Sentences with phrase «private citizen action»

My second response point is that you are conflating state action taken by the school with private citizen action.

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Although many of these claims challenge the veracity of «organic,» «healthy,» and «100 %» claims on labels, several states are affording new opportunities to attack ingredient labels — an area that federal courts have traditionally found to be preempted (barred) by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with no private right of action for individual citizens.

Rumore said if Paladino is defending himself against actions taken as a private citizen, he should not be able to use district money to do so.

«At that point he became a private citizen like any other we investigate, and he is no longer in a position to influence the actions of his former office,» Vance wrote.

Likewise, private citizens or organizations, other government and business concerns also send communications to the legislature asking that action be taken on some matter.

The complaint labels the actions as a «secret and corrupt scheme» saying the speaker told the public that he worked at a law firm where private citizens hired him to represent them in personal injury lawsuits, and that none of his clients had any business before the state.

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According to the piece, public employee union leaders and community organizations gathered in Washington, D.C. in 2014 and came up with a 3 - point plan: use the bargaining process as a way to challenge the relationships between government and the private - sector; work with community allies to create new, shared goals that help advance both worker and citizen power; and recognize militancy and collective action will likely be necessary if workers and citizens are to reduce inequality and strengthen democracy.

Private Action with «Neutral» Intent The fourth area impacting residential segregation, and the one proving hardest to combat, is the exacerbation of spatial inequality by the choices of private citizens that are not motivated by race, but by other factors that are often correlated with race; these factors have racialized consequences when actePrivate Action with «Neutral» Intent The fourth area impacting residential segregation, and the one proving hardest to combat, is the exacerbation of spatial inequality by the choices of private citizens that are not motivated by race, but by other factors that are often correlated with race; these factors have racialized consequences when acteprivate citizens that are not motivated by race, but by other factors that are often correlated with race; these factors have racialized consequences when acted upon.

There are massive contradictions between his words and actions as a private citizen and the apparent politics of some of his books.»

ALDF has drafted a Model Law for a Private Right of Action, based on North Carolina's unique provision that, if passed in other states, would greatly reduce the burden on local prosecutors and allow concerned citizens and animal protection groups to stop the tragedy of hoarding in their own communities throughout the country.

That was evident in her actions as both a private citizen and a NC House Representative.

There is considerable potential for the actions of state and local government, the private sector and individual citizens to contribute to the nationwide response to climate change, but better information and coordination with federal policies would make these decisions more effective.

Climate action from so - called non-state actors — cities, citizens groups, and the private sector — could supplement INDCs, closing the gap by a few gigatons of carbon dioxide equivalent.

Citizens have a the right to be informed about the pollution and chemical disposal in their area, and the companies responsible (both public and private) must also be held accountable for their actions.

CASL has been in force for almost three years but the «private right of action» is set to take effect July 1, which will allow private citizens to sue for violations, setting the stage for class action law suits.

Most actions taken by private security are justified by express exclusions from civil and criminal liability for self - defense, defense of others, defense of property and citizen's arrest.

Among other areas, our litigation experience in the environmental area includes governmental and private - party actions under CERCLA (including serving as lead counsel for PRP groups at major Superfund sites throughout the United States), citizen suits under RCRA, the Clean Water Act and other environmental laws, claims for property damage and personal injury arising from industrial emissions or environmental contamination, and defending clients against state and federal governmental enforcement actions.

In the meantime (prior to the visit), I had also written an email to the office of the attorney general in my state, and while they don't provide legal advice to private citizens, they did mail me an envelope with helpful information on what actions I could take.

Our attorneys have been representing business clients at the highest level for the past 25 years in private cost recovery actions, government enforcement actions, criminal actions, citizen suits, toxic tort cases, corporate and real estate transactions, compliance counseling and rule - making proceedings.

In contrast, the court opined that qualified or conditional privilege applies where one «communicat [es] information of public interest to a public officer or private citizen authorized to take action if the information is true.»

It is not sufficient to answer, as the State does here, that whatever repressive effect compulsory disclosure of names of petitioner's members may have upon participation by Alabama citizens in petitioner's activities follows not from state action, but from private community pressures.

This is done to make it economically viable for private citizens to sue over violations of the consumer protection law that would otherwise involve actual damages too small to be worth suing over, without having to bring a class action.

«Although the issues at stake in this action involve the private rights of the litigants, the motion relief sought by the plaintiff involves much broader considerations that may impact the rights of other parties involved in motor vehicle accident cases as well as possibly the rights of citizens of Ontario to sit as jurors in those cases,» the judge wrote.

State and local governments, community organizations, and private citizens take action every day to protect children.