At the same time, petitioners' insurance company—aware that petitioners are not providing certain contraceptive coverage on religious grounds—would separately notify petitioners' employees that the insurance company will provide cost-free contraceptive coverage, and that such coverage is not paid for by petitioners and is not provided through petitioners' health plan.
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"The parties are directed to address whether contraceptive coverage could be provided to petitioners' employees, through petitioners' insurance companies, without any such notice from petitioners", the order reads.
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"The Supreme Court refused to hear the matter and asked the petitioners to approach the Chief Justice of India," Arvind Dattar, a lawyer for one of the petitioners, told Reuters.
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In supplemental briefs due on April 12th, "the parties are directed to...address whether and how contraceptive coverage may be obtained by petitioners' employees through petitioners' insurance companies, but in a way that does not require any involvement of petitioners beyond their own decision to provide health insurance without contraceptive coverage to their employees".
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"Petitioners have demonstrated a likelihood of success on their claim the Government's actions constitute deliberate indifference to Petitioners' medical needs, and thus violate the Fifth Amendment's substantive due process guarantee," Nathan ruled.
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The petitioners argued that a DDoS attack was free speech.
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I concur, while also respecting the sensitivity of the petitioners.
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Among Central American petitioners, the approval rate is substantially lower.
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He has ordered some petitioners in his court to contribute.
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" The insurance company would then "separately notify" the employees that they will provide cost-free coverage, and "that such coverage is not paid for by petitioners and is not provided through petitioners' health plan.
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Agatone considers her co-petitioners as fellow feminists and close friends.
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Little wonder, then, that some petitioners go straight to the top.
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The wait times aren't the only challenge for Prop 64 petitioners.
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Fulcher, one of the petitioners, served in the Marines until 1992.
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Most of the petitioners are led by Democrats or lean Democratic.
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Gorsuch, once again, showed some apparent sympathy for the LGTBQ petitioners.
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She and her fellow petitioners were accused of creating terrorist propaganda.
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From the Carter administration through April 20133, 1,638 petitioners were granted pardons.
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Pruitt recently told the petitioners he planned to review the main restrictions.
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The two petitioners, Antony Clement Rubin and Janani Krishnamurthy, are private citizens.
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San Francisco's strict campaign disclosure laws require petitioners to reveal their benefactors.
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Many hundreds of petitioners are hoping the court will hear their cases.
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"Petitioners are never entirely happy with suspension agreements like this," Perry said.
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In 15 years, he hasn't seen any of his fellow petitioners succeed.
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Over two dozen Indian petitioners asked the court to scrap the law.
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Petitioners blamed the dog's surroundings, not the animal itself, for the deaths.
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Nothing stops the police from coming to the homes of the petitioners.
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"We're celebrating the petitioners, we're celebrating our court, and ultimately our Constitution."
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Petitioners want Ellison, currently Oracle's chief technology officer, to cancel Wednesday's event.
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"The petitioners have gotten all the relief that they sought," she added.
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That said, Snap has no obligation to meet the demands of the petitioners.
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Twenty-two states and the District of Columbia have also joined the petitioners.
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His rhetoric—and now his actions—invite aggrieved petitioners to apply for help.
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Sisters and other petitioners have set up to provide services because they want
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He represented Naz Foundation, one of the petitioners in the Section 377 case.
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However, the reforms aren't enough to sway some petitioners to abandon their hopes.
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"At first, the petitioners had good intentions," wrote Leggate in an opinion column.
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"AOL as an opinion was good for petitioners seeking appraisal," Grant told me.
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The youth petitioners are asking the five countries to change their climate policies.
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It was a long and arduous process involving lawyers, petitioners, letters of recommendation.
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Petitioners' homes in Lagos are sometimes flattened before judgments can be handed down.
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To avoid looking bad, local officials intercept, detain and forcibly return petitioners home.
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The petitioners, Suniva and World Solar, began laying out their case last week.
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"The requests of thousands of petitioners seeking justice will lie unheard," she continued.
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That's what petitioners hope to do by continuing to show support for the cause.
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The two petitioners, critics say, wrongly portrayed the state of the US solar industry.
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Callers include dissidents, workers and petitioners whose voices aren't carried by the state media.
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Trump is using these pardons of black people to play to their celebrity petitioners.
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"Petitioners claimed as business expense deductions many obviously personal items," the Tax Court said.
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With the slogan the petitioners have adopted — "Make Ryazan Great Again" — how could they not?
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Few cases ever get resolved though, and petitioners can stage noisy protests out of frustration.
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The petitioners in the case argued that the FCC's repeal was unlawful in several ways.
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"They're going to have a constant stream of petitioners now on these programs," said Gregg.
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In November the ITC recommended tariffs that are less aggressive than what the petitioners sought.
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Petitioners included the Organic Trade Association, Amy's Kitchen, Annie's Homegrown, Organic Valley and Stonyfield Farms.
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Boumediene argued that he and other petitioners were unconstitutionally denied the writ of habeas corpus.
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The USPTO should assess rules surrounding review proceedings to ensure fairness to applicants and petitioners.
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Petitioners for medical pardons must show that they suffer from an "irreversible and degenerative" ailment.
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To justify a change in energy market rules, petitioners to FERC must do two things.
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Few cases ever get resolved, however, and petitioners can stage noisy protests out of frustration.
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One of the habeas petitioners was Fouad al-Rabiah, an aeronautical engineer for Kuwait Airways.
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Petitioners are at least finding it ever easier to draw the public's attention to their problems.
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Rahul Narayan, a lawyer who is counselling several petitioners challenging the Aadhaar project, echoed similar sentiments.
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If an initial claim is denied, petitioners can request that an immigration judge review the decision.
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Unfortunately for the online petitioners, Obama can't pardon Avery, since his was not a federal conviction.
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The petitioners have argued that the FCC used a flawed analysis when it made that claim.
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The petitioners also pointed to Wonder Woman's questionable garb as making her an unsuitable UN ambassador.
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The victory for the petitioners now lies in the fact that people are talking about this.
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With the effort to seek reconsideration of the endangerment finding, petitioners are seeking to start over.
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Whereas Karzai filled the palace with visitors and received petitioners during meals, Ghani often eats alone.
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" Cissna's statement strongly implies that "applicants and petitioners" don't count as part of the "American people.
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"Referring to applicants and petitioners for immigration benefits, and the beneficiaries of such applications and petitions, as 'customers' promotes an institutional culture that emphasizes the ultimate satisfaction of applicants and petitioners, rather than the correct adjudication of such applications and petitions according to the law," Cissna said.
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Update, 3:30pm: Statements from petitioners have started rolling in, so we'll post some of them below.
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"The harm to Petitioners, who are ostensibly not being punished for criminal activity, is intolerable and ongoing."
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"I'm so excited, I have no words," said Debottam Saha, one of the petitioners in the case.
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Many of the petitioners are Chaldeans, an Iraqi Christian group that has historically faced problems in Iraq.
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"The rights of the petitioners were violated (by) imposing onerous conditions on the site visit," he said.
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So one of the reasons it takes time is that the petitioners themselves are requesting more time.
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Still, some petitioners expressed support for the EPA's decision to open a 60-day public comment period.
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"The materials provided do not contain enough substantial information," the CBP told the petitioners in a letter.
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But the head of the Colombian consumer protection agency, a presidential appointee, sided with the industry petitioners.
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Both Duterte and the Typhoon Haiyan petitioners agree that the Philippines is a victim of richer nations.
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"This Court should decline Petitioners' invitation to politicize this case, particularly in an election year," he wrote.
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Some petitioners were represented by attorneys, others showed up solo or accompanied by a friend or relative.
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"In particular, referring to applicants and petitioners for immigration benefits, and the beneficiaries of such applications and petitions, as 'customers' promotes an institutional culture that emphasizes the ultimate satisfaction of applicants and petitioners, rather than the correct adjudication of such applications and petitions according to the law," he wrote.
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The petitioners, some scientists and environmental groups claim that chlorpyrifos can harm children's developing brains and nervous systems.
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Monday was the deadline for petitioners to join the case, so INCOMPAS got in just under the wire.
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Petitioners were rewarded with a response from Snap yesterday, but the lukewarm reply isn't what they asked for.
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In practice, many such petitioners have found themselves in "black jails" (extra-legal detention centres) for their pains.
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Ed Markey (D-MA), seemed confident petitioners had the votes needed to push the measure through the Senate.
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Petitioners, which included both tobacco and wholesale distribution companies, argued that the fee was a revenue-raising measure.
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In his first weeks on the job, Abdulbari would personally greet each group of petitioners who gathered outside.
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Petitioners bringing a complaint must show that they are engaged in a domestic industry in the United States.
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In fact, there were several reports that the authorities had been taking away petitioners all over the city.
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Zhang Xiao directs Hefeng, a non-profit which gives essential services to homeless people including petitioners in Beijing.
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He estimates that up to a thousand petitioners live on the street while the NPC is in session.
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President Warren G. Harding was approached to commute Wan's sentence and threw the petitioners out of his office.
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"This law has created utter chaos," Ashok Desai, a lawyer for one of the petitioners, told the court.
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The Supreme Court also asked the government to give copies of the decision-making process to the petitioners.
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But he wanted to know that the petitioners were ready for the long legal battle that would follow.
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"Google agrees with petitioners that class actions — and class action settlements — can lead to abuse," their brief said.
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The justices seemed moved by the stories they heard from the petitioners about harassment, blackmail, abuse and persecution.
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She added that the Trump FCC initially told petitioners it lacked the authority to make such a change.
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But the petitioners defended their products, saying that they had attracted steady customers and had few performance problems.
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Paul Clement, a lawyer for the petitioners, said the new New York regulations have not settled the case.
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The court will deliver a ruling on the petitioners' application for scrutiny of the election returns on Wednesday.
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It noted that he asks some, but not all, petitioners to account for histories of alcohol and substance abuse.
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For instance, petitioners appearing before the courts aren't guaranteed legal representation, and normal rules of due process don't apply.
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It suggests they believe these are onerous rules that may well present problems for the petitioners before being overturned.
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Petitioners seeking to see communications pertaining to the attack were told much of the analysis was not written down.
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The sentence provoked calls from lawyers and more than 100,000 petitioners for Persky to be removed from the bench.
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During that time, both the government and the petitioners told the justices they believed they could reach a compromise.
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Moreover, the petitioners represent several distinct structures and types of tax plans that are impacted differently by the mandate.
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The NMFS has determined hammerhead sharks are not endangered or threatened after completing a status review requested by petitioners.
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Arif Jafar, one of the petitioners, was arrested in 2001 under the law and spent 49 days in jail.
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Israel's Supreme Court, however, has issued temporary injunctions to give more time for petitioners to argue against the plan.
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In Whole Woman's Health, the petitioners claim that Texas legislation adding restrictions to abortion facilities violates the US Constitution.
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They are the petitioners for people's right to be as complex and distinctive and strange as they can be.
