Sentences with phrase «filed a court brief»

Several groups including the National Congress of American Indians and the Great Plains Tribal Chairman's Association along with 34 other tribes on Thursday filed a court brief supporting Standing Rock's request.

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The group of businesses — which also includes Twitter, Uber, and SpaceX — said the new order would inflict «substantial harm on U.S. companies, their employees, and the entire country,» in a brief filed in the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

If a client's brief isn't filed with the court on time, that tardiness may lead to a malpractice lawsuit.

On Sunday and Monday, 127 Bay Area companies filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit stating their opposition against the president's executive order on immigration.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), in a rare split within government over such issues, has filed its own brief with the court on the side of gay rights in the workplace.

Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a legal brief in an appeals court case, arguing against workplace discrimination protection for employees who are gay.

He said he will file an amicus brief in court by early March.

In February 2011, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, in conjunction with several other activist groups filed a brief with the U.S. District Court in New York City in support of ivi.

«The DOL has created a new private right of action,» said Fleckner, who led Goodwin's successful defense of an excessive fee claim against John Hancock in the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals in 2014, and was a signatory to an amicus brief filed with the Supreme Court on behalf of the Securities Industry Financial Markets Association in Tibble v. Edison.

The Consumer Federation of America plans to file an amicus brief in the court case in conjunction with other advocacy groups this week, highlighting reasons it believes the case was wrongly decided.

Last year, for example, the Justice Department filed an amicus brief for the Masterpiece Cakeshop Supreme Court case in support of the Christian baker who refused to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple.

WASHINGTON, DC — Washington Legal Foundation today filed a reply brief on behalf of its client, Chance Gordon, in the U.S. Supreme Court.

The Financial Planning Coalition — comprising the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, the Financial Planning Association and the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors — filed an amicus brief Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, in support of DOL's fiduciary rule and opposing efforts to stop the rule from taking effect.

The Chamber had a hand in that decision, having filed a brief before the Court in which it argued «that the fact that a speaker is a corporation is not a constitutional basis for suppressing its independent political speech.»»

September 2013: The PMA submitted an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief in support of petitions recently filed by Amazon and Overstock with the US Supreme Ccourt) brief in support of petitions recently filed by Amazon and Overstock with the US Supreme CourtCourt.

Finally, when the facts were known and Nicaragua quite appropriately filed a brief with the World Court, where there could be a judicial hearing under international auspices, the administration responded by announcing that for a period of two years it would refuse to recognize the jurisdiction of the World Court in any matters pertaining to Central America.

Christian legal group ADF International has filed an expert brief with the European Court of Human Rights in support of the man known as A.A. (anonymised for security reasons).

The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty filed a brief in both marriage cases now pending in the Supreme Court, arguing that the Court should not interfere with democratic legislative processes in this field, because only such processes can result in public policies that will prevent church - state conflict in the future.

The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty filed a brief in both marriage cases now pending in the Supreme Court, arguing that the Court should not interfere....

(Masterpiece Cakeshop, a Colorado bakery, is headed to the US Supreme Court over its refusal to bake a cake for a gay client, and the Justice Department previously filed an amicus brief in the baker's favor.)

Twenty - one years after the RFRA was introduced in the House of Representatives by Chuck Schumer, passed nearly unanimously by Congress, and signed into law by President Bill Clinton, the Freedom From Religion Foundation has filed an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to strike it down as an unconstitutional «takeover of the Court's power to interpret the Constitution» and a violation of the Establishment Clause.

The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) and other groups today filed a brief with a federal appellate court explaining that a district court judge erred in refusing to block implementation of Vermont's law mandating warning labels on products with ingredients from genetically engineered (GE) plants.

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When I was called into court, the sheriff handed the judge my file and His Honor and the state's attorney gave it a brief look.

In a brief filed in General Sessions court (necessary to obtain a search warrant) Hogan said he believed Hymie keeps some interesting non-fur business records which will show that «crimes of conspiracy, violation of laws concerning licensing of managers and bribery of sports participants have been committed in this county by Frank Carbo and other persons.»

National and state gay rights organizations filed an amicus brief to challenge Utah's gay marriage ban before the US Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit.

The amicus brief is one of dozens submitted to the appeals court this week in support of same - sex marriage in Utah and the latest to be filed by a coalition of groups led by the Family Equality Council.

