Sentences with phrase «from unfair practices»

Mr. Murtha has written and taught on the subjects and has successfully litigated cases in defense of consumers» rights, protecting them from the unfair practices of debt - collection agencies, creditors, automobile dealerships, banks, student loan companies and other businesses in both state and federal courts.

Collection agencies must comply with the Fair Debt Collections Practices Act (FDCPA) and under the FDCPA the consumer is protected from unfair practices and abuse.

Remember, the debt collection law protects you from unfair practices of collection agencies but you are still responsible to pay back the money that you owe.

However, the law requires the Federal Reserve to study small businesses» use of credit cards and how those companies are protected from unfair practices — an indication that Congress might consider extending some provisions to business credit cards in the future.

In the meantime, bishops had come to be appointed occasionally, as it were ex officio, the emperor's «personal» defensores of the municipalities to protect the local populations, Christian and otherwise, from any unfair practices of the local or provincial officialdom of the Empire.

You are to be congratulated for advocating for your child against the pressures to conform and I hope you will be able to trust that the teachers working with your child will care and protect him / her from any unfair practice derived from this unproven test experiment.

Not exact matches

From his first meeting with Xi, Trump promised that if China would cooperate in tightening economic sanctions on North Korea, the US would refrain from taking a hard line against what it perceived to be China's unfair trade practiFrom his first meeting with Xi, Trump promised that if China would cooperate in tightening economic sanctions on North Korea, the US would refrain from taking a hard line against what it perceived to be China's unfair trade practifrom taking a hard line against what it perceived to be China's unfair trade practices.

Unfair trade practices detailed by the office of the U.S. Trade Representative accuse China of using «joint venture requirements, foreign investment restrictions, and administrative review and licensing processes to force or pressure technology transfers from American companies.»

In a statement Friday from the IMF meetings, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin urged the IMF to «step up to the plate» to call out countries engaged in unfair trade practices — a frequent refrain from the Trump administration is that its trade penalty threats are not protectionist, but simply seeking «fair» exchange.

Duarte pointed to her group's efforts to get Facebook to crack down on affinity targeting in ads, for example, routing ads related to homebuying away from minority groups — a social media ad version of the unfair mortgage and real estate industry practices that made homebuying for African Americans difficult for much of the 20th century.

We protect consumers from unfair, deceptive, or abusive practices and take action against companies that break the law.

In the past decade, the US had been ramping up the use of targeted tariffs to help protect the US steel industry from unfair trading practices, which include selling steel in the United States at a cheaper price than the price the exporting country sells it elsewhere (this is called «dumping»).

The most likely explanation, aside from a mistake, in this author's opinion, is to demonstrate that China is unlikely to passively accept tariffs on steel, aluminum, and solar panels — industries the U.S. Trade authorities are looking to penalise shortly for unfair trade practices.

«People should be protected from unfair and deceptive practices,» NAPA Executive Director Brian Graff said in a statement.

In the 1990s, Bill Clinton used the harsh prescriptions available in legislation from 1988 that allowed him to issue punitive tariffs against «unfair» trade practices.

The administration could launch a «Section 301» action, which allows the president to impose duties on products from countries that use unfair trade practices.

The National Labor Relations Board has ruled that «a confidentiality rule prohibiting employees from discussing their sexual harassment complaints among themselves» constitutes an unfair labor practice in violation of the Wagner Act.

When Donald Trump ran for president, he promised to protect US industries from unfair trade practices.

Unlike anti-dumping or countervailing duty cases, the law does not require the administration to demonstrate that the import flood arises from an unfair trade practice.

«President Trump made it clear from day one that unfair trade practices will not be tolerated under this administration,» Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said on a conference call with industry executives.

This week, Rep. Nita Lowey (D - N.Y.), introduced the Small Business Credit Card Act which would protect small - business credit cards from unfair and deceptive practices of credit card companies

The document lays out a 200 - day plan governed by five major objectives: renegotiating or withdrawing from the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA; stopping the Trans - Pacific Partnership trade deal; stopping «unfair imports»; ending «unfair trade practices»; and pursuing bilateral trade deals.

So while it is unfair to generalize priests as being peds... you can see from where the perception of it being a tolerated practice comes.

According to the document «Towards Common Witness» some of the characteristics which distinguish proselytism from Christian witness are: unfair criticism of caricaturing of the doctrines, beliefs and practices of another church; presenting one's church or confession as «the true church»; the use of humanitarian aid, educational opportunities or moral and psychological pressure, to induce people to change their affiliation; exploiting people's loneliness, even disillusionment with their own church in order to «convert» them.

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Mr. Otabil had travelled to the Region with some journalists from Accra, which practice is unfair to media practitioners in the Region.

Andy Morrison, a consumer advocate who worked on the report from the New York Public Interest Research Group, says the practice is unfair to minorities and low - income workers.

There's the Affordable Care Act, Thawed Cuba - American relations, the economy has shown steady growth with unemployment under 5 % for the first time in 8 years, the Iranian Nuclear treaty, same sex marriage, GM is alive and Bin - Laden's dead, updated the Fair Labor Standards act so people get paid for overtime hours... again, Dodd - Frank Wall St reforms, the CARD act to protect credit card users from unfair charges and business practices, etc etc..

Until the laws stop selectively enforcing policy against flagrant abusers of trust, ethics, unfair civic and labor practices, and integrity from within city and state government, there will certainly be a rampant element of corruption, low morale that dishonors a tainted leadership façade, and societal decay from the top downward.

