Sentences with phrase «lawsuit against the program»

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The National Venture Capital Association, an industry group of top U.S. venture capitalists, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday in Washington D.C. District Court against the Trump Administration, alleging it illegally delayed an immigration program created during President Obama's term.

Her organization has pushed for rules implementing the program, bringing a 2004 lawsuit against the Bush administration.

(CNN)-- Changes to a decades - old federal program that provides birth control and other reproductive health care services to millions of low - income people each year prompted lawsuits that were filed against the Trump administration Wednesday.

The new lawsuit against the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program was assigned to the same judge who ruled for the challengers earlier, U.S. District Judge Andrew S. Hanen, who sits in the federal courthouse in the Texas border town of Brownsville.

Retailers support a verification program that is limited to new hires, keeps penalties appropriate to the violation, preempts state and local laws, and provides employers with protection against lawsuits.

In January, Tesla filed a lawsuit against Sterling Anderson, a former director of the company's Autopilot program, saying that he broke his employment contract by trying to recruit Tesla employees to join a new self - driving car company.

They are classified as an entertainment program due to a lawsuit they filed against the FCC on W's watch which was rubberstamped by Colin Powell's son, a Bush appointee.

After the disaster and criminal charges, representatives of various tribal nations stepped into the legal fray, filing a federal lawsuit last March against Ray and those who run the Angel Valley Retreat Center, where he had leased land for his program.

The report was issued currently with a lawsuit Cornucopia has filed against the USDA over its management of the National Organics Program.

In the»70s, however, injury - inspired lawsuits against trampoline manufacturers and owners proliferated, and, after the American Academy of Pediatrics recommended in»76 that trampolining be dropped from gymnastics competitions and phys - ed programs, the sport went into decline.

«I hope that my lawsuit against Chartwells and the settlement announced today will help improve the food programs for D.C.'s school children, which has always been my goal,» Mills said in a statement issued Friday by Phillips & Cohen, a District - based law firm that filed Mills's whistleblower lawsuit in 2013.

AG Andrew Cuomo filed a second civil lawsuit against Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr., accusing him of running a «sham» job training program and pocketing $ 1.35 million from it.

AG Andrew Cuomo just announced he has filed a second lawsuit against Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr., this time accusing the Bronx Democrat of violating labor laws by creating a sham job training program that cheated workers and shortchanged state coffers.

And he, along with other elected officials, filed a lawsuit against Mayor Bloomberg and the Taxi and Limousine Commission for its pilot e-hail program, in which yellow cabs would employ smartphone technology to pick up fares.

Questions during the off - topic portion of the press conference included his opinion of the expected Democratic candidate in the 11th Congressional District special election and whether he'll campaign for Gentile, the prospect of Department of Homeland Security losing funding, religious organizations renting City school facilities for prayer / worship services and the related lawsuit, a NY Post report criticizing a newly - created NYPD training program, reported terror threats against shopping malls, the absence of a Lunar New Year message from the mayor and his non-attendance at the Lunar New Year parade, his reaction to Governor Cuomo's comment that their relationship will be «the best relationship between a mayor and governor in modern political history,» his scheduled trip to Albany on Wednesday and delays in federal funding of Sandy rebuilding.

The claims figures were released as a «ClaimStat Alert» — a result of the program Mr. Stringer began to track claims and lawsuits filed against the city to determine trends and «hotspots» in an effort to avoid future lawsuits.

Her political biography mentioned favorite points; her early condemnation and call for resignation by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, her efforts at toll reductions by the MTA on the Verazzano - Narrows Bridge, her lawsuit against the Port Authority over its tolls on bridges from Staten Island to New Jersey and especially her lawsuit against Mayor de Blasio seeking to prohibit the City's destruction of records related to the IDNYC program.

County Executive Steve Bellone issued a certificate of necessity to permit an immediate vote after the center's insurers had agreed only to extend its liability coverage until June 7 in the face of two lawsuits brought against the county and the nonprofit over its program to verify residences of sex offenders listed on a state registry.

Board Members Carl Paladino and Larry Quinn want a lawsuit against LP Ciminelli, the program provider, saying they were over charged by tens of millions and perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars.

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

In papers filed on Tuesday, the union is trying to hitch the effort to block the rebate program — which Cuomo has referred to as a «freeze» in property tax increases over several years — to the group's lawsuit filed against the state's property tax cap.

Schneiderman, in a television interview, called Trump University a «straight - up fraud» and predicted he would prevail in his lawsuit against the defunct for - profit program affiliated with the presidential candidate.

A lawsuit filed by AG Eric Schneiderman against the Utica City School District charges that children over 16 were funneled into alternative programs, in which they could not earn credits toward a diploma, as part of a broad program aimed at barring immigrants from the district's only public high school.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, along with 15 attorneys general throughout the country, filed a lawsuit against President Trump this afternoon over what they allege is the «discriminatory animus» of his decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program for undocumented youths.

