Sentences with phrase «of unanimous rulings»

In recent years, the top court has issued a series of unanimous rulings overturning the Federal Circuit, and is poised to smack it down again in the field of software patents.

Even so, some of those involved in the long debate over the issue questioned whether the plan would satisfy the equity requirements imposed in a pair of unanimous rulings by the state supreme court.

Joining us to flesh out the significance of this unanimous ruling are Marc Edelman, a sports lawyer and professor of sports and antitrust law -LSB-...]

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The EEOC ruled (in a unanimous, bipartisan decision, incidentally) that transgender issues are issues of sex, and therefore protected under federal law.

I am proud to see that only considerations of law, and not politics, affected the unanimous ruling.»

The SEC ruling was not unanimous, and the sole vote against it was Democratic Commissioner Luis Aguilar who said in a statement, «I am disappointed and saddened by the reckless adoption [of the rule].»

Gawker Media Group has put itself up for sale (bids are due Monday afternoon) in part to satisfy the legal judgment of a unanimous jury that ruled against Gawker and assessed damages of $ 140 million, proving that there are consequences for violating privacy.

Unity of view which can be the source of legislation must be attained through the use of methods of thinking and investigation which have been approved as valid; it must be reached by a limited number of men from among all classes of the nation, whose qualifications for the use of the approved methods are recognized; the views of all the qualified men must be ascertained; and unanimous agreement on a specific ruling must be sought.

[17] According to Origen, the fact that the spiritual meaning of Scripture goes beyond the obvious (literal) meaning is a unanimous part of the Apostolic Rule of faith, de PrincipUs, I, 8.

It should be emphasized that the vast majority of the Court's cases are unanimous, or nearly so, and that most rulings do not involve hot - button or «culture war» matters.

The crux of the report is Paolantonio alleges the new catch rule — passed by a unanimous vote Tuesday — was «already in place» for Super Bowl 52 and officials were «basically legislating on the fly» during the game instead of sticking to the standards of the 2017 season.

In a unanimous ruling on Jan. 29, the court upheld the $ 5,000 monthly support payments of Phoenix Suns forward Dennis Scott (who earns $ 3 million a year), less than half the $ 10,011 sought by the child's mother.

Unconfirmed reports say today's ruling was not unanimous but that the change received the required two - thirds majority of 14 clubs.

In a unanimous ruling on November 24, 2017, the 11 - member panel ordered Ghana to suspend the seizure of any property belonging to the businessman, «take all appropriate measures to maintain the status quo and avoid the property being sold» until the case was determined.

Wednesday, Republicans deployed a workaround — Republicans on the committee used a «unanimous consent» clause to suspend all of its rules for the meeting, then voted to confirm the nominations for Steven Mnuchin, up for Treasury secretary, and Tom Price, nominated for Health and Human Services secretary.

By unanimous consent, the Republicans gathered in the hearing room agreed to change the committee's standing rules, which normally require at least one member of each party to be in attendance for committee work to proceed.

The Supreme Court has in a unanimous decision, ruled that the Speaker of Parliament, Edward Doe Adjaho, violated the constitution by not always swearing the presidential oath in the absence of the President and his vice.

Togbui Adrakpanya said the unanimous decision to enstool Former President Rawlings who is a son of the land as Nutifafa fia has been informed by the fact that he was a military ruler who relinquished dictatorship and embraced democratic rule by making a peaceful handover after his term.

The state Court of Appeals in a unanimous ruling on Monday determined the New York Department of State has the right to review the renewal of Indian Point's license — a victory for critics of the Entergy - owned nuclear plant in Westchester County.

A five - man bench of the apex court made the order in a unanimous ruling in which it dismissed Metuh's application for an order of stay of proceedings of his trial before the Federal High Court.

Carver said his lawyers also are weighing whether to appeal Wednesday's ruling, but the state Court of Appeals must give permission after the unanimous appellate decision.

In a unanimous ruling, the 11 - member panel of the African Court, ordered Ghana to suspend the seizure of any property belonging to the businessman and «take all appropriate measures to maintain the status quo and avoid the property being sold» until the case was determined.

In a unanimous ruling centered on the conviction of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, the justices said that informal actions, like setting up a meeting or talking to someone influential, are not the «official acts» required to prove a bribery conspiracy.

Governor Wike's election was confirmed by a unanimous judgement of a 7 - man panel of the Supreme court which upturned the ruling of the Appeal court and that of the lower tribunal which had nullified his election and ordered a rerun.

The five - man panel of the ape x court led by the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onoghen, also, in a separate unanimous ruling, struck out all pending appeals relating to the candidacy of the PDP for the Saturday's governorship election in Ondo State.

