Sentences with phrase «public court fights»

Not exact matches

It's probably no coincidence that some of 2014's most promising startups, which have backed away from the public markets, are also fighting ongoing court proceedings.

At the height of the Clayoquot standoff, MacMillan Bloedel employed public relations campaigns, marshalled exhaustive research from its foresters and scientists, and fought its opponents in court — and none of it was working.

Its public relations machine seemed to run completely off the rails in May, when the European Court of Justice enshrined the «right to be forgotten» — a concept Google had said amounted to censorship and which it had fought to undermine.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The Supreme Court on Wednesday considered a drug company's fight to keep a generic version of its biotech drug off the market for an additional six months that would mean billions more in sales and higher costs to the public.

However, having such a provision and enforcing it are different matters altogether, and fallen executives often negotiate their departure in private rather than exposing the issue to the public scrutiny of a court fight.

In the court of public opinion, Alvarez would not and did not win by stalling a fight against Golovkin.

Sitting on the sofa, I show him a few items: newspaper and magazine pieces about the Liston fights; Ali's conversion to Islam; the arrest for refusing military induction; the epic first battle with Frazier; the Supreme Court overturning the draft conviction; Foreman being voodooed by Ali; the Thrilla in Manila; the boxing lesson he gave Spinks in their second contest; a recent article about Ali buying buses for Chicago - area public schools (immediately after seeing a TV news story about how Dade County had no money for new buses, Ali sat down, wrote a check and mailed it, not using the gift as a tax deduction); and one about helping a young man wearing a hooded dark sweatshirt and jeans who crawled out on a high window ledge of a Wilshire Boulevard skyscraper in Los Angeles to kill himself.

(b) To press hard to sort out all tricky consular cases where injustice looks a factor — and tell the public that those who claim that FCO success in Case A entitles them to compensation in less successful Case B will be fought tooth and nail in the courts.

He was indicted by federal prosecutors for depriving the right of the public to «honest services» later that year, but is fighting the charges in court.

A legal fight between the Buffalo Public School District and Buffalo Teachers Federation over a plan to transfer teachers from City Honors will return to court next week, when the district will file papers challenging a restraining order obtained by the BTF.

The statement said while Ogun «was under the siege of violence and politically - motivated killings» during OGD's reign as governor, Kashamu «fights his political battles in the court of law and public opinion using his God - given resources.»

But a day later, he would not specify what legal action would look like — though he maintained that he and other mayors across the country would fight in court — nor explain how the city would handle retaliatory cuts to federal funding for the NYPD, the New York City Housing Authority and the city's public hospital system.

It remains to be seen how dim a view the Labour Party machine takes of his public courting of UKIP, but Neil Carmichael, who will fight Stroud for the third successive election for the Conservatives, has a simple message for the local electorate:

Where were the surrogates of John Dramani Mahama in the NDC when he was violating the 1992 Constitution when I was fighting the looting of the public purse by Mills and Mahama in the Supreme Court up to as recent as March 2017?

Fellow patriotic citizens, I fought for two long years for justice for the Constitution and for all of us and the Supreme Court eventually vindicated the public's interest by ordering the refund of the unconstitutional loot to the Republic of Ghana.

As New York City and state officials fight in public over the best policy prescriptions for helping the city manage its homeless population, another battle is taking place in court.

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that could disrupt the finances of public - sector unions, but labor leaders vowed to fight back even if the court's decision doesn't go theirCourt heard arguments in a case that could disrupt the finances of public - sector unions, but labor leaders vowed to fight back even if the court's decision doesn't go theircourt's decision doesn't go their way.

Caproni had ruled in February that the sealed evidence could become public post-trial, but Silver's lawyers, who have been fighting to keep the seemingly inflammatory documents under wraps, took that decision to appeals court.

TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP)-- The fight over stripping collective bargaining rights from Wisconsin's public workers will move into the state Supreme Court, and possibly back into the Legislature, after a judge ruled...

Other Democratic leaders have already offered straight rebuttals of the president - elect: New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio promised to resist Trump's policies and is fighting in court to keep city data on undocumented immigrants from being made public.

The public employees unions are fighting Paterson's furlough plan in court and reacted very negatively to his call for a wage freeze.

I then issued a public furlough plan (that the unions successfully fought in court).»

ALBANY — While a dozen of his Senate colleagues are fighting in court, State Senator Mark Grisanti has decided to comply with a subpoena from the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption, he told Capital.

The lootees, Woyome / Austro - Invest, speaking through Woyome, have said to the media and it is published to the public that he would fight the order of Court to the last drop of his blood.

What takes us and her there is the tale of how the world - beating New York Times got the scoop on Ellsberg's «Pentagon Papers,» how paranoid, profane and punitive President Richard Nixon (glimpsed in silhouette, heard on the infamous «tapes») and his Justice Department stopped it, and how the Washington Post stepped in, found its edge, voice and spine and took up cause, fighting (with the Times) all the way to the Supreme Court for «the public's right to know.»

