Sentences with phrase «federal protection of»

But past that, from the various things I've been able to find online about it, the federal protection of «familial status» refers solely to having children (or being pregnant), and nothing else related to the family.

In addition to preserving the Union, ending slavery and establishing Thanksgiving as a holiday, Abraham Lincoln created the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Academy of Sciences, and approved federal protection of the land that would become Yosemite National Park.

Another important shift involves federal protection of imperiled species.

During the trip, Muir convinced the president to expand the federal protection of the land in and around Yosemite National Park after exposing him to the exploitation of the valley's resources and the degradation of the land.

On your trek you will step in the same places they stepped and, due to the federal protection of the canyon, you will see the same scenery they saw 100 years ago virtually unchanged.

On 3 November, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Donna Shalala proposed new regulations that researchers must follow in order to access and use electronic human subject information — to offer federal protection of medical and health research data generated, stored, or transmitted electronically.

It was an era filled with protest that led to legislation and the federal protection of the civil rights of people, allowing them to keep doing what America was born from: protest.

Washington (CNN)- The Justice Department sought on Friday to strike a delicate balance between the use of bald eagle feathers by Native American tribes and federal protection of the nation's symbolic bird.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has been known to remark that Dief doesn't get enough credit for that 1960 bid to entrench federal protection of freedom of religion, speech, the press, and assembly.

In the United States, the First Amendment to the Constitution, as well as the federal protections of truthful and non-misleading commercial speech, allow Health Coaches to provide health and wellness coaching.

Not exact matches

On the flip side, several categories of material are not eligible for federal copyright protection.

SAN DIEGO — U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Tuesday began testing the use of body cameras by its employees at nine locations, potentially leading to a broad rollout by the nation's largest law enforcement agency that would make it the first federal agency to use the devices on a large scale.

But DACA recipients, known as «Dreamers,» fear that, beyond losing their work permits and protections against deportation, they could be uniquely vulnerable to federal immigration authorities because of the information the Department of Homeland Security has collected from them.

In addition to getting rid of the potential for so - called fast and slow lanes on the internet, as allowed by a federal court last year, the proposal would provide consumers with stronger privacy protections.

Such Constitutional protections have ensured that federal programs such as Medicare, the Veteran Administration's TRICARE system (which provides benefits for active duty members of the military and their families), and the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) apply the same rules to everyone they cover.

These regulations are handed down from several federal agencies, including the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and various state agencies, which implement laws in the realms of worker's compensation, employee protection, and otProtection Agency (EPA), and various state agencies, which implement laws in the realms of worker's compensation, employee protection, and otprotection, and other areas.

The suits by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Human Rights Campaign, filed in federal courts in Baltimore and Seattle, claim Trump's plan violates the Equal Protection clause of the Constitution.

But it is widely held that all such technical hurdles have now been erased and that later this year a challenge that began over a decade ago will finally spell the end for the protection of the Washington Redskin's federal trademark.

«We still have some work to do to ensure that students who take out private student loans have the same kinds of protections offered by federal loans.»

«Any time you roll out a big government program like this, confusion is inevitable,» said Lois Greisman, an associate director in the Bureau of Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission.

A summary of the forthcoming orders, seen by Reuters, say past administrations «overused» the Antiquities Act, putting more federal areas under protection than necessary.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that whistleblower protections in a federal law passed in response to the Enron financial scandal apply broadly to employees of publicly traded companies and contractors hired by the companies.

That court said the federal DMCA protections were not applicable to recordings from before 1972, the year Congress first included them in the scope of federal copyright law.

Zzyym's lawsuit, filed last year by the LGBT rights legal firm Lambda Legal Defense Fund in federal court in Denver, argued that the policy of requiring either a male or female designation on passport applications violated due process and equal protection rights for intersex people.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced Wednesday it is suing federal and private student loan servicer Navient, saying the company has been «systematically and illegally failing borrowers at every stage of repayment.»

Earlier this week Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai announced a radical plan to undo the net neutrality protections that have been in place in the U.S. since the beginning of the Internet.

Now President Donald Trump has reportedly assured U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado that he will support protection of states that have legalized marijuana from federal interference.