This follows a unanimous ruling by the 11 - member panel ordering Ghana to suspend the seizure of any property belonging to the businessman.

Won't work past 2 pm: «Making good on Sen. John McCain's threat to withhold all Republican cooperation from Democrats in the Senate in retribution for the majority party using reconciliation to pass health care reform, the GOP used the rule that states committees can only meet when the chamber is in session with the unanimous consent of all members.»

In a unanimous decision, the court ruled, «It is within the sole discretion of each district attorney's executive power to orchestrate the prosecution of those who violate the criminal laws of this State.»

In a unanimous ruling, the New York State Court of Appeals held last month that the Monroe - Woodbury school district was not required under state law to provide a separate facility for handicapped children from the Orthodox Jewish village of Kiryas Joel.

RE-1 ruling, a unanimous decision that interpreted idea as requiring that a disabled student's «educational program must be appropriately ambitious in light of his circumstances.»

The unanimous Dec. 19 ruling by the New Jersey Supreme Court came in an ongoing effort to figure out how to finish hundreds of building projects even though the state agency overseeing them, the New Jersey Schools...

Aunt Shine and her female relatives had seen their educational mission upended by the U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which ruled that separate educational facilities for blacks and whites were «inherently unequal» and demanded that schools be racially integrated.

Overview of Lesson Plan: In this lesson, students analyze how education in America affects it youth and the nation by assessing a variety of ways in which American courts and communities are dealing with the unanimous Supreme Court ruling to end «separate but equal» education.

African American and Latino students, as well as children and youths from low - income families, have been particularly hard hit, according to the unanimous court ruling, which pointed to dismal test scores and graduation rates as evidence of the impact of insufficient funding.

She pointed out that the California Teachers Association has racked up three wins since spring, with the appellate court's unanimous ruling to overturn Vergara, the Supreme Court's decision this week to decline to review the case and the thwarting of her own bill that would have made changes to teacher tenure and dismissal procedures.

The unanimous Supreme Court decision in Griggs was prepared to tolerate some overenforcement of the civil rights law in employment cases, lest underenforcement allow too many wrongdoers to escape these rules.

In a unanimous 8 - 0 decision that advocates say expands the rights of special education students, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that school districts must give students with disabilities the chance to make meaningful, «appropriately ambitious» progress.

The Utah State Board of Education's public hearing on the Utah High School Activities Association rule was pretty much unanimous against the rule.

However, in a unanimous 2016 decision, a three - judge panel on California's Court of Appeals struck down the lower court ruling and the state Supreme Court declined to hear the case.

In a unanimous opinion, SCOTUS Chief Justice John Roberts ruled that public schools must provide students with disabilities an «educational program [that is] appropriately ambitious in light of [a particular student's] circumstances, just as advancement from grade to grade is appropriately ambitious for most children in the regular classroom.»

(District of Columbia) In a carefully - worded but unanimous opinion, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the right of students with disabilities to a «free appropriate public education» requires more than a simple compliance «check list» from schools.

In their landmark unanimous (9 - 0) decision, the Court stated that «separate educational facilities are inherently unequal», and thus ruled segregation to be a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution.

The United Nations rules require the IPCC to seek unanimous consensus on each of their claims.

The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) praised the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for its unanimous decision to terminate the proceeding it had opened to address the Department of Energy's Proposed Rule on Grid Reliability and Resilience Pricing and instead initiate a new...

The combination of the NSTAR deal and the unanimous SJC ruling will, Rodgers said, «help our efforts to market the additional power.»

As the federal government moves to limit judicial discretion in the sentencing of violent crimes, a recent decision from the British Columbia Court of Appeal has reasserted the court's authority, ruling that jurors in murder trials need not be unanimous in their sentencing recommendation to the court.

In a unanimous decision handed down in June in Riley v. California, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that police must first obtain a warrant to search the contents of someone's cell phone in all but the most extraordinary circumstances.

Work highlights Achieved a unanimous Supreme Court ruling in favor of three nonprofit hospital systems in connection with their longstanding religious exemption from ERISA.

He was lead counsel in the federal and appellate courts and on the briefs in the United State Supreme Court on behalf of the County of Los Angeles and Los Angeles Flood Control District in Los Angeles County Flood Control District v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 133 S. Ct. 710 (2013), a unanimous ruling in favor of his client.

Successfully appealed NLRB hearing officer's decision in an election dispute over a determinative challenged ballot, winning a unanimous ruling from Chairman Liebman and Members Becker and Pearce, and clarifying law on voter eligibility of regular part - time employees (355 NLRB No. 181)