Sentences with phrase «filed by private citizens»
The emails were obtained through a FOIA request filed by private citizens who banded together to successfully prevent a wind farm from being established in Lenawee County.
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This follows a suit filed by a private citizen, Lolan Ekow Sagoe - Moses, and pressure group Citizens Ghana Movement (CGM), who prayed the court to compel the Commission to enforce the provisions...
A qui tam claim is one form of a whistleblower case where a lawsuit is filed by a private citizen on behalf of the state or federal government against a person or business that is allegedly defrauding an arm of the state or federal government.
Not exact matches
Half a dozen senators and several private citizens of filed a lawsuit challenging the law pushed through by the Senate Democrats last year that changed the way prisoners are counted for the purposes of redistricting, Senate sources confirm.
Should the number of complaints filed by two or three enterprising private citizens be the standard for judging how much public money a regulatory agency receives?
As Melnick asks, «Should the number of complaints filed by two or three enterprising private citizens be the standard for judging how much public money a regulatory agency receives?»
Just like private citizens, corporations are required by federal law to file and pay their taxes.
While lawsuits against the oil and gas companies make major headlines in ND, hundreds more lawsuits filed against private citizens each year go unmentioned by the media.