Sentences with phrase «landmark lawsuit against the state»
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 future.
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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.
Meanwhile, AB 684, a bill in the California legislature to allow industrial hemp farming, is likely to succeed, and North Dakota farmers with state - issued hemp farming licenses have recently filed a landmark lawsuit against the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).»
Tuesday's win follows two other recent landmark victories in youth - led lawsuits against the federal government and the State of Washington.
A landmark 2009 lawsuit brought against utilities by six states was blocked by the U.S. Supreme Court in a unanimous decision in 2011.
Since the landmark recoupment lawsuits against the tobacco industry, state attorneys general have sought to recover costs from other industries, including firearms and pharmaceuticals, by partnering with the personal injury bar to sue whole industries.