Sentences with phrase «including against the department»

Free Beacon (2/8/13) reports: «Interior secretary nominee Sally Jewell previously served on the board of an environmental group that has filed dozens of lawsuits against the federal government, including against the Department of Interior.

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Catherine Lhamon, the Department of Education's assistant secretary for civil rights, said in a statement that the government would «vigorously enforce Title IX's prohibition against discrimination on the basis of sex, including gender identity, in every applicable school.»

The Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Health and Human Services are also impacted by the orders, which were reportedly handed down this week, and include a prohibition against some of the agencies posting on social media.

The strongly worded ruling from Judge Leon was in a case brought against the governors of the Federal Reserve by a group of plaintiffs including the National Association of Convenience Stores, the National Retail Federation, the Food Marketing Institute, Miller Oil Co., Boscov's Department Store and the National Restaurant Association.

Canada's grocery companies are in stiff competition against each other as well as other types of retailers that offer food items, including U.S. - based department store chain Walmart and Toronto - based Shoppers Drug Mart (TSX: SC).

Thus the annual Human Rights Report of the U.S. State Department, mute the previous decade on discrimination and the occasional acts of violence against Christians, included in its January 1990 report the observation that «Christians have had difficulty in getting permission to build new churches» and that «Christians complain that there are barriers to Christians rising to high positions in public service, public corporations, universities and the military.»

Organised by the newly - formed Right to Food Coalition, whose members include the Sydney Food Fairness Alliance, Foodbank NSW, Red Cross, SecondBite, Blacktown City Council, NSW Department of Health (South Western Sydney District), Liverpool City Council and others, the centrepiece of this conference is the presentation by Joel Berg, Executive Director of the New York Coalition Against Hunger.

The scandal had included months of media reporting on alleged acts of violence against women by roughly a dozen football players, with accusations that the school and athletic department had responded ineffectively.

Melissa and Meredith Weiss filed a lawsuit against North Carolina's Department of Health and Human Services in December of 2015 when they wouldn't amend their children's birth certificates to include both mothers» names.

No one should have to tolerate workplace harassment or discrimination, which is why the UFT - Department of Education contracts have contained protections, for many years, against a wide range of discriminatory or harassing behaviors, including sexual harassment.

Questions during the off - topic portion of the press conference included his opinion of the expected Democratic candidate in the 11th Congressional District special election and whether he'll campaign for Gentile, the prospect of Department of Homeland Security losing funding, religious organizations renting City school facilities for prayer / worship services and the related lawsuit, a NY Post report criticizing a newly - created NYPD training program, reported terror threats against shopping malls, the absence of a Lunar New Year message from the mayor and his non-attendance at the Lunar New Year parade, his reaction to Governor Cuomo's comment that their relationship will be «the best relationship between a mayor and governor in modern political history,» his scheduled trip to Albany on Wednesday and delays in federal funding of Sandy rebuilding.

The Department of Financial Services on Tuesday announcement its latest enforcement action that includes a $ 315 million penalty levied against the Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi.

Department of Financial Services Superintendent Maria Vullo told a state Senate committee that any legislation adopted in the wake of the Equifax data breach must include «stringent penalties» against credit reporting companies that don't abide by the law, including prohibitions against them operating in New York.

Senior figures, including Mr Clegg and Danny Alexander, wanted to drop the policy of scrapping tuition fees but the party's campaign department ordered every candidate to sign the NUS pledge to «vote against any increase in fees in the next parliament».

The Case Against Further Green Taxes, followed on this year by The Burden of Green Taxes, pioneered testing existing green taxes against the scale of the externalities created by climate change — similar estimates have since been produced by other groups including Government deparAgainst Further Green Taxes, followed on this year by The Burden of Green Taxes, pioneered testing existing green taxes against the scale of the externalities created by climate change — similar estimates have since been produced by other groups including Government deparagainst the scale of the externalities created by climate change — similar estimates have since been produced by other groups including Government departments.

The Government Affairs Subcommittee has oversight over a range of administrative and related matters including personnel issues, the Department of Law, and legal claims against the County.

The U.S. Attorney fired by President Trump's Justice Department, has also brought cases against nine former associates of Governor Cuomo, including the governor's former closest top aid.