And Reagan acted whenever necessary to protect the US from unfair trade trade practices, as he did with Harley - Davidson and some of the Lackawanna steel mills where the people of this district worked.

At 7 a.m., 130 RNs from the New York State Nurses Association at Nathan Littauer Hospital in Gloversville will walk off the job for a 1 - day unfair labor practice strike, 99 East State St.

Institutionalized gender bias is likely the main reason women are underrepresented in the upper echelons of academic medicine, they write, and explanations involving women's choice can distract observers from unfair institutional practices.

In fact, some people avoid ill - gotten gains — such as profits from unfair labor practices or insider trading — for fear of «moral contagion,» according to a paper published this week in the online issue of the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science.

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In the days of fast fashion and unfair labor practices, it's all the more important to know where your clothing comes from.

• too much school time is given over to test prep — and the pressure to lift scores leads to cheating and other unsavory practices; • subjects and accomplishments that aren't tested — art, creativity, leadership, independent thinking, etc. — are getting squeezed if not discarded; • teachers are losing their freedom to practice their craft, to make classes interesting and stimulating, and to act like professionals; • the curricular homogenizing that generally follows from standardized tests and state (or national) standards represents an undesirable usurpation of school autonomy, teacher freedom, and local control by distant authorities; and • judging teachers and schools by pupil test scores is inaccurate and unfair, given the kids» different starting points and home circumstances, the variation in class sizes and school resources, and the many other services that schools and teachers are now expected to provide their students.

Eva Moscowitz justified this practice by claiming that it would be «unfair» for her students to be educated with students she considers to be lower achievers because they come from public schools.

Eva S. Moskowitz, the founder and chief executive of Success Academy, along with various principals from each school branch, spoke in October in response to an article showing evidence of unfair practices by school administrators, including a «Got to Go» list of students to weed out.

It has been unnecessary wars, ranging from Vietnam to Iraq, and unfair financial practices on Wall Street.

This consent order involves violations by the foreign air carrier Emirates of Articles 17 and 19 of the Montreal Convention1 and the statutory prohibition against unfair and deceptive trade practices, 49 U.S.C. § 41712, in connection with monetary claims resulting from damage, loss, or delay to baggage checked on Emirates» flights to or from the United States.

Violations of section 41101 and 14 CFR 399.80 also constitute violations of 49 U.S.C § 41712, which prohibits air carriers and ticket agents from engaging in unfair and deceptive trade practices and unfair methods of competition in the provision of air transportation.

Violations of 14 CFR Part 382 as well as 49 U.S.C. § 41705 also constitute violations of 49 U.S.C. § 41712, which prohibits carriers from engaging in unfair and deceptive practices and unfair methods of competition.

Violations of 14 CFR Part 382 as well as 49 U.S.C. § 41705 constitute violations of 49 U.S.C. § 41712, which prohibits carriers from engaging in unfair and deceptive practices and unfair methods of competition.

Violations of 14 CFR Part 382 and 49 U.S.C. § 41705 also constitute violations of 49 U.S.C. § 41712, which prohibits carriers from engaging in unfair and deceptive practices and unfair methods of competition.

This consent order also concerns separate and distinct violations of the Department's prohibition against unfair and deceptive practices and unfair methods of competition, 49 U.S.C. § 41712, arising from Respondents» marketing and sale of air transportation services ultimately operated by a company that did not hold proper authority from the Department.

This order concerns violations by Allegiant Air, LLC, (Allegiant) of (1) the requirements of 14 CFR Part 382 (Part 382) with respect to properly coding and recording its disability - related complaints in connection with required disability reporting to the Department of Transportation (Department), as well as providing dispositive written responses to written consumer complaints alleging a violation of Part 382, and related statutory provisions, 49 U.S.C. § § 41702 and 41705; (2) the Department's full - fare advertising requirements, 14 CFR 399.84; and (3) 49 U.S.C. § 41712, which prohibits carriers from engaging in unfair and deceptive practices and unfair methods of competition.

This notice is intended to give further guidance to air carriers and other sellers of air transportation on how those additional taxes, fees, and restrictions that are permitted to be listed separately from a fare quotation may be disclosed in advertisements.1 This guidance will be used by the Office of Aviation Enforcement and Proceedings in its compliance and enforcement activities associated with 14 CFR 399.84, the Department's full fare advertising rule, and 49 U.S.C. 41712, which prohibits unfair and deceptive practices.

This order concerns the unlawful assertion of sovereign immunity by Thai Airways International Public Company Ltd. («Thai Airways»), a foreign air carrier holding permit and exemption authority to operate to and from the United States, conduct that violated the express terms of its operating authority, 49 U.S.C. $ 41301, and constituted an unfair and deceptive practice in violation of 49 U.S.C. 3 41712.

This order concerns violations by Vision Airlines, Inc., (Vision) of the Department's full - fare advertising rule, 14 CFR 399.84, as well as 49 U.S.C. § 41712, which prohibits carriers from engaging in unfair and deceptive practices.

This consent order concerns unauthorized interstate air service provided by Scott Air LLC d / b / a Island Air Express (Scott), a company without economic authority from the Department, that violated 49 U.S.C. § 41101 and constituted an unfair and deceptive practice prohibited by 49 U.S.C. § 41712.