Sentences with phrase «rejected by a federal judge»

Gov. David Paterson is looking at layoffs now that his plan to furlough state workers have been rejected by a federal judge.

Denver — The Denver school board's plan to end eight years of mandatory busing was rejected by a federal judge last week as «an exercise in escapism.»

Not exact matches

A federal judge has rejected Mozilla Corp's request to force the U.S. government to disclose a vulnerability related to its Firefox web browser that the company says was exploited by the FBI to investigate users of a large child pornography website.

Just last month a federal judge in New York rejected a challenge to the phone data collection program brought by the ACLU, saying that there was no evidence that the information had been misused

A federal judge has rejected Massachusetts» challenge to new Trump administration rules that would allow more companies to not provide insurance plans that cover birth control; previous decisions by other judges in California and Pennsylvania went the other way, issuing injunctions against the new birth control rules.

A federal judge has rejected a trademark complaint by e-commerce giant Alibaba against cryptocurrency firm Alibabacoin Foundation over the similarity of their names.

WASHINGTON, May 3 AT&T told a federal judge late Thursday it should reject any request by the U.S. Justice Department to force it to divest its DirecTV unit or Turner networks as part of approving its proposed $ 85.4 billion acquisition of Time Warner Inc..

WASHINGTON AT&T told a federal judge late Thursday it should reject any request by the U.S. Justice Department to force it to divest its DirecTV unit or Turner networks as part of approving its proposed $ 85.4 billion acquisition of Time Warner Inc..

As federal courts move to decide whether to intervene on the Congressional redistricting process, the last ditch legal efforts on behalf of Albany's legislative leaders to dismiss the lawsuit was rejected by a three judge panel this evening.

A federal judge rejected attempts by four of the Buffalo Billion defendants to move next year's corruption trial to Buffalo, keeping the high - profile case in lower Manhattan instead.

While a Daley - connected circuit judge, Thomas Kluczynski (who would later be appointed a federal judge by Kennedy, at Daley's recommendation), threw out a federal lawsuit «filed to contend» the voting totals, [42] the Republican - dominated State Board of Elections unanimously rejected the challenge to the results.

Another judge rejected a request by lawyers for former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver to exclude evidence from his federal corruption trial that he argued was irrelevant and prejudicial.

A politically connected lawyer says the Manhattan US Attorney should now go by «Ayatollah Preet Bharara» after the prosecutor's underlings on Thursday persuaded a federal judge to move ahead with indicted state Sen. Malcolm Smith's corruption trial in January — rejecting a bid to delay it to accommodate his wife's problem pregnancy.

Acting Solicitor General Neal Kumar Katyal argued in the government motion that the justices should reject a request by the Log Cabin Republicans to reinstate a federal judge's injunction against the «don't ask, don't tell» policy.

Manhattan federal Judge Kimba Wood on Tuesday rejected the pretrial motions brought by lawyers for Dean Skelos (SKEH» - lohs) and his son, Adam.

A federal judge for the District of Columbia yesterday rejected a legal argument used by the Bush Administration in 2008 to argue that the polar bears are threatened but not endangered.

A federal judge has rejected a request by the Cleveland Board of Education to declare the district «unitary,» or desegregated, and end court jurisdiction over it.

A federal judge has rejected a pet shop owner's claim that the city stomped on her «American dream» by banning the sale of commercially - bred puppies and kittens.

In a remarkable 54 - page Opinion and Order, which, for its clarity and scholarship, will surely be a historical document, Judge Aiken rejected the request by the Federal Government and fossil fuel interveners to dismiss the case.

In 2006, a federal judge rejected a Department of Energy finding that federal agencies couldn't take action to reduce fuel use because petroleum reduction goals mandated by the Act were unachievable.

Closer to home, a lawsuit filed by 21 youth plaintiffs (including Kelsey Juliana) and world - renowned climate scientist James Hansen on behalf of future generations against the U.S. government cleared an important hurdle in November 2016 when federal judge Ann Aiken rejected the government and fossil fuel industries» motion to dismiss the case.

The presiding judge - William Sessions III, sitting in the U.S. District Court in Burlington - rejected the carmakers» argument that the proposed state rules conflicted with rules set forth by the federal government and that they imposed unnecessary and costly burdens on them:

Well, at least almonds, according to a recent federal district court ruling against a group of California almond growers.A federal judge has rejected a challenge by fifteen California organic almond growers to halt the mandatory treatment of raw almonds as required by the Almond Board of California.

«Texas Federal Judge Rips City Council for Rejecting Settlement Main $ 11 Million Verdict Against Pizza Hut for Accident Caused by Epileptic Delivery Driver»

On a petition for writ of mandamus, the Federal Circuit ordered the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas to transfer venue of a patent action — rejecting the four - part venue test proposed by Judge Rodney Gilstrap following the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in TC Heartland LLC...

Federal judge rejects U.S. bid to dismiss lawsuit filed by former executive of AIG over bailout, Reuters

The judge, Thomas F. Hogan of Federal District Court in Washington, rejected a request by Ms. Miller and her lawyers that she be allowed to serve her detention at home or in Connecticut or elsewhere, and ordered that she be put in custody and taken to a jail in the District of Columbia area until October, or until she changed her mind about testifying.

As we reported, on appeal the Federal Court of Appeal (FCA) held that the trial judge erred by rejecting the relevance of an existing NIA at law.

No Cell Phone Location Tracking Without Probable Cause New York - Agreeing with a brief submitted by EFF, a federal judge forcefully rejected the government's request to track the location of a mobile phone user without a warrant.

govinfosecurity.com - A federal judge has largely rejected a motion by Verizon to dismiss a class - action suit filed by victims of three data breaches that compromised Yahoo, which is now

A federal judge has largely rejected a motion by Verizon to dismiss a class - action lawsuit filed by victims of three data breaches that compromised Yahoo, which is now part of Verizon.