Sentences with phrase «voting rules in»

This is the fourth year since ASIFA - Hollywood made significant changes in its voting rules in response to concerns that had caused Disney and Pixar to withdraw its support of the organization.

It is, according to the research paper, «the most common voting rule in the Anglo - Saxon world».

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The nearly $ 1.5 trillion tax cut required a second vote in the House after a Senate rule forced Republicans to remove three minor details from the bill on Tuesday.

MILAN, April 23 - A judge ruled in favor of an appeal by Telecom Italia and its leading investor Vivendi to block a vote on some board director replacements proposed by activist fund Elliott at an April 24 shareholders meeting, a court document showed.

In March, the Senate voted to ease regulations on all but the largest banks, which would raise the level at which banks are considered «systemically important» and exempts smaller banks from other rules aiming to curb risky behavior.

Downing Street has ruled out such membership, preferring to be able to negotiate free trade deals with the rest of the world, but the majority of members in the upper house of the U.K.'s parliament, the House of Lords, have voted against that, forcing a debate on the issue.

The lawsuit says Wisconsin is violating the U.S. Supreme Court's 2000 Bush v. Gore ruling because it doesn't have uniform standards to determine which votes should be counted in a recount.

As in the 2015 regional election, the next ballot is likely to be framed as a plebiscite vote over independence, with the ruling «Together For Yes» coalition likely to stick together.

Poland's biggest political standoff in years began on Friday when opposition lawmakers objected to plans by the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party to curb media access to parliament, and blocked the plenary hall podium ahead of a budget vote.

Pai is also expected to call for an initial vote in December to rescind rules prohibiting one company from owning stations that serve more than 39 percent of U.S. television households, Reuters reported on Wednesday, citing two people briefed on the matter.

With Europe voting to end visa - free travel in March — and Trump responding with new rules for inbound tourists earlier this month — this is a narrative that's still unfolding.

Considering that not one Democrat voted in favor of rolling back the Obama - era privacy rules, though, that could be a hard sell.

In both chambers, most Republicans voted to repeal the rules, while Democrats voted against.

On March 28, Congress voted along party lines to kill a set of rules adopted by the Federal Communications Commission in October that would've forced your internet service provider, or ISP, to ask you before it collected certain personal information.

Now local legislatures can make such changes without explanation, and it's up to voters to try to challenge them in lawsuits, and to do so often on an tight timetable, since courts won't want to change voting rules close to an election.

Federal judges found more problems in Texas» voting rights laws, ruling that Republicans racially gerrymandered some congressional districts to weaken the growing electoral power of minorities, who former President Barack Obama set out to protect at the ballot box before leaving office.

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They seem to have gotten turbocharged by a ruling in 2007 that permitted people — in practice, mainly hedge funds — to buy shares after a merger has been announced and for the express purpose of voting against it and then seeking an appraisal.

Those rules, voted for in 2015, mandated that internet service providers and mobile carriers can't provide so - called fast lanes to certain content — sometimes their own.

Nearly 2.6 million comments were filed in the lead - up to the FCC's vote to consider the proposal — many of those seem to have been spurred by John Oliver's call to keep the rules, but hundreds of thousands of others, many in favor of repeal, have likely come from bots.

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday voted to retain nearly all rules limiting cross-ownership of newspapers, radio and TV stations in the same market, a source familiar with the vote said.

On a party - line vote, Trump - appointed chairman Ajit Pai and two other Republican commissioners voted in favor of revoking the rules, while the two Democrats on the commission voted against the move.

It might seem odd to have a family dynasty at the helm of one of the world's most powerful media organizations, but such an arrangement — in which the Sulzbergers control the majority of the voting shares — used to be the rule in media rather than the exception.

As a rule, Milner has said he doesn't take board seats in his later - stage investments, and rarely requires founders to hand over voting shares when issuing company stock.

The country voted against joining the euro zone in a referendum in 2000 and last December opted to retain its exemption from EU rules on issues like asylum and border control.

The argument was the first in a term that holds the prospect for major rulings about affirmative action, gay marriage and voting rights.

