Sentences with phrase «federal court ruling rejected»

The federal coal leasing program amounts to a major fossil fuel subsidy, favoring coal at the expense of cleaner forms of generating electricity.A recent federal court ruling rejected BLM's argument that increasing the supply of coal would not increase carbon pollution, in part because coal competes with cleaner methods of generating electricity.

Not exact matches

On Sunday, a federal court rejected a request by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to halt construction of the Dakota Access pipeline but said that ruling was «not the final word,» as a necessary easement still needed government approval.

Two Republican representatives in North Carolina filed a resolution Monday that would permit the state to declare Christianity its official religion and reject any federal laws or court rulings regarding how the state addresses the establishment of religion.

The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Aliyu Sabi - Abdullahi, who briefed journalists in Abuja on Thursday, announced that a Federal High Court had ruled that the upper chamber of the National Assembly had the powers to confirm or reject Magu's appointment.

The court's 5 - 4 ruling said the Bush administration did not adequately assess the threats from global warming when it rejected a petition from environmental groups and 12 states that sought to force federal greenhouse gas limits on motor vehicles.

June 14, 2016 • The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit rejected a lawsuit by telecom, cable and wireless industry associations against new rules that expanded federal oversight of Internet service providers.

• Commitment to federal laws established by Supreme Court rulings: OCR's current reading of its authority under Title IX goes beyond the narrow interpretation adopted by the Supreme Court in two decisions that addressed the sexual harassment issue, even explicitly rejecting the rulings in guidelines issued under the Clinton administration.

Last August, a U.S. federal appeals court rejected an Environmental Protection Agency rule that would have required manufacturers to replace HFCs with more climate - friendly substitutes, saying the agency lacks the regulatory authority to compel companies to make the switch.

A federal appeals court rejected the Standing Rock Sioux tribe's bid for an injunction to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline — a ruling that will allow work to proceed on private land, even as the Obama administration continues its moratorium on federal land.

Back on July 7, 2017, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected FERC's order revising PJM Interconnection's «Minimum Offer Price Rule» (MOPR), saying FERC exceeded its Section 205 authority under the Federal Power Act by commanding an entirely different approach to the MOPR than what PJM's stakeholders agreed upon...

The presiding judge - William Sessions III, sitting in the U.S. District Court in Burlington - rejected the carmakers» argument that the proposed state rules conflicted with rules set forth by the federal government and that they imposed unnecessary and costly burdens on them:

Well, at least almonds, according to a recent federal district court ruling against a group of California almond growers.A federal judge has rejected a challenge by fifteen California organic almond growers to halt the mandatory treatment of raw almonds as required by the Almond Board of California.

In the ruling earlier this month, the Court rejected a DOE finding that federal agencies can not take action to reduce fuel use because petroleum reduction goals mandated by the Act are unachievable.

It will be up to the Federal Circuit to try and find a new rule, somewhere between «machine or transformation» and «useful, concrete, tangible» and this almost certainly means that we'll be back at the Supreme Court arguing similar issues within a few years, asking the court to ratify or reject the next Federal Circuit attempt.&rCourt arguing similar issues within a few years, asking the court to ratify or reject the next Federal Circuit attempt.&rcourt to ratify or reject the next Federal Circuit attempt.»

As I discussed here last year, in July 2010 a federal district court in Denver ruled that the act violates free speech, and rejected the argument that lying about having military medals dilutes their meaning and significance.

Federal Courts Reject Employer's Attempt to Sidestep FLSA Break Rules By Calling Its Break Policy Flexible Time, New Jersey Employment Lawyer Blog, Oct. 26, 2017

On a petition for writ of mandamus, the Federal Circuit ordered the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas to transfer venue of a patent action — rejecting the four - part venue test proposed by Judge Rodney Gilstrap following the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in TC Heartland LLC...

Apple argued that the Federal Circuit's appellate ruling required the court to enter partial final judgment for Apple «immediately» and that the appeals court had implicitly rejected Samsung's argument that Apple's defeat before a Patent Trial and Appeals Board (PTAB) last year had the effect of collateral estoppel on the parties» first California litigation.

On January 20, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its first patent decision of the current term, rejecting the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's long - standing practice of reviewing district court patent claim construction rulings, including subsidiary findings, without deferCourt handed down its first patent decision of the current term, rejecting the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's long - standing practice of reviewing district court patent claim construction rulings, including subsidiary findings, without deferCourt of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's long - standing practice of reviewing district court patent claim construction rulings, including subsidiary findings, without defercourt patent claim construction rulings, including subsidiary findings, without deference.

Reporter Jordan Weissmann examines the U.S. Court of Federal Claims vaccine rulings that rejected claims from parents that childhood immunizations cause autism.

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The high court's majority rejected the position taken by other federal appeals courts and by the commission that the «paycheck accrual rule?

«Detainees» Lawyers Oppose More Filings»: The Associated Press provides a report that begins, «Attorneys representing hundreds of Guantanamo Bay detainees urged a federal appeals court Monday to reject a Bush administration request for more legal filings in light of last week's Supreme Court ruling in the case of Osama bin Laden's driver.&rcourt Monday to reject a Bush administration request for more legal filings in light of last week's Supreme Court ruling in the case of Osama bin Laden's driver.&rCourt ruling in the case of Osama bin Laden's driver.»

With the ruling, the court becomes the third federal appellate court to reject a statement of policy issued in 2001 by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development that expands the definition of unearned fees to include charges that don't involve a third party.