Meanwhile, on Tuesday, in a federal district court in Washington, D.C., the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a brief requesting that a federal judge not dismiss a case of litigation against senior CIA and military officials for the 2011 targeted killing of Anwar al - Awlaki (a suspected al - Qaeda leader) and his 16 - year - old son, both U.S. citizens.

Sixteen state attorneys general — including New York's Eric Schneiderman — along with Washington D.C. filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in support of the state of Hawaii's case against the Trump administration's latest ban prohibiting travel from several majority - Muslim nations.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman recently filed a friend - of - the - court brief in a case involving a woman forced to pay estate tax on an inheritance from her female spouse.

Arnold Schwarzenegger's push for nonpartisan redistricting has gained significant Republican support, with Ohio Gov. John Kasich signing on to his amicus brief at the Supreme Court and Arizona Sen. John McCain filing a separate friend - of - the - court bCourt and Arizona Sen. John McCain filing a separate friend - of - the - court bcourt brief.

He has even joined three other NYS sheriffs in filing a friend of the court brief in a federal lawsuit seeking to overturn SAFE.

Titled «FR VS Danladi Umar (CR / 109/18) request for Briefing,» the query read in part: «The attention of the Honourable Attorney General of the Federation was drawn to news report that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has filed charges of corruption against the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, Hon. Justice Danladi Umar, before the FCT High Court.

In federal court on Thursday, New Jersey's attorney general filed a brief to back Dreamers facing deportation.

The city filed an amicus brief with the high court backing public workers unions» ability to collect mandatory fees, even from workers who don't want to join the union, officials said.

But in a brief filed this week in federal court, lawyers for the Justice Department tell U.S. District Court Judge Gary Sharpe that if he does set a primary for New York, that he make the date earlier than Augcourt, lawyers for the Justice Department tell U.S. District Court Judge Gary Sharpe that if he does set a primary for New York, that he make the date earlier than AugCourt Judge Gary Sharpe that if he does set a primary for New York, that he make the date earlier than Aug. 18.

«Guilty,» Maziarz told Judge Peter Lynch during a brief appearance in court Friday afternoon when asked how he pleaded to a relatively minor election law offense of filing a false campaign finance report with the state elections board.

«I led the way by filing an amicus brief in support of an appeal in New Jersey Appellate Court, fought side - by - side with environmental advocates and won the battle against LG's plan to forever ruin the verdant bluffs that we enjoy so much.

On January 27, the Massachusetts Attorney General filed this brief in the State Supreme Court, in the lawsuit over whether the election law either permits or forbids using a stand - in presidential candidate on the ballot access petition of an unqualified party.

In a court brief filed earlier this year Senate Republicans pushed for an August date, warning the a June primary would throw the legislative session in chaos.

The the coalition, along with two other states, also filed a second court brief opposing the state of Texas's challenge to federal guidance allowing transgender students to use facilities consistent with their gender identity.

Poughkeepsie... Dutchess County Executive Marcus Molinaro filed an amicus - curiae brief today with the United State Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in support of Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corporation and the Public Service Commission of the State of New York's motion seeking to stay the implementation of a new capacity zone ordered by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).

On November 22, the ACLU filed this brief in U.S. District Court in Kelly v Johnson, the case against the March petition deadline for non-presidential independent candidates.

He ordered Jacobs to file his respondents» brief in response to Saraki's appellant's brief served on him in court on Thursday within seven days.

The Supreme Court also ordered Daudu to file further response to Jacobs» brief, if he so desired within seven days thereafter.

«FERC set an August 7, 2016 deadline for all decisions on federal authorizations relating to the [project],» lawyers for Millennium wrote in a 32 - page brief filed Monday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

In a brief filed Tuesday in Supreme Court in Manhattan, Senate Republican Campaign Committee lawyer Michael Chertoff said the SRCC «voluntarily discontinues» its challenge to a September subpoena from the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption, which was created by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

New York City Public Advocate Letitia James will file a brief today with the New York State Supreme Court seeking expedited appeal hearings against the denied petitions to release grand jury transcripts and evidence in the Eric Garner case.

In that sense, he hasn't disappointed: On Wednesday, the outgoing Manhattan borough president filed an amicus brief in court to make a politically correct point about fracking.

The city recently filed an amicus brief with the United States Supreme Court in Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31, et al., which is challenging the right of unions to collect dues from all employees who benefit from collective bargaining.