Sentences with phrase «voted against a lawsuit»

Roof, the school board member, voted against a lawsuit, saying that while she opposed the state takeover, litigation would be costly and time - consuming.

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On the Democratic side, the appeal of stronger gun laws was evident in Clinton's attacks on rival Bernie Sanders over his past votes against background check laws and for limits on lawsuits against gun makers.

In separate lawsuits against the state, Michigan's Republican attorney general and Trump asked state courts to prevent the recount, saying Stein should not be allowed to seek one because she finished so far behind Trump and Clinton that she couldn't have won, even if some votes were miscounted.

As a senator, Sessions criticized the Justice Department in 2009 for dismissing three defendants from a voting rights lawsuit against the New Black Panther Party after allegations of voter intimidation outside a Philadelphia polling place.

He's still going to have to deal with lawsuits shareholders filed against the Tesla - SolarCity merger prior to the vote.

The Irwindale City Council voted Wednesday night to drop a public nuisance declaration and lawsuit against Huy Fong Foods, makers of Sriracha hot sauce.

The Park Board has scheduled an executive session for Saturday morning, and board President Ken Nolan said he expects the five - member board to vote to proceed with a lawsuit against the school district.

As a town lawmaker and a grieving mother, Cheektowaga Councilwoman Christine Adamczyk voted to authorize the town's lawsuit against opioid manufacturers and distributors for contributing to prescription drug abuse and fatalities.

Alesi retired after his vote, but his re-election always seemed like an uphill climb even before his vote following his bizarre filing of a lawsuit against a pair of constitutents.

A reader forwarded an e-mail from a fairly frantic - sounding Dan Cantor, executive director of the Working Families Party, announcing the labor - backed party wasn't successful in getting a pre-Election Day decision in the so - called «double - vote» lawsuit it brought against the state Board of Elections along with the state Conservative Party.

The senator said he doubts that the Senate will even vote this year on Sen. Brad Hoylman's bill, which would allow victims to file lawsuits over child sexual abuse incidents that occurred before 2006, in many cases decades ago, against abusers and their employers.

Mount Vernon — The Board of Education of the Mount Vernon City School District, voted to have the School Attorney commence a lawsuit against the City of Mount Vernon, its officers, employees and agents, and such other persons or entities as shall be necessary to protect the interests of the Mount Vernon City School District and the educational services available to students of the District, at their Tuesday, October 18th meeting.

Class Action Litigation — Vote Passed (220 - 201, 1 Present, 7 Not Voting) The bill would prohibit federal courts from certifying proposed classes of individuals for a class - action lawsuit unless each member of the class has suffered the same type and degree of injury, and it would require quarterly reports by asbestos trusts of claims made against the trusts and any payouts made by the trusts for asbestos - related injuries.

County Executive Steve Bellone issued a certificate of necessity to permit an immediate vote after the center's insurers had agreed only to extend its liability coverage until June 7 in the face of two lawsuits brought against the county and the nonprofit over its program to verify residences of sex offenders listed on a state registry.

The Milwaukee Common Council's Judiciary and Legislative Committee voted unanimously Monday to settle a lawsuit against three engineering and design firms that worked on the City Hall facade.

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The U.S. Justice Department announced it filed a motion to join a lawsuit against the New York City Board of Elections, alleging that the board's Brooklyn office violated federal voter registration law by erasing more than 117,000 Brooklyn voters from the rolls before the primary election simply because they had not voted in previous elections.

Mr. Sanders, representing a rural, gun - loving state, voted against the 1993 Brady Bill and for a federal law granting weapons manufacturers immunity from lawsuits by shooting victims.

The group filing this lawsuit, in fact, cooperated with NOM and other groups in attempting to bribe various Senators into voting against equality.

In 2011, she voted against gay marriage because, «I thought the bill would have the unintended consequences of lawsuits against religious institutions that did not want to perform the marriages,» she said.

