Sentences with phrase «legal attacks by»

[liii] IJ also successfully defended Milwaukee's school voucher program [liv], as well as tax credit programs in Illinois [lv] and Arizona [lvi], from legal attacks by school choice opponents.
It is no secret that Qualcomm's lucrative patent licensing business has been a lightning rod for legal attacks by Apple and antitrust regulators over the past year.
But, one fine day, there was a coordinated legal attack by almost all of the impacted publishers and all of the better known sites offering scanlations were shut down, which was followed by a period of vigorous enforcement designed to prevent the scanlation model from resurfacing elsewhere on the web until people got out of the habit of making and reading them.
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.

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The City of Cockburn has continued its attack on the interim report by the state government's Major Stadia Taskforce, flagging the possibility of legal action as part of its next move.
Some of this includes legal and forensic costs, as well as civil fines and losses to a business caused by an attack.
Trump set off a firestorm after the December attacks — during which an apparently ISIS - inspired couple, both legal residents, killed 14 people — by calling for a complete ban on Muslim travel to the U.S.
Following Sunday's tragedy and the unsurprising response out of Washington, Twitter users were quick to point out the cruel irony of the tired statement: the victims of this latest act of domestic terrorism were in church, literally engaged in prayer, when they were viciously attacked by a white man wielding a legal gun.
According to Jeffrey Berns, Managing Partner of Berns Weiss LLP, «the virtual currency / blockchain practice group of Berns Weiss LLP has been contacted by various people inquiring about potential legal action against Poloniex and Kraken with regard to the recent sell off at those exchanges in conjunction with DDoS attacks
President Trump ran through a litany of topics in a series of tweets early Sunday, bouncing from an attack by a gunman in France to his plans for a border wall to his personal legal team.
Giuliani, who is bonded with the president by a particular brand of New York bravado, has escalated Trump's attacks on the Department of Justice, pushed for strict limits on special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe and upended White House legal strategy.
Despite its initial incarnation being rendered insolvent by these frivolous legal attacks, ML - Implode continues today in a stripped - down, lean - and - mean embodiment, remaining dedicated to tracking the fallout of the 2007 - 2008 credit crisis.
The Boy Scouts spent much of their early history unsuccessfully trying to eliminate the Girl Scouts by legal attack and social pressure.
Any Scouting unit that refuses to accept or abide by the new policy will either have their charter revoked by national BSA leadership or become fully exposed to legal attacks for alleged violations of nondiscrimination ordinances.
That is, that one of the main reasons for his attack on Darwinism is his conclusion that insufficiently critical adoption of evolutionary modes of thought by the majority of scientists, and also by educational (e.g., John Dewey) and legal (e.g., Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.) leaders, has led to a highly unsatisfactory cultural situation, and to many evil consequences.
The impregnability of the Muslims» worldview was evident in the case of the Jordanian legal scholar who insisted that the suicide bombers in the 9 - 11 attacks could not have been Muslim because violence against innocents is condemned by the Qur» an.
The opinion was of a kind we are used to seeing by now from Justice Kennedy: long on windy rhetoric about «dignity» and ad hominem attacks on the basic human decency of the law's defenders, and short on actual coherent legal reasoning from recognizable constitutional principles.
Nevertheless, I am an attorney with 25 years experience, 13 of which were as a criminal defense attorney, and the video makes clear that by legal standards, the young lady WAS the aggressor — twice — no matter what was said prior (words are never an excuse for an attack) and yes Mixon has a valid (at least arguable) self defense case.
The government of the Philippines has both the legal and moral authority to enact laws to protect the health of its citizens, and the action taken by American companies amounts to an attack on the sovereignty of the Filipino nation.
Earlier this week, NBC News leaked an unclassified white paper, drafted by the U.S. Justice Department, outlining the legal arguments in favour of the U.S. government's right to engage in targeted killing of U.S. citizens abroad when such citizens are deemed to be actively involved in plotting terrorist attacks against the United States.
