Sentences with phrase «federal hearings finding»

Not exact matches

At a hearing before the Senate Commerce Committee — which sought to explore «bug bounty» programs that reward hackers for finding holes — Democrats and Republicans alike needled the ride - hailing company for withholding information even as it faced a federal investigation for its privacy and security practices.

A survey released Tuesday from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life found that among Catholics who have heard about the issue, 55 % support giving religious institutions that object to birth control an exemption from the federal contraceptive rule, while 39 % oppose exempting those institutions.

Following suggestions by fellow GOP Congressman Tom Reed that the federal government could have the authority to overrule the anticipated ban, Collins» call for hearings could signal a concerted effort to undermine the findings of the state DEC and the Department of Health.

The hearing officer, former federal Judge George Pratt, recommended that the three entities found in violation of disclosure requirements — Blackboard, Inc., Community Redemption Center, and YL Management, L.L.C. — each receive fines between $ 4,000 and $ 10,000.

Findings from the study of four districts that have undertaken systemic change were presented to the House Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education Subcommittee last week during a hearing on the federal role in systemic reform.

Advocates of the new federal direct - lending program for college students praised its savings and simplicity at a Senate hearing last week, while three agencies reported that their studies found no major flaws in the program.

While the Common Core initiative is actually a product of state cooperation, the 2014 Education Next survey found that 64 percent of respondents who had heard of Common Core believed that «the federal government requires all states to use the Common Core standards» (see «No Common Opinion on the Common Core,» features, Winter 2015).

Well, a few people found it remarkable to hear this strong anti-test rhetoric from a president whose Department of Education is prepared to expand standardized testing to unprecedented levels in its proposal for reauthorizing federal education laws.

To find out who your loan servicer is, log in to My Federal Student Aid or call 1 -800-4-FED-AID (1-800-433-3243; TTY for the hearing impaired 1-800-730-8913).

To find out who your loan servicer is, log in to My Federal Student Aid or call 1 -800-4-FED-AID (1-800-433-3243; TTY for the deaf or hard of hearing 1-800-730-8913).

FTC robocall video When the Federal Trade Commission conducted a contest to find technical solutions for blocking robocalls, it also heard from consumers who found their own remedies.

(3) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter to the contrary, if the administrator finds that an immediate danger to the public health, safety, or welfare requires adoption of a regulation upon fewer than 35 days» notice or that action is required by or to comply with a federal statute or regulation which requires adoption of a regulation upon fewer than 35 days» notice and states in writing its reasons for that finding, it may proceed without prior notice or hearing or upon any abbreviated notice and hearing that it finds practicable, to adopt an emergency regulation.

The particular anecdotes I have heard about political influence on the federal grant making process go in the other direction, where people are told that they should not pubish findings supporting large climate sensitvity, at least until after some election.

«The particular anecdotes I have heard about political influence on the federal grant making process go in the other direction, where people are told that they should pubish findings supporting large climate sensitvity, at least until after some election.»

On Tuesday a federal court in Washington D.C. heard oral arguments on a legal challenge to the EPA finding that greenhouse gas pollution is a threat to our health and well - being.

US District Judge William Alsup has asked lawyers representing San Francisco and Oakland, Calif., and those representing five major oil companies, to conduct research on the science of global warming and present their findings in a federal hearing.

UPDATE February 2, 2017: A federal judge in California has found that at least some of these reasons have merit and has stayed the EO and set an expedited hearing and briefing schedule on whether the injunction against the EO should remain in force.

I took a few days off last week and was disappointed to return and find that the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had issued a decision barring the webcasting of a hearing in a recording industry file - sharing case pending in federal court in Boston.

In Preston v. Ferrer (which involved TV celebrity judge Alex Ferrer), the Court, in an 8 - 1 ruling, found that the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) compelled arbitration of Ferrer's contract with his talent agent, and preempted a California law that required an administrative hearing prior to arbitration.

The Mirena perforation cases failed because plaintiffs» attorneys could not find experts that the federal court judge hearing the cases would accept.

My search of yesterday's news and blog postings found only one person who indicated he would testify at yesterday's hearing, Dr. Richard Cordero, a New York lawyer who runs the Web site Judicial-Discipline-Reform.org and who describes himself as having been involved in 11 federal bankruptcy cases in the last five years.

The biggest problem facing the ongoing Oracle v. Google retrial is that Judge Alsup doesn't seem to have swallowed the fact that the IP - specialized Federal Circuit found it hard to believe how one could get copyright law as wrong as he did in this case («confused» is what one of the appellate judges said at the December 2013 hearing).

That's one of the more important findings in last week's ruling in Apotex v. Allergan, wherein the Federal Court of Appeal heard arguments from Apotex regarding a settlement that the company says it never actually agreed to.

While I have heard these refrains before, I find them both odd and at odds with fundamental notions of separation of powers and federal sentencing judges» overarching command to impose a sentence that is «sufficient, but not greater than necessary, to comply with the purposes» of federal sentencing.

Justice Zinn, writing for the court, found that the Federal Court did not have jurisdiction to hear breaches of 4.10, as they were not specifically enumerated in the s. 14 hearing section, or matters not investigated or referred to in the PCC's report.

Ahead of the hearing, the Human Rights Law Centre, Amnesty International and the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services called on the Federal and Northern Territory Governments to take immediate action to protect young people currently in detention and not wait for the Royal Commission's findings to ensure their safety.

It is also unsatisfactory for the Federal Court to rely on the approach of «not removing the hearing date has produced the result that funding has been found for the applicants».