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"The petitioners had their day in court, the jury spoke, and decades of appeals have occurred," Justice Womack wrote.
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This, the petitioners argue, is an effective means by which to create an environment free of discrimination and bullying.
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In "The Underworld Petitioners" (2017-2018), three poorly dressed individuals are seated on the ground, imploring an unseen authority.
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As some of the petitioners in these cases demonstrate, marriage embodies a love that may endure even past death.
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She and her research assistants set out to the streets of two affluent Boston neighborhoods and posed as petitioners.
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The order, the ACLU argued, "discriminates against petitioners on the basis of their country of origin, and without sufficient justification".
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One of the older petitioners is Sridhar Mandyam Rangaihn, who grew up in a small town in Karnataka, southwest India.
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Several of the petitioners also described severe mental health issues stemming from society's lack of acceptance of their sexual identity.
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"We're profoundly disappointed," says Lee Petro, who represented the Wright Petitioners, a group of families litigating for the rate caps.
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As before, these are goals rather than enforceable limits, but they at least show a willingness to engage with petitioners.
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The class action lawsuit filed by the ACLU of Michigan comprises five Christian petitioners and two Muslims, including Al-Dilaimi.
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This, even though repeated calls to customer service, the petitioners argue, potentially indicates that a product or service is bad.
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On one side, the petitioners said the fingerprints and retinal scans collected under Aadhaar violated an individual's right to privacy.
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The petitioners were simply not ready to fully answer the questions that swing justices, particularly Justice Anthony Kennedy, want answered.
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Suppose, the unsigned March 29 order said, the objecting nonprofits ("petitioners") wouldn't have to provide any formal notice to anyone.
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A few of the street-sleepers are petitioners who have travelled to the capital to seek redress for local injustices.
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Numerous other cases remain open in various district courts and courts of appeals, totaling some 50 cases and 85033 petitioners.
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According to Huang Qi, a human-rights advocate in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, bei lüyou in Sichuan typically involves ordinary petitioners.
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Modi's prize was protested by over 100,000 petitioners, and at least three Nobel Peace laureates, among other human rights defenders.
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Other vocal individuals in town have formed a kind of new style "He-Man Woman Haters Club," targeting women petitioners.
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This is all that the petitioners asked for, and, importantly, women's access to contraceptive coverage will not be significantly changed.
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The court essentially treated the petitioners as equal to those who arrived at the border but had not yet entered.
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Much of the domestic solar industry stands against the petitioners, as does one of the parent companies, which is Chinese.
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Although the courts in Kashmir are in theory functioning, lawyers are striking, making it hard for petitioners to get anywhere.
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If this were really an emergency, petitioners would not have waited 2900 days to bring it to this Court's attention.
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If this were really an emergency, petitioners would not have waited 85033 days to bring it to this Court's attention.
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A court order filed Saturday called the matter "closed" after it said that petitioners had filed to withdraw the case.
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The two main corporate petitioners that helped instigate the U.S. government's examination of this issue are called Suniva and SolarWorld.
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This is all that the petitioners asked for, and importantly, women's access to contraceptive coverage will not be significantly changed.
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"The number of petitioners reflected the lack of belief in the law," said He Haibo, a legal scholar at Tsinghua University.
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In 2014, China banned petitioners from taking their grievances directly to higher levels of government without first going through local authorities.
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If the Scottish court decided not to refer to the ECJ, the petitioners can take their appeal to Britain's Supreme Court.
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Petitioners in Colorado have collected the signatures necessary to put two anti-hydraulic fracturing measures on the state's ballot in November.
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A decision from the Supreme Court in favor of the petitioners means that the court is open to reviewing their position.
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Xi's government has tightened controls, clamping down on activists, lawyers and petitioners and has further restricted internet access for the public.
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"The mood is extremely optimistic: the judges have been extremely empathetic," said Akhilesh Godi, one of the petitioners in the case.
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If she didn't agree to the list of demands, the petitioners asked that the DSA National Electoral Committee rescind her endorsement.
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But petitioners say that test is too rigid and courts should be allowed to conduct a broader case-by-case review.
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The law of the land states that all asylum petitioners, the merits of their claims notwithstanding, must have their cases adjudicated.
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Missouri law allows for any legislation to be put to a public referendum if petitioners gather 100,000 signatures to overturn it.
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The defense lawyer for two of the petitioners, A.P., Singh insisted that his clients had cause for filing a curative petition.
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And in Maine, more than 70,000 petitioners have secured a 2017 ballot measure to circumvent the Republican governor and expand Medicaid.
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Some of the petitioners were victims of the terrorism they say was inflicted upon their communities by candidates like Mr. Farooqi.
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"As some of the petitioners in these cases demonstrate, marriage embodies a love that may endure even past death," he read.
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In Zubik, meanwhile, petitioners claim the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) violates religious freedom by providing contraception to employees through health care.
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Mr. Ndubi, the lawyer representing the petitioners, said reports of intimidation and violence also undermined the credibility of the scheduled poll.
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Arundhati Katju and Menaka Guruswamy, both lawyers, are representing dozens of petitioners in cases that challenge the constitutionality of the law.
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The petitioners range from well established city professionals to economically diverse students from around the country, some from very traditional backgrounds.
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They regrouped and began looking for people willing to serve as petitioners and endure the personal scrutiny the case would bring.
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"A tie vote goes to petitioners," said U.S. trade expert and lawyer William Perry, who believes Boeing will win the case.
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But in practice, the Bureau of Prisons would often decline to grant it, allowing hundreds of petitioners to die in custody.
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Furthermore, the overwhelming majority of petitioners for immigrants are US citizens petitioning for family members (or American businesses petitioning for employees).
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"The Government did not agree to postpone any raids on Petitioners for the during of that stay," Carney wrote in the order.
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Two of the petitioners, Tofiq Nasser Awad al-Bihani and Abdul Latif Nasser, were already cleared for release, according to the filing.
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Worse, the Obama EPA, abetted by California, made a mockery of the so-called harmonized national vehicle program petitioners claim to support.
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But many petitioners say they never receive justice, and are deterred by security officials and hired thugs who assault and detain them.
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The most recent court decided the petitioners failed to prove their case, so a 4-4 vote would keep that decision intact.
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In the years that followed, Liang expanded his work to represent dissidents, human rights activists, petitioners and other persecuted groups across China.
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The person has opportunities to respond, and in many states, petitioners face penalties if they are found to have presented false evidence.
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Before then, there had been only one instance of petitioners asking the government to utilize march-in rights to reduce drug costs.
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The petitioners sued Iran in US federal court alleging it was responsible for the bombing because it provided material support to Hamas.
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The NMFS announced Monday it has determined hammerhead sharks are not endangered or threatened after completing a status review requested by petitioners.
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Oaxacans practice a spunky form of Catholicism: in some villages, saints who fail to grant favors risk getting slugged by their petitioners.
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"And petitioners' children are hereby permitted to return to their respective schools forthwith and otherwise to assemble in public places," he wrote.
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The court also struck out leaked internal memos of the election board that the petitioners sought to rely on in their case.
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The Supreme Court's opinion requires as much; it directs the parties to work out an approach that will accommodate petitioners' religious exercise.
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If you don't like what Ubisoft is doing in Far Cry 5, petitioners, why not just go and make your own game?
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Administrative lawsuits plummeted, causing a spike in petitioners — people who trekked to local or central government offices to appeal directly to the authorities.
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While the four liberals may side with the LGBTQ petitioners, it is unclear if one of the five conservative justices will join them.
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Journalists were not shown detention facilities and were only able to visit an empty reception hall for petitioners submitting written reports on graft.
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An unprepared court left several inmates and other petitioners in limbo because it wasn't able catch up with the changes in the law.
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Pravritti has enlisted lawyers including prominent Supreme Court advocate Menaka Guruswamy, and has raised funds internally to cover legal fees, the petitioners said.
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The paucity of petitioners for FDA's permission to try experimental drugs and the narratives described by patients or family members support this belief.
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Lawyers for petitioners seeking to scrap the 157-year-old law have argued that sexual orientation is an intrinsic part of individual identity.
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"Petitioners have not satisfied the stringent requirements for a stay pending court review," the court's three-judge panel wrote in the brief order.
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"This is a historic judgment," said Zakia Soman, a founder of a Muslim women's group and one of the petitioners in the case.
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Petitioners had claimed that Kenya's election commission had not acted impartially and had not followed the Constitution properly when it organized the Oct.
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The ruling is a landmark victory for gay rights advocates, including dozens of petitioners who joined the case despite the threat of prosecution.
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The petitioners who sought trade relief, U.S.-based solar manufacturers Suniva and SolarWorld, had asked for the equivalent of a 50 percent tariff.
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The most recent court ruled the petitioners failed to prove their case; a 4-4 Supreme Court vote would mean that decision remains.
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They create algorithms that look for suspicious patterns in social media use and computer-vision software to track minorities and petitioners across cities.
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"USCIS field offices will send notices to applicants and petitioners with scheduled appointments and naturalization ceremonies impacted by this closure," the agency announced.
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The petitioners pointed to Section 377's long history as a cover for blackmail, harassment and sexual assault against gay and transgender Indians.
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"The Governmental Petitioners challenge the Preemption Directive on the ground that it exceeds the Commission's statutory authority," the judges wrote in the opinion.
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While the petitioners' arguments are grounded in First Amendment protections, the union's legal position that mandatory dues promote "labor peace" is empirically unsupportable.
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The immigration process, unlike the criminal legal process, puts the entire burden of proving the validity of an applicant's claim on the petitioners.
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The law "is an extreme and irrational outlier that does not even make sense on its own terms", the lawyers for the petitioners write.
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"The T. Rowe Petitioners' shares do not qualify for appraisal," Judge Travis Laster of Delaware's Court of Chancery wrote in a 70-page opinion.
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The police even paid a "lost-work fee" to those petitioners who negotiated for a compensation of income they were forgoing during the trip.
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The petitioners, Yasmeen Peerzade and her husband Zuber Peerzade, said that women were allowed to enter mosques during the time of the Prophet Mohammad.
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The petitioners say the entire oil industry has much to lose—"hundreds of millions," according to them—if the Supreme Court doesn't do this.
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Using role-playing, the workshops attempt to show them what women face at home and how not to close their doors to female petitioners.
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The petitioners were the Center for International Law (Centerlaw), a rights advocacy group, and the Free Legal Assistance Group, which represents low-income clients.
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But with nearly 9,000 petitioners for a commutation ahead of him, it could take years for federal law enforcement officials to decide his fate.
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At the heart of the displeasure of the petitioners is the simple fact that a for profit business will own the dot-org domain.
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The petitioners, however, argued that these weapons are commonly used for self-defense in the home and should be protected by the Second Amendment.
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However, USCIS justified the price hike by arguing the agency was almost exclusively funded through the fees paid by petitioners, and needed the cash infusion.