A bill passed by Florida lawmakers empowering some personnel in public schools to carry firearms to guard against attacks like last month's massacre near Miami could expose these employees to potentially costly civil lawsuits, legal experts said.
The SNP was accused of embedding government officials into the heart of family life today, after its plans for child guardians were attacked by parents and legal groups.
The e-mail is also a fundraising appeal that asks supporters to help Rice keep the spot on the air by contributing and warns rather ominously that she will be the subject of attacks in the coming weeks «by career politicians and wealthy political insiders who will stop at nothing to make sure that our state's next lawyer is a politician, rather than a career legal advocate.»
In November 2008, Woolas attacked lawyers and charities working on behalf of asylum seekers, accusing them of undermining the law and «playing the system» by taking legal action.
At the Democratic Party's lunchtime meeting in Tarrytown, Schumer spoke to his hopes for the future, including that he will become Senate majority leader and, in the event the Republican - controlled Senate does not relent in its opposition to an Obama nominee, «our madam president will surely nominate a person for the Supreme Court who is in the legal mainstream (and) will uphold fundamental rights and common sense precedents now so severely under attack by the right - wing.»
At the Democratic Party's lunchtime meeting in Tarrytown, Schumer spoke about his hopes for the future, including that he will become Senate majority leader, Hillary Clinton will be elected president and she will «nominate a person for the Supreme Court who is in the legal mainstream (and) will uphold fundamental rights and common sense precedents now so severely under attack by the right wing.»
Monday's key US legal decision on emissions regulation was influenced by the unjustified attacks on climate science, says Douglas Kysar.
They show how companies affected by the rule are encouraging entrenched opponents of EPA to make backup plans to comply in case legal attacks don't succeed.
In this series, climate scientists explain how being threatened with legal attacks or harassed by ideologically motivated groups has impacted their work and their lives.
The sweeping attack on legal impediments to voucher programs, as sullied by anti-Catholic history, promotes a partial and misleading history.
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On September 30, 2013, the Nissan GT - R NISMO N - Attack, driven by Michael Krumm in a test conducted by Nissan, shattered its previous Nürburgring record of 7:18 with a new time of 7:08.68, making it the 8th fastest road - legal production vehicle around the track as of April 2018.
First they copy tactics of the tobacco industry and create doubt by attacking climate science with fallacious legal - style pseudo-scientific arguments.
In this series we profile scientists who have been threatened with legal attacks or harassed by politically and ideologically motivated groups.
The public had no legal right to the information gleamed by the phishing attack.
And yet, despite some encouraging developments in renewable energy and some breakthroughs in international leadership, carbon emissions continue to rise at a steady rate, and for their pains the scientists themselves — the cruelest blow of all — have been the targets of an unrelenting and well - organized attack that includes death threats, summonses from a hostile Congress, attempts to get them fired, legal harassment, and intrusive discovery demands so severe they had to start their own legal - defense fund, all amplified by a relentless propaganda campaign nakedly financed by the fossil - fuel companies.
The Climate Science Legal Defense Fund is hosting talks on the legal attacks faced by climate scientists, on Thursday, May 7th, from 6 - 7:30 pm at Columbia Law ScLegal Defense Fund is hosting talks on the legal attacks faced by climate scientists, on Thursday, May 7th, from 6 - 7:30 pm at Columbia Law Sclegal attacks faced by climate scientists, on Thursday, May 7th, from 6 - 7:30 pm at Columbia Law School.
In addition to providing legal resources, we also provide emotional support by connecting scientists under attack to others who have successfully navigated such situations.
We achieve our mission by: Offering free legal aid to scientists Educating researchers about their rights and responsibilities Sharing strategies and information about cases with attorneys Publicizing attacks on science — because knowledge is power
The Climate Science Legal Defense Fund (CLSDF), a non-profit organization based in New York City, provides free support and resources to scientists who are dragged into litigation or otherwise threatened with legal attacks and harassment by politically and ideologically motivated grLegal Defense Fund (CLSDF), a non-profit organization based in New York City, provides free support and resources to scientists who are dragged into litigation or otherwise threatened with legal attacks and harassment by politically and ideologically motivated grlegal attacks and harassment by politically and ideologically motivated groups.
