Sentences with phrase «settlement of a federal lawsuit»

Honest also reached a $ 1.55 million settlement of a federal lawsuit in Los Angeles that claimed it sold laundry detergent, dish soap, and surface cleaners containing a skin irritant it had pledged to avoid.

A settlement of a federal lawsuit over trapshooting in Naperville's Sportsman's Park may be coming, but an attorney for the Naperville Park District said it's likely the activity will be a casualty of the deal.

The New York Civil Liberties Union announced Tuesday morning the settlement of a federal lawsuit against the Buffalo City School District for what it charged was «the open and systematic discrimination of LGBTQ students at McKinley High School.»

Following the settlement of a federal lawsuit that alleged a culture of violence among correction officers on Rikers Island, the Department of Correction will unveil a new use of force policy to its employees tomorrow, prohibiting certain maneuvers and encouraging officers to avoid force when possible.

Speaking of Astorino, Westchester County lawmakers moved forward with a $ 380,000 settlement of a federal lawsuit by a former staffer who claimed she was fired because of a political feud with him.

The Sullivan County Board of Elections will be under the watchful eye of the federal government for the next five years and will have to pay more than $ 500,000 as part of a settlement of a federal lawsuit brought by Hasidic voters who accused the county of discrimination.

The city will also have to meet officer - to - inmate ratios mandated by the settlement of that federal lawsuit, and needs to comply with other laws that require higher ratios for female and transgender inmates, and is seeking to address increasing overtime costs.

Not exact matches

The settlement with the Federal Trade Commission is the latest setback for Uber, which is facing a divided board of directors and angry shareholders after an investor lawsuit was filed against the company's ousted chief executive.

«State attorneys general told five of the nation's largest banks on Tuesday they face a potential liability of at least $ 17 billion in civil lawsuits if a settlement isn't reached to address improper foreclosure practices» a «figure [that] doesn't cover additional billions of dollars in potential claims from federal agencies,» the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

A lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Boston with the support of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee accuses five investment houses, the Bank for International Settlements, and top officials of the U.S. Treasury Department and U.S. Federal Reserve Board of conspiring to suppress the price of gold.

And volunteers who make up the city's nearly 100 park advisory councils — created in the early 1980s to draw community input in part because of a federal lawsuit settlement — would now have to live in Chicago.

In February, DuPont / Chemours, a former major manufacturer of PFOA, agreed to a $ 670 million settlement in a federal class - action lawsuit in Columbus, Ohio, that was filed on behalf of approximately 3,550 people who said they were afflicted with diseases as a result of PFOA contamination of their drinking water.

The state would drop that lawsuit as part of the settlement agreement with the Oneidas, and that dismissal would require the approval of the federal judge in the trust land case.

To raise revenues, Cuomo proposed requiring extending sales tax collections on online sales, imposing a surcharge on certain health insurers who received a windfall from federal tax cuts, tapping hundreds of millions of dollars in proceeds from lawsuit settlements and raising taxes «e-cigarettes» and taxing opioids (2 cents per milligram prescribed to go to anti-addiction programs).

Lawyers for the state and a coalition of state employee unions have negotiated a settlement of the unions» long - running federal lawsuit seeking damages on behalf of more than 2,500 unionized workers who were laid off in 2003 by then - Gov.

State officials will spend most of 2016 paying an estimated $ 100 million tab for last year's settlement of a long - running federal lawsuit by unions over Gov. John G. Rowland's 2003 layoff of more than 2,000 state workers.

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about a federal investigation into payments made to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver by a small law firm and Albany County legislature rejecting a proposed settlement in a federal civil rights lawsuit about the county under representing minorities in the redistricting plan.

The settlement was filed recently in U.S. District Court in Albany, where Cannon's mother had filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Cannon's infant daughter.

And though he wasn't accused of any crime, Brooklyn Assemblyman Vito Lopez was forced to resign his seat in May in the wake of a scathing report about his bullying and sexually inappropriate treatment of female staffers — now the subject of state and federal lawsuits against Lopez and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who apologized for quietly settling earlier complaints against Lopez with a taxpayer - funded confidential settlement.

The settlement ends a dispute that began in 2002, when teacher Nathan Saunders II filed a federal lawsuit against former top union officials, the union's former board of trustees, the AFT, and a local bank.

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An example of his exemplary pro bono service is the favorable monetary settlement Bob achieved on behalf of a prisoner in a Section 1983 federal lawsuit he prosecuted against the Cook County Department of Corrections involving civil rights violations for refusal to provide medical treatment.

Earlier this year, a federal judge approved the settlement of that lawsuit as a class action — awarding damages to all NFL players with diagnosed head injuries.

Whittel & Melton handles negotiation and settlement of Severance and Termination Agreements, EEOC charges, State and Federal labor & employment lawsuits, Mediation, Arbitration, Jury and Non Jury or Bench Trials and State and Federal Appeals.

Successfully represented a public agency in a high - profile lawsuit filed by the agency's former executive director, including obtaining partial summary judgment on plaintiff's constitutional claim, which led to a favorable settlement after five days of federal trial.

He represented St. Vincent de Paul Place, Norwich, Inc. and the Catholic Church in three federal lawsuits over the denial of zoning relief to operate a soup kitchen and food pantry serving hundreds of individuals daily, and he helped to negotiate a favorable settlement to allow their continued operation.

The proposed settlement in the federal lawsuit brought by James Kluppelberg marks the latest in a string of massive payouts by the city involving cases of alleged police misconduct.

Over the past year I've written about the Emoluments Clause; the No Religious Tests clause; limits on presidential power as defined in the steel seizure case; the meaning of the oath of office; how the Appropriations Clause constrains lawsuit settlements involving the federal government; how and whether gerrymandering by race and for partisan advantage affects constitutional rights; judicial independence; the decline and fall of the Contracts Clause; the application of Obergefell to issues of public employees and birth certificates; Article V procedure for calling a new constitutional convention; and too many First, Second, Fourth, and Fifth Amendment controversies to list.

RE / MAX, Realty One, and Smythe, Cramer have reached an out - of - court settlement regarding the federal restraint - of - trade lawsuit filed by RE / MAX in Ohio in 1994.

A federal court has considered whether a group of objecting plaintiffs could obtain discovery related to a proposed settlement of a class action lawsuit resulting from the Sandicor decision.

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