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The aim instead is to discuss the issues raised by the petitioners, ask questions on the government's position or press the government to take action.
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The 21-page court document, sent as a response from Britain's Brexit Minister David Davis, argued that the petitioners had failed to provide proper grounds.
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In a legal brief, the petitioners have argued that the FCC's decision would be like categorizing the road to a hotel as the hotel itself.
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Petitioners countered the top U.S. court's decision on same-sex marriage is poorly reasoned and the couples are not entitled to the spousal employment benefits.
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In a letter to the petitioners, the DEA said it had asked the Department of Health and Human Services for a scientific and medical evaluation.
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Two others won stays of execution from state courts, leaving six of the original petitioners currently in line for their executions to be carried out.
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In 2014, amended guidelines for petitioners instructed people to stay home and petition local officials with written letters, emails or through the online petitioning system.
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Whether the individual differences in price—$10 more for a piece metal that holds toilet paper—are significant or not doesn't matter, the petitioners argue.
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One Microsoft worker, speaking on condition of anonymity, said it was unclear whether any of the lead petitioners' work was part of the Army contract.
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The County of Santa Clara, the Santa Clara County Central Fire Protection District and the California Public Utilities Commission are also petitioners in the lawsuit.
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Keshav Suri, 33, a Delhi-based hotelier and one of the more than two dozen petitioners in the case, was feeling rather optimistic on Friday.
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" And when a lawyer appearing for India's government tried to cut off one of the petitioners' lawyers, Chief Justice Dipak Misra declared, "Let her speak!
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The scene evolves into near-bedlam, as the princess receives various petitioners and is entertained by an Italian tenor (here, Matthew Polenzani in fine voice).
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The judge's brief order states that she found that the petitioners have a "strong likelihood of success" on their equal protection and due process claims.
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The bid to replace "Advance Australia Fair" — the country's official national anthem since 1977 — was just supported by four petitioners but the government still acknowledged it.
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Among the organizations supporting the petitioners in court, the Internet Association (IA) represents dozens of top internet companies, including Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, Google, and eBay.
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Not for 1.5 million petitioners, not for tens of thousands of protesters in just about every British city, not for her own MPs, not for anyone.
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The petitioners seek to show that Britain can, if the case arises, change its mind about leaving the world's biggest trading bloc and do so alone.
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The agency cites precedent that it says gives it substantial leeway to make its decisions, and the petitioners will argue over how far those boundaries go.
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Finally, petitioners filed a petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus and a Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive relief with the federal court overnight in Boston, Massachusetts.
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The list of petitioners includes well-known figures such as dancer Navtej Johar, trans activist Akkai Padmashali, chef Ritu Dalmia, and a hotelier named Keshav Suri.
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"A state court's ultimate obligation is to the Constitution, not to the jargon and innovations created by Supreme Court justices," the petitioners said in court papers.
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The petitioners in the January hearing have demanded an immediate production halt, at least until the court has made a final decision on the production plan.
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Physical attacks on and criminal prosecution of journalists, lawyers, writers, bloggers, dissidents, petitioners, and others as well as their family members; Severe restrictions of religious freedom.
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"Everyone's trying to manage expectations and be cautiously hopeful," said Gautam Bhan, one of the petitioners and an LGBT activist in Delhi ahead of Tuesday's hearing.
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The judgment said there was "no reason to doubt the statements of sitting judges" and the intent of the petitioners had been to "malign the judiciary".
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The IIT-associated petitioners represent a pan-IIT group of around 350, largely comprising gay men, called "Pravritti" - which in Sanskrit roughly translates to "different thoughts".
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The petitioners say they are "life-affirming pregnancy centers" that offer a variety of medical and counseling services for pregnant women to consider options to abortion.
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The petitioners had argued, amongst other reasons, that the outcome should be voided because the election board did not seek fresh nominations after the earlier Aug.
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Wen Fa is an attorney with Pacific Legal Foundation, a nonprofit organization that defends individual liberty and represented the Minnesota Voters Alliance petitioners free of charge.
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Some of the Central American petitioners may be released on humanitarian parole; others are likely to be held in detention pending resolution of their asylum claims.
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"We have consistently argued that petitioners inappropriately sought to use Section 1782 to reach a foreign company's documents related to a foreign transaction," the statement said.
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"The court also said the freedom of press is impacted by the shutdown," Vrinda Grover, an advocate representing petitioners, which include journalists and civil society members.
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Courts around the country have consistently and squarely rejected it, along with every other attempt by petitioners to second-guess arbitration decisions upholding NFL player discipline.
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And at the hearing, Justice Indu Malhotra noted that homosexuality has been observed in animals, a remark that was interpreted as sympathetic to the petitioners' case.
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China has made a series of efforts to reform the system by cracking down on illegal imprisonment of petitioners and pushing for the process to go online.
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Jonathan Mitchell, a petitioners' lawyer, told the Texas court it should be up to the state to decide whether to extend spousal benefits to same-sex couples.
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Agatone and her co-petitioners, Elisabetta Canitano, Concetta Grande, and Giovanna Scassellati are lone figures who have been fighting back against Italy's anti-abortion culture for years.
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A panel of three judges has now referred the petition within the Supreme Court said Anand Grover, lawyer for the Naz Foundation Trust, one of the petitioners.
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"Expenses amounting to [$290,000] will now be paid to Scottish Ministers by the Petitioners," a spokesman for the government said in a statement, according to the newspaper.
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They are places to which petitioners — many of whom have fled persecution and are seeking asylum — can turn to be heard in a respectful and impartial manner.
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Not Madame Tussauds New York, which threw a Paul Giamatti-themed party on March 25 — and promised to cast him in wax if petitioners get 500,000 signatures.
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The petitioners asked the court to restore the full powers of Parliament, which has been largely blocked from functioning by a Netanyahu ally, Yuli Edelstein, the speaker.
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The court also said that grooms will now have to disclose their marital status, Aynun Nahar Siddiqua, one of the lawyers representing the case's petitioners, told CNN.
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The petitioners, two former ministers of Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and an activist lawyer, had argued that the escalating price of the deal should be investigated.
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"Beyond Dr. Salgado's blatant disrespect for trans people, his public vulgarity, lack of professionalism, and questionable ethics around patient privacy must be immediately addressed," the petitioners wrote.
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Since the Little Sisters of the Poor (nuns who run nursing homes)—along with dozens of other Christian charities and schools—complained that their religious liberty was illegally impinged by having to notify the government of their conscientious objection, the justices asked the parties to consider "whether and how contraceptive coverage may be obtained by petitioners' employees through petitioners' insurance companies" without "any involvement" of the religious employers.
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Cissna's email also told USCIS staff that they're not supposed to call applicants "customers" anymore because their real customers aren't immigrants — they're the American people: Referring to applicants and petitioners for immigration benefits, and the beneficiaries of such applications and petitions, as 'customers' promotes an institutional culture that emphasizes the ultimate satisfaction of applicants and petitioners, rather than the correct adjudication of such applications and petitions according to the law.
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It has also been willing to streamline the process for petitioners, who used to be forced to make entirely new arguments each and every time they requested exemptions.
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Last week, a group of petitioners filed a complaint against the US at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights for violating migrants' human rights by separating families.
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The petitioners demand drilling be stopped immediately, or at least capped at 12 bcm per year, a level the Dutch gas regulator last year said would limit risks.
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"Even if they are removed, petitioners' generalized evidence of Indonesia's conditions do not prove that persecution or torture is immediate or likely for each petitioner," the motion said.
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Along with dozens of other petitioners, he camps out in a park and tunnel behind Yongdingmen -- once the front gate on Beijing's now mostly destroyed ancient city wall.
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S. producers of cells and modules cannot come close to satisfying U.S. demand, and the draconian remedies the petitioners propose would cripple the U.S. market and U.S. demand.
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Twenty-five GOP signatures are needed if every Democrat in the House backs the petition, meaning the petitioners may just need another four signatures to reach their goal.
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But the petitioners say not only is it unsafe to deed the property back to the American Legion, the monument is falling apart and in need of repair.
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Jerry Hart, one of John Wiegert's co-petitioners on the anti-immigration ordinance, was a regular, and confrontational, presence on a Facebook group called Fremont City Council Watchdog.
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" He added: "Industry petitioners focus on the reduction in hazardous air pollutant emissions attributable to the regulations, which amount to only $4 to $6 million dollars each year.
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Petitioners challenged Section 377 earlier this year, noting that it has long been used as a cover for blackmail, harassment and sexual assault against gay and transgender Indians.
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Though most of the petitioners are financially independent, protections that insulate them from the dangers that many gay Indians face, public opinion has slowly shifted in some places.
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But even if the petitioners don't get everything they want, they believe it's an important step in changing the way jurists around the world think of climate change.
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"This failure creates a verifiable and imminent risk to the violation of the right to a clean and healthy environment of the petitioners and residents," the judgment said.
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"It is not only about decriminalising but recognising our fundamental rights," Akhilesh Godi, one of the petitioners in the case, told Reuters shortly before the judgement was announced.
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"They started off saying 'I'm really important, I'm a critical need, there's no way this administration, who loves me, is going to hurt me,'" Goldenberg said about the petitioners.
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The artist was born in the city in 1971, and, petitioners contend, would probably be better for the country's psyche some dude who wanted to burn it all down.
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A lawsuit filed by the Sierra Club and a group of petitioners from California argues that the EPA has failed in its legal responsibility to regulate three air pollutants.
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There is currently a case in the nation's high court challenging the constitutionality of those penal codes, which petitioners say are colonial holdovers that haven't been amended since 1967.
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The FCC's main point in the hearing was that the net neutrality rules harmed broadband investment, and that the repeal improved the market — an analysis the petitioners strongly reject.
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Judge Elizabeth Barnes ruled that the petitioners presented no evidence of the risk of death from an accidental pipeline leak, and failed to demonstrate a need for immediate relief.
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"We are pleased that the court has rejected petitioners' attempts to block the Clean Power Plan from moving forward while litigation proceeds," said Josh Earnest, the White House spokesman.
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U.S. immigration authorities said the Premium Processing Service of H-1B visas, which allowed petitioners to pay extra $1,225 to request faster approval, will be not available this year.
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That uncertainty saddles petitioners or their attorneys (if they can afford them) with the additional challenge of instructing skeptical or hesitant judges on the finer points of the law.
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However, the court declared that environmental approvals that the petitioners had said should be canceled were valid, thereby allowing construction more than 200 feet from protected monuments to proceed.
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The Supreme Court instructed Priests for Life and the other 36 petitioners to sit down and work out with the Obama administration a mutually acceptable revision to the mandate.
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Quinn, but the justices declined to answer the central question over agency fees' constitutionality, and instead ruled 5-4 that the petitioners in the case were not public employees.
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E-petition debates act as general debates, for MPs to weigh in on the concerns raised by petitioners, and potentially ask questions about the government's position on the topic.
