Sentences with phrase «funding lawsuit against the state»

For all of these reasons, I am also part of the Brown v. New York charter funding lawsuit against the state.

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Kenneth G. Langone, the co-founder of Home Depot and former director of the New York Stock Exchange, helped fund Maurice R. Greenberg's lawsuit against the United States government over the bankruptcy of the American International Group, which was viewed as being as much as about money as about principle.

The suit was filed Wednesday in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia for the college by the Becket Fund, the same law firm that is representing multiple lawsuits against the HHS policy.

Nabozny, with the help of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, won a landmark federal lawsuit (and eventually settled for close to $ 1 million) against school administrators in his home state of Wisconsin who failed to a spate of stop brutal anti-gay bullying at his school of which he was the target.

Faced with a rigged system that underfunded these schools, Robert Jackson filed a landmark lawsuit against the state to fix the inequitable New York State school funding distribution formula that was cheating NYC schools and undermining our children's fustate to fix the inequitable New York State school funding distribution formula that was cheating NYC schools and undermining our children's fuState school funding distribution formula that was cheating NYC schools and undermining our children's future.

«We're going to demand that Governor Cuomo provide the funding that was afforded to us in a court decision for our schools,» she said as she joined advocates to push for more funding under the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, which in 2007 won a lawsuit against the state to provide increased education funding to the city.

Jackson made headlines in 2003 when he walked 150 miles to Albany from City Hall, to draw attention to a lawsuit against the state for not allocating enough funds to the city's public schools.

Qualcomm Discloses Political Spending New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, manager and trustee of the state retirement fund, has dropped a lawsuit against wireless tech giant Qualcomm following the company's decision to disclose its political expenditState Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, manager and trustee of the state retirement fund, has dropped a lawsuit against wireless tech giant Qualcomm following the company's decision to disclose its political expenditstate retirement fund, has dropped a lawsuit against wireless tech giant Qualcomm following the company's decision to disclose its political expenditures.

Jackson was the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit against New York State for failing to properly fund the city's public schools.

In October 2016, the attorney general sent a cease and desist letter to the Donald J. Trump Foundation amid reports that the foundation did not have the necessary licensing to raise money in the state and used donor funds to settle personal lawsuits against Trump, and to buy portraits of him at charity auctions that he used in his business properties.

He also recalled his October cease - and - desist letter to the Donald J. Trump Foundation, which came amid reports that it lacked licensing to raise money in New York State and that it had expended donor funds to settle personal lawsuits against Trump, and to purchase portraits of him at charity auctions that he later used to decorate his business properties.

Riverkeeper, Waterkeeper Alliance, and Environmental Advocates of New York Monday filed a lawsuit in State Supreme Court in Albany against New York State officials, seeking to ensure that federal Clean Water Act funds will not be used in building the new Tappan Zee Bridge or for future projects.

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Cuomo also gave the counties a warning: If they didn't go along now, they would forfeit the slot money and the state would stop funding the counties» three lawsuits against the Oneidas.

An Albany County state supreme court justice has ruled against plaintiffs from eight «small city school districts» who contended that the state has failed to adequately fund them in light of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit that almost a decade ago found that New York City schools had been systemically shortchanged when it came to state aid.

Lev Dassin, the acting United States attorney for the southern district of New York, and Tony West, the assistant attorney general for the civil division of the Department of Justice, announced today that Westchester County has agreed to fund the building of 750 units of affordable housing in areas with low racial and ethnic diversity in order to settle a lawsuit brought against it by the United States under the False Claims Act as well as the Housing and Community Development Act.

According to a lawsuit filed by parents with the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, New York State has systematically discriminated against districts with black, Latino, and poor students by inadequately funding their education.

DiNapoli recently announced he had hired the law firm of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll to represent the state pension fund in a class action lawsuit against the oil giant BP in connection with the «disastrous» Deepwater Horizon explosion and subsequent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

The defense: The funds were not issued to Cor until months later, after the company filed a civil lawsuit against a state agency.

With less than two months remaining in his tenure as attorney general, Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo has filed two lawsuits against President Obama's former car czar, Steve Rattner, alleging he paid kickbacks in order to obtain $ 150 million in investments in his private equity firm, Quadrangle Group, from the state pension fund.

And though he wasn't accused of any crime, Brooklyn Assemblyman Vito Lopez was forced to resign his seat in May in the wake of a scathing report about his bullying and sexually inappropriate treatment of female staffers — now the subject of state and federal lawsuits against Lopez and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who apologized for quietly settling earlier complaints against Lopez with a taxpayer - funded confidential settlement.

