Sentences with phrase «larger city law»

It was carried out among partners, associates and assistants at practices ranging from large City law firms to high street firms.

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And the CEO of Gen Con, a 50,000 - person gamers» gathering that's reportedly Indianapolis's largest convention in attendance and economic impact, said the law could prompt the group to move the event after 2020, when its contract with the city expires.

Franchise owners in Seattle are still on track to be grouped with large businesses under the city's new minimum wage law.

The Brennan Center for Justice, a nonpartisan policy institute at the NYU School of Law, reports that overall crime rates in the nation's 30 largest cities remain at or near historic lows.

He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt of a degree in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by fraud, by injustice, by avarice — in a word, by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist) in situations of misery, of hunger, of subhuman life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»

This is what has already happened in large European cities, especially in France and Britain where street gangs now enforce Shariah law.

The judges at the appeal court in Porto, Portugal's second - largest city, wrote that they were making reference to the Bible and an old law «to stress that a woman's adultery amounts to conduct which society has always condemned and condemned very strongly».

But with an economy still struggling to recover, rent control laws due to expire in New York City and a tax cap wanted by a large portion of the public, Senate Democrats may be trying to swim against the tide on the issue.

In essence, the Conservative approach to English devolution focuses on three themes: a better and more balanced economy; bespoke Growth Deals and decentralisation of powers to (large) cities which choose to have elected mayor; and English Votes for English Laws (EVEL).

The Democratic mayor of New Jersey's second - largest city, who has had his ups - and - downs with the state's volatile governor, Chris Christie, is now threatening to stymie luxury development dreams of the family of Trump's son - in - law, Jared Kushner.

Attorneys for Chicago asked a federal judge for a nationwide halt to Trump administration requirements that cities enforce tough immigration laws in order to receive some federal grants, staking out a leadership role for the nation's third largest city in the fight over so - called sanctuary cities.

The order, by Justice Rosalyn H. Richter of the Appellate Division in Manhattan, had been sought by the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, the city's largest police union, which this month lost its lawsuit seeking to have the videos classified as personnel records that state law exempts from public disclosure without a court order.

Since New York City's tax system and tax policy are in large part defined by State law, the City and the State are in active discussion about adopting coincident measures.

Some of the state's largest and most politically active unions have lined up in support of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's plan to overhaul the state's campaign finance laws and create a New York City - style system of public financing.

And, to be fair, Hodgson Russ is one of the city's largest law firms with an impressive stable of government clients.

The sweep generated the largest number of busts in a single sweep in the city's history as a legion of 700 law enforcers flooded more than 100 spots in the New York City Housing Authority complexes in Williamsbricity's history as a legion of 700 law enforcers flooded more than 100 spots in the New York City Housing Authority complexes in WilliamsbriCity Housing Authority complexes in Williamsbridge.

Last week, on the same day as the Capital interview with Nislick, NYCLASS agreed to pay a large fine for violating city campaign finance law.

Mark Treyger's proposed law would make New York City the largest in the nation to ban the practice.

Federal prosecutors are describing the 10 - suspect indictment, announced Wednesday morning, as the «largest law enforcement action» taken in New York City against synthetic marijuana, which is often packaged as «K2» and «Spice.»

An in - depth report by ProPublica's Marcelo Rochabrun and Cezary Podkul reveals that city and state regulators stood by as developer Two Trees Management disregarded laws requiring rent stabilization in exchange for the large property tax break it received.

EAST WILLIAMSBURG — The board of one of the city's largest middle - income housing co-ops, Lindsay Park, is being investigated by the Brooklyn District Attorney's office, according to locals and a law enforcement source.

«Adam is one of the top municipal, city and state budget experts,» said Kevin Law, president of the Long Island Association, the region's largest business group.

He began with a statement concerning the stabbing of two young children in Brooklyn and then answers questions concerning that incident, the proposed state law to allow municipalities to further raise the minimum wage and whether he would pursue a $ 13 minimum wage for New York City, how that proposed law fits into the political deal that gave Governor Cuomo the Work Families Party ballot line, a young boy hit and killed today by a car and how Vision Zero addresses that location and the large number of shootings in the City this past weekend.