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Johnny's legal docs explain, "For privacy reasons, this exhibit is being served on petitioners [Amber and team] and will be supplied to the court at the time of hearing."
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"The argument that the petitioners are making [is] that the law calls for physical force, and so if it's not seriously physically violent, then that shouldn't count," she said.
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"Petitioners,'' the court wrote, "have failed to meet their burden of proving that the 2011 Plan, as a piece of legislation, clearly, plainly, and palpably violates the Pennsylvania Constitution.
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Kremlin-watchers often liken his performance, which this year spanned almost 80 questions, to that of a tsar listening to his petitioners as he promises to fix individuals' problems.
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One Microsoft worker, speaking on condition of anonymity, said it was unclear whether any of the lead petitioners' work touches the Army contract because the company's services are intertwined.
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"Despite petitioners having demonstrated the Government violated their rights under the CVRA, in the end they are not receiving much, if any, of the relief they sought," Marra wrote.
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But that, the petitioners argue, set off a global race to the bottom on price, as manufacturers opened factories in other low-cost countries, leading to the current case.
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"Indeed, petitioners and their allies have made perfectly clear that they seek a partner in a 'project' to expand the Second Amendment and thwart gun safety regulations," wrote Sen.
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Arif Jafar, one of the current group of petitioners whose case the Supreme Court ruled on, was arrested in 2001 under Section 377 and spent 49 days in jail.
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Three of the child petitioners from the Marshall Islands urged world leaders to visit their country to see firsthand how the rising seas are swallowing the central Pacific islands.
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"Despite Petitioners having demonstrated the Government violated their rights under the CVRA, in the end they are not receiving much, if any, of the relief they sought," Marra wrote.
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"We're asking the courts to declare the entire case annulled and give compensation to the petitioners who [were] subjected to degrading treatment by the state," Gitari said in November.
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"Given the gravity of the dispute and the substantial clarification and refinement in the positions of the parties, the parties on remand should be afforded an opportunity to arrive at an approach going forward that accommodates petitioners' religious exercise while at the same time ensuring that women covered by petitioners' health plans 'receive full and equal health coverage, including contraceptive coverage,' " the court said, quoting from a brief filed by the government.
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"The 2013 land acquisition law clearly stated no private land could be purchased unless there is an overwhelming public interest," said Prashant Bhushan, a lawyer who is representing the petitioners.
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Where it stands: The two petitioners, U.S. uranium producers with operations across the West, including Colorado and Wyoming, are asking the administration to impose a 25% quota for domestic uranium.
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Thirty-five-year-old Shayara Bano has emerged as the face of the campaign against triple talaq as one of the two individual petitioners in a case—Shayara Bano vs.
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While prosecutors in all 42 courts surveyed had Ethernet access to the internet, only two courts provided Wi-Fi access, and virtually no court provided internet access to petitioners' attorneys.
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Non-profit religious organizations can also opt out, but have to fill in a form — the petitioners say that's not good enough, and essentially makes them complicit in providing contraception.
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The petitioners argue that surveillance scores (and specifically customer value scores) meet the definition of "unfair or deceptive acts or practices" under Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commissions Act.
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This generates deep resentment, and is the reason why thousands of petitioners journey to Beijing each year to complain to the central government rather than bother using the local courts.
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Wen Fa and Deborah J. La Fetra are attorneys with Pacific Legal Foundation, a nonprofit organization that defends individual liberty and represents the Minnesota Voters Alliance petitioners free of charge.
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"This shows that the EPA can't just ignore the science that this pesticide damages children's brains," Marisa Ordonia, a lawyer for Earthjustice, which represented the petitioners, said in an interview.
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Boxed In: Last week, SCOTUS said that it would take on a gerrymandering case from Wisconsin where petitioners have alleged the Republicans unfairly created districts to give them more power.
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The more than two dozen petitioners, who included gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people, could have been rounded up and arrested simply for identifying themselves as gay and coming forward.
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Eventually, Obama got fed up and forced through over 1,700 commutations by cranking the broken machine harder and attempting to marshal an army of volunteer lawyers to advocate for petitioners.
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He also colluded with a small group of lawyers, "individuals engaged in illegal religious activities" and "professional petitioners" to attack the constitutionally based system, the court said in its ruling.
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The seven House managers whom Speaker Nancy Pelosi named last week are now basically petitioners, coming in to make their arguments before senators whose votes may be fixed by partisanship.
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He also said people could submit a Freedom of Information Act request but joked that it took so long that petitioners should be required to also submit their life expectancy.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday issued instructions to better resolve the grievances of the country's petitioners, urging officials to fix disputes locally before they evolve into bigger problems.
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Despite international criticism, petitioners are often forced home or held in "black jails", unlawful secret detention facilities where detainees can be subjected to beatings, sleep and food deprivation and psychological abuse.
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"But even if one woman is divorced in this manner, it is a problem," said Noorjehan Niaz of Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan, one of the petitioners in the Supreme Court case.
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The lawsuit from the attorneys general says it was filed "out of an abundance of caution," as the petitioners say the FCC's rule should be officially published before lawsuits are brought.
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Every Monday and Thursday at the clubhouse in the West 40s, which for some time shared its premises with the funeral home, all sorts of petitioners would come through the door.
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The movement to end the tax has taken on an international flavor as well, with petitioners demanding to know why things like Viagra and liquor constitute essentials while tampons do not.
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The petitioners alleged that supplies of the gas imported from China are being sold for less than fair value, and are seeking dumping margins of 150 percent to over 200 percent.
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The discussions are being monitored by the courts, and both the government and we the petitioners periodically update the court and ask for more time to arrive at a final proposal.
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First, petitioners (enviro and clean energy groups, and others) will ask for a rehearing of the CASPR case; if it doesn't go their way, that will likely end up in court.
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Lawyers for the elections commission replied that the petitioners did not have any evidence and asked that the court lift its stay so that the commission could organize the second round.
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"Accepting petitioners' position would eliminate a valuable tool needed to compromise a small category of cases where the administrative costs of direct payments to class members are prohibitive," Google's brief said.
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A court spokesman said the solicitor general had been ordered to submit police and other reports on the killings to the Supreme Court within 60 days and to copy the petitioners.
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The petitioners got the attention of Arthur Blank, the Home Depot co-founder and Atlanta Falcons owner, by sending his staff news of how boxes of papers with signatures were mounting.
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The state Supreme Court had said some of the petitioners Lamborn hired to collect signatures to qualify for the ballot were not bona fide residents of Colorado, violating state election laws.
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"Definitely there will be action but we haven't decided (what it will be) yet," said Greenpeace campaigner Leonora Lava, adding that it would discuss options with other petitioners and allied groups.
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But some of the most effective advocacy has come from pint-size petitioners who spent nothing at all: children with serious medical needs who told their stories to members of Congress.
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While some cities have taken down these monuments without erecting anything in their place, petitioners hope that Elliott can provide the kind of unifying, hoverboard hopping energy the city needs to heal.
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Alito repeatedly pressed a lawyer for the LGBTQ petitioners if they were "trying to change the meaning of what Congress understood sex to mean" when it passed the law 55 years ago.
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This is in part, he said, because the two petitioners narrowly defined solar manufacturers in the case, excluding companies that make solar panels using exported cells or producers of solar tracking equipment.
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The agency will work closely with the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security "to ensure no interruption in the provision of immigration services to affected applicants and petitioners," Collins added.
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Nevada, unlike many other states that allow for recalls, doesn't require that the petitioners demonstrate malfeasance on the part of the targeted lawmaker or state any reason for the campaign at all.
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Mélanie Joly, the federal minister for Canadian heritage, said the government had heard "loud and clear" the voices of some 89 petitioners, including major production groups and the provincial government of Quebec.
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The US attorney's office tried to argue that the "immediate custodian rule" applied in this situation, but Judge Goldsmith rejected this argument because "petitioners have demonstrated extraordinary circumstances," according to court documents.
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The National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, one of the petitioners against the law, has recorded more than 1,500 such attacks against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Kenyans since 2014.
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A federal appeals court ruled against the petitioners, arguing that Congress could deny review for those who have been denied initial entry into the country who were apprehended close to the border.
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"I'll have to check that," said Putin, who fielded almost 70 questions in just under four hours, in an event that Kremlin watchers often liken to a tsar listening to his petitioners.
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If the petitioners — a gun advocacy group along with three of these individuals — prevail, those with premises licenses will be allowed to take their handguns with them to out-of-town ranges.
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Lawyers representing the petitioners before the Supreme Court argued that Section 377 was not in keeping with a ruling last year that guaranteed the constitutional right to privacy, including for gay people.
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"This court should not allow petitioners to leapfrog lower court consideration," Ken Paxton, Texas' attorney general, said in the court filing, adding that the case was "unripe for review" at this time.
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An economist testifying in support of the petitioners, Andrew Szamosszegi of Capital Trade, offered evidence of a relationship between the glut, particularly in China, and a steep drop in prices last year.
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Almost every day, Trump presents the image of a brash CEO surrounded by subordinates or petitioners, in Oval Office photo ops, Cabinet meetings and trips to visit the military and disaster workers.
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The opinion is a victory for both women and religious liberty, and proves, as petitioners and their allies have suggested all along, that compromise is possible even on this hot-button issue.
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The regulations say that petitioners have to wait at least five years from the date they're released from prison, or the date of their conviction if they aren't sentenced to any jail time.
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"'That dreadful apology' has already changed the narrative, reassured those of our petitioners who might choose to keep petitioning and brought us absolution from most moderates," she wrote, according to the Yale newspaper.
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Though he lost his most recent parliamentary election, he still spends several hours a day receiving petitioners who wait on his terrace, bringing him their problems and occasionally asking him to settle disputes.
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On Saturday, her lawyers withdrew her state suit, saying petitioners "are regular citizens of ordinary means" and cannot afford to pay the $1 million bond the court required for the recount to proceed.
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Scottish National Party, Liberal Democrat, Labour and Plaid Cymru MPs are all petitioners in the case, as well as Jolyon Maugham QC, director of the Good Law Project, which is supporting the case.
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The petitioners make the powerful argument that the BPCIA does not require a biosimilar applicant to give a notice of commercial marketing on the approval date, causing the unnecessary six-month marketing delay.
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The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday rejected two challenges to the U.S. Labor Department's appointment of administrative law judges, finding the petitioners had waited too long to raise the issue.
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In stepping forward, Ms. Kapur, 43, and other petitioners admitted to the court that they were criminals under a law routinely used as a cover to harass, blackmail and sexually assault gay people.
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As such, we support the right of anti-hunting petitioners to protest our convention, but we hope they understand how much more they could achieve by working with us instead of against us.
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Petitioners in the case — two American affiliates of overseas solar equipment manufacturers — are seeking steep tariffs on foreign-made cells and modules to counteract the low price of imports, often from Chinese manufacturers.
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" Paul Clement, representing the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association and other petitioners, called the attempts to change the law "the product of an acknowledged City-orchestrated effort to frustrate this Court's review.
