Sentences with phrase «lawsuits on behalf of the district»

The whistleblower — or «qui tam» — provisions of the D.C. False Claims Act allow private citizens to bring lawsuits on behalf of the District and to share in any recovery that is obtained.

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Salting that wound is a class - action lawsuit, filed today in California's Northern district, on behalf of the social media giant's shareholders.

On Friday, in the same Federal District Court where its Wall Street actions are litigated, the Southern District of New York (SDNY), it filed its bombshell RICO lawsuit on behalf of the Democratic National Committee (DNCOn Friday, in the same Federal District Court where its Wall Street actions are litigated, the Southern District of New York (SDNY), it filed its bombshell RICO lawsuit on behalf of the Democratic National Committee (DNCon behalf of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).

In 1993, he helped initiate a lawsuit against Kane County and the Settler's Hill landfill, which is operated by Waste Management, on behalf of the school district.

«If Melissa puts in her person as commissioner, she gets to place all kinds of friends in jobs,» said Arthur Schwartz, a borough Democratic district leader who filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Manhattan Democratic Party and leader Keith Wright to block her appointee.

Law students working with Yale's legal services organization plan to file a class - action lawsuit in Federal District Court today against Gov. Dannel Malloy of Connecticut and the state's acting and former health commissioners on behalf of residents affected by Connecticut's Ebola quarantine policies, including two who were Yale graduate students.

The settlement was filed recently in U.S. District Court in Albany, where Cannon's mother had filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Cannon's infant daughter.

The expected federal lawsuit is revealed in a letter Dennis Vacco, an attorney with Lippes Mathias Wexler and Friedman sent to the state education commissioner on Paladino's behalf; his filing was made public by the District Parent Coordinating Council as part of their renewed call to have the entire board replaced with a state - appointed manager.

The issue of equitable aid was at the heart of the $ 1.11 billion lawsuit brought by the Alliance for Quality Education on behalf of 26 students in eight small city school districts, including Kingston, in 2008.

A second Nebraska school district has settled a lawsuit filed last year on behalf of high school girls who claimed they were denied equal opportunities to take part in sports.

One of his first acts as chief executive was to settle a lawsuit filed against the state by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on behalf of students in 18 districts around California, most in poor communities.

TEA filed its first TVAAS lawsuit last month on behalf of Knox County teacher Lisa Trout, who was denied the district's bonus.

We at IDRA applaud the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund for filing its lawsuit this week against the state of Texas over school funding on behalf of four property - poor school districts and three parents.

An adult relative filed the lawsuit on behalf of the 15 - year - old sophomore after Glenbrook High School District 225 officials expelled him for the remainder of the school year and all of next school year for his role in a grade - changing scheme.

Last week's Dropout Nation report on the possible lawsuit being brought on behalf of seven families by Barnes & Thornburg over the Los Angeles Unified School District's teacher evaluations has turned from a letter to reality.

The lawsuit seeks class - action status on behalf of special - education students in the Yakima and Pasco school districts.

Our firm recently filed a lawsuit on behalf of a school district for the loss of tax revenue resulting from an approved development plan.

The Robles - Wong lawsuit was filed in 2010 by three state education organizations — the California School Boards Association, the Association of California School Administrators and the state PTA, with the California Teachers Association later joining the case — along with Stanford Law School professor Bill Koski and pro bono attorneys on behalf of nine school districts and 60 students from across the state.

The lawsuit was brought by Students Matter, a nonprofit created by Silicon Valley entrepreneur David Welch on behalf of nine low - income, minority students from five school districts.

The lawsuit was first filed in June 2005 by Children's Voices, acting on behalf of 14 school districts in the San Luis Valley and parents and children across the state.

Today, Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia (PILCOP) and Education Law Center - PA filed a lawsuit on behalf of individuals, school districts and organizations, making the complaint that the funding system in Pennsylvania is not only wrong, it violates the Constitution.

The results can be seen in districts in cities such as Birmingham, Ala., where police officers in Birmingham, Ala., using Freeze + P pepper spray against eight children attending the traditional district there (the subject of a lawsuit filed on their behalf by the Southern Poverty Law Center); some 110 incidents of pepper - spraying occurred in the district since 2006.

Earlier this month, the American Civil Liberties Union revealed in a lawsuit on behalf of three undocumented immigrant youth that the federal agency is teaming up with police departments (including the 250 law enforcement agencies operated by traditional district schools) to pick up, detain, and ultimately, deport unaccompanied refugee children and other undocumented minors.

Six lawsuits have been filed on behalf of about two - thirds of Texas school districts, which educate about 75 percent of the state's more than 5 million students.

Despite all that, Charlie's owner, David Gizzarelli, rallied more than 113,000 signatures on electronic petitions circulated on Charlie's behalf, and initiated a lawsuit that went from San Francisco Superior Court, to the California Court of Appeal, to the U.S. District Court, and back to Superior Court before Katz and San Francisco city attorney Dennis Herrera brokered a deal to send Charlie to a sanctuary.

The American Pet Products Association (APPA), the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council (PIJAC), the Pet Industry Distributors Association (PIDA) and the World Pet Association (WPA) have collectively donated $ 125,000 to support a lawsuit brought in the U.S. District Court in Phoenix on behalf of Phoenix pet store Puppies «N Love.

The lawsuit was filed with the state of New Mexico, county of Bernalillo, Second Judicial District Court by attorney A. Blair Dunn on behalf of Marcy Britton, a resident of Albuquerque.

In April, U.S. District Judge John Corbett O'Meara agreed with that argument and dismissed a civil rights lawsuit brought on behalf of several Flint residents and a local business.

When the Chaparros filed their lawsuit against Carnival arising out of their daughter's death, and also brought a claim on behalf of her brother for the intentional infliction of emotional distress, the United States District Court Judge dismissed the claim, ruling that under the federal pleading standards, the Plaintiffs had failed to properly state a claim for relief.

Salting that wound is a class - action lawsuit, filed today in California's Northern district, on behalf of the social media giant's shareholders.

Fan Yuan, who owns Facebook stock, filed a lawsuit Tuesday in the District Court of Northern California, located in San Francisco, on behalf of Facebook shareholders.

A new class action lawsuit has been filed in the United States District Court Eastern District of New York on behalf of investors in Nano (XRB, formerly Raiblocks), according to a class action complaint signed April 5.

Foster City, Calif. — A securities class action lawsuit has been initiated in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on behalf of those who acquired locally based Webvan Group Inc. securities between November 4...

Foster City, Calif. — A securities class action lawsuit has been initiated in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on behalf of those who acquired locally based Webvan Group Inc. securities between November 4, 1999 and December 6, 2000.