The owner of Ralph's Italian Ices and Ice Cream, a new business in the village of Mamaroneck that has become a lightning rod of controversy, is threatening to file a lawsuit against the village after the Zoning Board of Appeals voted to tighten the restrictions on the shop's hours of -LSB-...]

Cuomo floated the idea of a lawsuit, calling the repeal unconstitutional and a concentrated effort to punish liberal states like New York, New Jersey and California who voted against Trump.

The spokeswoman for Election Justice U.S.A., a voting rights advocacy group that put together a lawsuit against the state's Board of Elections for voter registration issues, said she is «concerned» about a possible conflict of interest with Stringer.

His speech comes the same day county legislators announced they will be voting Monday night to join other New York counties to pass a resolution requesting the county attorney to file or join a lawsuit against drug manufacturers for misleading doctors and others about the addictiveness of opioids.

The bill, likely to be voted Tuesday, will let prosecutors bring criminal cases any time up to a victim's 23rd birthday, and allow civil lawsuits against abusers any time up to a victim's 50th birthday.

Rockland County Legislature Votes on Unfunded Mandate Relief Request, Lawsuit against Clarkstown added by dskriloff on August 9, 2012 View all posts by dskriloff →

Additional opposition came from Legislator Frank Sparaco, who cited a lack of time to objectively assess the situation and a reluctance to support a lawsuit without adequate information and was the only member of the legislature to vote against the resolution.

The students from The Culinary Institute of America, Marist College and Bard College filed a class action lawsuit against Haight and the Dutchess Board of Elections maintaining they do have the right to vote.

But the talk of Washington and beyond is Wednesday's vote by House republicans to authorize a lawsuit against President Obama.

The Arlington County, Va., school board had unanimously voted to end its endorsement of the game last year after the family filed a separate $ 1 - million lawsuit against the principal of their son's school, where the youth had been playing the game.

Pick your reason to not partake: The total lack of research behind this assessment so there is no reliability or validity to it what so ever, they are using our kids to norm reference their assessment, for free, the subjectively set cut scores done by vote, not science, that have been set to intentionally fail 60 - 70 % of our students and their teachers which in turn allows for a whole other set of things to happen to schools and communities, the pending lawsuit against SBAC in Missouri where a judge issued a restraining order against the state from making payments, that we now also have to pay to them (where is that MOU?)

H.B. 7069 lawsuit: Duval County School Board members vote against joining an appeal of the latest decision against 13 school boards that are challenging the constitutionality of the state's 2017 education law, H.B. 7069, saying they can't afford to continue.

In an effort to mitigate a lawsuit filed against the school by a student and faculty members, Cooper Union's board recently voted not to renew Bharucha's presidency next year, but it's not clear how that will change the court's view of the school.

The lawsuit was filed by nearly 300 of its 3,945 voting members against the 140 - year - old nonprofit art school located on West 57th Street, according to the NYT.

«We are happy this lawsuit is moving forward with an appeal,» says Eric Steenstra, President of Vote Hemp, a non-profit organization working to bring industrial hemp farming back to the U.S. «We feel that the lower court's decision not only overlooks Congress's original legislative intent, but also fails to stand up for fundamental states» rights against overreaching federal regulation.

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And in mid-December, TWU launched a lawsuit against the Law Society of British Columbia, which voted to deny accreditation after initially approving it.

Rep. David Lewis, a key figure in the redistricting saga, called a press conference recently to rail against a voting rights group that filed a lawsuit in state court, accusing it of partisan motivations.

The Competition Bureau has twice in the last three years brought frivolous lawsuits against our industry and we watched without an individual vote as a handful of CREA delegates voted to allow private sale postings on the MLS ® Systems.

Following the vote, members of the Association who were denied the right to vote their proxy votes filed a lawsuit challenging the vote and also seeking an injunction against the Association's operation of the MLS (collectively, «Challengers»).

The National Association of Realtors voted to cover a portion of the legal expenses incurred by two multiple listing services that have filed copyright lawsuits against real estate search portal and referral site NeighborCity.