Sentences with phrase «legal services to the states»

The National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) was founded in 1907 to help attorneys general fulfill the responsibilities of their office and to assist in the delivery of high - quality legal services to the states and territorial jurisdictions.

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On Tuesday, Mississippi governor Phil Bryant signed legislation known as HB 1523, making it legal for businesses and religious organizations to deny services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in that state.

That quirk, which boils down to whether the Internal Revenue Service overstepped its rule - writing jurisdiction related to subsidies it provides in the state exchanges, was the subject of two legal challenges decided Tuesday.

Waller told CNBC financial institutions in Colorado would like to service the legal marijuana industry in that state, but she does not know of a single one that changed its position as a result of the federal memos released last week.

Frerichs asked Trump for some assurance that «responsible financial institutions» will not face criminal charges or penalties for offering services to state - licensed legal marijuana growers and dispensaries.

Mayer Brown, a global legal services organization, recently published The Social Media Revolution: A Legal Handbook, which provides legal guidance to help navigate these new technologies and is excerpted below: «Because of the popularity of social media's proliferation, the law is struggling to keep pace with the legal issues this technology presents,» the handbook's introduction stlegal services organization, recently published The Social Media Revolution: A Legal Handbook, which provides legal guidance to help navigate these new technologies and is excerpted below: «Because of the popularity of social media's proliferation, the law is struggling to keep pace with the legal issues this technology presents,» the handbook's introduction stLegal Handbook, which provides legal guidance to help navigate these new technologies and is excerpted below: «Because of the popularity of social media's proliferation, the law is struggling to keep pace with the legal issues this technology presents,» the handbook's introduction stlegal guidance to help navigate these new technologies and is excerpted below: «Because of the popularity of social media's proliferation, the law is struggling to keep pace with the legal issues this technology presents,» the handbook's introduction stlegal issues this technology presents,» the handbook's introduction states.

The state's law prohibits broadband companies from blocking legal content, applications and services, or blocking «non-harmful devices» from connecting to their networks.

The «Elder Investment Fraud and Financial Exploitation Prevention Program» (EIFFE Prevention Program) educates healthcare and legal professionals to recognize when their older patients and clients may be vulnerable to or victims of financial abuse, particularly those patients with mild cognitive impairment, and then to refer these at - risk patients to State Securities Regulators, local adult protective services professionals or for further screening and assistance as needed.

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I would like to acknowledge what is a long list: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Small Business Administration (SBA), the Office of the New York Attorney General, the New York State Department of Financial Services, the New York Legal Assistance Group, Staten Island Legal Services, the Legal Aid Society, MFY Legal Services, various bar associations, New York City Department of Small Business Services, Center for New York City Neighborhoods, Neighborhood Housing Services of Staten Island and the Northfield Local Community Development Corporation.

Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, operating in a highly competitive industry; changes in the retail landscape or the loss of key retail customers; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the impacts of the Company's international operations; the Company's ability to leverage its brand value; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share, or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's ability to realize the anticipated benefits from its cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; the execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; tax law changes or interpretations; legal claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the United States and in various other nations in which we operate; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives we use; exchange rate fluctuations; risks associated with information technology and systems, including service interruptions, misappropriation of data or breaches of security; the Company's ability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which we or the Company's customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; the Company's ownership structure; the impact of future sales of its common stock in the public markets; the Company's ability to continue to pay a regular dividend; changes in laws and regulations; restatements of the Company's consolidated financial statements; and other factors.

Last April, Japanese authorities acknowledged bitcoin as a legal tender and stated that they would entail cryptocurrency exchanges to register with the Government.There are 16 cryptocurrency exchanges in Japan which have registered with Japan's Financial Services Agency (FSA).

Given that the traditional banking industry is regulated by the federal government, most banks have been slow to accept (and service) legal dispensary and related business activity, even if individuals or businesses are legitimate under state law and attempt to... Read more»

Traders are advised to only engage the services of brokerage firms registered to operate in the United States in case there is cause for legal recourse among other problems that could occur.

These are some of the basic legal documents that you are expected to have in place if you want to legally run your own gutter cleaning services business in the United States of America;

These are some of the basic legal documents that you are expected to have in place if you want to legally run your own office cleaning services business in the United States of America;

Lader argued that since early abortions are statistically safer for the woman than childbirth, and since the morality of such abortions is a matter of religious and philosophical dispute, the state ought not to prevent women from having legal access to abortion services:

The writers of the report are, perhaps, most disturbed by the fact that «even when legal, abortion is often prevented or delayed by obstacles to the access of appropriate services, such as the widespread use of conscientious objection, medically unnecessary waiting periods or biased counselling»; and calls on Member States to «regulate and monitor the use of conscientious objection in the key professions, so as to ensure that reproductive healthcare is guaranteed as an individual's right.»

But others have pointed Out that individualism is not only a feature of the cultural landscape between Boston and Los Angeles; it is reinforced in all advanced industrial societies, even in the Soviet Union, by the state's efforts to supply services and legal guarantees.