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The petitioners claimed that the way districts in the state are drawn dilutes the power of their vote in favor of people living in cities, which have larger minority and non-voting populations.
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The anti-Brexit petitioners aim to show that Britain has a legal unilateral option of staying in the EU, the world's biggest trading bloc, once the outcome of the Brexit negotiations is known.
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The anti-Brexit petitioners aim to show that Britain has a legal unilateral option of staying in the world's biggest trading bloc once it is known what the outcome of Brexit negotiations is.
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The petition also cites differences in prices between items on Home Depot's website, such as a bucket of paint that petitioners say was priced at $62.96 for them and $59.87 for an anonymous user.
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But the petitioners' stance is even more problematic when it comes to religious non-profits that provide their employees with health insurance not through an insurance company but through a third-party administrator (TPA).
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Herbosa, Et Al., G.R. No. 207246 * SC dismisses petitions filed by Jose M. Roy III & other petitioners-in-intervention against chairperson Teresita Herbosa of Securities & Exchange Commission Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage:
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Gay sex is considered taboo by many in socially conservative India, and despite opposition to lifting the ban from other petitioners and some lawmakers, activists were hopeful of a positive judgment after Thursday's hearing.
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The petitioners argue that the EPA's Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule, which it finalized in June, will not curb rising carbon emissions from power plants and will prolong the operation of dirtier coal plants .
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The signatures were rejected on a technicality (the petitioners didn't have each page notarized), but they may appeal — and the sheer number of signatures collected suggests that they have good reason to try again.
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Two Unnamed Petitioners, No. 15-1416 — the state's attorney general, Brad D. Schimel, said the Wisconsin Legislature had codified the State Supreme Court's interpretation of the law, meaning that there was nothing to review.
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"There is no intention to violate or wound religious sentiments or the tribal rights of any person and the petitioners are only intending to participate in a trek without infringing any rights," it read.
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Colorado Rising has sent petitioners out in multiple communities, but claims it has been the subject of an organized harassment campaign, in which young men appear as soon as a canvasser hits the street.
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The latest petition essentially asks Kenya's highest court to rule whether a vote on Thursday could still be deemed credible after Mr. Chebukati's comments, according to Haron M. Ndubi, the lawyer representing the petitioners.
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Some petitioners said Starbucks had not boosted pay for existing workers in areas where minimum wages have increased - creating a situation where new hires are paid about the same wage as more experienced peers.
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Petitioners Suniva and SolarWorld have said they cannot compete with the influx of cheap imports, mostly from Chinese producers, which has caused solar panel prices to drop more than 30 percent since early 2016.
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"Alongside fellow petitioners, we are filing for rehearing in response to the D.C. Circuit decision on net neutrality handed down in October," Amy Keating, the chief legal officer at Mozilla, said in a statement.
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"Petitioners' contentions regarding the indirect effect of increased exports on upstream natural gas production resemble those rejected in Sierra Club (Freeport) and Sierra Club (Sabine Pass)," the court said, citing its cases from June.
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Petitioners including art handlers and facilities staff working in construction will join Local 30, a chapter of the International Union of Operating Engineers also representing installers and maintenance workers at New York's MoMA PS1.
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Petitioners including art handlers and facilities staff working in construction will join Local 30, a chapter of the International Union of Operating Engineers also representing installers and maintenance workers at New York's MoMA PS19473.
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Evelyne Opondo, Africa director of the Center for Reproductive Rights, which is representing the petitioners in the court case, said JMM's post-abortion care was a direct consequence of Kenya's crackdown on safe abortion services.
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The "new state law is itself the product of an acknowledged City-orchestrated effort to frustrate this Court's review," wrote Paul Clement, a lawyer for the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association and independent petitioners.
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Hotel floors were locked down by the official secret service; the corridors were crammed with lines of petitioners and in one case a Wall Street boss gatecrashed the room in order to hug his idol.
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Under the rule, first proposed in May 2015, petitioners will be required to notify each state wildlife agency where a species is located at least 30 days before submitting a petition to the federal government.
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Chinese farmer burns to death in dispute over 'nail house' Begging and scavenging Some people have spent as many as 40 years in Beijing petitioning, according to Zhang, whose organization offers homeless petitioners legal advice.
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Along with six other petitioners, Little Sisters of the Poor — a Catholic order of nuns that operates nursing homes around the US — is demanding it also be allowed to opt out of providing such insurance.
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Under the legislation, petitioners must "establish by a preponderance of the evidence" that a person poses a threat by possessing or purchasing a gun and submit an affidavit signed under oath and penalty of perjury.
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Justice Mendez said that the lawyer's suspension and withdrawal from the case, "without seeking leave of the court and without notifying petitioners, demonstrates that there was no willful default or intent to abandon this matter."
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"Our people are lucky to live a traditional lifestyle in our homeland," says Alannah Hurley, executive director of the United Tribes of Bristol Bay, the original petitioners to the EPA to block the permitting process.
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"The risk that Petitioners will face a severe, and quite possibly fatal, infection if they remain in immigration detention constitutes irreparable harm warranting a TRO," US District Court Judge Analisa Torres wrote in her order.
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Ms. Guruswamy spoke of the decades-long relationship between two older petitioners, Navtej Singh Johar and Sunil Mehra, and the sacrifices they had made in their personal and professional lives to keep their partnership secret.
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The initial group of petitioners in the latest challenge included Mr. Johar, a dancer, and his partner, Mr. Mehra, a journalist; Ritu Dalmia, a celebrity chef; Ayesha Kapur, a businesswoman; and Aman Nath, a hotelier.
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Congress awarded Mr. De Laine a Gold Medal in 2004 (along with the Briggs petitioners Levi Pearson and Harry and Eliza Briggs), but a comparable gesture of recognition has never been made in South Carolina.
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"The court noted that the roll-out was rushed, agreeing with the assertions of the petitioners, and that the legislative framework for the program was inadequate," said George Kegoro, head of Kenya Human Rights Commission.
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"It empowers the woman by explaining that her financial circumstance does not make her unable to access alternative and supplemental care, including full prenatal and delivery care that Petitioners do not themselves supply," he said.
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"The national promotional focus over the past five years … has decimated [us] and left many franchisees unprofitable and even insolvent," petitioners complained in a letter to Subway late last year, protesting the revival of the deal.
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Andrea Ferrigno, the corporate vice president for Whole Woman's Health, the lead petitioners in the Supreme Court case, estimated that the cost per facility would range from $1.5 million to $2 million, not including purchasing property.
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A presiding judge said petitioners had failed to prove that LGBT people were specifically being discriminated against by the penal codes, or that LGBT people had been denied health care on the basis of their sexuality.
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Vice President of Original Series, Cindy Holland, rebutted the claims from fans and defended the streaming giant&aposs series against petitioners on Sunday during the 2018 Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour at The Beverly Hilton.
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The FCC repeal is also currently being challenged in the D.C. Circuit by dozens of petitioners, including the Mozilla Corporation, Public Knowledge, Free Press, the Open Technology Institute at New America, and 21 state attorneys general.
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Then I noticed on the pavement the familiar stack of official-looking documents often carried by petitioners, aggrieved Chinese citizens who travel to Beijing in the hopes of getting their voices heard by the country's leadership.
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Annulment generally requires a finding that one partner was "psychologically incapacitated" from the outset of the marriage — a standard so stringent that petitioners often pay psychologists or psychiatrists, lawyers and judges to manufacture the needed diagnoses.
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"I served my country with pride, and I should be treated just like my fellow veterans who have access to the treatment they need," Dee Fulcher, one of the petitioners, said in a written statement Tuesday.
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The board was immediately met with controversy as thousands of Google employees and hundreds of external petitioners took issue with one of the board's members, who they said had an "anti-trans" and "anti-immigrant" record.
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Devotees and petitioners in favour of the ban have contended that women should not be allowed inside the temple to prevent its deity Ayyappan from breaking the oath of celibacy he is believed to be observing.
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In their appeal to the state Supreme Court, the groups' lawyers argue that "petitioners and thousands of other rally participants will be irreparably denied their right to bear arms" if the ban is allowed to proceed.
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"I served my country with pride, and I should be treated just like my fellow veterans who have access to the treatment they need," Dee Fulcher, one of the petitioners, said in a written statement Tuesday.
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But last year the government began a pilot program to test alternatives, giving petitioners their liberty while their cases were being adjudicated, and providing them with better access to humanitarian aid and psychological and legal counseling.
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"Much ado was made about the recent federal election of a Republican President with an immigration agenda and petitioners' support of that president and the very public opposition of certain respondents," he wrote in his decision.
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" But in their writ of certiorari asking the court to hear the case, lawyers for the petitioners wrote that the state's "bans are inconsistent with the Second Amendment's text, history, and tradition and must be overturned.
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Burwell, the latest challenge to the Affordable Care Act's birth control mandate, remanding the issue to lower courts and instructing them to find a compromise that accommodates petitioners' religious liberty interests while protecting women's contraceptive coverage.
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Lawyers, defendants and witnesses appear only in partial view, blocked by walls or curtains, as the stern-faced magistrates, all middle-aged and wearing black robes with white neck bands, nod along or stare down petitioners.
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The anti-Brexit petitioners are hoping the ECJ will rule that Britain has a legal unilateral option of staying in the EU, the world's biggest trading bloc, once the final outcome of divorce negotiations are known.
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Oh, and there was also the *other *Spears-related petition last week, this one asking RCA to release the original version of her latest video, which has picked up plenty of press, even with just 13,879 petitioners.
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Some of the petitioners' qualms include the fact that God is voiced by a woman, the Antichrist is portrayed as a normal kid and the four riders of the Apocalypse are portrayed as a group of bikers.
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Gigi Sohn, an adviser to the petitioners in the case and former FCC senior adviser to Democratic Chairman Tom Wheeler, says in response that the FCC violated the letter of the law when it reclassified the service.
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Despite having received scholarships to some of the most elite institutions in the country, the petitioners from IIT said that they frequently considered leaving India for a country where same-sex love was not treated as criminal.
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Attorney General K.K. Venugopal argued that the documents published by The Hindu should not be examined by the court, which is considering petitioners' requests to review how the deal was awarded, as he says they were stolen.
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It's a tradition that continues to this day and many petitioners believe that the annual meeting of China's parliament -- the National People's Congress (NPC) that begins Saturday -- is the best chance to attract attention to their grievances.
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Lawyers for the petitioners, a former lawmaker and two human rights activists, urged the court to nullify the repeat poll due to a lack of fresh nominations for candidates and violence in some areas that prevented voting.
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The court said Ryan Tipple, one of the petitioners Lamborn hired to collect the the required signatures to qualify, was not a bona fide resident of Colorado, which is required by election law, making the signatures invalid.
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The petitioners allege that the five named countries have knowingly contributed to the climate crisis, which threatens children's lives with extreme weather, floods, wildfires, sea-level rise, the spread of mosquito-borne disease, and poor air quality.
