Sentences with phrase «which alleged members»

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Carlson is not alone: Susan Fowler, the former Uber engineer who came out publicly against her employer alleging sexual harassment, is also working with members of the California State Assembly to pass legislation to eliminate forced arbitration, which prevented Fowler from coming forward about sexual harassment at Uber until after she quit.

Following several autumn 2016 news articles and blog posts which raised concerns regarding transactions with related parties, particularly with then - CEO Steven Sugarman and members of his family, in October the company issued a press release indicating that the board's «disinterested directors» had hired a law firm and formed a special committee to review the alleged connections and transactions.

JPL alleged that Coppedge «was seen as stubborn, unwilling to listen and always having to do things his way, which frustrated project members and resulted in errors.»

One of those arrested was Paul Commonas, 29, a member of a gambling ring known as the Miami Syndicate, which is alleged to have won a fortune betting on rigged games at Milford in 1977.

GOAL AND PURPOSE: The goal is to provide a mechanism through which the public and the community of doulas may be protected if there is alleged misconduct on the part of a DONA certified doula or DONA International member.

The reason being that free movement of labour between member states (one the EU's four freedoms) permitted large - scale migration from East to West, which is alleged to have had impacts such as bidding down the wages of low - skilled workers, and increasing crime.

By Arthur Z. Schwartz Way back in our November 1 edition, before either Sheldon Silver or «Dean» Skelos had been convicted of bribery, money laundering, and other acts of corruption, I published a piece which alleged that Assembly Member Deborah Glick had her own questions to answer.

This was immediately followed by one Mr. Baah Acheamfour who proceeded to make a complaint to the police of the conduct of Afoko and his alleged spokesperson which he described as gross and flagrant violation of Article 3d (VIII) of the NPP's constitution under duties of a member which state that a member shall not initiate commence or prosecute any legal proceedings whatsoever against the party or any member of the party relating to party affairs without first exhausting the grievance procedure laid down in the constitution in respect of grievances against the party or any other members,» the letter said.

In the petition, which was dated October 21, Ibrahim alleged that the affected member of staff (name withheld), insisted that she must be paid the amount before she could obey the court order that asked the commission to put his name as the candidate of the PDP.

Early this year, Teamsters Local 72, which represents state Thruway Authority workers, filed an unfair labor complaint alleging its members were improperly threatened with layoffs if they failed to make concessions during contract talks.

Two Desmond managers alleged that union members slashed their tires in the hotel's parking lot, a complaint which was confirmed by law enforcement, who said the incidents were reported in April.

The Lawyers in an official letter addressed to members of the 5 - member ad - hoc committee tasked to investigate the alleged scandal, said: «we have been instructed by our client to convey to you, which we hereby do, his desire to appear before your committee to be heard on the above allegation and to provide evidence that would assist your Committee to reach a fair and true conclusion on this substantially important matter of public interest.»

She signed a public letter to the party's general secretary, saying: «We are concerned about the recent suspensions of committed Labour party members for alleged anti-Semitism which undermines serious discussion and thinking.»

The claim lodged with the Board of Elections today alleges that Mr. Cabrera's nominating petitions to get on the ballot for the Democratic primary were signed and even carried by members of the GOP — which is not permitted under New York's partisan election law.

The Democratic governor convened the 25 - member panel that released its preliminary findings late Monday, which skeptics immediately said was remarkable in two ways: its recommendations mirrored Cuomo's recent legislative platform, and the alleged malfeasance it outlined was confined exclusively to the Legislature.

Outside lawyers hired by the Assembly conducted the investigation, which covered Fierro's claims as well as allegations from several former Garcia staff members alleging heavy drinking and sex talk in the office as well as requests by Garcia to perform personal duties such as taking care of her dogs.

«I want to be crystal clear: This alleged incident never happened nor did anything inappropriate happen in any fashion that evening,» Klein said during the conference call, which also included fellow Independent Democratic Conference member Sen. Diane Savino.

The first, filed by a city resident and a member of the Hartford City Council, alleged that Coleman improperly used his annual taxpayer - financed update for political purposes and his campaign against Wooden, which is not allowed under state statutes.

He opposed Mrs. Jonathan's application, claiming that he was a member of the Special Task Force «investigating alleged amounts of money laundered by the former first lady into various accounts and properties purchased which are disproportionate to her known source of income.»

The County Executive's proposal, which would make it illegal for alleged gang members to congregate in public areas implicates the same concerns as the Andrews case, and therefore, its constitutionality is questionable.»

The joint operation and press conferences comes just week after several members of the NYPD brass were suspended in connection with a corruption investigation by Mr. Bharara's office, which alleges two businessmen, Jona Rechnitz and Jeremy Reichberg, traded gifts for favors from cops.

In the email, Wallis purported to be a member of the public and arranged for his nephew to support the false claim that he saw the row in which Mitchell was alleged to have used the word «pleb».

Its members alleged that DNA, originally collected for a diabetes study, was used more broadly than they thought it would be — including for studies of schizophrenia and ancestry to which tribe members later objected.

If the proposed settlement agreement is approved by the Court, ruby will contribute a total of $ 11.2 million USD to a settlement fund, which will provide, among other things, payments to settlement class members who submit valid claims for alleged losses resulting from the data breach and alleged misrepresentations as described further in the proposed settlement agreement.

That scene, in which they are torturing alleged members of the cartel, is one way in which they're operating.

A bunch of boats appeared offshore of the island to broadcast (all kinds of music including) rock and roll (in an attempt to make money off of advertising time for already wealthy business men), and (conservative) members of the British government, like Alistair Dormandy (Kenneth Branagh) in the movie, wanted to shut it down (alleging the use of wavelengths already reserved for others, a danger to shipping, the hijacking of a WWII defense fort during which someone was killed, and) because of low moral standing.

