Sentences with phrase «federal court rulings»

But if it isn't, it seems difficult to square with his conclusion that» a state court that gratuitously accepts lower federal court rulings on the meaning of federal law is deciding how to determine federal law.

HB 2201 Prohibits state courts from enforcing federal court rulings unless decision is affirmed by Congress.

Texas: bill removes power of State Commission on Judicial Conduct to discipline judges who refuse to follow federal court rulings; claims state judges have free speech right to refuse to obey federal court rulings

Environmentalists said the language will be used by automakers in their legal challenges to two recent federal court rulings that sided with the states.

09/23/17: Series of federal court rulings — the latest upholding a Chicago anti-puppy-mill law — affirm state, local efforts against animal cruelty.

Finally in 2015, following two federal court rulings, the Fish and Wildlife Service officially reinstated Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves in Wyoming and the western Great Lakes, including Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan and surrounding states.

In September and December 2014, two federal court rulings prompted by lawsuits filed by the Center and other allies restored federal protections to wolves in Wyoming and in the western Great Lakes states, with the judges in each case finding that in stripping protections for wolves the Fish and Wildlife Service violated the Endangered Species Act.

«Our timely study builds on previous research from UH scientists and recent federal court rulings that show that treated wastewater is illegally discharged to the ocean from injection wells at the Lahaina Wastewater Reclamation facility via SGD to Kahekili Beach Park on West Maui,» said Daniel Amato, lead author and recent graduate of the UHM College of Natural Sciences.

Following three state appellate court rulings in the second appellate division in September 2017 requiring healthcare agencies to pay home care workers for all their hours on 24 - hour shifts, Governor Cuomo's Department of Labor issued «emergency regulations» in October consistent with contrary federal court rulings allowing payment for only 13 hours.

He was not aware of any new federal court rulings that would cause the policies to be held up.

Federal court rulings in Baltimore, Boston and Indianapolis have affirmed that recording officers in public places is protected by the Constitution.

A bevy of unfavorable federal court rulings blocked the implementation of Trump's initial attempt at temporarily barring arrivals from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Sudan, Syria and Somalia via executive order in January, prompting the administration to announce it would issue a new fiat instead of defending the original.

Super PACs like those, as well as secretive nonprofit groups — both spurred by the 2010 Citizens United decision and other federal court rulings — allowed extremely wealthy activists to play in presidential and congressional politics like never before.

The U.S. Supreme Court is also reviewing federal court rulings that said a local bankruptcy law enacted by the commonwealth is unconstitutional.

Similar legislation, which has arisen in response to federal court rulings allowing same - sex marriage in the 36 states, is pending in about 16 other states.

Although similar nonprofits engaged in politics in past elections, their use exploded in 2010, particularly in tandem with super PACs, taking advantage of federal court rulings that paved the way for a new role for outside - spending groups in elections.

And some federal court rulings make it difficult for local jails to hold immigrants beyond their criminal sentences or strictly for immigration violations.

A federal court ruling Saturday may further embolden these efforts.

New legislation could allow for injunctions to prevent a troll from filing a U.S. lawsuit while Canada's Federal Court rules on whether the Canadian company has infringed on an asserted patent.

And a recent federal court ruling may actually nullify the rule outright.

In 1911 a Federal court ruled DuPont in violation of antitrust laws, and the following year ordered the complete dissolution of Eastern as part of a remedy.

Federal court rules that secular, for - profit corporations do not have a right to free exercise of religion.

«Right now the situation is in a holding pattern because the IRS has found its internal policies under fire by federal court ruling,» said senior policy analyst Rob Boston.

The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) today said it will appeal an April 27 federal court ruling denying the organization's motion to halt implementation of Vermont's mandatory GMO labeling law pending further litigation.

But not all marketing terms are used legally - earlier this month, the federal court ruled in favour of the Australian Consumer Commission, which took two of the nation's largest poultry producers to task for using the term «free to roam», when in reality, almost 20 chickens were being kept per square metre.

