Sentences with phrase «federal district court challenging»

The groups, represented by Western Environmental Law Center and Earthjustice, filed a lawsuit in federal district court challenging the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's decision to approve 287 oil and gas leases totaling almost 150,000 acres in south central, north central, and southeastern Montana.

The five lawsuits to block the Department of Labor's fiduciary rule continued to move forward in July in separate venues, but the Department of Justice strongly defended the rule in a Washington, D.C., federal district court challenging the suit filed by the National Association for Fixed Annuities, or NAFA.

Not exact matches

The U.S. Federal Reserve says it will appeal an earlier decision from the U.S. District Court that challenged the swipe - fee regulations set by the central bank.

A practicing lawyer, advising a legislative committee or governor, would predict the following: the law would meet immediate legal challenge and be struck down by a federal district court, which would be affirmed by the court of appeals.

Here's the trouble: If legislators don't agree on a bill to move their own primary date to correspond with the one that US District Court Judge Gary Sharpe ordered for the federal races, then Assembly members and senators could theoretically challenge sitting House members and then, if that doesn't work out, fall back to run for their own seats.

Meanwhile, a U.S. District Court is expected to rule soon on whether the Republican challengers will be permitted to intervene in the federal lawsuit that argues the challenge / fee system violates the U.S. Read more»

On this week's Gazette: Former New York state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's 2015 corruption conviction has been overturned by a federal appeals court, the city of Albany partners with the Nature Conservancy on a carbon agreement and we speak with a Democrat challenging Republican Congressman Elise Stefanik of New York's 21st District.

On top of being an election year, district lines for state and federal offices must be finalized in the beginning of the year — a process that will surely face court challenges.

This prompted Zuffa, LLC (the owner of the Ultimate Fighting Championship) to sue in federal court in 2015, challenging the constitutionality of the law and naming Schneiderman and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. as defendants.

Outside of Manhattan's Federal District Court, site of the three - week trial, Silver's lawyers said they would file motions to challenge the jury's decision.

That challenge lingered in the court system well after the freeze was lifted in 2007 and was not resolved until 2013 when a federal judge ruled not only was the freeze justified, but that the district did not need to give teachers credit on the pay scale for the years the freeze was enacted.

The federal district court had thrown out a challenge to Alabama's 2012 redistricting.

These groups filed a legal challenge in Hawaii shortly before launch in 1997, but the challenge was rejected by the federal district court in Hawaii and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appcourt in Hawaii and the Ninth Circuit Court of AppCourt of Appeals.

On Thursday (29 December 2011), Judge Lawrence O'Neill of the US District Court for the Eastern District of California issued three separate rulings in a set of federal lawsuits challenging the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS)(Rocky Mountain Farmers Union et al v. Goldstene).

Although the claim of «unfunded mandate» has been asserted almost since the day NCLB was signed into law, School District of the City of Pontiac et al. v. Spellings constitutes the first major legal challenge to the historic education law to be filed in federal court.

Both a federal district judge and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit had ruled in favor of a student who had challenged the display of Warner Sallman's «Head of Christ» at Bloomingdale...

Lawyers representing students and families from the now - defunct Lake View school district in Arkansas filed a lawsuit in federal court Oct. 25 challenging a new state school consolidation law on the grounds that it violates the district's equal - protection rights and is racially discriminatory, according to the Associated Press.

His lawsuit challenges the constitutionality of a district policy setting quotas for minority students that stems from the federal court's 1975 desegregation order.

Similarly, in Eric V. v. Causby (1997), a federal district court in North Carolina rejected a preliminary injunction in a class action challenge based on both federal constitutional and statutory grounds.

NSBA is pleased to report that a federal district court judge in New York has issued a nationwide preliminary injunction in Vidal v. Nielsen (New York v. Trump), a case in which NSBA and other national educational organizations filed an amicus brief supporting plaintiffs challenging the DACA rescission.

A few weeks ago, I had an unusual — and challenging — assignment: providing a one - hour «tutorial» on the basic science of human - induced climate change to a Federal District Court in San Francisco.

Two ethanol trade groups — the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) and Growth Energy — have filed a complaint in Federal District Court in Fresno, California, challenging the constitutionality of the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS).

On September 30, 2013, Georgia Aquarium filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia challenging the agency's decision under the federal Administrative Procedure Act as contrary to the MMPA and its implementing regulations and as arbitrary and capricious.

In 2009, the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) and Growth Energy filed a complaint in Federal District Court in Fresno, California, challenging the constitutionality of the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS).

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.

Posts describe the challenges facing federal district judges — insufficient funding of the courts chief among them — and share the author's memories from his career as a lawyer and judge.

Yesterday, a federal district court in Louisiana held oral argument on First Amendment challenges to Louisiana's proposed advertising rules filed by a group of attorneys, reports The Associated Press.

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She recently represented a judicial candidate in which the process used to count ballots was challenged on constitutional bases before a federal district and circuit court, and was the subject of litigation in the Ohio Supreme Court as court, and was the subject of litigation in the Ohio Supreme Court as Court as well.

As reported in our prior Update, in a decision issued on January 22, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in National Association of Manufacturers v. Department of Defense, 138 S. Ct. 617, that challenges to the Obama administration's 2015 Clean Water Rule must be brought in federal district courts, rather than directly in the federal courts of appeals.

A recent decision issued by a federal district court in North Carolina challenges the familiar principle that in a borrower's bankruptcy, the lender, if it is oversecured as of the bankruptcy filing date, is entitled to receive post-petition interest, attorneys» fees and other charges arising post-petition to the extent of the value of its collateral.

As Sam Bray argues, it logically requires (or at least permits and encourages) a district court to issue a universal injunction in every constitutional challenge to federal law.

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A Richmond Circuit Court denies a motion to stay proceedings in this Virginia constitutional challenge to a state legislative redistricting plan, as the federal constitutional challenge to the plan pending in federal district court does not involve the same partiCourt denies a motion to stay proceedings in this Virginia constitutional challenge to a state legislative redistricting plan, as the federal constitutional challenge to the plan pending in federal district court does not involve the same particourt does not involve the same parties...

A court of appeals hears challenges to district court decisions from courts located within its circuit, as well as appeals from decisions of federal administrative agencies.

Today, Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota (PPMNS), represented by attorneys from Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) and joined by attorneys from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit in Federal District Court in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, challenging the constitutionality of HB 1217.

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Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, represented by attorneys at Planned Parenthood Federation of America, today filed a lawsuit in Federal District Court in Lincoln, Nebraska, challenging the constitutionality of a recently enacted Nebraska law misleadingly titled «The Women's Health Protection Act.»

The District of Columbia's federal appeals court has considered a challenge to regulations promulgated by the Federal Communications Commission («FCC») allowing tenants to place satellite dishes on leased prfederal appeals court has considered a challenge to regulations promulgated by the Federal Communications Commission («FCC») allowing tenants to place satellite dishes on leased prFederal Communications Commission («FCC») allowing tenants to place satellite dishes on leased property.

Young challenged the constitutionality of the unlicensed practice enforcement statutes, including newly adopted provisions allowing the Commission to impose a civil penalty of up to $ 1000 per day for unlicensed practice, in Federal District Court.