreme Court split 4 - 4 in the case, leaving in place an appeals court ruling in favor of the states..

Both appeals courts would have to rule in the administration's favor to allow enforcement of the revised executive order.

In April, they voted in favor of a shareholder proposal requiring annual majority rule votes for all directors, which Nabors has said they will abide by.

The consultant was convicted of stealing $ 1.7 million through inflated invoices, which he spent on luxury cars and Long Island real estate, while secretly favoring Verizon and undermining the competitive bidding process required by E-rate rules.

Ruling out a huge portion of the talent pool in favor of an arbitrary hiring requirement is not the smartest move.

Nearly 2.6 million comments were filed in the lead - up to the FCC's vote to consider the proposal — many of those seem to have been spurred by John Oliver's call to keep the rules, but hundreds of thousands of others, many in favor of repeal, have likely come from bots.

«This case has already been dismissed with prejudice by the court that heard it, which ruled in Yelp's favor and also found the claims not to be supported by credible evidence,» Vince Sollitto, Yelp's vice president of communications said.

In the ongoing saga between the nation's biggest banks and small retailers, the courts today ruled in favor of small businesses.

In a major blow to the daily fantasy sports industry, a New York judge has ruled in favor of a preliminary injunction that orders DraftKings and FanDuel to shut down in the state.

Yes, he was a lawyer for Verizon, a fierce opponent of net neutrality, but his decision to scrap the rules was not motivated by a desire to win favor with his former bosses in the telecom industry.

On a party - line vote, Trump - appointed chairman Ajit Pai and two other Republican commissioners voted in favor of revoking the rules, while the two Democrats on the commission voted against the move.

In the ongoing saga between the nation's biggest banks and small retailers over swipe fees, the courts rule in favor of Main Street.

A Delaware court ruled in favor of IAC / InterActiveCorp chief Barry Diller on Friday in a legal dispute with controlling shareholder Liberty Media, paving the way for him to proceed with a proposed spin - off of four company units.

LEIPZIG, Germany, Feb 27 - A top German court ruled on Tuesday in favor of allowing major cities to ban the most heavily polluting diesel cars, a move set to hit the value of 12 million vehicles in Europe's largest car market and probably force carmakers to pay for costly modifications.

If the class - action lawsuit against Honda, Nissan, Toyota and Ford rules in favor of the plaintiffs he notion of making money at all costs will also prove to be catastrophic at these companies.

This week Aereo won a victory — a federal judge ruled in favor of the startup, refusing to block the controversial antenna - based subscription service that takes free over-the-air TV broadcasts and streams them to any Internet - enabled device.

The new rule, which reportedly is more than 300 pages long, which will take effect once it is published in the Federal Register, blocks so - called «fast lanes,» known more formally as paid prioritization, will forbid ISPs from blocking or slowing of some content in favor of others and will make clear that all lawful content has equally standing.

A federal court narrowed the scope of the summons but ultimately ruled in favor of the IRS.

The most notable public comments in favor of stringent net neutrality regulation has been from President Obama, who released a YouTube video in last November urging the FCC to «take up the strongest possible rules to protect net neutrality.»

Late Friday, a Delaware judge ruled in favor of IAC / InterActiveCorp Chief Executive Barry Diller over Liberty Media's John Malone, in their battle over who controls IAC.

Although he has ruled in several cases in favor of police accused of conducting illegal searches, he is best known for his opinions siding with defendants.

Ahead of the visit, he has done much to win Beijing's favor, including rebuffing the US over joint military exercises, downplaying an international - court ruling that rejected China's claims in the South China Sea, and criticizing US leadership.

On June 4, the ITC, the U.S. agency that serves as a watchdog on international trade, ruled in favor of Samsung's patent and limited the ability of Apple to sell some older smartphone products.

People for the American Way, a liberal advocacy organization, called many of Gorsuch's criminal - justice rulings «troubling,» arguing that several of his dissents that favored defendants had been unique.

While Gorsuch has come down against excessive force in some cases, including that of the 13 - year - old, he has ruled several times in favor of police.

China's top court has ruled in favor of French fashion house Christian Dior in a perfume bottle trademark case, and rapped the local trademark office for rejecting an application by the firm.

«If the president stops tweeting and the [Supreme] Court rules in favor of the third - party sellers [and] Amazon's lucrative web services business stays strong, [the] trophy goes to Amazon,» Cramer said.

MILAN, April 23 (Reuters)- A judge ruled in favor of an appeal by Telecom Italia (TIM) and its leading investor Vivendi to block a vote on some board director replacements proposed by activist fund Elliott at an April 24 shareholders meeting, a court document showed.

Although the FCC is in the process of rescinding the rule, most Americans are in favor of net neutrality.