Sentences with phrase «unlawful acts before»

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has blamed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) over the increasing cases of impunity and unlawful acts before and during elections.

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The scheme provided SILVER with two different streams of unlawful income: (i) approximately $ 700,000 in kickbacks SILVER received by steering two real estate developers with business before the state legislature to a law firm with which he was associated, and (ii) more than $ 3 million in asbestos client referral fees SILVER received by, among other official acts, awarding $ 500,000 in state grants to a university research center of a physician who referred patients made ill by asbestos to SILVER at Weitz & Luxenberg.

1912: NEA endorses Women's Suffrage 1919: NEA members in New Jersey lead the way to the nation's first state pension; by 1945, every state had a pension plan in effect 1941: NEA successfully lobbied Congress for special funding for public schools near military bases 1945: NEA lobbied for the G.I. Bill of Rights to help returning soldiers continue their education 1958: NEA helps gain passage of the National Defense Education Act 1964: NEA lobbies to pass the Civil Rights Act 1968: NEA leads an effort to establish the Bilingual Education Act 1974: NEA backs a case heard before the U.S. Supreme Court that proposes to make unlawful the firing of pregnant teachers or forced maternity leave 1984: NEA fights for and wins passage of a federal retirement equity law that provides the means to end sex discrimination against women in retirement funds 2000s: NEA has lobbied for changes to the No Child Left Behind Act 2009: NEA delegates to the Representative Assembly pass a resolution that opposes the discriminatory treatment of same - sex couple

That Obama did a half $ billion knowingly unlawful act three days before leaving office is now part of his permanent legacy.

That power belongs to the Attorney General of Ontario (the AG), which is statutorily authorized under the Civil Remedies Act, 2001 (the Act) to commence proceedings before the Ontario Superior Court for an order requiring a wrongdoer to forfeit property in Ontario to the Crown in right of Ontario where the court finds that the property is the «proceeds of unlawful activity».

The issues before the Court were whether, assuming for present purposes that the allegations made were true, the claims of UK complicity for unlawful detention and mistreatment overseas at the hands of foreign state officials were inadmissible or non-justiciable on their merits by reason of the principles governing state immunity and / or foreign act of state.

Dana Gas sought, before it amended its claim, to rely on the Ralli Brothers principle that an English Court will not enforce an obligation which requires a party to do something which is unlawful by the law of the country in which the act has to be done.

You can include important clause pertaining to the agreement and also notify that unlawful detainer act may be issued in case the tenant fails to vacate the premises on or before the time stipulated in the letter.