Yet, on Monday, with his political compass apparently spinning in his never - ending feud with Mayor Bill de Blasio, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo took the extraordinary step of including the New York Police Department in his regularly scheduled fulmination against the mayor, specifically for failing to assist a sleeping homeless man in the city's subways.

The U.S. attorney fired by President Trump's Justice Department, has also brought cases against nine former associates of Governor Cuomo, including the governor's former closest top aide.

Mayor de Blasio answered questions from the press on a wide range of topics, including HIV prevention, the role of the Health Department and the «Nanny State», the large - size soda ban, Metzizah B'peh, fines and penalties levied by the Health Department, the ethics complaint filed against Patrick Gaspard, the city's fiscal outlook, stop & frisk and more.

When the previous government announced it was appealing against the European Court's original ruling in 2005, the Parliamentary Under - Secretary of State at the Department for Constitutional Affairs, Lord Firkin, said: «It has been the view of successive governments, including this government, that persons who have committed crimes serious enough to warrant a custodial sentence should forfeit the right to have a say in how the country is governed while they are detained.»

The Roman Catholic Church is using the two weeks running up to the Fourth of July for prayer and advocacy as it continues it's fight against the federal Health and Human Services Department mandate that would force some Catholic institutions to provide health insurance coverage that includes contraception.

They say they are also against pretty much all of the other taxes and fees in the governor's budget, including a proposed new tax on Internet purchases, a surcharge on pre-paid cell phones and higher fees at the Department of Motor Vehicles.

Agencies receiving Operation Primetime funding in 2012 include: Access of WNY, African American Cultural Center, Back to Basics, Be A Friend, Bob Lanier Center, Boys & Girls Club of East Aurora, Boys & Girls Club of Eden, Boys & Girls Club of Holland, Boys & Girls Club of the Northtowns, Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo Prep, Buffalo Urban League, Butler Mitchell Association, Child & Adolescent Treatment Services, Community Action Organization, Computers for Children, Concerned Ecumenical Ministries, Cradle Beach Camp, Elim Community Corporation, Erie Regional Housing Development Corp. — Belle Center, Firsthand Learning, FLARE, Girls Sports Foundation, Greater Niagara Frontier Council — Boy Scouts, Jericho Road Ministries, Justice Lifeline, King Urban Life Center, Lackawanna Sports & Education, Making Fishers of Men & Women, National Inner City Youth Opportunities, North Buffalo CDC, Northwest Buffalo Community Center, Old First Ward Community Association, PBBC Matt Urban Center, Peace of the City, Police Athletic League, Schiller Park Community Center, Seneca Babcock Community Association, Seneca Street Community Development, Town of Tonawanda Recreation Department, UB Liberty Partnership, University District CDC, Urban Christian Ministries, Valley Community Association, Westminster Community Charter School, Westside Community Center, Willie Hutch Jones Sports & Education, WNY United Against Drug & Alcohol Abuse, Young Audiences, Community Action Organization (Detention), Firsthand Learning (Detention), Willie Hutch Jones Sports & Education (Detention).

The lawsuit includes 15 schools the United Federation of Teachers and the NAACP saved last year when they filed a similar suit against the Department of Education, arguing that the city had failed to provide enough community feedback.

James, an ally of de Blasio who's clashed with him at times, has filed a record total of 11 lawsuits since she took office, including one against the city for its treatment of children in foster care and another alleging the city Department of Buildings violates disabled people's civil rights by giving landlords a pass on fixing elevators.

Several members of New York's congressional delegation, including Reps. Charlie Rangel, Jerrold Nadler, Gregory Meeks and Hakeem Jeffries have called on the Justice Department to investigate federal civil rights charges against Zimmerman.

This work includes making sure that departments include specific open data commitments in their business plans, regularly publishing open data sets on central and local government spending, senior staff salary details and how the government is performing against objectives.

Meanwhile, the State Department is working to coordinate the various U.S. and international government agencies involved in the fight against Ebola, including the departments of Defense, Health and Human Services, and Homeland Security, as well as U.S. Agency for International Development and the National Security Council.

There was an outcry from both animal welfare groups and animal research defenders 13 months ago when the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) blacked out a public database containing thousands of animal welfare inspection reports, as well as records of enforcement actions that USDA took against violators of the Animal Welfare Act, including research facilities.

