Sentences with phrase «federal district judge ruled»

A federal district judge ruled Friday that the Bureau of Land Management violated the law when it made 80 billion tons of coal available for leasing and opened up more than 8 million acres for oil and gas development in the Powder River Basin without first assessing the environmental risks or considering any alternatives.

Unfortunately, a federal district judge ruled against Tangi, ordering the school to forfeit its entire local share of education funding from the Minimum Foundation Program (MFP) to TPSB.

But in 2014, a federal district judge ruled against them, concluding that while the rating system seemed clearly unfair, it was nonetheless still legal.

In 2000, a federal district judge ruled that Arizona was violating this relatively obscure law, both by not spending enough on its Lau programs — a reference to a Supreme Court decision of 1974 and regulations of the federal Office for Civil Rights — and by failing to provide enough teachers, aides, classrooms, materials, and tutoring.

In what experts are calling the most significant court test to date of the concept of «comparable worth,» a federal district judge ruled this month that the state of Washington was guilty of wage discrimination in paying women employees less than men performing similar kinds of work.

The Louisiana law requiring that «creation science» be taught alongside evolution theory is unconstitutional because it «promotes the beliefs of some theistic sects to the detriment of others,» a federal district judge ruled this month.

A federal district judge ruled that the display is an unconstitutional government establishment of religion.

She sued, and a federal district judge ruled in 1998 that the district could not restrain her speech about her sexual orientation.

Intelligent design (ID) has no place in a science classroom, a Pennsylvania federal district judge ruled today.

Not exact matches

Federal judges found more problems in Texas» voting rights laws, ruling that Republicans racially gerrymandered some congressional districts to weaken the growing electoral power of minorities, who former President Barack Obama set out to protect at the ballot box before leaving office.

U.S. District Judge Kiyo Matsumoto issued the ruling Monday, saying it did not matter that investors eventually came out ahead since the amount of loss plays a significant role in federal sentencing guidelines.

In a blow to independent contractors for transportation companies seeking to be classified as employees of the firms they work with, a federal district judge in Massachusetts ruled the state's independent - contractor law failed to override a 1994 federal statute pre-empting state regulation of a motor carrier's rates, routes and services.

The new lawsuit against the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program was assigned to the same judge who ruled for the challengers earlier, U.S. District Judge Andrew S. Hanen, who sits in the federal courthouse in the Texas border town of Brownsvjudge who ruled for the challengers earlier, U.S. District Judge Andrew S. Hanen, who sits in the federal courthouse in the Texas border town of BrownsvJudge Andrew S. Hanen, who sits in the federal courthouse in the Texas border town of Brownsville.

On 6 August 2013, Federal Judge Amos Mazzant of the Eastern District of Texas of the Fifth Circuit ruled that bitcoins are «a currency or a form of money» (specifically securities as defined by Federal Securities Laws), and as such were subject to the court's jurisdiction, [274][274] and Germany's Finance Ministry subsumed bitcoins under the term «unit of account» — a financial instrument — though not as e-money or a functional currency, a classification nonetheless having legal and tax implications.

On March 6, 2018, Judge Jack B. Weinstein of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York ruled that virtual currencies are commodities under the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) and therefore subject to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's (CFTC) anti-fraud and anti-manipulation enforcement authority.1 Granting the CFTC's request for a preliminary injunction against the defendants who allegedly engaged in deception and fraud involving virtual currency spot markets, Judge Weinstein noted that «[u] ntil Congress clarifies the matter,» the CFTC has «concurrent authority» along with other state and federal administrative agencies and civil and criminal courts over transactions in virtual currency.2

Guess he should be suing the US Government next because a federal judge has also ruled that ID is not science, it has a purely religious agenda and it has no secular purpose (look up Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District).

That wasn't even Olson's case, but with assists from a federal district court judge who came out as being in a same - sex relationship only after ruling and retiring, and elected officials who chose to forgo their traditional duty to vigorously defend state law, Olson and Boies did succeed in disenfranchising millions of Californians on a procedural technicality.

It was in 1969 that Judge James McMillan of the Federal District Court ruled that the district had been intentionally segregated» virtually all black students went to all - black schools» and ordered a district - wide busing system to achieve inteDistrict Court ruled that the district had been intentionally segregated» virtually all black students went to all - black schools» and ordered a district - wide busing system to achieve intedistrict had been intentionally segregated» virtually all black students went to all - black schools» and ordered a district - wide busing system to achieve intedistrict - wide busing system to achieve integration.

In addition, a federal judge ruled that the city and the Park District needed the permit to operate the range.The park board closed the facility in July 1998.

For example, in case number 87 C 10746, Gutzmacher v. Public Building Commission, in U.S. District Court for the Northern District ofIllinois, Eastern Division, Senior Federal District Judge James B. Parson ruled on Dec. 4, 1989 that the Public Building Commission was enjoined from discriminating against all forms of religious expression and ordered the Public Building Commission to permit Gutzmacher to erect a nativity scene display during the Christmas season,» added Scholten.

