Sentences with phrase «filed by constitution»

FERC ruled that the state acted in a reasonable time, and a second application was filed by Constitution less than a year after one dating from May 2014.

On May 22, U.S. District Court Judge William K. Watkins, Jr., whose court is in Montgomery, Alabama, cancelled the May 24 hearing in Stein v Chapman, the ballot access lawsuit filed by the Constitution, Green and Libertarian Parties.

Not exact matches

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.

Texas Representative Matt Schaefer filed House Joint Resolution 89 that proposes to amend the Texas constitution by establishing virtual currency rights and limiting subsequent efforts to regulate digital currency.

Detroit school students, represented by the Los Angeles - based public interest firm Public Counsel, filed suit last month against the state of Michigan, claiming a legal right to literacy based on the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.

The writ petition filed by Kali Digital claims that the decision of the Reserve Bank to deny services to crypto traders and exchanges violates various acts of the Indian constitution - Article 19 (1)(g) and Article 14 - which promise individuals a fair treatment among the eyes of law, as well as the freedom to practice any business or occupation of their choice.

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 plaintiff is seeking: A declaration that upon a true and proper interpretation of the provisions of the 1992 Constitution, particularly Articles 88 (5), 218 (a) and (e), 284 and 287 thereof, the 1st defendant can not act as the legal representative for Honourable Kenneth Nana Yaw Ofori Atta, the Minister of Finance of the Republic of Ghana, in a pending investigation bordering on conflict of interest and abuse of office before the 2nd Defendant; A further declaration that the purported response filed by the 1st Defendant on behalf of the said Honorable Kenneth Nana Yaw Ofori Atta in respect of the petition concerning conflict of interest and abuse of office before the 2nd Defendant is unconstitutional, null and void and of no effect whatsoever;

«Because the Constitution provides the authority for the allocation of monies for particular and additional services, appertaining to or entailed by that special capacity, the documents filed with the Comptroller can not be false and therefore the instruments filed were not false filings under Penal Law,» the memo states.

The Knoxville News Sentinel has this story on the new ballot access lawsuit filed two weeks ago by the Constitution and Green Parties.

In his suit marked FHC / ABJ / CS / 508/2017 and filed on June 28, Dawodu urged the court to declare Saraki as empowered by the Nigerian Constitution to set up a medical panel to determine Buhari's health status «without first being a resolution of the Executive Council of the Federation.»

According to Article IV of the California Constitution, the candidate must be a United States Citizen, a resident of California for three years, a resident of the legislative district for one year and a registered voter in that district by the time nomination papers are filed.

To fight what it called a «grave threat» to the country, a watchdog group filed a lawsuit alleging that Trump is violating the U.S. Constitution by allowing his business to accept payments from foreign governments.

His lawyer, Mr. Joseph Daudu (SAN), who filed the suit on behalf of the former governor on Tuesday, argued that his client's rights allegedly violated by the three respondents were guaranteed by sections 35 (1), 34 (1), 35 (4), 41 (1) of the Nigerian Constitution.

According to the Court of Appeal, Metuh and his company failed to first obtain the leave of either the trial court or the appellate court before filing a notice of appeal as required by the constitution when filing an appeal against an interlocutory decision, on the grounds of mixed law and facts.

This week, supporters of Blake's main rival, Marsha Michael, a court attorney favored by the Bronx Democratic County Committee, filed specific objections seeking to invalidate his petition signatures and disqualifying him because he doesn't meet state constitution's residency requirements.

Other suits filed by Posner on the budget that year, dismissed on the basis of his lacking standing, generically stated that Posner argued the budget violated Article VII of the Constitution.

A bill that would be the first step toward changing the constitution passed the Senate but stalled in the Assembly amid concerns by public employee unions that it would capture rank - and - file state workers — not just corrupt politicians.

On December 8, 2011, opponents filed suit, alleging that the newly drawn state House map violated the Voting Rights Act and the equal protection clause of the United States Constitution by «targeting African - American incumbents for pairing, and «cracking» the Latino community of southwest Detroit.»

The plaintiffs had filed the substantive suit on July 4, 2016, contending that that by virtue of the PDP's Constitution, they must remain in office till 2018.

The Supreme Court [today], Wednesday, dismissed an application filed by journalist Richard Dela Sky, which asked the court to interpret provisions of the 1992 Constitution on the appointment of an Electoral Commission Chair.

This is the ballot access case filed by the Green Party and the Constitution Party in July 2011.

This is the case filed by the Green Party and the Constitution Party, challenging the May petition deadline for newly - qualifying parties.

A bill that requires Tennessee's public schools to set aside one minute at the beginning of the school day for «meditation, or prayer, or personal beliefs» has been signed into law by Gov. Lamar Alexander, but the American Civil Liberties Union (aclu) of Tennessee intends to file suit shortly on the grounds that the law is in violation of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

The longest - running of the cases, filed in federal court in 2000, alleged that Arizona's individual tax - credit program violates the establishment clause of the U.S. Constitution by permitting organizations to provide scholarships to students that can be used only at religious schools.

The lawsuit, filed by the nonprofit Public Interest Law Office of Rochester in September 1998, claims that the state has deprived the plaintiffs — all low - income black and Hispanic students — of their rights under the state constitution to a sound basic education by failing to alleviate concentrations of poverty in the 37,000 - student Rochester school district.

The Minnesota Federation of Teachers has filed suit in federal district court in St. Paul to block the state's 1985 Postsecondary Enrollment Options Act on the grounds that the law violates both the state and federal constitutions by permitting the «direct diversion» of public funds from public schools to church - related colleges and universities.

And we'll also keep you posted on the lawsuit filed by public school teachers who allege that the repeal of career status violates state and federal constitutions by denying teachers due process rights.

A judge has rejected a lawsuit filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center claiming that Mississippi's charter school law violates the state's constitution.

The Niehaus lawsuit, filed by the Arizona School Boards Association and the Arizona Education Association, claims that the Empowerment Account program violates the religion clauses of the Arizona Constitution.

In September 2010, the ACLU filed suit on behalf of students alleging the fees violated the California constitution's free public education guarantee and discriminated against lower - income students by creating a «pay - to - learn» system that threatened the integrity of the free public education system.

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The collections varyingly consist of meeting minutes, constitutions, by - laws, officer lists and files, original research on breeds, correspondence, brochures, pamphlets, premium lists, show catalogs, club publications, photographs, audio - visual material, and more.

A Georgia state trial court has denied a motion to dismiss filed by Reed Elsevier, the parent company of LexisNexis, in a class action accusing the company — and Fulton County — of violating the state constitution by requiring court documents to be electronically filed at litigants» expense.

On Tuesday May 27, 2014, it was reported in the media that a motion raising a question of public interest was filed in Quebec Superior Court by a medical doctor Paul Saba, and a woman with cerebral palsy Lisa D'Amico, claiming that Bill 52 is illegal and violates both the Quebec and Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Quebec's Civil Code, the Quebec Code of medical practice, medical ethics, the Criminal Code and the Constitution.

It is also noteworthy because the court recognized that the right to copyright is a human right protected by the Constitution of Ireland, 1937; and that the graduated response protocol was fully justified in light of the importance of copyright and the adverse effects of unauthorized online file sharing.

By Notice of a Constitutional Matter filed herewith, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission («the Commission») has given notice that the above proceedings potentially involve a matter arising under the Constitution or involving its interpretation within the meaning of section 78B of the Judiciary Act 1903 (Cth).