A lawsuit filed on Tuesday by the state attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, against the Utica City School District charges that children over 16 were funneled into alternative programs, in which they could not earn credits toward a diploma, as part of a broad program aimed at barring immigrants from the district's only public high school.

Mount Vernon Councilman André Wallace dropped by the People Before Politics Radio Show, Sunday to discuss the graduation of the latest class in his construction training program and to address his lawsuit against the city as well as the allegations from Mayor Richard Thomas and a recent article in the Yonkers Tribune, which accuse him of not paying working prevailing wages and not finishing the project he is requesting to be paid for.

«In the federal government's first response to a lawsuit brought against it by Texas and several other states, U.S. attorneys write that the guidance to schools was just that — guidance — and not a mandate to adopt programs.

She and Assemblyman Ron Castorina Jr. have been involved in a lawsuit against the mayor for months, contending the IDNYC program should maintain personal documents for law enforcement purposes.

Parents and advocates from the Shuang Wen School / PS 184M — which the DOE is investigating for its paid after - school program and enrollment practices, among other issues — announced a federal lawsuit against the department and Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott at a press conference Monday outside the agency's Chambers Street headquarters.

A pair of Staten Island GOP lawmakers have lodged a lawsuit against Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration to prevent him from purging the records of his municipal identification program at the end of the year — records believed to contain the information of thousands of undocumented immigrants, and which advocates fear could wind up in the hands of President - elect Donald Trump.

The preliminary budget assigns $ 4.2 million for bulletproof vests and $ 10 million to expand the Police Cadet Program, as well as $ 3.2 million to change how the Law Department handles «frivolous» lawsuits against officers.

New York state energy czar Richard Kauffman says providing any more public testimony on the program is not possible right now since there are lawsuits filed against the initiative.

As the two programs work in much the same way, to compress stored data and so double the effective capacity of a computer's disc drives, the lawsuit against DOS 6 was a matter or life or death for Stac.

The question put to the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP), a federal body established in 1988 to help control the slew of lawsuits against vaccine makers, was whether her vaccinations caused her autism symptoms, which did nt appear until after she was vaccinated.

USA TODAY — Apr 29 — New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer filed a lawsuit Thursday against Intermix Media (myspace), charging the online marketer with illegally disseminating spyware programs.

He's already embroiled in three Louisiana lawsuits over Common Core, and recently concluded another against the Obama administration, contesting its demand for intimate data about students enrolled in the state's voucher program.

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

That statement provoked a lawsuit by disability rights groups against DPI, which administers MPCP, based on the charge that the program discriminates in admissions against students with disabilities.

Indeed, this argument even provides part of the basis for two lawsuits brought forth against the program.

FEA president Joanne McCall said the group would not drop its legal challenge, one of two major lawsuits pending against the program.

This is why we are pursuing a lawsuit against this voucher program.

Blaine amendments remain in force in 37 states, and they are being cited in lawsuits against school choice programs in Florida, Georgia, Oklahoma and Nevada.

Phoenix, Ariz. — The Institute for Justice vowed to intervene on behalf of parents and children to defend against a lawsuit filed yesterday by Arizona special interest groups challenging the nation's first publicly funded education savings account program.

On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast, RiShawn Biddle casts a gimlet eye on the lawsuit filed by traditionalists in Florida against a school choice program and explains why reformers must fight zealously to defend and expand options for all of our children.

In response to withering criticism and political pressure, the U.S. Department of Justice is backpedaling on its lawsuit against Louisiana's school choice program, which provides school vouchers to low - income students assigned to government - run schools receiving a D or F rating for performance.

«Although we are faced with lawsuits against the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program and McKay Scholarships, tonight's results reveal the public's desire to empower parents with the ability to make the best decisions for their childrens» educations.»

In 2015, the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada filed a lawsuit against the state of Nevada to prevent the implementation, claiming the ESA program was unconstitutional.

As the Florida teachers union and school boards association announced a lawsuit this morning against the Florida tax credit scholarship, the New Hampshire Supreme Court unanimously upheld that state's tax - credit scholarship program, arguing the plaintiffs had no standing.

And in September, U.S. Speaker of the House John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor wrote U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder urging him to reconsider DOJ's lawsuit against the Louisiana school vouchers program.

California's attorney general filed a lawsuit against the schools and its subsidiaries (Heald, Everest College, and WyoTech) in 2013 for a predatory scheme targeting low - income students, and the schools were accused of falsely advertising programs that didn't exist, misleading students about their credits transferring to Cal State, and engaging in illegal debt collection practices.