Sentences with phrase «lawsuit against the federal government for»

Our Children's Trust incorporated a great deal of the YVFP footage from our film Kids vs Global Warming into their film about Alec Loorz's lawsuit against the Federal Government for failing to regulate carbon emissions.

A New Philadelphia, Ohio man won a $ 275,000 settlement in a medical malpractice lawsuit against the federal government for having towels left in body after surgery at a veterans hospital.

Not exact matches

Lawsuits filed against one of the nation's largest student loan servicers by the federal government's consumer watchdog and two states highlight the importance of knowing your options for repaying student loan debt.

Connecticut's legal conflicts with the federal government over air quality issues escalated again last weekwhen the state joined New York in a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing to enforce ozone pollution rules.

Later, thyroid cancer patients would win a class - action lawsuit against the federal government, as the American public learned that the toxic heavy metals from the bombs caused devastating health problems for millions of Americans who lived within 300 miles of that site, during years of detonations.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled late last month that due to extensive state control over school finances, California school districts are state agencies and deserve the same 11th Amendment immunity against federal lawsuits enjoyed by other branches of state government.

Now, thanks to Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, it appears that the job creators may have finally learned something from the extreme tactics of groups, like the Wild Earth Guardians and the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), which have been using the courts to their advantage by filing lawsuits against the federal government.

Last week, federal district court judge Ann Aiken in Oregon ruled against the federal government's motion to dismiss, an important hurdle to clear for the lawsuit to move forward.

Born in 1941, he became a climatologist at the University of Iowa, developed the groundbreaking «Zero Model» for projecting climate change, and later became the head of climate research at NASA, only to leave under pressure when, while still a federal employee, he filed a lawsuit against the federal government charging inaction on warming (along the way he got arrested a few times for protesting, too).

Earlier this month, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit released a written opinion in a premises liability lawsuit against the federal government, alleging that the United States Forest Service, through its employees, was negligent in the maintenance of bike trails in a forest.

A British Columbia first nation announced Wednesday that it will launch a class - action lawsuit against the B.C. and federal government for a second time to end commercial open net - pen salmon farming in the Broughton Archipelago.

Gabe is skilled at defending tribes and Indian - owned enterprises against legal attack by local, state and federal government and private parties; advocating for tribal members in disenrollment or civil rights defense; and representing tribal plaintiffs and defendants in catastrophic personal injury lawsuits.

Several lawsuits against churches and the federal government for the injuries suffered, including physical and sexual abuse and the loss of culture and language, were initiated in the mid-1990s.

The original implementation date for the restriction was Jan. 16, but the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has pushed that date back 90 days in response to lawsuits against the federal government filed by builders and the National Association of Home Builders, claiming the change is arbitrary and capricious.