This series profiles scientists who have been threatened with legal attacks or harassed by politically and ideologically motivated groups.
Attacks on the judiciary by politicians unhappy with a decision have the capacity to undermine the system of justice, and the distribution of legal powers, particularly when the attack is of a personal nature, but the more substantive issue is undermining the structure of justice, and an attack on the substance and principles of justice and the structures essential to its coherent function.
The website explains state and municipal laws related to dog ownership, and what legal claims may be made by victims of bites or attacks.
It knows as both the legal aid funder of clinical negligence litigation and as the defendant compensator (as it is in the vast majority of clinical negligence cases) that access to justice is extremely costly to it in costs and damages, and that by attacking access to justice its outlay in both regards will be reduced substantially.
As Alex Novarese of Legal Week is right to point out, overall revenue in the UK legal market last year fell for the first time in living memory, but even if the overall size of the legal market in the UK remains static or falls (a tussle between the opposing forces of economic growth increasing demand on the one hand and business pressures to reduce fees and outsource on the other), market dynamics dictate that the revenue will be clustered differently, with the moderate - high fees currently enjoyed by the mid-tier for mid-market work under the most severe attack, the beneficiaries being niche firms and LPO proviLegal Week is right to point out, overall revenue in the UK legal market last year fell for the first time in living memory, but even if the overall size of the legal market in the UK remains static or falls (a tussle between the opposing forces of economic growth increasing demand on the one hand and business pressures to reduce fees and outsource on the other), market dynamics dictate that the revenue will be clustered differently, with the moderate - high fees currently enjoyed by the mid-tier for mid-market work under the most severe attack, the beneficiaries being niche firms and LPO provilegal market last year fell for the first time in living memory, but even if the overall size of the legal market in the UK remains static or falls (a tussle between the opposing forces of economic growth increasing demand on the one hand and business pressures to reduce fees and outsource on the other), market dynamics dictate that the revenue will be clustered differently, with the moderate - high fees currently enjoyed by the mid-tier for mid-market work under the most severe attack, the beneficiaries being niche firms and LPO provilegal market in the UK remains static or falls (a tussle between the opposing forces of economic growth increasing demand on the one hand and business pressures to reduce fees and outsource on the other), market dynamics dictate that the revenue will be clustered differently, with the moderate - high fees currently enjoyed by the mid-tier for mid-market work under the most severe attack, the beneficiaries being niche firms and LPO providers.
The 2017 edition of Attacks on the Press, published last week by The Committee to Protect Journalists, chronicles singular methods of controlling the flow of information, including financial pressure on journalists and news outlets, exploitation of legal loopholes to avoid disclosure, and wielding copyright laws and social media bots to curb criticism.
Recent research by Cert - UK highlights how unprepared in particular the legal sector is for cyber attacks.
Man charged in Edmonton attack was ordered deported by U.S. in 2011, Canadian Press Trudeau proposes federal excise tax on legal pot, sharing revenue with provinces, Canadian Press Auditor general says Nova Scotia government needs to tighten its fraud controls, Canadian Press United States Police probe turns to Las Vegas gunman's girlfriend; investigators examine $ 100,000 transfer overseas, Reuters SEC forensics unit sought resources, cyber training ahead of 2016 hack, Reuters
It was not the legal community that felt wronged by the verdict; a portion of the general public caught up in the media hoopla surrounding the case thought the verdict was wrong, but I have yet to read a single legal analysis attacking the verdict.
Still, if you or someone in your family is attacked by aggressive dogs or suffers any animal bite or animal attack in or near Irving, discuss your case and your legal options at once with an experienced Irving animal bite attorney at the Weaver Injury Law Firm.
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