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"Petitioners and the public have a strong interest in the court's mandate issuing promptly, due to the serious and irreparable harm and imminent threats to public health and safety that EPA's Delay Rule is causing," they wrote.
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"The Constitutional Court ordered the provisional relief requested by the petitioners," Guzman said, explaining that the decision hinged on a constitutional provision that prevents the president from making such decisions "without approval and knowledge" of the Congress.
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You should defend competitive elections with more choices instead of deriding candidates exercising their First Amendment rights of free speech, assembly and petition up against ballot access obstruction, harassment of signature-gathering petitioners and draining frivolous lawsuits.
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"We must observe, however, that E.P.A. has already taken eight years, wants to delay at least six more, and has disavowed any interest in working with petitioners to develop an appropriate timeline through mediation," the ruling said.
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" Appearing before the Supreme Court on behalf of five petitioners, Arvind Datar, a lawyer, drew upon last August's privacy ruling, arguing that the "right to choose my partner is a part of my fundamental right to privacy.
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"This is the beginning of a new phase ... for LGBT rights but that is in the future, today is a day of celebration for us," said lawyer Arundhati Katju, who represented the petitioners at the Supreme Court.
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"Settlers are now living on my land that they once claimed was absentee land, and now their own government is forcing them out," said Mr. Hamed, who was one of the original petitioners to the Supreme Court.
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Paul Clement, representing the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association and other petitioners advised the justices that they should be wary of an attempt to change the law, after the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case.
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"The significant delays in publicly posting product exclusion requests risk serious and permanent financial harm to many petitioners that, even in [the Department of Commerce's] judgment, should not be subject to the Section 85033 tariffs," they wrote.
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"The petitioners have a strong likelihood of success in establishing that the removal of the petitioner and other similarly situated violates their due process and equal protection guaranteed by the United States Constitution," Donnelly wrote in her decision.
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There are two major problems with this claim, and both were presented to the Supreme Court by the petitioners in the case, three women in office who would have been ineligible for their posts under the amended law.
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The 15 Supreme Court justices serve both as the Israeli legal system's final court of appeal, and as the High Court for Justice for petitioners against the government on administrative issues and against laws passed by the Knesset.
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A federal court said on Friday that petitioners — including tribes, nonprofits, and wireless carriers — were likely to prove that the commission's decision was "arbitrary and capricious," meaning that it failed to fully consider the changes it was making.
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The other petitioners are Americans for Clean Energy, American Coalition for Ethanol, Growth Energy, National Corn Growers Association, National Sorghum Producers, and the Renewable Fuels Association, the filing in the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. said.
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" But the Supreme Court's 3-judge panel ruled unanimously in favor of demolition: "The petitioners took the law into their own hands when they began and continued building structures without receiving a special permit from the military commander.
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Petitioners would have no legal obligation to provide such contraceptive coverage, would not pay for such coverage, and would not be required to submit any separate notice to their insurer, to the Federal Government, or to their employees.
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"These petitioners need to know the options for revocation which are open to withdrawing member states now, to allow them - properly and in a fully informed way - to carry out their duties as democratically elected representatives," he said.
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Most states do not have a minimum age for marriage if the child has parental or judicial consent, but USCIS admitted at a Committee staff briefing that visa petitioners do not have to prove parental or judicial consent.
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Outside the capital, the list includes not just activists but also petitioners ( fangmin )—ordinary people from rural villages or small towns who travel to voice their grievances to high government officials about local malfeasances they have suffered from.
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Section 377 can stay in place but the part that does not allow consenting adults to engage in gay sex needs to be taken out of its purview, said Sunil Fernandes, one of the lawyers representing the petitioners.
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First, negotiation with Congress, to change asylum law to override the court decisions currently tying up the Trump White House's attempts at deterrence — like the attempt to make Central American asylum petitioners wait out the process in Mexico.
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When one lawyer for the petitioners veered into a broader discussion, saying that "what happens in a bedroom is not the end-all, be-all," Chief Justice Misra swiftly steered him back to the constitutionality of Section 377.
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The U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board can no longer review only some of the patent claims challenged by petitioners in inter partes review (IPR) proceedings, the U.S. Supreme Court said on Tuesday in a 5-4 decision.
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But it would be a mistake to paint this case as a clear-cut conflict between women and religious employers; indeed, many of the petitioners, including a group of nuns, the Little Sisters of the Poor, are women.
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Liberia's Supreme Court, guarded its judicial independence, took in the arguments, but also gave due consideration to a benchmark, not so demanded in the Kenya court, that the petitioners had to demonstrate that irregularities affected the final results.
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Many of the tightened security measures target migrants, with ID checks at metro stations and patrols outside government ministries to ensure any petitioners from out of town are rounded up immediately should they attempt to make a scene.
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As they see it, the petitioners aren't fighting the part of the law that compels them to provide employees with birth control — they merely object to having to participate in the process that allows them to bypass the law.
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In January bosses at an industrial park in the coastal province of Fujian met to discuss two main topics: progress with saohei and how to control petitioners in order to prevent "sudden incidents" during the Chinese new-year holiday.
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" The official added that while petitioners "must... be willing to help law enforcement authorities in the investigation and prosecution of the criminal activity," the agency "does not place the petitioner in front of adjudicating officers to recount their experiences.
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If the court overrules Abood, as the petitioners in this case are asking, it will disrupt the careful balance it has struck concerning public employees' constitutional rights in the workplace and turn every workplace dispute into a constitutional case.
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Sadly, some of the petitions were denied while many remain unanswered, leaving the petitioners and the many interested parties without answers, wondering where is the justice, where is the fairness in the secret deliberations on the applications for liberty.
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It rejected the demand of one of the lawyers of petitioners favoring Section 377 for a referendum, saying questions of violations of fundamental rights could not be subject to the long-winding decision-making process of a majoritarian government.
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"Petitioners and the public have a strong interest in the court's mandate issuing promptly, due to the serious and irreparable harm and imminent threats to public health and safety that EPA's Delay Rule is causing," they wrote in August.
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Two of the three sites that petitioners asked Squarespace to drop in August — Richard Spencer's Radix Journal and National Policy Institute — now redirect to generic Squarespace "claim this domain" space; the third, Identity Evropa, no longer includes Squarespace source code.
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"The government want us to believe that you either accept the deal on offer or you crash out on March 29 2019 with no deal" said Joanna Cherry QC, one of the petitioners and lawmaker for the Scottish National Party.
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The Madras high court recently began hearing a case filed by two petitioners asking the country to force people to link their WhatsApp accounts to their Aadhaar, India's controversial biometric ID number for nearly all of the country's 1.4 billion residents.
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Fortune came under fire this week for its decision to interview former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen at its Most Powerful Women summit, after Hillary Clinton dropped out and thousands of petitioners argued Nielsen used the opportunity to rehabilitate her image.
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"Petitioners are ostensibly being held in connection with an ever-expanding 'war' against terrorism involving new actors bearing no actual connection to Al Qaeda or 9/11, which appears to have neither geographic, durational nor organizational constraints," the lawyers wrote.
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There's one good reason for that — petitioners have to be Netflix subscribers to access the form, so the company already knows they're hearing from their own fan base, not just whoever wants to gripe about a cancelled show on social media.
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"EPA has determined that their objections must be denied because the data available are not sufficiently valid, complete or reliable to meet petitioners' burden to present evidence demonstrating that the tolerances are not safe," the agency said in a statement Thursday.
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The ruling in India enabled transgender people equal access to education, health care and employment, as well as protection from discrimination, with Sawant being one of the original petitioners to challenge the government, resulting in the passage of the law.
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"What I and ... the other petitioners have instructed our lawyers to do is to seek a continuation of the case until the end of the week to keep a watching brief over matters," Scottish National Party lawmaker Joanna Cherry told ITV.
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Most notably, while petitioners claim that setting emission limits based on "generation shifting" from higher-polluting to low- or non-polluting sources of electricity is "unambiguously foreclosed by ... nearly a half century of consistent administrative practice," this simply isn't true.
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The petitioners point to research described last year in the Wall Street Journal that shows high "fraud scores" may be attached to customers who purchase items "without checking the return policy" and those who pay extra for the fastest shipping option.
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" "Although we are grateful for the Mayor's gesture," the post continues, "we are also displeased that the wishes of over 20,000 petitioners, activists, and legislators who strongly objected to the monument's presence [in] our neighborhood have not been fully acknowledged.
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The office recently informed 180 petitioners that they would not be granted clemency at this time, a White House official confirmed to CNN, but the administration has said it will continue to review pardons and make decisions on a rolling basis.
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At the arguments in March, several justices indicated that they thought the accommodation violated the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act because it allowed the government to "hijack" the insurance plans of the religious groups that were the petitioners in the case.
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The petitioners argue that article 140 of the constitution, which sets the term limits, is "unfair to the great Egyptian people" and that eight years gives a president little time to deal with the economic and security challenges facing the country.
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The Supreme Court ruled that if the material was strategic in nature or involved national security, the government might choose not to reveal it to the petitioners, but will instead have to furnish it to the court in a sealed package.
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Carl W. Tobias, a professor at the University of Richmond School of Law, said that all the dissenting judges found that the petitioners lacked standing to bring the case and that Justices Goodwyn and Powell also disagreed on the merits.
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Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) is channeling Trump's pledge to "drain the swamp" with an eponymous tongue-in-cheek bill introduced on Thursday: the DRAIN the SWAMP Act (Deter Revolving-Door Appointments in Our Nation; Stop Washington Appointees From Becoming Manipulative Petitioners).
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Faisal Chaudhry, a lawyer for one of the 17 opposition party petitioners who sought Sharif's removal as party head, said the court decision invalidated all of Sharif's decisions since last July, including the candidates he nominated for the Senate election.
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"We are seeking additional time to review the program, so that we can fully evaluate the public comments raised by multiple petitioners and consider other issues that may benefit from additional public input," Pruitt said in a statement on Monday.
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"A sad day for the rule of law and human rights," said Eric Gitari, a co-founder of the National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, a Kenyan civil rights group, who was one of the petitioners in the case.
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The Madras high court recently began hearing a case filed by two petitioners asking the country to force people to link their WhatsApp accounts to their Aadhaar, India's controversial biometric ID number for nearly all of the country's 230 billion residents.
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India has been much slower than some other countries to allow gay people to live full and open lives, and in arguments before the court in July, lawyers for the petitioners challenging the law tried to make clear the broader issue.
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Katie Wenetta, a treasurer for a political committee called Montanans for Conservation, told Commissioner of Political Practices Jeff Mangan in an email that the state's Republican Party contracted a company called Advanced Micro Targeting to hire petitioners, according to the newspaper.
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Why China has so few female leaders Old case resurfaces Yue said she is one of eight petitioners who demanded information and transparency on a sexual harassment investigation into a PKU literature professor whose student committed suicide 20 years ago.
