Sentences with phrase «thereby protecting public»

«Rather than propose rule changes that may be obsolete by the time they were approved, it was decided that the rules should broaden the scope of covered entities thereby protecting the public and putting all such entities on a level playing field.»

To protect the integrity and repute of the administration of justice, disqualification may be needed to send a message that the courts do not condone the disloyal conduct involved in the law firm's breach, thereby protecting public confidence in lawyers and deterring other law firms from similar practices.

The main function of tax - payer funded animal control is to hold lost pets until owners reclaim them, thereby protecting the public from traffic accidents, dog bites, scratches, etc. caused by loose pets.

It will enable Parliament to help in the fight against corruption and thereby protect the public purse.

2) To reduce the number of fraudulent claims in Ontario's auto insurance industry and thereby protect the public from unduly high insurance premiums, the Financial Services Commission of Ontario (FSCO) should use its regulatory and oversight powers to:

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Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

We also protected the public's health by passing a local law regulating e-cigarettes, thereby expanding on the work of our predecessors who passed the County's Clean Air Act two decades ago.

«The 4th Circuit's erosion of the state - action exemption will give litigants against the state bar and similar agencies every incentive to assert Sherman Act claims to complicate or block enforcement actions, thereby impeding the agencies» ability to protect the public,» the bar groups» brief said.

Comment: A few commenters expressed concern that protected health information about persons who are not suspects may be used in court and thereby become public knowledge.

It is her belief that the tools and marketing products and services licensed Realtors have developed to protect the integrity of real estate trade for the public must be made more accessible for use by different business models, unlicensed and unregulated corporate and private interests thereby eroding the very securities that are at the root of the values a Profession Real Estate representative provides.