Sentences with phrase «suit against agency»

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Last year, the company agreed to pay $ 5.15 billion to the Environmental Protection Agency as part of a settlement in a suit against an Anadarko subsidiary called Tronox, Inc..

The Illinois attorney general on Wednesday filed suit against a midwife for continuing to deliver babies after she was ordered last summer by a state agency to stop because she was not a doctor or certified nurse.

Now the Pierce Downer's Heritage Alliance, a local environmental group, has filed suit against the Village of Downers Grove and the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board, alleging that both agencies violated a section of the Illinois Natural Preservation Act by failing to consult with the Illinois Department of Natural Resources to determine the project's ecological impact on the adjacent preserve.

the president could have the DOJ civil rights division initiate litigation against police agencies that it feels have violated federal civil rights law and then offer to dismiss the suits if the agencies enter into consent agreements that include a camera policy.

Delivering judgment on Tuesday, Justice John Tsoho, in giving the EFCC a go - ahead to continue and conclude its ongoing investigations, struck out the fundamental human rights enforcement suit filed by the former First Lady against the anti-graft agency.

It was learnt that although the anti-graft agency had challenged Justice Nganjiwa's suit at the Supreme Court, it decided to also write to the NJC so that fraud cases against other judges would not be scuttled.

Schneiderman filed a suit in May against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and other federal agencies to force a full environmental review of the impact of fracking on the Delaware River Basin.

Wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, has filed a fundamental human rights enforcement suit against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, seeking N2bn as compensation for alleged harassment by the anti-graft agency.

Patience, the wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, had, last week, filed a N2bn fundamental human rights suit against the EFCC, accusing the anti-graft agency of subjecting her to psychological trauma, unnecessary persecution and going as far as freezing her late mother's accounts.

A coalition of environmental groups filed suit against the federal agency in May, accusing it of violating the Endangered Species Act and driving salmon to extinction by delaying interventions in the Columbia River Basin.

In 1999, Emord's successful First Amendment suit against the FDA in Pearson v. Shahala overturned the agency's prohibition against making nutritional claims about the activity of folic acid.

Last week, district officials filed a malpractice suit against the law firm and turned over related investigative files to four agencies for review: the city attorney, the Los Angeles County...

In the end, the NEA and the nine school districts that have taken this legal plunge face a difficult task to show that they are the right plaintiffs to bring this suit, at this time, against this agency.

In its 2012 suit against Apple, the U.S. Department of Justice maintained that, by striking a coordinated deal to establish agency pricing for e-books, the publishers and Apple exhibited anticompetitive conduct by conspiring to fix prices.

So the lay of the land has shifted dramatically post the DOJ bringing the suit against the Big 6 over their Agency model pricing.

These are also those who would have you believe that the DoJ's suit is against agency pricing and who so conveniently forget that it is against price fixing.

The Department of Justice today filed its antitrust suit against Apple, Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin and Simon & Schuster over the agency model of ebook pricing.

The suits do not allege that agency pricing itself is illegal; rather, they allege that the big - five and Apple illegally conspired to adopt the model all at once in order to retaliate against Amazon's discounting.

The quality of your payment history is affected by certain actions you take, such as: how long you wait to pay your bills, how many bills you have that you aren't paying at all, if you've had suits filed against you, and anything that a collection agency may have on you.

When a borrower is in default the loan becomes due in full immediately and the lender may pursue more aggressive collection techniques, such as sending the account to a collection agency or filing suit against the borrower.

Wouldn't it be fun to get a class action suit going against all the ratings agencies — just to move things along a bit:)

However, as part of a settlement in a class action suit against credit bureaus, all three credit agencies agreed to train their own investigators and do a more thorough job examining mistakes.

Now I have found out that they have sold the debt to a collection agency and that agency has filed a suit against me.

Last year, roughly 1600 law suits were filed against debtors, and those who could not pay had their loans sent to a collection agency.