They created a ruling institution for purposes of war and government which was based on the division of the empire into military fiefs; a chancery for the preparation of state documents and communication throughout the empire; and a religious institution which, in addition to maintaining the legal and cult services, was expected through the control of education to be an instrument of social cohesion.

Although purporting to be a health information service, the legal disclaimer states: «Danone Early Life Nutrition disclaims all liability and responsibility arising from reliance on the information for any purpose.»

The parent, legal guardian, or surrogate parent retains the right to refuse services and is provided other procedural safeguards under federal and state law.

One effort features state lawmakers in an ad urging Cuomo to sign a bill that would require the state to reimburse counties for the cost of legal services for the poor.

Additionally, refugee and asylum - seekers movements across Europe, such as Kein Mensch ist Illegal in Germany, have responded to state hostility and neglect by providing their own legal aid, language courses, housing and other social services.

«I'm really proud it was a Labour government who created a welfare state and there were three parts to the welfare state: the National Health Service, social security and legal aid.

In advance of the U.S. Supreme Court's Janus decision, a provision tucked into the state budget gives public - employee unions the right to deny many services, such as free legal help, to covered employees who opt not to join or pay dues.

A new online ad featuring Gov. Andrew Cuomo, celebrities and regular New Yorkers takes aim at Trump's policies by preaching tolerance and promoting a new state program that offers legal services to immigrants.

If you are doing online campaign in Europe, using US services such as Mailchimp, NationBuilder, Blue State Digital, etc., you need to know that any service that has its servers in the US and relied solely on the Safe Harbor agreement is in a legal grey area.

«It is New York State's obligation and, thus, a societal obligation, to provide these critically important, constitutionally mandated legal services to low - income New Yorkers.

With staff that includes a former Town Supervisor and others active in local government, Brown & Weinraub understands how to assist cities, towns and villages in New York State with both government relations and legal services.

«You have devoted your life to public service... Earning outside income from another job is 100 percent legal» in the state's part - time legislature.

With the state budget, the state government has recognized its responsibility to provide constitutionally mandated criminal legal defense services for people who can not afford an attorney.

New York state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says his office will additionally fund the Homeowner Protection Program, or HOPP, up to $ 40 million, given the number of distressed homeowners still in need of the free housing counseling and legal services the program provides.

James Murdoch stated that News International had based its «push back» against new allegations on the combination of three pieces of evidence: that the Metropolitan Police had closed their investigation, that the Crown Prosecution Service had closed their prosecution and that they had received written advice from their legal advisors Harbottle & Lewis, that there was nothing to suggest phone hacking was not the work of one «rogue reporter» working with private investigator Glenn Mulcaire.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) on Wednesday joked that he offered his «pro bono» legal services to free a New York Daily News reporter who was detained at the state capitol.

Statistics on litigations The state government however, provided free legal services to residents of the state within the quarter under review.

He has been criticized most recently for vetoing a bill in December, which passed the Legislature unanimously in June, to have the state pay for the costs of mandated legal services counties must provide for poor people accused of crimes.

Reacting to the judgement in a statement, the Executive Chairman of KWIRS, Dr. Muritala Awodun, expressed delight at the judgement and stated that the Service, through the Legal and Enforcement department, and in collaboration with the Judiciary and Law Enforcement Agencies, will ensure that all revenues due to the state is recovered and paid into government coffers.

ELIZABETHTOWN Essex County will receive over $ 190,000 in state funding over the next three years to aid in an indigent legal services fund.

Central New York lawmakers are celebrating the state legislature's decision to shift payment of indigent legal services from the counties to the state.

Mr. Banks has also complained that the state has been unresponsive to many of his requests, and Mr. Cuomo's office has asserted that Mr. Banks — a former Legal Aid Society attorney who led the organization — is unqualified to handle homelessness services.

Abdus - Salaam, a Washington, D.C., native and 1974 graduate of Barnard College, graduated from Columbia University Law School in 1977 and started a career as a staff attorney at East Brooklyn Legal Services Corp., according to her profile on the state Office of Court Administration's website.

«Cuomo vetoes bill that would have required state to fund legal services for the poor», New York Daily News, Jan. 1, 2017, Accessed Jan 11, 2017

While he focused on legal services for the poor, DiFiore says she wants to take a top - to - bottom approach to the state's court system.

And it reignites an ongoing issue surrounding indigent legal services and a push to have county governments reimbursed by a state, which Cuomo had initially sought to resolve in a special session late last year, the hopes of which eventually collapsed in negotiations.

The measure is aimed at requiring the state to reimburse counties for the cost of indigent legal services.

The battle has potential consequences for New Yorkers as discussions will begin soon over a $ 150 billion - plus state budget and an array of policy issues, from immigration and funding for legal services for the poor to whether to legalize ride - hailing upstate or permit physicians to assist terminal patients end their lives.

Eight protesters were arrested after they blocked access to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office while calling on the state to cover the cost of legal services for the poor.

After Cuomo vetoed a bill that would have required the state to pick up the cost of providing indigent legal services from the counties, Assembly sponsor Patricia Fahy said she is committed to addressing the issue again in the upcoming legislative session.

County governments had sought the indigent legal services funding as a way to satisfy a lawsuit over state support for public legal defense.