Sentences with phrase «taken official acts»

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She, along with several of her classmates, have held gun control rallies in their Florida community and called on government officials to act now to prevent future mass shootings from taking place.

The United States, which in July said would take «strong and swift economic actions» if President Nicolas Maduro goes ahead with the Constituent Assembly, could also further sanction senior Venezuelan officials after acting against 13 prominent figures last week.

New York State Comptroller DiNapoli wrote to the Chief Executive Officers of Apple, Google / Motorola, Microsoft, and Samsung asking them what steps each company is taking «to protect its brand and assure public officials that it is acting responsibly.»

The Official Residences Act gives the Prime Minister wide latitude to hire household staff «as necessary» — as of July there would seem to have been at least six people minding 24 Sussex, including the chef — but Trudeau is only months removed from taking his own stand on family assistance.

Second, I haven't read the BNA Act recently, but I'm almost positive that the people who comprise «official Ottawa» report to and take their marching orders from certain men and women who just so happen to be in charge.

We believe that Catholics who, in good conscience, take positions on the difficult questions of legal abortion and other controversial issues that differ from the official hierarchical positions, act within their rights and responsibilities as Catholics and citizens.

(2) When a certifying agent or a State organic program's governing State official fails to take appropriate action to enforce the Act or regulations in this part.

Wheaton Park District officials Monday welcomed an announcement by the Du Page County state «s attorney «s office that it would not take legal action against the district for alleged violations of the state Open Meetings Act.

The case against the park district, brought in a civil action filed last May by the Cook County state's attorney's office, alleges that park district officials improperly took office in the Southwest suburb, misspent hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayers» money, failed to hold any recreational events and violated numerous governmental codes, including the Open Meetings Act.

The state's attorney's office sued the park district last May, alleging district officials improperly took office in the southwest suburb, misspent hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayers» money, failed to hold any recreational events and violated numerous governmental codes, including the Open Meetings Act.

In both instances, the court took exception to the definition of an «official act» in the conviction «which we can not conclude is harmless beyond a reasonable doubt» leading to the case being vacated.

Brandon Bostian, the Amtrak engineer who drove a train that derailed in 2015 in Philadelphia and killed eight people, has been charged with involuntary manslaughter after victims» families took advantage of a law that forced officials to act.

The Court stated: «To qualify as an «official act,» the public official must make a decision or take an action on [a] «question, matter, cause, suit, proceeding or controversy,» or agree to do so.»

The actress took to Twitter to urge her followers to directly call the elected officials and tell them to stop protecting predators and pass the Child Victims Act:

Showing some of the complexities of a case — which includes jurors having to decide whether actions Percoco took constituted «official acts» — Caproni wrote 44 pages of instructions she read to jurors on Thursday in the lower Manhattan courtroom.

The news is significant, not only as it temporarily exonerates Silver — once one of the state's most powerful elected officials — though he can be retried, and the acting U.S. attorney has indicated he will, in fact, seek to take another legal crack at the former Manhattan Democratic lawmaker.

Silver's side argued a quid pro quo couldn't have existed because neither witnesses nor written evidence ever spoke to it, and many witnesses were unaware Silver was benefiting personally as he directed money and took other official acts.

«Silver's case is factually almost nothing like McDonnell; there is no question that Silver took a number of official acts — most obviously, passing legislation and approving state grants and tax - exempt financing — as part of a quid pro quo in the Mesothelioma and Real Estate Schemes,» Judge Caproni wrote.

Child Victims Act Since 2006 Safe Horizon has taken an increased leadership role in advocating for passage of the Child Victims Act by organizing an energetic, statewide coalition of survivors and advocates, leading press conferences with key government officials, advocating directly with lawmakers in Albany, and more.

Singh has testified that he footed the bill for rides Venditto, his wife and daughter took — rides prosecutors say were part of a «stream of benefits» Venditto received in return for official acts including backing Singh's loans.

Since 2006 Safe Horizon has taken an increased leadership role in advocating for passage of the Child Victims Act by organizing an energetic, statewide coalition of survivors and advocates, leading press conferences with key government officials, advocating directly with lawmakers in Albany, and more.

Molo opened his summation with the legal instructions Caproni gave jurors when the trial began Nov. 3: that actions could be taken to «cultivate goodwill, or to cultiave a relationship with the entity that provided the benefit, and not in exchange for any official act» without constituting honest services fraud.

But Percoco's defense attorneys have argued that their client can't be guilty of the alleged bribery by COR or «the theft of honest services» from the public in part because he wasn't a state official at the time he took payments from COR, even if he acted like one.

«The court talks about certain acts that Silver was shown to have taken that no longer can be considered official acts, such as having a meeting,» attorney Joshua Colangelo - Bryan said.

