Sentences with phrase «lawsuit against a state»

In separate lawsuits against the state, Michigan's Republican attorney general and Trump asked state courts to prevent the recount, saying Stein should not be allowed to seek one because she finished so far behind Trump and Clinton that she couldn't have won, even if some votes were miscounted.

The suit comes weeks after Oracle filed its own lawsuit against the state in which it accuses officials of breach of contract.

On April 10, Broward County commissioners are expected to ask their attorney to file a lawsuit against the state, challenging the laws.

The NRA is filing a lawsuit against the state of Florida after Governor Rick Scott signed a bill prohibiting gun sales to anyone younger than 21 on Friday.

April, 2012: The PMA won its lawsuit against the State of Illinois.

Shortly afterward, four food industry organizations filed a lawsuit against the state that challenged the law's constitutionality.

ALBANY, N.Y. — Hours after the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) filed a lawsuit against the state of New York for what it called the unequal treatment, abuse and denial of rights of farmworkers, the governor said he won't fight it in court.

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.

«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.

The removal of the schools has become a point of contention between the Education Department and state Division of Budget and is now playing out in state Supreme Court after parents brought a lawsuit against the state.

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.

The New York State Attorney General's Office said a judge should dismiss a federal lawsuit against the state and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D - NY, connected to accusations of sexual harassment against a former high - ranking economic development official.

The Cayuga Nation said it does not plan to file a lawsuit against the state yet because all the details are the agreement have not been revealed, but added that «the nation is prepared to pursue all legal means to challenge and set aside the agreement» if it interferes with the Cayugas» rights.

Starting in the 1990s, Simpson led the charge in a federal lawsuit against the state that asserted the civil service test was biased against black and Hispanic state workers.

The NRA immediately filed a lawsuit against the state on Second Amendment grounds, arguing that 18 - year - olds are considered adults «for almost all purposes and certainly for the purposes of the exercise of fundamental constitutional rights,» and therefore should not be prohibited from purchasing rifles.

New York State's largest teachers union has filed a lawsuit against the state's property tax cap, arguing it's unconstitutional.

This was the company's second lawsuit against a state agency in four weeks.

Leon County School Superintendent Rocky Hanna is applauding a lawsuit against the state's «Best and Brightest» teacher bonus program.

The Nation initially brought a lawsuit against the state in 1999 but said it was ultimately rejected by a federal court because a state under the Constitution couldn't legally be sued.

In a ruling issued earlier this month, but was made known yesterday, a Livingston County court judge allowed a lawsuit against the state's same - sex marriage law to continue, writing in scathing opinion that New York's notoriously narrow Open Meetings Law could be reviewed in the case.

Manhattan lawyer Mark Warren Moody has filed a class - action lawsuit against the state and city Board of Elections to overturn the closed - primary system, saying no one should be shut out.

The election commission's now - settled lawsuit against the state Democratic Party, and lawsuits by the party against the SEEC, came after the state Republican Party chairman filed a complaint that the Democrats funneled state contractors» money into the 2014 gubernatorial race through a back door.

While federal law still makes the possession, production and sale of marijuana a crime, Holder's announcement means the Justice Department won't file lawsuits against state laws in Colorado and Washington that allow people to possess marijuana for personal use.

Claiming that their «constitutional liberties» were violated, New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms have just announced that they have brought a lawsuit against the state senate for the passage of same sex marriage.

Judicial Watch has about a dozen ongoing FOIA lawsuits against the State Department on the email issue.

It's disturbing that the New York State United Teachers Union is preparing a lawsuit against the state and its taxpayers for enacting a 2 percent property tax cap.

ALBANY, NY (08/05/2013)(readMedia)-- CSEA has filed federal lawsuits against the state Thruway Authority and Canal Corp. charging that last spring's layoff of union members working at the agencies was unconstitutional.

The spokeswoman for Election Justice U.S.A., a voting rights advocacy group that put together a lawsuit against the state's Board of Elections for voter registration issues, said she is «concerned» about a possible conflict of interest with Stringer.

Matthew Martin reports that, after many threats, lawyers for the coalition have filed a lawsuit against the state.

The Finger Lakes Gaming and Racetrack filed a lawsuit against the state board that in December selected Lago Resort & Casino just off the Thruway in the Town of Tyre as one of three recommended sites for an upstate casino.

The public legal defense system in Onondaga County is being highlighted by a civil liberties group on the eve of a lawsuit against the state to change it.

Last month, the group filed a lawsuit against the state's economic development agency over spending records.

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

A federal judge has ruled against the Tweed New Haven Airport Authority in its lawsuit against the state.

After Superintendent White balked, arguing the governor lacked the legal authority to withdraw the state, Jindal joined a lawsuit against the state board of education (which has since been dismissed)..

Someone suggested a lawsuit against the state, and that put «a bug in my ear,» recalls Ms. Coffin, the president of the Salem - area school's student government.

A lunchtime meeting between a Kansas Supreme Court justice and the president of the state Senate in which the ongoing school finance lawsuit against the state was discussed has prompted a request for an investigation by a judicial panel.

It's not unusual for school districts to band together to file an education finance lawsuit against their state government.

In 2006, the association and other groups won their lawsuit against the state's first school - voucher program, which then ceased to operate.

In 1987, the first issue of FairTest's newsletter, the Examiner reported on a legal victory won by four black teachers in their lawsuit against the state of Alabama.

If the city of Brockton doesn't get relief through the proposed change to state law, it will continue pursuing an equity in education lawsuit against the state, Minichiello says.

Also on Monday, the Center for Individual Rights announced it was filing a lawsuit against the state of California and the California Teachers Association on behalf of eight teachers and the Association of American Educators.

Texas Standardized Tests Hold Back Low - Income Students https://www.mystatesman.com/news/opinion/commentary-how-texas-standardized-tests-hold-back-low-income-students/ra6Etu8IVSEGRxawWE70gM/ Texas Court Allows Lawsuit Against State Test to Proceed https://www.mystatesman.com/news/state — regional-govt — politics/texas-court-upholds-ruling-allow-staar-lawsuit-proceed/ib0I6dm4WQMmfpX3nVbczM/

In July 2016, a group of Jackson parents represented by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) filed a lawsuit against the state for enacting a charter law that was «unconstitutional.»

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.

Parents and students have filed a lawsuit against the state to seek redress to their very legitimate grievance.

On February 6, The Center for Individual Rights filed a lawsuit against the state of California and the California Teachers Association on behalf of eight California public school teachers and the Association of American Educators.

She clearly has a solid basis for her lawsuit against the state of New York in which she claims her score was «arbitrary and capricious.»

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