The GOP this year is banking on a large upstate turn out, counting on anger over Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 2013 gun control law known as the SAFE Act, as well his the delay on making a decision over hydrofracking, as key issues that will bring voters outside of New York City to the polls.

Before Miner can take the party co-chair spot, the committee must rewrite its laws to allow sitting mayors of large cities to head the political organization, she said.

He's a professor at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and he studies the use of empirical research to inform legal policy; and he's the author of an article in the August issue of Scientific American titled, «How New York Beat Crime», about the reasons for the huge drops in crime over the last couple of decades in America's largest city.

In January of 2012 the Costa Concordia, the largest luxury liner built in Italy, manufactured at the Fincantieri shipyards in the ancient seafaring city of Genoa to the highest standards of safety specified by law, struck a reef in the Mediterranean, and partially capsized, killing dozens of people.

I learned vedic meditation during my first year practicing law at a large international firm in New York City.

The City of Brussels is the largest municipality of the Brussels - Capital Region, and the official capital of Belgium by law.

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Bobby Axelrod represents everything Rhoades fights against — the billionaire investor who flouts the law and lives large (the biggest house in the Hamptons; the freshly delivered custom yacht; the last - minute jet jaunt to Quebec City for a Metallica concert), commanding an army of cocky foot soldiers who reap massive bonuses.

For the most part it succeeds as it sucks you in and gives you second thoughts about how morally sound you would like to assume law enforcement is in these large cities.

It's not only in the largest cities where the law has fizzled.

Concluding that the Jersey City, N.J., school board has «so lost its own way that it can not be counted on to lead the children to educational quality,» an administrative law judge recommended last week that the state assume full control over its second - largest school system.

School superintendents in large cities across the country — including Los Angeles, New York and Washington — have railed against laws that essentially grant teachers permanent employment status.

D.C. Council member David Grosso (I - At Large), who chairs the council's education committee, said he wasn't aware of the specific complaints against BASIS DC but made clear that the law applies to all of the city's traditional public schools and public charter schools.

Mayor Libby Schaaf's career wound its way through multiple sectors, starting when she was an attorney at the city's largest law firm, always seeking a way to make...

Kendra's Law — named after Kendra Webdale, a 32 - year - old woman who was pushed to her death in front of a New York City subway train in 1999 by a schizophrenic man who was not taking medication for his condition — allows judges to order certain mentally ill individuals to accept outpatient treatment and monitoring if they wish to remain at large in the community.

Samantha Kofer was a third - year law associate at Scully & Pershing, New York City's largest law firm.

In Proving Ground, Blauner's modern noir mystery, the colossus that is the New York City Police Department, one of the largest civil law enforcement entities in the world, is a supporting character in its own right.

A 1965 immigration law that allowed people from non-European countries to migrate in greater numbers lead to large numbers of Indian professionals making their home in the city.

The Seattle City Council is considering a new tax law that will charge large employers about $ 500 per employee and dedication three - quarters of the resulting tax revenue toward building just under 2,000 affordable housing units in the cCity Council is considering a new tax law that will charge large employers about $ 500 per employee and dedication three - quarters of the resulting tax revenue toward building just under 2,000 affordable housing units in the citycity.

As Michigan's capital and home to the nation's largest law school (Thomas M. Cooley Law School), this city attracts a wide variety of future politicos and government workelaw school (Thomas M. Cooley Law School), this city attracts a wide variety of future politicos and government workeLaw School), this city attracts a wide variety of future politicos and government workers.

Some cities around the Greater Toronto Area have passed by - laws to prohibit such activities because the influx of people in the communities is so large the social services and infrastructure of the areas can't handle the surging population growth.

Santa Barbara County's largest city will soon have a law that encourages owners to spay and neuter their pets to address overpopulation of cats and dogs.

SANTA MARIA - «Santa Barbara County's largest city will soon have a law that encourages owners to spay and neuter their pets to address overpopulation of cats and dogs.»

We seek to change the City of Baytown's local ordinances into positive laws that save animals and meet the needs of pets, owners, community cats, caregivers and the community at large.

Looking for a way to fight the fine, Gray researched Winter Park laws and discovered a conflict between the city's and the county's definition of at - large animals.

More than 30 cities and towns now have this kind of law on the books, but Los Angeles is by far the largest.

For example, some cities have licensing laws on cat ownership or laws against cats roaming at large.