It took nearly a year and a half for state officials to warn residents to not drink the water, acting only after the E.P.A. — the very entity that the state now blames for the crisis — had issued such a warning.

LGBT advocates have pressed state elected officials to take up measures that would bolster rights for transgender New Yorkers, including the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act.

While some officials who took part in the meeting voiced support for Schumer afterward, others said they would consider it a strike on his record if the provision is left out, noting that he voted for the Defense of Marriage Act and was the last of New York's major elected officials to voice support for gay marriage.

In reversing McDonnell's conviction, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court found that instructions to the trial jury about what defines a public official's «official acts» were so broad that they could include almost any action an official might take while in office.

The judge in the case noted that Silver took a «number of official acts — most obviously passing legislation and approving state grants and tax - exempt financing — as part of a quid pro quo, but there remained a «substantial question» on whether the court's jury instructions were valid in light of the McDonnell ruling.

Since just about every conviction Silver was nailed for depended on whether he took an «official act,» the Second Circuit suggested prosecutors needed to start over.

«The official acts necessary to sustain a charge of extortion or bribery include any act taken under color of official authority,» Wood wrote in her decision, describing how Skelos allegedly set up meetings and exerted pressure to benefit his son.

Relying on the precise statutory language of Section 201, McDonnell narrowed the definition of official act, holding that bribery requires the public official to agree to exercise government power or take substantive action on a particular matter or dispute.

Federal prosecutors, whom U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni ultimately agreed with, said an official act includes «any action taken or to be taken under color of official authority.»

Indeed, the court said the definition of «official act» that jurors received at the Silver trial was way too broad, since it encompassed «any action taken or to be taken under color of official authority.»

Both agencies acted with official city and state misconduct, and in both cases, honest, credible evidence was repeatedly dismissed and ignored, and so was the corruption that remains to date — where knowingly false statements were made to discredit me (then later completely reversed during oral argument by my accusers), and both the DOI investigators (who appeared at my doorstep many times to collect evidence) and MTA Office of the Inspector General investigators invited me back to their headquarters (more than six times), from 1989 to 2008), and continued to take no action to restore and reinstate my city job, pension and social security contributions.

Lawmakers and administration officials have cited the complexity of the criminal justice matters being proposed, saying more time is needed to parse through language (lawmakers and Cuomo may be wary of again taking up a complex issue so quickly following the 2013 gun control law known as the SAFE Act had to be amended to exclude police officers from the measure).

Former state education commissioner John King must recuse himself from decisions directly related to New York, even when he takes over as acting US secretary of education after Arne Duncan steps down, according to a federal official.

Britons Sandy Mitchell, Les Walker, Ron Jones and Canadian Bill Sampson are prevented from taking action under the state immunity act 1978, which protects governments and their officials from prosecution.

1 — While he may be popular in the party, he neither has official «Deputy» status (Harriet Harman), nor is he an «elder statesmen» to act as caretaker (Jack Straw), so he could not presume to take it unchallenged.

After Percoco returned to the state payroll in December 2014, following Cuomo's re-election, prosecutors showed jurors what they insisted were official acts that Percoco took on behalf of Cor.

The court unanimously determined that a public official must decide or act in a way that involves a formal exercise of governmental power, or agree to do so, to qualify as having taken an official action, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote.

«Because the charges in this case can not be proved by official acts purportedly taken by Percoco during that period, to the extent that it relies upon such acts, the indictment must be dismissed for failure to state an offense,» Bohrer wrote.

In a 2016 case involving former Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell, the U.S. Supreme Court narrowed the definition of the «official act» that a politician must take before gifts, cash and favors can be considered bribery.

DOT officials announced on Feb. 2 that all of the remaining signs would be taken down to make way for a new tourism campaign and signage — a day after Highway Administration acting Administrator Brandye Hendrickson sent a letter to DOT and New York State Thruway Authority officials, saying the federal government would withhold an estimated $ 14 million from the nearly $ 1 billion it gives New York annually for bridge and highway improvements.

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The proposal from Jim Gaughran would create a recall mechanism for officials if a municipalities bond rating were to be deemed be «junk status» if directly linked to corrupt acts taken by elected officials.

In the event that the orders were to be carried out, the action taken could be the last official act of Her Majesty's Government.

«There is no question that Silver took a number of official acts — most obviously passing legislation and approving state grants and tax - exempt financing — as part of a quid pro quo» in the charged schemes, the judge wrote.

According to official Assembly records, Latimer was «absent» on the Governor's property tax cap program bill, the vote for which (7:18 pm) took place between the Fair Pay Act (7:07 pm) and the rent regulations bill (8:17 pm).

Their inclusion could «insinuate that if [Percoco] bullied some State officials on employment matters he must also have bullied other State officials into taking the alleged official acts,» which include securing a raise for one developer's son and working toward a power - purchase agreement between the energy company and the state.