Sentences with phrase «upheld by local courts»

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With local stories pouring in each day of the very real ways the Tea Party shutdown is hurting the middle class, it's time Republicans in Congress come to grips with reality that the Affordable Care Act is the law of the land, that it was upheld as constitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court, and that it's working.»

The commission makes 100 recommendations featuring six overarching ones: the National Advice and Legal Support Fund mentioned before; prioritising public legal education in schools, alongside financial literacy, and in «education for life»; calling on government to clampdown down «preventable demand» by getting decisions right the first time including a «polluter pays» scheme for the DWP to pay costs on upheld appeals (on average 35 % of appeals against welfare benefits decisions are upheld); an overhaul of the courts to make them better suited for the needs of litigants in person; a national strategy for 2015 — 20, including a «minister for advice and legal support»; and for local authorities to commission local advice and legal support plans.

In the Sturmer case, a case challenging a local option by - law, the court upheld Chancellor Boyd's order for costs against non-parties who were found to have put up «a man of straw» in whose name the litigation would be carried on so as to avoid anticipated liability for costs upon dismissal of the action.

The Court of Appeal has upheld an appeal by the Welsh Local Health Boards, supported by the Secretary of State for Health, in Forge Care Homes...