Sentences with phrase «lawsuits challenging the policy»
Park board attorney Matt Campbell said the measure was not legal and likely would open the district to lawsuits challenging the policy.
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Environmental groups» lawsuit could upend Sonoma County vineyard policies: Three environmental groups are challenging Sonoma County's approval of a 54 - acre Annapolis vineyard in a case that reflects long - standing conflict over expansion of the county's $ 600 million a year grape industry...
Yet another courtroom battle promises to pull the White House into the legal spotlight today as crucial arguments are heard in New York in a sweeping lawsuit that is challenging the administration's marijuana policy by seeking to legalize pot under federal law.
(Recall that Cuomo has more than a passing interest in this lawsuit, since it challenges his right as governor to make policy through budget extender bills).
Bloomberg and NYC Council Speaker Chris Quinn are still tight despite the council's lawsuit challenging his homeless shelter policy.
A lawsuit would add taxes to the growing list of Trump administration policies that Democratic states have challenged in court.
«Countless policies can be challenged,» she said, adding that a lawsuit could «force some real changes at the management and policy levels.»
On - topic question topics included the amount of HPD funding in this specific project, possible changes in City Planning Commission rules on building height, how many of the 20,000 units reported by the Mayor were new construction and how many were preservation work, how people can seek to live in the units being constructed at this specific project and a lawsuit challenging the City's community preference policy.
Quinn's approval, which will allow the legislation to come to a vote, comes as a federal trial is beginning on a class - action lawsuit challenging the NYPD's stop - and - frisk policy.
Some biomedical research watchers are feeling blindsided by a federal appeals court decision last week that reversed a lower court's rejection of a lawsuit challenging the Obama Administration's stem cell policy.
A federal appeals court last week declined to rehear a case over a lawsuit challenging a Hawaii private school's policy of serving only native Hawaiian students.
His lawsuit challenges the constitutionality of a district policy setting quotas for minority students that stems from the federal court's 1975 desegregation order.
Even ranking states on the number of education lawsuits filed by families to challenge the array of near - lifetime job protections and teacher dismissal policies that harm children would have been good to determine.
The Tangipahoa Parish, La., school board unanimously agreed last week to change the word «prayer» to «invocation» in its practice on prayers before board meetings, a policy under challenge in a federal court lawsuit.
Melvoin worked on the ACLU's Reed v. California lawsuit, which challenged LA Unified's seniority - based teacher layoff policies, by helping recruit former students and co-workers from Markham to join the lawsuit.
There have now been a few successful lawsuits brought to challenge various versions of these tests, with rulings centering on tenuous connections between the skills being tested and those necessary to do the job.120 To address some of these underlying concerns, the TeachNY Advisory Council, supported by a grant from the New York State Department of Education, drafted policy recommendations in May 2016 around teacher preparation recruitment, selection, and cultural competence in the hopes of finding ways to improve teacher quality and diversity.121
School reformers, especially Parent Power and teacher quality advocates, have been actively challenging those policies, especially through the launch of lawsuits such as Vergara.
In fact, much of the followup to last session involved covering a half dozen lawsuits challenging nearly every part of the Republican education policy platform.
Additionally, learn creative means of filing lawsuits to challenge these ordinances and policies to protect people and the pets they love.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's entry policy will be spelled out more clearly, under a settlement of a class - action lawsuit that challenged the New York museum's $ 25 «recommended» admission price.
In the Spring of 2011 MEIC, the Montana Chapter of the Sierra Club, Missoula County and National Wildlife Federation filed a lawsuit challenging MDT's permitting decision because it was based on a flawed environmental assessment and violated the Montana Environmental Policy Act (MEPA).
The rejection of the coal industry and state's challenge will allow the groups to move forward with their lawsuit, which claimed that the sale should have been reviewed under the Montana Environmental Policy Act.
California is directly challenging Trump's policies on several fronts, and the state has a lot invested in the DRECP, so it wouldn't be surprising if the state chose to defend the plan with a lawsuit.
The lawsuit by Justice in Aging, GLAD and Foley Hoag was filed in order to provide these individuals relief by challenging SSA's prior policy and requesting that SSA be prohibited from collecting these overpayments.
«Lawsuit challenging U-M undergraduate admissions policy dismissed after 10 years; Plaintiffs will receive $ 10K each to cover costs; no damages»: The Detroit News provides this update.
After graduation, Mr. Gubbins worked with the Provincial Government, specifically playing a key role in coordinating a massive class action lawsuit on behalf of mentally challenged individuals suing the Government over the Alberta government policy of sterilizing mentally challenged individuals in government institutions.
We are adept at not only challenging insurance company interpretations of policy provisions, but convincing insurers that we are prepared to wage a lawsuit for bad faith denial of legitimate claims.
That may be in part because Dobbins was busy: working on a lawsuit challenging the DoD's former policy of barring women in combat, writing for the Charlottesville newspaper The Daily Progress, co-chairing the Feminist Legal Forum, serving in various roles in the JAG School, and working in the Special Collections division of the UVA Law Library.
In the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco, lawyers appealed two lawsuits that challenged the social media company's privacy and user data policies.
The U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division filed a lawsuit against the National Association of Realtors (NAR) on Sept. 8, challenging a policy that it says «obstructs real estate brokers who use innovative Internet - based tools to offer better services and lower costs to consumers.»
The U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division filed a lawsuit against the National Association of Realtors (NAR) on Sept. 8, challenging a policy that...
During her tenure, NAR has faced significant legal challenges, including an antitrust lawsuit in 2005 by the U.S. Department of Justice challenging NAR's policy on the display of listings on the Internet.