Sentences with phrase «landmark federal court ruling»

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WASHINGTON, Dec 14 - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission voted along party lines on Thursday to repeal landmark 2015 rules aimed at ensuring a free and open internet, setting up a court fight over a move that could recast the digital landscape.

In a case that could have wide - ranging national significance for gay rights, a federal appeals court in New York ruled that a landmark civil rights law bars employers from discriminating against their workers based on sexual orientation.

says the decisions behind a landmark High Court ruling earlier this year provides the impetus for the Federal Government to reform electoral laws.

In what has turned out to be a landmark decision, the Court ruled in Daubert that federal trial judges must act as gatekeepers in order to exclude unreliable evidence from the courtroom.

Two landmark Supreme Court rulings, in 2007 and 2011, established that it gives the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) the power to regulate greenhouse gases.

And a third decision brought fresh attention to a landmark federal appeals court ruling against considering race at the University of Texas law school.

The Federal Court of Australia has ruled against Valve in a landmark case last week, finding that the game developer's defence of saying «nuh - uh» really loudly was «ineffective» and «pretty dumb».

Michael scored two landmark rulings in Federal Court in Ayres v. USAA Casualty Insurance Company and Cunningham v. Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Company, pushing back against insurers improperly applying changes to Florida's sinkhole legislation.

First, a federal court issued a landmark ruling that narrowed the class size to 5 percent of total Alstom shareholders.

>> In less inflammatory news... but equally controversial in some circles... a landmark US Supreme Court ruling overturned the federal Defence of Marriage Act (DOMA) and California's Prop. 8 which prohibited same - sex marriage.