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"What I and ... the other petitioners have instructed our lawyers to do is to seek a continuation of the case until the end of the week to keep a watching brief over matters," Scottish National Party lawmaker Joanna Cherry told ITV.
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The petitioners pointed out that rival companies Samsung and Vizio offered support for AirPlay 2 and HomeKit for their older models via firmware updates, perhaps exerting some pressure on LG to make Apple TV available to its recent older models.
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This made it all the more charming to learn there are 360 churches on the island, many of them little chapels built by petitioners who had received the prosperity they had prayed for — a kind of Greek Orthodox ex voto.
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"Petitioners acted not based on the design of the requested cake or the message it might have conveyed, but based on a blanket policy of refusing to sell a wedding cake of any kind to any same-sex couple," it said.
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"Most of the members of the Sengwer community are hiding in the forest, staying in caves and other highly vulnerable places exposed to the dangers of wild animals and vagaries of the weather," 21 Sengwer petitioners said in court documents.
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Under the policy, which is intended to discourage Central Americans from migrating to the United States and to ease pressure on the asylum system, the petitioners would be required to remain in Mexico while they await the outcome of their cases.
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"What the petitioners are seeking is advice that, were a certain set of circumstances to come about, there is an alternative option that could be pursued given the political will to do so," judge Colin Boyd said in his ruling.
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Burroughs said that her order applied to the petitioners in the case as well as those similarly situated including lawful permanent residents, citizens, visa-holders, approved refugees, and other individuals from nations who are subject to the January 27, 2017, executive order.
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There also "exists the risk that petitioners have credible fears regarding a removal from the United States, should any petitioner be sent to a country where he or she has previously been the subject to or threatened with persecution," the lawsuit said.
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"The petitioners have a strong likelihood of success in establishing that the removal of the petitioner and other similarly situated violates their due process and equal protection guaranteed by the United States Constitution," US District Judge Ann Donnelly wrote in her decision.
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"The petitioners have a strong likelihood of success in establishing that the removal of the petitioner and others similarly situated violates their due process and equal protection guaranteed by the United States Constitution," US District Judge Ann Donnelly wrote in her decision.
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The petitioners say they want to trigger an article in the new European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requiring an EU-wide investigation, making it a test case for a new European Data Protection Board created to give the privacy regime more teeth.
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There it was delivered a sound drubbing: the judges basically handed the industry's arguments back to them, saying "nice try": Petitioners and their amici offer various grounds for distinguishing broadband service from other kinds of common carriage, none of which we find persuasive.
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"It's important that we recognize that the court has upheld the petitioners and recognized that triple talaq is unconstitutional and not integral to the practice of Islam, which was also an issue in the debates leading up to this case," Agnihotri adds.
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The collection of suits were filed as a consolidated suit in both D.C. and San Francisco, and were eventually punted to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in D.C. following an appeal from the petitioners to have the location moved from San Francisco.
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Those demands are "impossible" to meet and the strategy seems to be a "moving target from petitioners to blow the deal," the source said, adding that the demands included conditions on the right of first refusal that would be difficult to meet.
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"The exemption does not just apply to churches, it applies to religious orders, and if my clients just stuck to their knitting and not help the elderly poor, they could qualify," Noel Francisco, one of the lawyers representing the petitioners, said Wednesday.
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Petitioners, who represent Scottish voters, successfully argued to the Scottish court that if parliament is to vote on the government's eventual Brexit deal, it needs legal certainty on whether the process can be reversed without permission from the other 27 EU states.
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Here's an idea: If President Trump really wants to make a point about the failings of his opponents, he should go big and grant commutations to the thousands of deserving petitioners who were denied or not ruled upon during the Obama administration.
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"Petitioners will show that the final rule is in excess of the agency's statutory authority, goes beyond the bounds set by the United States Constitution, and otherwise arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion and not in accordance with law," the lawsuit read.
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"We are listening to an argument by petitioners alleging that the carbon majors are contributing to climate change which in turn is impacting negatively on the human rights of Filipino people," says Roberto Cadiz, who leads the Philippine Commission on Human Rights.
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A swarm of lawyers had barely taken their seats when Justice Naima Haider ruled that the group of 15 petitioners, 10 of whom had died as the case navigated the court bureaucracy, had no standing to raise the issue with the court.
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"Yes, I signed this petition, and yet it seems to me absolutely necessary today to emphasize my disagreement with the way some petitioners individually claim the right to spread themselves across the media, distorting the very spirit of this text," she continued.
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" The Solar Energy Industries Association, a trade group that has fought any tariffs or barriers to imports, said in a statement Tuesday that the commissioners had taken a thoughtful approach and did not recommend "anything close to what the petitioners asked for.
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"Petitioners will show that the final action is in excess of the agency's statutory authority and otherwise is arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion and not in accordance with law," the states, led by West Virginia, told the court in their filing.
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The sprawling festival brings more than 400,000 people to Austin every March for breakfast tacos, mingling and the latest in tech, gaming, music, and film — a cocktail that the petitioners say will almost surely leave certain city residents at risk of infection.
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"If this were really an emergency, petitioners would not have waited 16 days to bring it to this Court's attention… Instead, they waited almost two-and-a-half weeks, and now claim a crisis," they wrote in a filing to the Supreme Court.
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The justices said the parties "should be afforded an opportunity to arrive at an approach going forward that accommodates petitioners' religious exercise while at the same time ensuring that women covered 'receive full and equal health coverage,'" that includes coverage for contraceptives.
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Critics of this week's tariffs draw solace from the fact that Mr Trump's actions were broadly in line with the steer from the United States International Trade Commission, a quasi-judicial review body, and in both cases were weaker than the petitioners had originally requested.
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"The facts clearly show that Argentina and Indonesia are engaging in unfair trade practices, and we are confident that duties will be imposed when the final decision is made," said Ray Bradbury, president of biodiesel at ADM, one of the petitioners for the dumping investigation.
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"Taking no account of the substantial market evidence, petitioners now claim that the fair value of AOL is $51.98 per share, far above the amount anyone — any strategic buyer, any financial buyer, any stockholder — was ever prepared to pay for AOL's shares," the brief said.
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" In their May 16 ruling, the justices observed pointedly that "the court does not decide whether petitioners' religious exercise has been substantially burdened, whether the government has a compelling interest, or whether the current regulations are the least restrictive means of serving that interest.
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"The police officers broke into petitioners' home in the early morning, routed them from bed, made them stand naked in the living room, and ransacked every room, emptying drawers and ripping mattress covers," Justice William O. Douglas later recounted in the court's majority opinion.
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"The court never gave industry intervenors notice of its decision to grant petitioners' motion before the running of this 10-day period and thereby violated Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 85033(a)(3)(A)," write the business groups, led by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
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"It is disingenuous for the Government to claim that throughout the many years that Petitioners were permitted to live and work on supervised release, they should not have built up any expectation that they would be permitted to remain in the country," Carney wrote.
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The waiver is only available to aliens who have a specified relationship with a United States citizen, an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence, an alien who has been issued an immigrant visa, or they are self-petitioners under the Violence Against Women Act.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan has revived plans to dig a canal on the edge of Istanbul despite opposition from hundreds of petitioners and the city's new mayor against the kind of mega project that has come to define Turkey's economic boom and bust.
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Previously, the challenges to Section 377 have come through curative petitions — a special plea in which petitioners ask Supreme Court judges to review a matter even though the final judgment on it has been passed, on account of that judgment having violated principles of natural justice.
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A significant proportion of the petitioners against Section 377 are men — in part, this is due to the social stigma all expressions of female desire carry in India, but also because according to former Indian attorney general Mukul Rohatgi, the law penalizes men far more often.
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If the court rules that New York's rule does not serve even minimally rational purposes—a point pressed by the petitioners—it may not need to create a more demanding apparatus to evaluate other regulations and the decision may have only limited implications outside the Big Apple.
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But because there's no required immediate disclosure of who is funding the campaign — or how many zeros a benefactor is adding to their contribution checks — it's hard to know whether petitioners have a shot until the deadlines for submitting the signatures begin to hit later this month.
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Bloomberg petitioners were on the campus of the University of Alabama on Thursday, a Democratic strategist said, and officials with the Arkansas Democratic Party said they had been contacted by a Washington, D.C., law firm on Thursday to seek detailed information about the state's filing procedures.
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"Put simply, the new arbitration agreement purports to eliminate the legal right to proceed with arbitration before AAA, which petitioners had already invoked months ago and seek to enforce in this action, and to replace it with an inferior process," the federal-court TRO motion said.
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A group of petitioners including trade body the Internet and Mobile Association of India had challenged central bank's circular, in part, arguing that India should look at most other nations that are not only allowing cryptocurrency trading, but have moved to launch their own virtual currencies.
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"Rural counties have become increasingly outraged by laws coming out of the Oregon Legislature that threaten our livelihoods, our industries, our wallet, our gun rights, and our values," Mike McCarter, one of the chief petitioners of the movement, wrote on the website for the Greater Idaho movement.
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They argued that after the EPA in May denied a set of petitions to reconsider the regulation — most from parties to the lawsuit — those petitioners should be given time to file lawsuits, and the court should decide whether those lawsuits should be combined with the initial one.
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"Because of the practical importance of the questions presented for review and the pressing need for their swift resolution by this Court, petitioners respectfully request that the Court consider the petition on an expedited schedule," says a filing brought by 20 states and the District of Columbia.
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For 19703 weeks, she regaled admirers with reminiscences — of a mother with blackened teeth and a bejeweled nose, and a father of such rank petitioners approached him only on their knees — before she was exposed as a cobbler's daughter and illiterate servant, born Mary Willcocks in Devonshire.
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"We think that this novel approach could help alleviate the mental health crisis here in Oregon by addressing epidemics like suicide, treatment-resistant depression and anxiety, PTSD, and addiction to drugs, alcohol, and nicotine," PSI chief petitioners Tom and Sheri Eckert say on the campaign's website.
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"Asking more than 99% of petitioners to abandon their hard-won rights under the court's order was an attempt by Postmates to avoid complying with the order, not a good-faith attempt to comply with it," wrote Ashley Keller of Keller Lenkner in the contempt motion.
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Instead of demanding that the government bail out the hundreds of collapsed P2P companies, those who made it to the protest area were forced onto buses and carted away to Jiujingzhuang, a holding center for petitioners on the outskirts of Beijing, according to two P73P investors.
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But there are also new petitioners representing the broad spectrum of society and queer experience, such as HIV activist Gautam Yadav and Arif Jaffar, a 47-year old man who was sent to police custody and tortured for over a month for his sexual orientation under Section 30.
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One is a progressive party that accommodates what is now called identity politics, reaching out to a coalition of people—those black, Jewish, Native American, and Irish petitioners Grant tried to favor—who think the world is getting better and who support some kind of benevolent government protection.
