Sentences with phrase «old law aimed»

The Connecticut State Board of Education has formed a committee to re-examine a 15 - year - old law aimed at reducing racial imbalance in state classrooms.

The Environmental Advocates of New York on Friday called on the state's elected leaders to use $ 117 million in settlement money from Volkswagen to implement a decade - old law aimed at reducing diesel emissions in New York.

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The new law aims to protect students and employees from toxic lead in old pipes and fixtures within schools.

The «Justice Package» consists of legislation aimed at ending racial profiling, demilitarizing law enforcement and rising the age of criminal responsibility to 18 years old in some states, including New York.

U.S. Rep. Dan Maffei's latest ad to hit airwaves in Central New York takes aim at Republican challenger John Katko's opposition to a measure supported by congressional Democrats that they say would improve the Equal Pay Act, a 51 - year - old law requiring equal pay for women.

From the establishment of the National Research Agency (Agence Nationale de la Recherche, ANR) in February 2005 to new laws on research and university autonomy passed in April 2006 and August 2007, France is now on a road to modernization which aims both to simplify and rejuvenate what President Nicolas Sarkozy described last March as «an old moth - eaten system (un vieux statut mité).»

Although the 33 - year - old New Bedford, Massachusetts, native grew up surrounded by cats and dogs — her mother is a pet rescuer — Santos originally aimed for a career in law.

NCLB Query Master aims to make the 4 - year - old law easier to understand by bringing together in one place the full legislation along with U.S. Department of Education regulations and guidance on carrying it out.

5:38 p.m. Updated Thomas Schelling, a Nobel Prize winner in economics who has long studied climate policy and diplomacy, told me last year that the way forward must involve much more of what legal scholars call «soft law» than old - style treaty making aimed at legally binding instruments like the fading Kyoto Protocol.

Joe Douress, a senior vice president of Martindale - Hubbell parent LexisNexis, tells Lin the expanded ratings system will be the cornerstone of a two - year - old project aimed at boosting the value of its law firm profiles.

Accordingly, anti-age discrimination in employment law aims at promoting various purposes to remedy these wrongs, including preventing opportunistic behaviour by employers, who are tempted to dismiss older workers when their labour costs are higher than their marginal productivity; promoting displaced older workers who experience major challenges to reemployment; protecting against ageist stereotypes and ageism; and alleviating social isolation, oppression and economic deprivation among older workers.

A law firm has welcomed new guidelines from the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) which aim to promote high - quality home care services for older people.

He has a two - year - old reminder every day when he returns home ---- his foster son.Bisker, a first - year and part - time law student, aims to practice family law, with a focus

The Older Women's Legal Education Project, a collaboration between West Coast LEAF and the Canadian Centre for Elder Law, aims to address a serious gap in existing public legal education resources: information tailored to older women fleeing aOlder Women's Legal Education Project, a collaboration between West Coast LEAF and the Canadian Centre for Elder Law, aims to address a serious gap in existing public legal education resources: information tailored to older women fleeing aolder women fleeing abuse.

Apple is continuing to face scrutiny over the power management features it introduced in older iPhones last year, with the U.S Department of Justice and the U.S Securities and Exchange Commission launching an investigation into the company, reports Bloomberg.The DoJ and the SEC are aiming to determine whether Apple violated security laws «concerning its disclosures» when it launched an iOS 10.2.1 update that throttled some older iPhones with degraded batteries in order to prevent unexpected device shutdowns.According to Bloomberg's sources, the government recently requested information from Apple and the investigation is in the early stages.Apple in iOS 10.2.1 introduced a new power management feature to address complaints of unexpected shutdowns in iPhone 6 and 6s iPhones.

40 + workers are members of a «protected class» under federal employment laws which aim to protect older workers from discrimination in the workplace.

The recent changes to the custody laws in Pennsylvania aim mainly to get rid of all of the old presumptions that are made by the court in child custody cases.