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The Commission shall certify to the Secretary of State, upon his request, copies of the formal submissions of claims filed pursuant to subsection ( B ) of Section 4 of this Act for transmission to the foreign government concerned.
In 1984, the Sandinista government filed a suit in the International Court of Justice ( ICJ ) against the United States ( Nicaragua v. United States ), which resulted in a 1986 judgment against the United States.
In their campaign against the chemical, EDF petitioned the government for a ban and filed a series of lawsuits.
In United States vs. IBM, filed January 17, 1969, the government charged that bundled software was anticompetitive.
The government filed an EU membership application three months after the dissolution of the USSR and became a member in 1995.
By the late 1990s, however, the focus had shifted to health care fraud, which now accounts for the majority of cases filed by whistleblowers and by the government.
# the complaint must be buttressed by a comprehensive memorandum, not filed in court, but served on the government detailing the factual underpinnings of the complaint.
* 1861 – American Civil War: Secession ordinance is filed by Kentucky's Confederate government.
In 1871, Smith filed a claim with the federal government for the land around the buildings, and on August 20, 1873, he became the town's first postmaster.
In June 2012, the U. S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit against government officials in Colorado City, Arizona and Hildale, Utah, for alleged civil rights violations, including acting as de-facto agents for the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints-a Mormon sect that split off in order to continue the practice of polygamy-denying ex-members and non-members of the Church access to everything from police services to housing and utilities.
Watson built IBM into such a dominant company that the federal government filed a civil antitrust suit against them in 1952.
At his criminal trial, Ziegler filed a motion to suppress the evidence on the ground that the government violated the Fourth Amendment rights.
Such qui tam lawsuits must be filed under seal, using special procedures to keep the claim from becoming public until the federal government makes its decision on direct prosecution.
** Conrail ( Consolidated Rails Corporation ) is formed by the U. S. government, to take control of 13 major Northeast Class-1 railroads that had filed for bankruptcy protection.
In 2008, Lehman filed for bankruptcy, Bear Stearns was bought up by JP Morgan Chase with blessing by the U. S. government, and Merrill Lynch was bought up by Bank of America.
Cypherpunks have filed a number of lawsuits, mostly suits against the US government alleging that some government action is unconstitutional.
According to Malcolm Baird, his son, what is known is that in 1926 Baird filed a patent for a device that formed images from reflected radio waves, a device remarkably similar to radar, and that he was in correspondence with the British government at the time.
A tax return is a tax form that can be filed with a government body to declare liability for taxation in various countries:
Falun Gong practitioners and their supporters also filed a lawsuit in May 2011 against the technology company Cisco Systems, alleging that the company helped design and implement a surveillance system for the Chinese government to suppress Falun Gong ( Cisco denied customizing their technology for this purpose ).
Cajuns were officially recognized by the U. S. government as a national ethnic group in 1980 per a discrimination lawsuit filed in federal district court.
Several insurance companies filed a $ 7 million suit against the government in the fall of 2008, claiming that Barton was negligent in her duties.
The killers filed a lawsuit against the U. S. Government through the courthouse in Vienna, suing the government for $ 35 a head ( equal to $ today ) to bury the murdered Cherokee.
The order followed an unusual series of events set off when a U. S. Army veteran, Brian X. Scott, filed a protest against the government practice of hiring what he calls mercenaries, according to sources familiar with the matter.

government and appeal
This was largely blamed on post-war austerity denting Labour's appeal to wealthier voters who felt they would be more prosperous under a Conservative government.
The government is not permitted to appeal or try again after the entry of an acquittal, whether a directed verdict before the case is submitted to the jury, a directed verdict after a deadlocked jury, an appellate reversal for sufficiency ( except by direct appeal to a higher appellate court ), or an " implied acquittal " via conviction of a lesser included offence.
:: The government asks us to assess penalties against Crain for bringing this frivolous appeal, as is authorized by Fed.
The government should not have been put to the trouble of responding to such spurious arguments, nor this court to the trouble of " adjudicating " this meritless appeal.
If an application is denied by one judge of the FISC, the federal government is not allowed to make the same application to a different judge of the court, but must appeal to the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review.
Guyana retained the right of appeal to the Privy Council until the government of Prime Minister Forbes Burnham passed the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council ( Termination of Appeals ) Act 1970.
In 1958, during the last months of President Camille Chamoun's term, an insurrection broke out, and 5, 000 United States Marines were briefly dispatched to Beirut on July 15 in response to an appeal by the government.
Following the outbreak of the civil war and the ensuing collapse of the central government, Somalia's residents reverted to local forms of conflict resolution, either secular, traditional or Islamic law, with a provision for appeal of all sentences.
Factors such as the wide availability of assault rifles and carbines and the increasing use of body armor have combined to limit the appeal of submachine guns to government agencies.
Later ( probably to appeal for support from the United States and most Western nations ), he would make toppling the Islamic government one of his intentions as well.
He is also known for his wide popular appeal, his opposition to corruption in government, his support for the American position in the run-up to the American War of Independence, his advocacy of British greatness, expansionism and colonialism, and his antagonism toward Britain's chief enemies and rivals for colonial power, Spain and France.
In 1949, Tom C. Clark placed the IWW on the Attorney General's List of Subversive Organizations in the category of " organizations seeking to change the government by unconstitutional means " under Executive Order 9835 ( revoked in 1953 ), which offers no means of appeal, and which excludes all IWW members from Federal employment and even federally subsidized housing.
One avenue of individual appeal from government action which continues to be important is the custom of xinfang or petitions by citizens to the individuals officials for change.
Meanwhile, in France, where those who criticized government or Church authority could be imprisoned without trial or hope of appeal, primitivism was used primarily as a way to protest the repressive rule of Louis XIV and XV, while avoiding censorship.
The convictions were eventually reversed on appeal, and the government declined to bring the case to trial again.
Bentham disagreed with Blackstone's defence of judge-made law, his defence of legal fictions, his theological formulation of the doctrine of mixed government, his appeal to a social contract and his use of the vocabulary of natural law.
On 27 September 2009, Bertolucci was one of the signers of the appeal to the Swiss government to release Roman Polanski, who was being held while waiting to be extradited to the United States.
The role of Anglo-Norman as the language of government and law can be seen in the abundance of Modern English words for the mechanisms of government which derive from Anglo-Norman: court, judge, jury, appeal, parliament.
Foreigners whose property was damaged or destroyed by rioters or bandits were usually unable to obtain compensation from the government, and began to appeal to their own governments for help.
In 1884 the Métis ( including the Anglo-Métis ) asked Louis Riel to return from the United States, where he had fled after the Red River Rebellion, to appeal to the government on their behalf.
The play is an open appeal and fundraiser for passage of U. S. House Resolution 808, which seeks to establish a Cabinet-level " Department of Peace " in the U. S. government, to be funded by a two percent diversion of the Pentagon's annual budget.
His appeal to the Russian government, in 1829, led to the establishment of a line of magnetic and meteorological stations across northern Asia.

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