U.S. formula manufacturer Mead Johnson's advertising for its Enfamil brand is misleading and unfounded, according to a federal court ruling.

Two class action lawsuits against companies Nestle and Hershey in the United States were dismissed after a federal court ruled there is no duty to disclose the use of child labour in the cocoa supply chain.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Nassau County's appeal of a federal court ruling upholding a $ 43 million judgment won by two men who — after spending years in prison — were exonerated in the 1984 rape and murder of a Lynbrook teenager.

In response to a lawsuit by the House GOP, however, a federal court ruled in May 2016 that funding for the cost - sharing reductions was never properly appropriated by Congress.

On March 30th, a federal court ruled that parts of Act 10, Gov. Walker's union - busting law, were unconstitutional under the U.S. constitution.

A federal court ruling today found supermarket magnate and Republican mayoral candidate John Catsimitidis violated labor law by failing to pay his employees overtime, upholding an earlier court's decision that the businessman was responsible for the failing to properly compensate employees.

A federal court ruled that a magazine capacity limit of seven rounds could not be enforced, and the limit was upped to 10 rounds.

In addition, the Department of Justice has dismissed its appeal of the Seattle federal court ruling that suspended the first order (13769) on Tuesday.

The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday said it would voluntarily dismiss its own appeal of a Seattle federal court ruling that had suspended President Donald Trump's first executive order concerning travel from seven Muslim - majority countries.

No, the old travel ban (EC 13769) is revoked and the Justice Department has dismissed its appeal of the Seattle federal court ruling.

After a federal court ruled this week upheld U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's push to clawback disgraced former Assemblyman Eric Stevenson's pension, Speaker Carl Heastie does not expect the move will make the Legislature change course on a constitutional amendment for pension forfeiture.

A fifth district was added last year following a federal court ruling that determined Albany had diluted minority voting power in its 2011 redistricting map.

The campaign will be aided by a federal court ruling last week that said donors can contribute unlimited sums to Super PACs after tossing out New York's $ 150,000 limit on individual contributions.

The proposed legislation is in response to a federal court ruling in Washington state that determined the amount of manure disposed of at certain farms in that state exceeded limits under solid waste law, according to the National Milk Producers Federation.

The second proposal would have captured magic words as well as «functional equivalents of express advocacy,» which according to a 1987 federal court ruling are ads that «could only be interpreted by a reasonable person as containing advocacy of the election or defeat of one or more clearly identified candidates.»

A federal court ruled in favor of those green groups in 2012.

In a groundbreaking victory for Great Lakes wolves, they were again granted Endangered Species Act protection in late 2014, after a federal court ruled in a case brought by one of our partners showing that prematurely stripping wolves of protection violated the Endangered Species Act.

The state has promised to abide by the federal court ruling.

Not only does the union say Lusher is not a political subdivision, but so did a federal court ruling seven years ago.

A federal court ruled against three high school students who harmed a school administrator through a phony MySpace page.

The conference and community event will examine the context, decisions, choices, and legacy of the 1974 federal court ruling that school assignment of children in the City of Boston was in violation of the 14th amendment of the constitution.

In a recent case (see blog post), a federal court ruled that the debt buyer collection agency could not charge interest from the date of charge off with the original creditor.

Not only are they not allowed to threaten litigation, but a recent federal court ruled that even a settlement offer on «time - barred» debt is a misrepresentation of the debt and violation of FDCPA.

In June, a federal court ruled that a single mother of four, whose wages were being garnished by the government over student loans she took out to attend a now - defunct college accused of fraud, was entitled to a speedy decision regarding whether her student loans were eligible to be forgiven.

Judge: Merchants can steer you to lower - cost card — Merchants should be allowed to offer consumers discounts or perks to use a lower - cost credit card, a federal court ruled... (See American Express anitrust ruling)