Sentences with phrase «to sue the federal government»

That includes 58 percent support statewide for suing the federal government over the tax reform law signed late last year.
The governor says he is still investigating whether he can sue the federal government for double taxation.
Private individuals are broadly barred from suing the federal government due to sovereign immunity and other issues.
That will maintain the status quo for dealing with spent fuel, a process which involves companies suing the federal government to recover their costs.
And American sovereign immunity laws prevent them from suing the federal government without its consent.
Amherst, NY (WBEN / AP)- Governor Andrew Cuomo says he would consider suing the federal government if they adopt a provision that would shift medicaid costs in New York from the county to the state.
Instead, he holds out the false notion of suing the federal government over loss of the SALT deduction, which is a complete non-starter with little legal merit.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he's considering suing the federal government over an amendment to the health care act proposed by two New York congressmen, saying it may violate state sovereignty.
December 31, 2015 • A Utah legislative commission has voted to move forward with suing the federal government in an attempt to seize control of millions of acres of federal land.
Juliet Williams, «List of states suing federal government over mercury regulations rises to 10,» Associated Press, April 12, 2005.
Schneiderman is also suing the federal government over its review standards for hydraulic fracturing, the controversial natural gas extraction process.
Tompolo, who is wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for an alleged N49.5 bn fraud, sued the Federal Government through his lawyer, Mr. Ebun - Olu Adegboruwa.
Federal student loans are supposed to be forgiven if the feds determine a school defrauded its students, consumer attorneys say, but that still hasn't happened, according to the Project on Predatory Student Lending, a legal clinic at Harvard University that is suing the federal government on behalf of Dieffenbacher and thousands of other former Corinthian College students.
If states and localities pass parental opt out provisions and the federal government threatens Title I funding, the states or localities have leverage to sue the federal government by virtue of the fact that ESSA includes the rule of construction.
Evangelical institutions suing the federal government over the Affordable Care Act's contraception mandate expected that their legal battle would end when President Donald Trump took office.
Everett Piper — the president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University, which sued the federal government over the ACA birth control mandate — and Montse Alvarado — executive director of Becket, a leading religious liberty law firm which represented the Little Sisters of the Poor in their contraceptive fight — spoke at the HHS announcement and applauded the new office, as did Jewish and Muslim representatives.
So a nunnery sued the federal government for forcing them to pay for health insurance that included contraception.
Cuomo is also suing the federal government along with other Democratic governors to overturn the legislation.
The group said in a statement on Sunday by its Executive Director, Adetokunbi Mumuni, that it resorted to suing the Federal Government after its request for Patience's prosecution was ignored by the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN).
The lawsuit settled today began in 2008, when New York sued the federal government over a convert 13,000 acres of Oneida - owned land into federal trust land.
«Wike's failure to sue the Federal Government as he vowed to do is the height of his shameful theatrics and repulsive actions that have brought shame and public odium to Rivers State and her people.
On Tuesday, fourteen conservation groups and a Colorado county sued the federal government, alleging that it violated environmental, property and energy laws in designating «energy corridors» along 6,000 miles (9,650 kilometers) of public land and wilderness areas in the U.S. West.
The Commission on No Child Left Behind, an independent, bipartisan group formed early this year, ventured onto the battlefield of the policy wars with its hearing in Connecticut, a state that last year sued the federal government over the requirements of the school...
He and 21 young people between the ages of 8 and 19 are currently suing the federal government for promoting «the use of fossil fuels, thus increasing the concentration of CO2 emissions in the atmosphere to unsafe levels and creating the dangerous climate change and ocean acidification that we face today.»
She was keeping Madison away because Jayden is one of 21 young plaintiffs suing the federal government over its alleged failure to curtail fossil fuel development and address climate change.
A Portland - based wind energy company that recently sued the federal government to keep its bird death data secret has been convicted in federal court over deaths of protected birds at two of its wind facilities in Wyoming.
When the plan that was filed was deemed inadequate for meeting Kyoto, NGO Friends of the Earth sued the federal government.
In 2015, the B.C Civil Liberties Association and the John Howard Society of Canada jointly sued the federal government over the use of solitary confinement (often referred to as «administrative segregation»).
The opinion piece was prompted by a September 5 deadline set by 10 states threatening to sue the federal government unless it ends DACA.
and for something completely different; an update on a post from over a year ago, Citadel on the city of Halifax suing the Federal Government over the tax value of the land that the Halifax Citadel rests on, has been decided by the SCC in favour of Halifax.
BCCLA and Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers sue federal government to end second - class citizenship in Canada
But if the state's appeal is denied, the final option available to New York State officials is to sue the federal government in court.
While conservative, the institutions are not known for suing the federal government for grievances.
In 2015, 21 young Americans aged eight to 19 (one of whom was Xiuhtezcatl Tonatiuh) sued the federal government through the District Court of Oregon for infringing on their constitutional rights and the rights of future generations.
These and 18 other «youth plaintiffs» (ages 8 to 19) sued the federal government on Wednesday, walking a first - of - its - kind constitutional claim up the courthouse steps in Eugene, Oregon.
Governor Cuomo says he's considering suing the federal government over an amendment to the health care act proposed by two New York congressman, saying it may violate state sovereignty.
The state Division of Budget in a financial update released this morning raised the possibility of suing the federal government over the claim, arguing that CMS had already approved the state's claiming methodology.
State lawmakers and officers stood and cheered for bail reform, they roared approval for suing the federal government over «double taxation,» and they hurrahed just about any mention of pro-union initiatives.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has threatened to sue the federal government over the roughly $ 14 billion his Department of Finance says it will cost New Yorkers annually.
More than 100 businesses and religious organizations have sued the federal government to be exempt from the ACA's contraceptive requirements since Obamacare became law in 2010.
In a separate case, a federal magistrate has allowed Steinle's parents to sue the federal government for negligence over the ranger's actions, but has rejected their claims against Mirkarimi and the city for Garcia Zarate's release, finding that they violated no laws.
In September, Hobby Lobby and affiliate Mardel, a Christian bookstore chain, sued the federal government for violating their owners» religious freedom and ability to freely exercise their religion.
MENY PAC lauded Rice, saying she has «come out swinging in her support for LGBT rights» by becoming the first AG hopeful to promise to sue the federal government over the Defense of Marriage Act.
Adegboruwa is currently handling the case of Tompolo who had sued the Federal Government over N45.9 bn fraud allegations been leveled against him.
This passage specifically refers to The Little Sisters of the Poor who had sued the federal government over these provisions of Obamacare.
Flanagan did not embrace what was perhaps the biggest news of the speech: Cuomo's plan to sue the federal government over the December tax legislation he says unfairly impacts New York.
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