A three - judge panel on the Second Circuit ruled decisively for the software giant against the Authors Guild, a professional group of published writers which had alleged Google's scanning of library books and displaying of free «snippets» online violated its members's copyright.

The movement, which once decried government corruption, has spared criticizing members of the current government (despite numerous investigations into alleged wrongdoing) and has re-positioned itself as an extremist, neoliberal advocacy group in favour of dismantling the state, with connections to the American Koch brothers.

On appeal, the Austrian Oberster Gerichtshof (OGH) asked the Court which criteria are to be used to determine jurisdiction under Article 5 (3) to hear an action relating to an alleged infringement of a trademark through the use of a Google AdWord on the website operating under a top - level domain different from that of the Member State where the trademark is registered...

We argued that the residents» alleged claims were too individualized and unique to be adjudicated as a class, and pointed out that it would be impossible to determine the putative class members without expert review of thousands of individual medical charts, which is not permissible under HIPAA and other privacy federal and state laws, and statistics and surveys were no substitute to assess individual medical care.

The second situation concerns an «indirect action» in which a Member State is alleged to have violated the ECHR when implementing or applying EU law, and it is this scenario that has been the subject of much discussion.

34 In the case of an alleged infringement of a national trade mark registered in a Member State because of the display, on the search engine website, of an advertisement using a keyword identical to that trade mark, it is the activation by the advertiser of the technical process displaying, according to pre-defined parameters, the advertisement which it created for its own commercial communications which should be considered to be the event giving rise to an alleged infringement, and not the display of the advertisement itself.

While the complainants made statements which possibly suggested Member Parrack being aligned to their cause, [80] the court found no evidence that the Member, as distinct from the complainants, played a role in «linking» the reappointment process and an alleged College agenda.

The problem would be showing that all members of the class were causally injured by the same alleged breach of duty which is pretty much impossible.

Don Morgan, Saskatchewan Attorney General, Canada, allows Polygamy, which is against Federal Criminal code law (he does not report his own alleged Criminal code violation of the law, which wouled be to assist in the creation of Polygamous relationships, consenting for unwilling victims etc.) to RCMP): Two members of a Mormon splinter group were charged recently with practicing Polygamy in Bountiful, British Columbia, Canada.

To insulate college personnel from personal law suits which allege misconduct while carrying out duties, section 24 of the BC Health Professions Act provides that «no action for damages lies or may be brought» against a board member or a person acting for a board or college «because of anything done or omitted in good faith.»

As reported in the written decision of the Law Society Hearing Panel (which decision is under appeal by the applicant), the applicant threatened to sue the other board members for defamation after he was removed as President of the condo corporation and a notice of his removal was posted; circulated a letter (under a false name) on some floors within the building that falsely stated that some of the board members had previously gone bankrupt, had criminal convictions and were accepting bribes and free meals from the developer of the condominium to settle deficiencies with the developer; made a derogatory remark about some of the residents based on their ethnicity; threatened to report some of the directors to US / Canada border officials, falsely alleging that they were drug smugglers; threatened both the corporation's property manager and security services firm that their contracts with the condo corporation would be in jeopardy if they did not provide a character letter to the applicant.

Specifically, the Union alleged that Vanderpol had breached sections 6 (1) and 6 (3)(d) of the Labour Relations Code, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 244 (the «Code»), which prohibit an employer from interfering with the formation, selection or administration of a trade union, and seeking to compel or induce an employee to refrain from becoming or continuing to be a member of a union.

The Regulations are already the subject of infringement proceedings by the European Commission who allege that they breach the Services Directive, which required that Member States ease restrictions on advertising by professionals.

It is also arguable that the plaintiff class members have an independent cause of action which would allow class members to recover any benefit the defendant gained from its alleged wrongful acts without having to demonstrate harm or prove damages to the class members.

The two basic requirements at common law for a derivative action are: - that the alleged wrong or breach of duty is one that is incapable of being ratified by a simple majority of the members; and - that the alleged wrongdoers are in control of the company, so that the company, which is the «proper claimant» can not claim by itself.

This is alleged to be more friendly to business, which otherwise gets confused — though other members of the public, even lawyers, may find this practice convenient.

First case under English law in which damages were sought under Articles 81 and 82 in respect of alleged predatory pricing by the members of two liner conferences during a price war in 1991.

After noting that NASAA members believe that trading around cryptocurrencies in general «is likely to pose a significant risk to investors,» it makes note of the growing interest in ICOs, which can be used to bootstrap and fund new blockchain networks but have also served as vehicles for alleged fraud in the past.

5.1 The Board of Directors shall from time to time make regulations concerning the method by which any question of alleged breach of Professional Conduct by a member or associated action is to be brought before the Association.

A number of demand letters, which include the threat of litigation, have been sent to NAR members alleging that their real estate websites violate the civil rights of individuals with disabilities.

the nature of the alleged violation and the extent to which it impacts on cooperation with other Board Members

(f) Any party may file with the Secretary a written request for disqualification of a member of a tribunal (Hearing Panel or Board of Directors), stating the grounds alleged as basis for disqualification (i.e., factors which would prevent a tribunal member from rendering an impartial, unbiased, and knowledgeable decision).

More specifically, the Commissioner alleges that members can not post MLS data online, which the Commissioner alleges has the effect of substantially lessening competition.

(5) Method of determining propriety of a complaint of alleged unethical conduct or request for arbitration: It is suggested that the State Association have a standing Grievance Committee, which shall be the committee to examine a complaint of alleged unethical conduct or request for arbitration to determine if it is properly presented by a Member Board or Board Member and has validity and substance to warrant a hearing before the State Association's professional standards facilities.