The two bickered earlier this week about the so - called «nuclear option» Reid is considering that would dramatically change Senate rules in confirming Cabinet appointees, shifting the approval process to a simple majority vote in the Seante.

Pai and O'Rielly voted against the rules in October.

FCC chief Ajit Pai, a Republican appointed by President Donald Trump in January, said the commission will vote at a Dec. 14 meeting on rescinding the so - called net neutrality rules championed by Democratic former President Barack Obama that treated internet...

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, a Republican appointed by President Donald Trump in January, said the regulatory agency will vote at a Dec. 14 meeting on his plan to rescind the so - called net neutrality rules championed by Democratic former President Barack...

Indeed, Scalia himself noted that the high court came within a vote of declaring videocassette recorders «contraband» when it ruled for Sony Corp. in a case over recordings of television programs 30 years ago.

But their collective screaming eventually scared the daylights out of the Street, which suddenly realized that CCAA voting rules gave each and every one of the estimated 2,000 average Canadians caught up in this mess as much say in approving any restructuring as any institutional investor with billions of dollars at stake.

The FCC voted 3 - 2 in December to overturn the net neutrality rules, which barred broadband providers from blocking or slowing access to content or allowing websites to pay for fast lanes to get their content more quickly to consumers.

The House three - day rule was part of Republicans» 2010 «Pledge to America,» in which they promised to give «at least three days to read the bill before a vote.»

The Republican - led FCC in December voted 3 - 2 to overturn rules barring service providers from blocking, slowing access to or charging...

The Federal Communications Commission voted to retain nearly all rules limiting cross-ownership of newspapers, radio and TV stations in the same market.

Scrapping the filibuster, known in political circles as the «nuclear option,» would require McConnell to wrangle a majority of senators to vote to suspend the rule.

Democrats in Congress plan to force a vote on whether to repeal the new rules.

WASHINGTON, Dec 14 - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission vote on Thursday to roll back net neutrality rules could galvanize young voters, a move Democrats hope will send millennials to the polls in greater numbers and bolster their chances in next year's elections.

MILAN, April 23 (Reuters)- A judge ruled in favor of an appeal by Telecom Italia (TIM) and its leading investor Vivendi to block a vote on some board director replacements proposed by activist fund Elliott at an April 24 shareholders meeting, a court document showed.

The centre - left Social Democrats (SPD), Merkel's current coalition partners who were the second - biggest party in the election, have ruled out a repeat of an alliance with her conservatives, who won the vote but were left with fewer seats.

The center - left bloc, including the ruling Democratic Party (PD) which took a drubbing in the vote, was seen with 23 percent of the vote.

Fortune will go on a limb to predict he will cast the deciding vote in a 5 - 4 ruling in Gill v. Whitford that will declare the redrawing of election districts for political purposes to be unconstitutional.

Election rules give the center - left a solid majority in the lower house, despite its slim advantage in terms of votes, but without the Senate it will not be able to pass legislation.

Over four months ago, the F.C.C. voted to repeal rules that ensure equal and open access to the Internet for everyone, but those protections are somehow still in a place.

Under applicable TSX rules, the transaction also requires the approval of Loblaw shareholders by majority vote, as the number of Loblaw common shares to be issued in the transaction exceeds 25 % of the total number of outstanding Loblaw common shares.

We note that, in accordance with Rule 14 (a)-6 (a), Apple was not required to file preliminary proxy materials with the Commission because the matters to be acted on at the meeting are limited to (1) the election of directors, (2) the ratification of accountants, (3) a vote on an advisory resolution to approve executive compensation, (4) the approval of the Plan described above, which is a «plan» as defined in paragraph (a)(6)(ii) of Item 402 of Regulation S - K, and (5) shareholder proposals pursuant to Rule 14a - 8.

«The PUCN just changed the rules of the game for all Nevadans that have invested in rooftop solar,» Jessica Scott, a regional director for Vote Solar, said.

If you are a beneficial owner of shares held in street name and do not provide the organization that holds your shares with specific voting instructions then, under applicable rules, the organization that holds your shares may generally vote your shares in their discretion on «routine» matters but can not vote on «non-routine» matters.