The team, which includes Associate Professor Vincent Tan from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Adjunct Assistant Professor Anand Sarma from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, found that when a projectile is fired at a sand block at high speed, it absorbs more than 85 per cent of the energy exerted against it.

The scientific work at the HZI Department of Vaccinology and Applied Microbiology includes the elucidation of mechanisms of host responses to infection and vaccination, discovering new mucosal adjuvants, and developing and validating vaccines against specific infectious diseases.

O'Neill does not wage internal war against Schmidt and CIA Director George Tenet (Alec Baldwin) for bragging rights alone, but because he realizes that the absence of clearheaded decision making, including informed contributions from various departments, is needed if the country is going to be able to counter Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda.

For sure, the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights should respond to specific complaints of discrimination against students, including when it comes to discipline.

The case, against the Florida Department of Education and seven school districts including Hernando and Pasco counties,...

While no such federal law exists, courts and the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR), as well as the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division, issued significant guidance in May 2016 asserting that Title IX prohibition against sex discrimination encompasses discrimination based on a student's gender identity, including discrimination based on a student's transgender status.

Our December 2010 complaint against the policy has been sitting at the U. S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, apparently just collecting dust, while CPS massages the same failed policy — a handful of changes were made at the May 2012 Board meeting, including dropping poor attendance as a factor and changing a couple of terms.

The most - important wake - up call came last month when news leaked out that the Department of Education was scaling back investigations of civil rights violations — including overuse by districts of harsh school discipline against Black and other minority children — as part of the administration's overall refusal to enforce civil rights laws.

Handling promptly the intake and referral of discrimination complaints filed against a DOT funding recipient, which include state departments of transportation, motor vehicle departments, and transit and airport authorities, among many others.

We will consider using ADR in all areas including workplace issues, formal and informal adjudication, issuance of regulations, enforcement and compliance, issuing and revoking licenses and permits, contract and grant award and administration, litigation brought by or against the Department, and other interactions with the public and the regulated community.

The U.S. Department of Transportation's campaign against distracted driving is a multi-modal effort that includes automobiles, trains, planes, and commercial vehicles.

When the dust finally settled from the Department of Justice lawsuit against Apple and five of the then - Big Six publishers for illegally colluding to inflate the price of ebooks, essentially bilking consumers out of hundreds of millions of dollars in an effort to grab some more market share away from Amazon, the terms of the judge's ruling included a caveat.

He has served on the U.S. Presidential initiative, The National Campaign Against Youth Violence and is a consultant to The United States Secret Service, including its collaborative Safe Schools Initiative with the U.S. Department of Education.

Despite the previous whirlwind week that included the Department of Justice going forward with a lawsuit against Apple and two publishers for colluding to force Amazon to raise the prices of its ebooks, as well as the launch of a new device from one of Amazon's key competitors that does something that no current Kindle... [Read more...]

Despite the previous whirlwind week that included the Department of Justice going forward with a lawsuit against Apple and two publishers for colluding to force Amazon to raise the prices of its ebooks, as well as the launch of a new device from one of Amazon's key competitors that does something that no current Kindle can do, Amazon calmly announced several highly anticipated titles from its Amazon Publishing division under the New Harvest imprint, newly formed under Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Other issues addressed by the Dear Author blog include tax liens filed against the company owner by the Ohio Department of Taxation.

But it's also sparked controversy and legal battles, including threats this week of a lawsuit by the Department of Justice against Apple and its publishing partners.

In addition to providing the regulatory oversight of consumer lenders in the state, the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions also managed complaints against loan providers, including banks and credit unions.

National Consumer Law Center v. U.S. Department of Education, April 19, 2018, Complaint and Press Release The National Consumer Law Center filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts against the U.S. Department of Education for records related to its purported justification for delaying implementation of a rule to protect student loan borrowers from school fraud and abuse, including records of communications between agency officials and representatives of the for - profit college industry.

For example, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus was slapped with the largest penalty of its kind in U.S. history for abusing elephants and lions after PETA urged the U.S. Department of Agriculture to take action against Ringling and presented indisputable evidence of the circus's animal abuse, including beatings, the death of a lion, lame elephants forced to perform despite chronic pain, and a baby elephant who died during a training routine.