U.S. District Court Judge Nicholas Garaufis in Brooklyn ruled Monday in favor of the Army Corps of Engineers, the Environmental Protection Agency and other federal agencies.

Judge Shira A. Scheindlin, 69, whose more - than -21-year tenure on the Federal District Court in Manhattan included a critical role in a controversial stop - and - frisk ruling affecting the Police Department, said she would resign from the bench in late April.

UPDATE: Late Friday, Albany federal district court Judge Gary Sharpe ruled that NY's congressional primary elections be moved to June 26.

U.S. District Court Judge Gary Sharpe has set June 26 to become the new primary date for federal elections in New York in a long - awaited ruling handed down this afternoon.

Last year, federal judges in Wisconsin ruled that in 2011 the state's Republican Party unconstitutionally drew district lines against Democrats.

Long Island federal Judge Joan Azrack ruled last month that defense lawyers can cross-examine Singh about those allegations, but not that de Blasio was never charged by federal prosecutors and the Manhattan District Attorney's Office following lengthy investigations.

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 11 - page ruling, by Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein of Federal District Court in Manhattan, found that the city had overstepped its bounds in requiring, as part of a licensing process, that carwash owners buy a special bond within a two - tiered system: $ 30,000 for those whose workers were unionized or employers who agreed to monitoring, and $ 150,000 for all others.

If there wasn't enough going on regarding redistricting this week the whole sordid affair got a kick in the pants thanks to U.S. District Court Judge Gary Sharpe who has ruled that unless that state takes legislative action all of New York's future federal non-presidential primaries will be held on the fourth Tuesday of June.

In the Wisconsin case Whitford v. Gill, federal judges used the efficiency gap to rule that the state's voting districts represented an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander.

In January 2012, a federal district judge in Colorado reached the opposite conclusion, ruling that a criminal defendant could be compelled under the All Writs Act to type in the password that would unlock a Toshiba Satellite laptop.

Joiner has likely made this task more difficult by instructing trial judges that neither Daubert nor the Federal Rules of Evidence «requires a district court to admit opinion evidence which is connected to existing data only by the ipse dixit of the expert.

Then, on 22 November, federal judge Amos L. Mazzant of the Eastern District of Texas issued an injunction that put implementation of the new rule on hold until the court could decide lawsuits brought against it by a number of states and employers.

A panel of judges from the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is expected to rule this week on whether a temporary halt placed on the order by a federal district judge should be kept in place.

Senator Tom Harkin (D — IA) called the hearing of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on labor, health and human services, and education in the wake of the 23 August ruling by Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., that hESC research violates a law barring federal funds for research that harms human embryos.

But as Retraction Watch reports, a federal district court judge ruled that the court lacked jurisdiction in this case because the plaintiffs haven't yet exhausted the administrative process set up to handle misconduct investigations at federally funded labs.

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).

Federal District Judge Lawrence J. O'Neill, Eastern District of California, ruled on Thursday that the State of California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) program is in violation of the Commerce Clause of the US Constitution and issued an injunction prohibiting its enforcement.

Lamberth, chief judge of the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia, ruled that federal money can not be used to fund hESC reFederal District Court for the District of Columbia, ruled that federal money can not be used to fund hESC refederal money can not be used to fund hESC research.

U.S. District Judge George W. White ruled last month that a federal court order that placed the district under state control will be lifted on District Judge George W. White ruled last month that a federal court order that placed the district under state control will be lifted on district under state control will be lifted on Sept. 9.

Nashville, Tenn. — A federal district judge here has ruled unconstitutional a state law requiring a minute of silence at the beginning of each school day «for meditation or prayer or personal beliefs.»

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A New Jersey judge has ruled that the Woodbury school district may continue its 22 - year - old policy of starting each school day with a moment of silence «for contemplation» pending a trial on that case and decisions in two related federal - court cases.

In a Sept. 16 decision, U.S. District Judge James Carrigan ruled that the Colorado Official English Committee's failure to circulate Spanish - language petitions violated the rights of non-English speakers under the federal Voting Rights Act.

A federal district judge has ruled that the Maryland legislature had a right to reform the public employees» retirement system, despite allegations by the Maryland State Teachers» Association and other unions that in doing so the state violated a contract agreement.

On the day before school was to open that year, federal district court judge Solomon Oliver struck down the program, ruling that the use of tax dollars to pay for children to attend religious schools offends the First Amendment's Establishment Clause.

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...

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A federal district judge can order increases in property taxes, but not income taxes, to fund costly school - desegregation remedies in Kansas City, Mo., an appellate panel has ruled.

In a ruling released on December 9, Federal Judge Robert Shelby determined that the five voting districts must be adjusted to be roughly the same size.