Sentences with phrase «ruling federal executive»
«The Lib Dem leader is meeting this afternoon with his ruling federal executive - an elected committee of 35 senior activists, MPs and party officials - to discuss his next move.»
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To avoid violating federal rules, business executives moving into top government jobs have often sold shares and created trusts as Tillerson is doing.
What makes the 401 (k) so complicated is something called «discrimination testing,» which consists of federal rules designed to ensure the company isn't giving better retirement benefits to its most highly paid workers, including executives and founders.
President Trump continues to make sweeping changes with the swipe of his pen, signing an executive order on Monday stating that for every new federal regulation, two existing rules must be eliminated.
After U.S. multi-level marketing company Herbalife settled a probe of its sales practices with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission last month, top executives assured investors that the company would be able to thrive under the new rules.
For purposes of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act, as well as Executive Order 12875, the final rule extending the applicability date does not include any federal mandate that we expect would result in such expenditures by State, local, or tribal governments, or the private sector.
Federal law does not prohibit the president's involvement in private business while in office, even though lawmakers and executive branch officials are subject to conflict - of - interest rules.
President Obama first signed an executive order requiring federal contractors to provide paid sick leave last September, and the Labor Department unveiled a draft of the rule in February, after which it solicited public comments.
A federal court on Thursday upheld the Labor Department's Fiduciary rule, in defiance of a Trump executive order signed on Feb. 3, which sought rescinding the rule enacted by his predecessor The executive order, though not taking effect immediately, sought the Labor Department to review options...
In January, the House passed a bill requiring securities officials to conduct a cost - benefit analysis of any new rule — something that should have been done in the first place — and in February the president signed an executive order requiring the elimination of two federal regulations for every new one that's adopted.
President Barack Obama signed an executive order Wednesday clarifying the ground rules for religious groups partnering with the federal government through the White House's controversial faith office.
Pursuant to the President's Executive Order and Executive Branch policy, and in keeping with the Attorney General's religious liberty guidance, HHS proposes this rule to enhance the awareness and enforcement of Federal health care conscience and associated antidiscrimination laws, to further conscience and religious freedom, and to protect the rights of individuals and entities to abstain from certain activities related to health care services without discrimination or retaliation
The Washington Post reported yesterday that the conservative House Freedom Caucus has released a list of 232 federal rules, regulations and executive orders it hopes will be re-examined or revoked within the first 100 days of the Trump administration.
A bevy of unfavorable federal court rulings blocked the implementation of Trump's initial attempt at temporarily barring arrivals from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Sudan, Syria and Somalia via executive order in January, prompting the administration to announce it would issue a new fiat instead of defending the original.
Others include members of the Federal Executive Council, presidential media team, lawmakers and party chieftains of the ruling APC.
The rule states that any «substantial proposal which could affect the Party's independence of political action» will need the consent of a majority of Lib Dem MPs and of the party's federal executive.
«In addition, at my request the party president and the federal executive established a review into our procedures for handling cases such as this to ensure that the party's rules are fit for purpose in the future.
Florida gubernatorial candidates are weighing in on Gov. Rick Scott and his Executive Clemency Board's appeal of a federal judge's ruling.
For the starry - eyed romantics thundering as if impunity and institutional subversion debuted with the military, Awo provided many examples of such in his book, The Travails of Democracy and the Rule of Law: CJN Adetokunbo Ademola letting off a cocktail jab at someone «who must oppose for opposing sake» (judiciary playing politics); PM Tafawa - Balewa who grumbled that Awo «called himself» Leader of Opposition (head of government subversive of the Constitution); and East Premier Michael Opara who snapped the Federal Government had powers to «abolish» misbehaving regional governments (executive outlawry against Nigerian federalism).
The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday said it would voluntarily dismiss its own appeal of a Seattle federal court ruling that had suspended President Donald Trump's first executive order concerning travel from seven Muslim - majority countries.
And even with a federal judge's mandate, county Legislator Catherine Borgia, an Ossining Democrat, suggests that Republican County Executive Rob Astorino is determined to fight the ruling.
The banks have said they are in compliance with the federal rule because even though they control the PACs that made the contributions to Cuomo, their specific executives who oversee bond work did not make contributions to those PACs.
The Eddy Olafeso - led faction of the party in the zone had appealed a November 8 ruling by the Federal High Court, Ado - Ekiti, which declared the Ogundipe - led executive as the authentic leadership of the party in the zone and forbade the Olafeso - led group from parading itself as members of the South West zonal exco and from participating in the forthcoming national convention as representatives of the zonal exco.
«Thus, in a press statement credited to the National Assembly last week, it was reported that «The Federal High Court has ruled that the National Assembly has the power to increase or review upward the budget estimates laid before it by the executive».
A federal judge ruled last month that a 2007 lawsuit against Pinnacle and its chief executive, Joel Wiener, should be allowed to expand to include eligible tenants from around the city who rented from the company between between July 11, 2004 and late last month.