That bravado would send The Post into an epic legal and existential battle just as Graham was preparing to take her family's media company public — a deal that could easily be scuttled by her potential imprisonment and a Supreme Court fight, not to mention the vindictive administration of president Richard M. Nixon.

Many public school districts, having lost the fight to criminalize home schooling, now openly court home schoolers.

One of the most widely watched and hard - fought school - finance suits was resolved this summer when New York State's highest court upheld the state's system of paying for public education.

Students Matter fights for education equality in the court of law and in the court of public opinion, where students» rights and voices matter most.

A fight against the teaching of «secular humanism» in public schools, waged since last spring by the chairman of the House education committee in the Colorado legislature, could soon be continued in court.

11 While the ruling called for more urgent action from districts to desegregate their schools, the ambiguity of the phrase provided ample leeway for officials such as those in Prince Edward County to implement delaying tactics.12 In fact, in the years following the Brown rulings, Virginia's NAACP chapter continuously fought county officials in court as they refused to set a start date for integrating the public schools.

As a result, the VSBA joined with a local school division, Norfolk City Public Schools, to fight OEI in the courts.

1912: NEA endorses Women's Suffrage 1919: NEA members in New Jersey lead the way to the nation's first state pension; by 1945, every state had a pension plan in effect 1941: NEA successfully lobbied Congress for special funding for public schools near military bases 1945: NEA lobbied for the G.I. Bill of Rights to help returning soldiers continue their education 1958: NEA helps gain passage of the National Defense Education Act 1964: NEA lobbies to pass the Civil Rights Act 1968: NEA leads an effort to establish the Bilingual Education Act 1974: NEA backs a case heard before the U.S. Supreme Court that proposes to make unlawful the firing of pregnant teachers or forced maternity leave 1984: NEA fights for and wins passage of a federal retirement equity law that provides the means to end sex discrimination against women in retirement funds 2000s: NEA has lobbied for changes to the No Child Left Behind Act 2009: NEA delegates to the Representative Assembly pass a resolution that opposes the discriminatory treatment of same - sex couple

«So yes, we will fight it in the courtroom and the court of public opinion.»

The verdict, she said, «pre-supposes that for kids to win, teachers must lose and nothing can be further from the truth... we will fight it — in the courtroom and in the court of public opinion.»

The N.C. Court of Appeals stepped into a legal fight this week, and will be the most recent judicial authority to decide if the Wall Street - traded online education company K12, Inc. can tap into North Carolina's public education market.

Public Act 100 - 0422, effective Jan. 1, 2018, amends the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act to empower courts to create joint responsibility agreements (similar to shared custody) in cases where a couple is fighting over custody of an animal.

«We will keep fighting to the state's highest court on behalf of public health and affordable renewable energy.»

A corporate - funded «Astroturf» campaign has pressed the fight in local judicial elections, in state and federal legislatures, and in the court of public opinion.

The parties and attorneys agree from the beginning that they will be transparent and settle all issues privately in the collaborative process, and they will not fight in public court battles.

Both Free Law Project and PlainSite are fighting the good fight for public access to court information — information that should be public in the first place, but isn't.

[A] s despicable as I find the behavior of a lot of police officers, I will fight them in two places only: the courts, and the courtroom of public opinion.

One senior family court judge, Mr Justice Holman — who, like Mr Justice Mostyn, sits in the Family Division of the High Court — usually analyses cash fights between separated couples at public hearcourt judge, Mr Justice Holman — who, like Mr Justice Mostyn, sits in the Family Division of the High Court — usually analyses cash fights between separated couples at public hearCourt — usually analyses cash fights between separated couples at public hearings.

The Gallagher case has been analysed in the wake of calls for family courts to be more transparent and at a time when senior judges are in disagreement over how much the public should be told about money fights between separated couples.

A High Court judge asked to decide what the public can be told about a divorce money fight involving rock star Liam Gallagher and ex-wife Nicole Appleton says the law relating to the reporting of such cases is in a «chaotic» state.

Alex Carruthers comments on the High Court ruling on what the public can be told about a divorce money fight involving rock star Liam Gallagher and his ex-wife Nicole Appleton...

People don't generally take kindly to seeing claims like that reduced to writing in public court documents, whether they're true or not, and tend to fight fire with fire.

He was the man who fought the Toronto mayor's very public conflict of interest charges all the way to the Court of Appeal and was instrumental in helping Ford keep his job as leader of Canada's largest city.

ILR's multifaceted campaign takes the fight for legal reform to legislators, the courts, and the public by engaging in legislative advocacy, strategic communications, and voter education.

The experience fighting Kinder Morgan in court led Alan to build a new more focused organization to fight for law reform and anti-SLAPP suit legislation to stop large corporations from using civil suits to stop public participation and deny Charter rights.