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"The Supreme Court recognized that it was both possible and necessary to protect the constitutional due-process rights of a small group of wrongly accused individuals without undermining the public's legitimate interest in this grand jury report," attorney Stephen Stallings, who represented two of the petitioners, told the paper.
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The fine print on the bottom of the petition also contracts Uber's supporters to give their consent for the use of their personal information in campaign materials, and exposes petitioners to the kinds of prospective robo-texts that Uber and Lyft users have received in Austin and elsewhere.
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Citing a 2012 Forbes list of the most dangerous cities in the United States, petitioners have expressed a concern over the possibility of violence both in Cleveland and targeted at the venue specifically: Cleveland, Ohio is consistently ranked as one of the top ten most dangerous cities in America.
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These obstacles include state ballot access hurdles, modes of harassment by the Secretaries of State for individual states, and even if the hurdles are surmounted, a candidate must face hassling of their street petitioners collecting signatures, exclusion from debates and a plethora of frivolous litigation before selected partisan jurists.
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The question before the Court, however, is not whether petitioners' alleged conduct was proper, nor whether it gave decent respect to respondents' dignity and well-being, nor whether it was in keeping with the idea of the rule of law that must inspire us even in times of crisis.
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"Petitioners' attempt to demolish this Court's settled framework for analyzing conditions of public employment would astonish the Founding generation and would stamp out the State-by-State variation in public-employment structures that has been the hallmark of this Court's First Amendment jurisprudence for decades," Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli wrote.
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With the sheer number of thinkpieces, Reddit threads, and petitioners asking President Obama to pardon Steven Avery and his nephew Brendan Dassey, it's safe to say the Netflix series Making a Murderer is a bona fide cultural phenomenon, the latest in a run of true crime shows that have captivated America.
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"After reviewing the objections, EPA has determined that the objections related to Petition claims regarding neurodevelopmental toxicity must be denied because the objections and the underlying Petition are not supported by valid, complete, and reliable evidence sufficient to meet the Petitioners burden," wrote Alexandra Dapolito Dunn, assistant administrator for chemical safety.
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"Petitioners' attempt to demolish this Court's settled framework for analyzing conditions of public employment would astonish the Founding generation and would stamp out the State-by-State variation in public-employment structures that has been the hallmark of this Court's First Amendment jurisprudence for decades," Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli wrote.
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"After reviewing the objections, EPA has determined that the objections related to Petition claims regarding neurodevelopmental toxicity must be denied because the objections and the underlying Petition are not supported by valid, complete, and reliable evidence sufficient to meet the Petitioners' burden," wrote Alexandra Dapolito Dunn, assistant administrator for chemical safety.
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What if insurance companies providing coverage to people working at these religious organisations were asked to take notice when the employers put in orders for health plans excluding contraception, and responded to this fact by "separately notify[ing] petitioners' employees that the insurance company will provide cost-free contraceptive coverage"?
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There are 37 different petitioners who are part of seven distinct cases arising out of four distinct courts of appeals (the Third, the Fifth, the Tenth, and the District of Columbia) that were all consolidated and heard by the Supreme Court, and those are just the ones the Supreme Court accepted.
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"Every day that the stay remains in place, petitioners' members and similarly situated Americans are exposed to excessive amounts of air pollution from more than 11,000 oil and gas wells -- pollution that compliance with the rule would reduce or avoid," the green coalition wrote in a Monday filing with the court.
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READ: Famed computer scientist Richard Stallman described Epstein victims as 'entirely willing' "Despite Petitioners having demonstrated the Government violated their rights under the CVRA, in the end they are not receiving much, if any, of the relief they sought," Marra said in his decision Monday, according to the Palm Beach Post.
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While Abood allowed government employees an option to avoid supporting their union's explicitly political activity, the petitioners in Friedrichs, a group of California public school teachers, contend the very act of collective bargaining in the public sector is political, since it directly affects the cost, size and nature of government.
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The petitioners, who range in age from 8 to 20503 and hail from 12 different countries, teared up as they presented their complaint at the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) headquarters and gave personal accounts of how their lives and homes have been upended by climate change because of politicians' inaction.
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One reason for the large number of justices on China's top court, Ms. Finder said, is the range of issues they are expected to rule on, including the many death sentences that must be reviewed by the Supreme People's Court, frequent legal interpretations and dealing with petitioners who cannot find justice locally.
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The proposal to send asylum seekers to Guatemala is part of the Trump administration's overall push to block these petitioners from entering the United States, policies that include "metering" asylum requests at border ports of entry and sending tens of thousands of people back to Mexico to await resolution on their asylum cases.
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Similar legal strategies are working in Crown Heights, where Ms. Boyd and other petitioners recently won a temporary restraining order that has effectively blocked construction of two projects near the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, on the basis that the Department of City Planning should have conducted a more thorough review of the buildings' impact.
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"We see this not only as a template for Oregon but for the rest of the country and the world," said Sheri Eckert, one of the chief petitioners for the Psilocybin Service Initiative of Oregon (PSI 2020), which would make Oregon the first state to legalize access to psilocybin-assisted therapy statewide.
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In a filing on Saturday, a lawyer for Jill Stein, the Green Party presidential candidate, who began the recount bids in Pennsylvania — as well as in Michigan and Wisconsin — said "petitioners are regular citizens of ordinary means" and could not afford a $1 million bond payment that was ordered by Pennsylvania courts.
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"With the Section 232 tariffs already in effect as of March 23, the request and objection forms force petitioners and objectors to choose between expediting their submissions, which can be denied for any inaccurate or incomplete information, and enduring unwarranted tariff charges or product exclusions for lengthier periods of time," the senators wrote.
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Omar Jadwat, director of the American Civil Liberties Union Immigrants' Rights Project, said the Iraqi refugees are the first two petitioners in a class-action suit filed in the Eastern District of New York by lawyers representing a collection of groups, including the ACLU and the International Refugee Assistance Project at the Urban Justice Center.
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The Clean Power Plan's consistency with prior regulations The petitioners' characterization of the Clean Power Plan as a "transformative" exercise of the EPA's legal authority is further belied by the fact that the EPA has used the plan's core elements in a number of prior Clean Air Act rules, issued under administrations of both parties.
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But allegations of fraud leveled by third place finisher, the Liberty Party, and later co-signed by the UP, forced a stay on the 9 November run-off so that the political party petitioners could present their evidence to the National Elections Commission (NEC), with a final determination to be made by Liberia's Supreme Court.
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In total, petitioners will have 60 days to join the lawsuit, which will include numerous net neutrality advocacy organizations, such as Free Press, but may also include trade groups, such as the Internet Association (IA), which represents Amazon, Facebook, Google, Netflix, eBay, Uber, Lyft, Reddit, and more—companies that have historically supported strong net neutrality rules.
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"Today's opinion does only what it says it does: 'affords an opportunity' for the parties and courts of appeals to reconsider the parties' arguments in light of petitioners' new articulation of their religious objection and the government's clarification about what the existing regulations accomplish, how they might be amended and what such an amendment would sacrifice," Justice Sotomayor wrote.
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"Every day that the stay remains in place, petitioners' members and similarly situated Americans are exposed to excessive amounts of air pollution from more than 22019,000 oil and gas wells -- pollution that compliance with the rule would reduce or avoid," a coalition of green groups, led by the Environmental Defense Fund, wrote in a Monday filing with the court.
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In ruling for the immigrants, Judge Alison J. Nathan of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York said that even the government does not challenge that the petitioners have "serious, unmet medical needs," including one who has had a part of his lung removed, a condition that would make him especially vulnerable to the virus.
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"Every day that the stay remains in place, petitioners' members and similarly situated Americans are exposed to excessive amounts of air pollution from more than 11,000 oil and gas wells — pollution that compliance with the rule would reduce or avoid," a coalition of green groups, led by the Environmental Defense Fund, wrote in a Monday filing with the court.
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But if an inventor develops an idea and obtains a patent to protect his property in the marketplace, if he is successful, he will find himself harassed and run through a Kafkaesque bureaucratic process at the board, where he bears all the risk of losing and the petitioners either win or walk away with no consequences to them.
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Judges Barrington Parker, Peter Hall and Christopher Droney, addressing issues of first impression in the circuit, held that 17823 petitioners can obtain discovery from targets that are not headquartered or incorporated in the districts where the petitions have been filed, as long as they can show that the requested evidence arises from conduct in the district.
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" And petitioners even left room for the Supreme Court to affirm Whitaker's appointment saying, "Even if this Court now determines that the President in fact validly appointed Mr. Whitaker as Acting Attorney General, that ruling would equally benefit the administration of justice by removing the cloud of uncertainty over the appointment and by resolving the burgeoning number of challenges to it.
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While the Portland Jewish community has yet to take a formal stand on Rajneesh and his activities in Oregon, the Board of Rabbis and the Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles are among the petitioners to the Immigration and Naturalization Service office in Portland requesting that Rajneesh be denied a permanent resident visa to remain in the United States.
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" And petitioners even left room for the Supreme Court to affirm Whitaker's appointment saying, "Even if this Court now determines that the President in fact validly appointed Mr. Whitaker as Acting Attorney General, that ruling would equally benefit the administration of justice by removing the cloud of uncertainty over the appointment and by resolving the burgeoning number of challenges to it.
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In light of these changes, the senators asked Kane and Rosenstein how many compassionate release requests received in the last three years have been granted and denied, how many petitioners have died waiting for a response, what steps the bureau has taken to follow the commission's directives and what action the bureau can take to increase its use of compassionate release. Sens.
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This year saw fewer petitions— 21,21, according to USCIS — but that still means most petitioners did not win a visa, regardless of how promising their career future may have been in the U.S. Fortunately, an eligible STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) degree allows Lan to stay and work in the US for up to 2225 years, so he still has a second chance.
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And they may be reluctant to adopt this proposal floated by the justices: For example, the parties should consider a situation in which petitioners would contract to provide health insurance for their employees, and in the course of obtaining such insurance, inform their insurance company that they do not want their health plan to include contraceptive coverage of the type to which they object on religious grounds.
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" Michael Bars, a spokesman for United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, the agency which is focusing most of the new scrutiny on legal immigration, said the government's aim is not to close the borders but to protect against fraud, human trafficking and gang activity, "defending our system from those seeking to exploit it at the expense of U.S. workers, lawful-abiding applicants and petitioners.
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They highlighted those who suffered under the law by enlisting as co-petitioners in the suit more than two dozen gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people who risked arrest simply for publicly identifying themselves as L.G.B.T. "This is a plea by 6 to 8 percent of the Indian population to be regarded as full citizens and not unconvicted felons," Ms. Guruswamy told the court.
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Erik PaulsenErik Philip PaulsenHopes dim for passage of Trump trade deal Fight over Trump's new NAFTA hits key stretch Blue states angry over SALT cap should give fiscal sobriety a try MORE's (R-Minn.) signature means the petitioners need just 28503 more signers to force a series of votes on immigration legislation that would offer shelter to "Dreamers," immigrants who came to the United States illegally as children.
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