After Trump issued the executive order on Friday, federal judges in Boston, New York City and several other locations issued temporary rulings during the weekend in attempt to curb it.
The «you people» Solomon was talking about were federal regulators, and his speech was intended as a criticism of the executive agency that actually writes the rules.
As required by executive orders and a 2008 court ruling, federal agencies use the SCC to inform regulators about the economic consequences of rules they adopt.
The Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) is an annual codification of the general and permanent rules of the executive departments and agencies of the Federal The multiple laws which governed immigration and naturalization to that time were brought into one comprehensive statute, the Immigration and Nationality
In its decision, the Supreme Court ruled that where a federal statute is ambiguous, it is presumed that Congress has delegated authority to executive agencies to reasonably interpret it, and courts should generally defer to agency expertise.
So we see hundreds of thousands of pages of federal regulations, countless executive orders, federal guidance documents, and «Chevron deference,» the policy of court's trusting that federal agencies and their rules and interpretations are right.
Where an employer is required by Executive Order 10925, issued March 6, 1961, or byany other Executive order prescribing fair employment practices for Government contractors and subcontractors, or by rules or regulations issuedthereunder, to file reports relating to his employment practices with any federal agency or committee, and he is substantially in compliance with such requirements, the Commission shall not require him to file additional reports pursuant to subsection (c) of this section.
The announcement comes in response to an Executive Order issued by President Obama in May 2012, which instructed Federal agencies to continually examine all existing rules and requirements in order to make sure they are all still necessary, streamlined, and up - to - date.
Dennis Shaul, CFSA's chief executive officer, said of the lawsuit, «We do not take lightly that we are suing our federal regulator, however, we have long said we are pursuing all options with regard to the CFPB's harmful small - dollar lending rule, and one of these options was litigation.»
Phil Soper, the chief executive of Royal LePage Real Estate, said he thinks the new rules will impact homeowners, but believes the federal government acted prudently.
Recently Dave Leuthold, the executive director of TASC, and I have been communicating about the news that TASC has come out, be it a bit begrudgingly, in support of the new Federal Trade Commission telemarketing sales rules (TSR) that regulate the debt relief and debt settlement industry and protect consumers.
«In an executive order published last week in the Federal Register, Mr. Bush said that each agency must have a regulatory policy office run by a political appointee, to supervise the development of rules and documents providing guidance to regulated industries.
Mr. Pinegar advises executive management, boards of directors and board committees regarding disclosure compliance under federal securities laws as well as the changing corporate governance environment and current and prospective governance requirements and attitudes (including under Sarbanes - Oxley, SEC rules, NYSE / NASDAQ rules and state law).
University of Miami School of Law's experts are available to discuss the ruling by the federal appellate court over President Trump's executive order
[18] Paragraph (d)(2) recognizes that a lawyer may provide legal services in a jurisdiction in which the lawyer is not licensed when authorized to do so by federal or other law, which includes statute, court rule, executive regulation or judicial precedent.
Although he said in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission that independent spending does «not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption,» Justice Kennedy authored a ruling in Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co. that mining company executive Don Blankenship's $ 3 million in independent spending for a West Virginia justice gave rise to an unconstitutional «risk of actual bias» in a lawsuit against the company.
Moreover, section 4 (b) of the Executive Order authorizes preemption of state law in the federal rule making context when there is «the exercise of state authority is directly conflicts with the exercise of federal authority under federal statute * * *.»
The final rule, with modifications, allows a covered entity to disclose protected health information to an authorized federal official for the conduct of lawful intelligence, counter-intelligence, and other national security activities authorized by the National Security Act and implementing authority (e.g., Executive Order 1233).
After President Donald Trump issued an executive order Friday to severely limit immigration from seven Muslim - majority nations, lawyers across Big Law jumped in to help travelers, visa and green card holders, who faced uncertainty and deportation in the wake of the order that was soon followed by federal rulings staying parts of the action.
This approach is a key component of the final Privacy Rule, and it adheres to section 4 (a) of Executive Order 13132, which expressly contemplates preemption when there is a conflict between exercising state and federal authority under federal statute.
The Federal Register is the official daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as executive orders and other presidential documents.
«Lower courts have continued to allow plaintiffs access to federal courts with a simple allegation of a bare procedural violation or technical inaccuracy, resulting in forum - shopping by plaintiffs for the court most likely to rule in their favor,» said Melissa Sorenson, executive director of the National Association of Professional Background Screeners (NAPBS).
One reason for impeding access to background screening firms and mandating rules that discourage background checks is that the Court Executive Officer believes employers should instead use background checks performed by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Looking for an immediate political win, meanwhile, Trump rapidly signed executive orders that will see a dramatic change in US federal climate change rules by targeting Obama's Clean Power Plan and increasing support for coal and other fossil fuels.
Today, a federal appeals court ruled that the single - director structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CPFB) represents an «unconstitutional concentration» of executive power.