A New York judge has rejected a lawsuit brought by the right - wing Christian group Alliance Defense Fund against New York Governor David Paterson, aimed to thwart his directive that New York state recognize same - sex marriages performed out - of - state:... Read

A New York judge has rejected a lawsuit brought by the right - wing Christian group Alliance Defense Fund against New York Governor David Paterson, aimed to thwart his directive that New York state recognize same - sex marriages performed out - of - state:

Meanwhile, after H+H announced plans to file a lawsuit against New York state government for failing to provide $ 380 million in funding, Governor Andrew Cuomo relented, giving H+H $ 360 million of the $ 380 million H+H claimed it was owed in October.

In two separate lawsuits, opponents of educational choice alleged that Nevada's ESA violated the state constitution's mandate that the state provide a «uniform system of common schools» (Article 11, Section 2), its prohibition against using public funds for sectarian purposes (Article 11, Section 6), and a clause requiring the state to appropriate funds to operate the district schools before any other appropriation is enacted for the biennium (Article 11, Section 10).

To address the lack of facilities funding and the funding inequity for charter students, NESCN has supported parents in Buffalo and Rochester in a lawsuit against New York State.

The court ordered a dismissal of the Dwyer lawsuit, which was filed by a group of parents and school officials in June 2014 claiming the state is unconstitutionally cutting school districts» funding by going against Amendment 23.

In August 2005, the California Teachers Association filed a lawsuit against the governor, arguing that he did not fully fund public education in accordance with California's Proposition 98, the law that requires a minimum percentage of the state budget to be spent on K - 14 education.

We at IDRA applaud the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund for filing its lawsuit this week against the state of Texas over school funding on behalf of four property - poor school districts and three parents.

The lawsuit — which was filed in 2011 and became the longest legal battle over school finance in state history — was brought against the state after the Legislature cut $ 5.4 billion in public education funding from the state budget while schools were already struggling to implement new academic standards.

Snyder can point to the lawsuit filed earlier this year by the American Civil Liberties Union's state branch against the Highland Park district (and the state) for educationally failing the children in its care as one example of why the state must overhaul school funding and expand choice.

In Indiana, there is a lawsuit against the state to block implementation of a new school voucher law that could cut funding to public schools by up to $ 65.8 million.

In June, a group of educators, parents and school districts filed a lawsuit against the state of Colorado that seeks to enforce Amendment 23, a voter - approved measure that called for more school funding.

It is at least the second lawsuit filed against the state this year over education funding.

That's according to Advocacy Manager with the Northeast Charter Schools Network, Duncan Kirkwood, whose group supports a lawsuit filed against the state over the way New York funds charter schools.

The reason given by management and the Board, and it makes some sense, is that the company may need additional funding for operations and, more importantly, they don't know how long the appeal process for the lawsuit against NY State will take, and thus they could need funding above and beyond what is currently available to «vigorously defend» stockholder interests.

On August 25, 2009, The Pennsylvania Funds filed a class action lawsuit in the Superior Court of the State of California, County of Alameda, purportedly on behalf of the stockholders of Avigen, Inc., against Avigen and its directors, alleging that Avigen's directors breached their fiduciary duties to the stockholders of Avigen in connection with the proposed acquisition of Avigen by MediciNova, Inc..

Salzer v. King Kong Zoo The Animal Legal Defense Fund is assisting in legal representation of several North Carolina residents who filed a lawsuit against King Kong Zoo for violating the state's animal cruelty law.

In July 2014, the Animal Legal Defense Fund and three Pennsylvania residents filed a lawsuit against the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, alleging illegal expenditure of state tax dollars on unlawful regulatory activity.

• Washington state's King County files a climate change lawsuit against five prominent fossil fuel companies and asks them to establish a fund to pay for the effects of global warming.

This law, if passed, could be used to allow coal companies to fund state lawsuits against the Clean Power Plan.

The litigation funding and lawsuit lending industries have long fought against safeguards at every turn — most recently in Wisconsin, which became the first state to require transparency for their practices in civil cases.

On behalf of Brown & Crouppen, P.C. posted in Workers» Compensation on Wednesday, April 25, 2012 The federal judge presiding over a lawsuit filed against the State of Missouri by four workers who say they are owed benefits from the state's Second Injury Fund recently dismissed the suit despite acknowledging the plaintiffs are entitled to -LSBState of Missouri by four workers who say they are owed benefits from the state's Second Injury Fund recently dismissed the suit despite acknowledging the plaintiffs are entitled to -LSBstate's Second Injury Fund recently dismissed the suit despite acknowledging the plaintiffs are entitled to -LSB-...]

United States service members, veterans and contractors who were injured in the Iraq War or Afghanistan might be entitled to file a lawsuit and seek compensation against banks that helped fund terrorist groups.

As we understand it, professor Brand's critique of the EU approach is that it forces merchants to adopt a strategy akin to a classic insurance model: every consumer pays more so that the merchant will have enough funds to defend himself against eventual lawsuits in different states.

Users were unable to withdraw funds which is why they suffered major losses, stated the firm which filed a lawsuit against Coincheck.