«If there was any question about Graham - Cassidy's removal of federal protections for pre-existing conditions, this new draft is quite clear,» Levitt tweeted Sunday.

Then came the most - publicized case of well - water contamination near fracking operations, in Dimock Township, Pa., just east of Bradford County; the federal Environmental Protection Agency said in 2012 that preliminary results found the water was safe to drink, though it did contain chemicals as well as explosive methane.

In September, the Federal Consumer Protection Bureau discovered that the bank's employees had opened millions of fraudulent customer accounts.

The Federal Communications Commission's new rules eliminating its net - neutrality protections are set to take effect next month, but supporters of an open internet aren't giving up hope they can be restored — possibly even right away.

In the 2008 District of Columbia v. Heller case, the Supreme Court ruled 5 - 4 that the Second Amendment protects a person's right to own guns — at a federal level — and in 2010 the court said that protection applies at a local level as well.

WASHINGTON — The two top officials in charge of security and toxic - waste cleanups at the Environmental Protection Agency have abruptly left their jobs, days after EPA administrator Scott Pruitt told lawmakers that his subordinates were to blame for alleged ethical lapses that have prompted more than a dozen federal investigations of the agency.

The federal securities laws provide disclosure requirements and other important protections of which investors should be aware.

For net neutrality to be officially repealed, the FCC must post the rules in the Federal Register while the U.S. Office of Management and Budget must sign off on the replacement protections that the FCC has proposed in its place.

Rather, the «Buy American» portion will call for federal agencies to initiate a 220 - day review of how they can strengthen protections on American - made goods.

Between these two ID theft services, the same personal information was for sale on Edith Ramirez and Richard Cordray, the heads of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), respectively.

The appointment of even one SEC Commissioner with significant experience as a state securities regulator would dramatically improve coordination between state and federal securities authorities and bring a perspective informed by experiences from Main Street America where investor protection is personal and capital formation means real jobs.

Keep in mind that if a borrower chooses to refinance federal student loans through a private lender, they will lose the protection and benefits of federal student loan programs.

It has put a pause on plans for tests of Equifax's data protection practices and turned down offers from other federal regulators for help in on - site credit bureau exams.

Such a violation, if eventually confirmed by the Federal Trade Commission, could lead to many millions of dollars in fines against Facebook, said David Vladeck, who as the director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection oversaw the investigation of alleged privacy violations by Facebook and the subsequent consent decree resolving the case in 2011.

One thing to be aware of is that through refinancing, you'll give up federal loan protections such as payment plan flexibility and the option to pursue an income - contingent plan.

The following are some facts about diesel car engines, the tailpipe pollution they emit and the «defeat device» software that federal regulators say VW used to circumvent emissions standards set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the state of California.

«Unfortunately, we're more likely to see an erosion of consumer protection at the federal level over the next several years,» Dodd said.

Last week Scott Pruitt, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, dropped the Obama - era rule, claiming modern mining practices, as well as other state and federal requirements, made the financial responsibility rule superfluous.

(May 3, 2018) Telecompaper reports Germany's Conference of State and Federal Data Protection Authorities has released the measures it wants Facebook and social media networks to take following the Cambridge Analytica revelations.

If a judge deems the British Columbia government is not doing enough to protect crucial habitat of the endangered spotted owl, he or she could order the federal environment minister to recommend an emergency protection order under the federal Species at Risk Act.

While OCC remains the prudential regulator for all national banks and federal savings associations, July 21, 2011, marked the anniversary of the Dodd - Frank Consumer Protection and Wall Street Reform Act.

While we're all breathlessly awaiting the federal government's long - promised revisions to the Copyright Act, interested parties may want to check out Bill C - 47, the federal government's proposed legislation to grant extra special intellectual property right protection for the Olympic movement and its related symbols. For a summary of the legislation, check out the Library of -LSB-...]

Don Blandin, president and CEO of the Investor Protection Trust (IPT) and the Investor Protection Institute (IPI), has worked in and with a wide variety of sectors, including business and industry; nonprofit; academia and philanthropic foundations; and federal, state and local government, both in the U.S. and globally.