(Silver was convicted of corruption in 2015, but the conviction was
overturned this past July).
The younger Skelos was sentenced to six and a half years in prison, but he and his father's convictions were
overturned this past September in light of a US Supreme Court ruling that narrowed the scope of an official bribe.
Not exact matches
The state of Florida passed a separate, and more strident, physician gag rule (known as the «Docs vs. Glocks» law) in 2011 — but a federal appeals court
overturned that this
past February.
Together over the course of the
past year, Uber and Lyft have spent up to $ 9 million in a vain effort to
overturn the city's proposed safety measure, viewing Austin as an important test case in the broader struggle between local regulators and Silicon Valley upstarts with novel business models and global ambitions.
«We don't want to be that person who rushes
past someone bleeding by the side of the road on our way to a protest rally,» says Bessenecker, who is an activist and author of
Overturning Tables: Freeing Missions From the Christian Industrial Complex.
We are being faced not just with gradual shifts in our understanding of ourselves and the world; people experience not just a sense of rapid alteration but of a continual breaking with the
past, a perpetual
overturning of the established order of things.
But his dominating concern in his relations with the
past is to
overturn the classical concept of God.
They will do nothing to attempt to
overturn R v W, anymore than they have for the
past 4 decades.
He needed to
overturn his world, literally, with that bicycle kick to reestablish some semblance of his
past superiority.
But at the Emirates, with a 2 - 0 scoreline to
overturn, Milan showed little desire to take it to an Arsenal side who have shown in the
past that they're brittle and can crumble when put under enough pressure.
Secret moves are planned by senior Conservatives to
overturn the result of next week's referendum on electoral reform if the country votes to scrap the first -
past - the - post system... Under the plan, supporters of first -
past - the - post would approach the Commons business committee of MPs, which has the power to set aside time for issues concerning backbenchers.
By contrast, the brief, shared with The New York Times by its drafters, cites
past Supreme Court rulings dear to conservatives, including the Citizens United decision lifting restrictions on campaign financing, and a Washington, D.C., Second Amendment case that
overturned a law barring handgun ownership.
In the
past few years, discoveries about mind - body connections have
overturned the long - held view of the body as a passive vehicle driven by the brain.
Bob Whelan, the chief executive of the Centre for Exploitation of Science and Technology, a think - tank funded by government and industry, says that the report «
overturns a great deal of political dogma we've been subjected to over the
past 10 years».
«I think it's a straw man to say we're
overturning this,» he says; «the idea has evolved but most scientists would still say that the processes that are occurring now are not those that were occurring in the
past.»
New research is coming out all the time that
overturns much of what we «knew» in the
past, but many nutritionists and dieticians are wedded to the old information they learned 10 - 20 years ago In -LSB-...]
And very windy the
past couple of days, with garbage cans
overturning and branches all over the place.
Within the
past year, however, plaintiffs in Connecticut and Michigan have filed new lawsuits, which could reach the Supreme Court, asking courts to
overturn Rodriguez and recognize a federal constitutional right to education.
Over the
past year, they have achieved stunning results,
overturning dictatorships and sending waves of hope across regions and around the world.
Within the
past year, Common Core opponents have managed to keep states such as Texas and Virginia from embracing the curricula reform effort, and have managed to lead nearly - successful efforts to
overturn decisions by state education officials in South Carolina to enact them.
Obviously, the composition of the Court has changed in the
past 40 years, but subsequent decisions since have also provided an opening for Janus to
overturn Abood.
Over the
past generation, federal courts have stopped monitoring desegregation plans that school districts had implemented because of earlier court orders; in 2007, the Supreme Court went so far as to
overturn voluntary desegregation plans in Seattle and Louisville.
ONE LESSON THAT TEACHERS and their unions have learned over the
past several years is that the courts are unlikely to
overturn school district policy, even when they agree it's unfair.
Over the
past two years, more than 100 municipalities across the USA have
overturned bans and other restrictions that target dogs in the pit bull family, and opposition to BSL comes from sources as diverse as the American Bar Association, animal rescue groups, the Center for Disease Control and even President Barack Obama, who said in August that the laws are largely ineffective while doing nothing to improve public safety, and are often a «waste of public resources».
In the
past couple of years, StubbyDog has shifted its focus to community outreach efforts to prevent or
overturn breed - specific legislation (BSL).
Over the
past two years, more than 100 municipalities across the USA have
overturned bans and other restrictions that target dogs in the pit bull family, the generic term commonly used to describe the American pit bull terrier, Staffordshire bull terrier and many mixed - breed dogs with square - shaped heads and bulky builds.
A focus on quality over quantity might help Square
overturn the losses they have consistently been seeing for the
past few years.
As culture gradually
overturns its male - dominated, Eurocentric
past, it's the curators who are representing expansive, multifarious points of view that are creating the most relevant and influential exhibitions.
The exhibition, Follow the Heart: The Art of Sean Scully 1964 - 2014, revisits the British / American artist's career over the
past 50 years in over 100 works including some of his most iconic and important pieces, such as Night and Day (279 x 812 cm), some of his great 1980s paintings, which
overturned the orthodoxies of minimalism, and many of the famous Wall of Light paintings.
I think this is important because whatever it was it appears to have completely
overturned the well - established scientific and historical thinking on
past climate.
Another new study (Anomalously weak Labrador Sea convection and Atlantic
overturning during the
past 150 years by David Thornalley and colleagues) was published in the same issue of Nature, which supports this finding and places it in a longer climate history context.
A second study, by a team including David Thornalley, from University College London, in the same issue of Nature, looks into the Earth's
past climate to reconstruct Atlantic
overturning changes over the
past 1,600 years.
Actually «difficult» or «impossible» seem like pretty arbitrary inferences to draw considering the insufficient understanding of the meridional
overturning, and in fact the opposite is implied from progress in ocean dynamics over the
past decade.
Newly elected President Donald Trump has asserted in his «first 100 days» plan that he will
overturn many of the
past years» Presidential important decisions on climate change and environmental protection, and that he will allow projects such as the Keystone XL to go forward.
One day, 30 years later, in Gates v. Discovery Communications, Inc., the California Supreme Court
overturned the decision and declared that people are free to tell the truth about others»
past crimes.
Investment dealers across the country undoubtedly breathed a sigh of relief this
past August when the Alberta Court of Appeal released its decision in Merrill Lynch Canada Inc. v. Soost and decisively
overturned a trial judge's award of $ 1.6 million to a wrongfully dismissed investment advisor for the loss of his book of business.
Last summer, in David Polowin Real Estate Ltd. v. Dominion of Canada General Insurance Co., [1] the Ontario Court of Appeal
overturned its own decision on a question of law it decided just a few years ago in McNaughton Automotive Ltd. v. Co-operators General Insurance Co. [2] In so doing, the Court wrestled with whether and when it could, or should, overrule one of its
past decisions.
In the
past month, the Ontario Superior Court and Ontario Court of Appeal have released two decisions that have continued the recent trend of
overturning termination agreements in favour of the -LSB-...]
Now, there have been issues in the
past (many court decisions) where tax sales have been
overturned.