ON JULY 28, 2016, Richard Prince retweeted an item from curator Marvin Heiferman's feed about a $ 1 billion copyright - infringement suit that photographer Carol Highsmith had just filed against the stock - photo agencies Getty and Alamy, charging «gross misuse.»

Washington, D.C. — Yesterday the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) filed suit against the United States Department of State, keying off of a damning email obtained previously by the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), to force this agency that is still stonewalling about the Paris climate treaty to release documents about how the Obama -LSB-...]

The Declaration of Arjun Makhijani, in support of the Atmospheric Trust Litigation Plaintiff's Climate Change Suit Against Federal Agencies (September 26, 2011; Filed November 21, 2011)

Last week, New York Attorney General Eric Scheiderman filed suit against the US Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers to block the Trump administration's suspension of guidance on clean water.

But Mark R. Levin, president of the Landmark Legal Foundation, a leading group challenging climate change science, said Cuccinelli's inquiry is logical given his suit against the Environmental Protection Agency.

Courageous young people filed suit a year ago against the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the United States Department of the Interior, the United States Department of Agriculture, the United States Department of Commerce, the United States Department of Energy, and the United States Department of Defense.

Among the various lawsuits he has brought against the agency is his current suit against the Clean Power Plan.

Our team has worked with US federal, state and local government agencies to defend against governmental enforcement actions and citizen suits, response cost litigation, indemnification claims, toxic tort class actions, imminent and substantial endangerment litigation, and criminal environmental claims.

To complicate matters further, when filing civil suits against various governments, their agencies, certain contractors for governments or generally anything having to do with government, you must put them on notice.

This past year, 158 lawsuits were filed against collection agencies and credit bureaus for violations of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, up from a scant 40 suits filed the year before.

Suits against the credit rating agencies have been coming fast and furious since the meltdown, and, while the agencies have been coming out on top regularly, plaintiffs have not given up.

Securing a preliminary injunction on behalf of the City of Philadelphia against another governmental agency from carrying out discriminatory elements of a fare plan and the denial of preliminary injunction in a civil rights suit, which was dismissed with prejudice, alleging racial discrimination in the implementation of certain regulations of the Pennsylvania Liquor Code.

We have also filed suits against public and private agencies responsible for road maintenance and properly directing traffic around construction sites.

The Court of Claims was established in 1975 by the Ohio General Assembly, giving citizens the right to file civil suits against state agencies.

Kathy has also defended an international dialysis services provider against RICO claims in federal court based on allegedly fraudulent billing activity, represented a pharmaceutical services provider in a billing dispute with a chain of nursing homes, defended home health agencies in suits brought by employees pursuant to the Fair Labor Standards Act, and represented other providers and associations of providers as plaintiffs and defendants in a variety of matters in federal and state court involving issues ranging from contract interpretation to cash receipts assessments to the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

Since no government agency had officially named Jewell as a suspect, the suits were against media outlets and Jewell's employer.

Provides immunity for businesses and government agencies who follow specified procedures; provides exclusive remedy in contract, if no written contract: limits recovery to direct economic damages; bars recovery for damages which plaintiff could have avoided or mitigated; requires mediation; prohibits class actions against government agencies; requires each class member has a loss of $ 50,000 to bring a class action; provides liability protection for directors and officers; and requires filing of suit by March 1, 2002.

DOJ CALLS ON SUPREME COURT TO DROP MSFT CASE — The Justice Department on Friday urged the Supreme Court to dismiss a case the agency had levied against Microsoft, since newly passed legislation addresses the question at the heart of the suit.

Since the tax agency filed suit against them in federal court, Coinbase has fought hard to protect its users» privacy.

He filed suit against Spokeo, on behalf of himself and a class of similarly situated individuals, under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), which permits a remedy of up to $ 1000 per instance against a consumer reporting agency (CRA) that reports false data about an individual.

That practice will come to an abrupt halt the day a seller's smart lawyer enjoins a mere listing brokerage to a suit brought against them because sellers, particularly fsbos, don't understand agency, much less implied agency.