The complainants' names, which were supposed to be kept confidential, leaked to the public, and both ancillary complainants say that their budding careers as novelists have been destroyed.
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He said the nationality of the complainants was not known.
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He believes that the complainants were trying to defame him.
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Or are suspects and complainants more wary of their conduct?
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Complainants can appeal decisions at Europe's top courts in Luxembourg.
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It appeared as though the complainants had memorized a script.
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The complainants say they reported their accusations to Cardinal DiNardo.
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And that's just going to be enormously frustrating for complainants.
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In this case, the complainants released a copy online September 7.
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Rajapaksa rejected the accusations, stressing that complainants were speaking out independently.
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Three of the complainants slammed the European ruling as "a provocation".
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The complainants in most of them are still waiting for decisions.
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Some of the complainants even said their supervisors retaliated against them.
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But she said she was provided some of the correspondence from complainants written to the party on Wednesday and it had confirmed that the allegations were "extremely serious" and that the process caused complainants additional distress.
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Most of the complainants were assigned to work details at Boeckmann's home.
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The complainants had asked police to investigate the incident, the official added.
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The three complainants testified during an eight-day period in early February.
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The investigation into the violations alleged by the Complainants shall now commence.
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The complainants have published the latest evidence on a new campaign website.
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Complainants will, however, have to file their claims under oath, NBC reported.
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Concerns that this process might disadvantage complainants are unfounded: Out of 16 Title IX cases adjudicated under this process — including those for sexual assault, stalking or sexual harassment — 103, or 81 percent, were resolved in favor of complainants.
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Details of the charges associated with multiple complainants have not been made public.
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One of the complainants is identified only as "Jane Doe" in the lawsuit.
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That prompted changes in police training and the treatment of sexual assault complainants.
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That is still below a rate sought by the complainants in the lawsuit.
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Among the 30 complainants against Topuz are Erdogan, now president, and former ministers.
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"The twists and turns of the complainants' evidence in this trial illustrate the need to be vigilant in avoiding the equally dangerous false assumption that sex assault complainants are always truthful," Horkins concludes, raising the specter of false rape reporting.
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The majority of those complainants are professors, bringing forward harassment allegations on students' behalf.
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The female complainants were referred to as 'girls' and the males accused as 'men'.
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In Title IX cases, a professor's due process often leaves complainants in the dark.
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Google said some of those outside consultants were also working for competitors or complainants.
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"Disclosing the existence of complaints regularly ends up bringing forward more complainants," LoMonte said.
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The complainants are seeking to have gender designation removed from all new birth certificates.
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Four of the complainants are going on the record publicly for the first time.
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And some complainants continue to couch the company's self-styled compliance 'remedies' as a joke.
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IMF Bentham is bankrolling the CBA class action, Australia's largest with some 800,000 potential complainants.
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An earlier version of this post suggested that all of the complainants would be attending.
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Police have been rebuked for referring to complainants as victims before the accused is tried.
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The law firm declined to comment further, saying it respected the complainants' rights to privacy.
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Perhaps the Jewish complainants acted with spiteful malice; perhaps they genuinely feared for their lives.
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But because the complainants released the document, anyone with a browser can now read about them.
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The investigations can drag on for months, and sometimes schools don't notify complainants about their conclusions.
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Not only have the complaints been ignored, there have allegedly been retaliations levied against the complainants.
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The Anglican church had paid A$31 million to 459 of those complainants, the report said.
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The complainants were legitimately terminated for reasons completely unrelated to any allegations of misconduct by others.
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He assures me that, in Britain, things have gotten better for complainants in sexual offense cases.
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Therefore, the complainants' behavior after each alleged incident should have no bearing on the final verdict.
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In declaring Mr. Ghomeshi not guilty, the judge described the female complainants as insincere and deceptive.
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I believe that statutorily, complainants standing in my shoes would have been entitled to monetary damages.
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It is believed the footage contains unedited interviews with some of the complainants in the case.
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Complainants then learn that this is no longer their case -- it's the state's and the state's alone.
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The NFL's ongoing investigation will include further attempts to speak to the complainants involved in the incident.
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A U.N. peacekeeping official in New York said the OIOS had interviewed some 435 complainants and witnesses.
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Several complainants said they were particularly taken aback by their L.U.O. experiences because of Liberty's religious underpinnings.
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Complainants believed the ad was overtly sexual and offensive because of the man's clothes and dance moves.
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The complainants had one thing in common: They bought the product in the Los Angeles fashion district.
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If the Supreme Court sides with the complainants in Rifle and Pistol, you won't need to imagine.
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In fact, complainants win at least some portion of WTO disputes over 90 percent of the time.
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Two other complainants, Canada and Mexico, lifted their opposition this month after reaching a deal with Trump.
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A number of complainants have now appealed to the US Judicial Conference Committee on Judicial Conduct and Disability.
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Things, though, are progressing: The EEOC has issued a right-to-sue letter to one of the complainants.
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Eight complainants were involved in the case which the EU declined to name in line with its policy.
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Weinstein's lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, has denied the allegations, made in an expanded class action lawsuit involving 10 complainants.
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Surendra Shelke, one of the complainants, told the news agency that they had altered photographs of the climb.
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Most sexual assault complainants choose not to retain their own counsel, because ostensibly, they are not on trial.
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The suit claims that it's biologically impossible for the cisgender complainants to defeat their "biologically male" trans counterparts.
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Commissioner Patton said there were multiple complainants, but refused to provide further details about them, including their ages.
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Commissioner Patton said there were multiple complainants but refused to provide further details about them, including their ages.
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The Australian police have yet to reveal the details of the charges or the ages of the complainants.
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Complainants say E.ON may be able to offer such metering services 50 percent cheaper than the next competitor.
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According to the Washington Post, there were 235 complainants received compensation totaling $15.2 million between 85033 and 2014.
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The complainant's identity has not made public, as Australian law bars media from identifying complainants in sex crimes.
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Marie-Laure Guislain of Sherpa, one of the complainants, says she expects the case to move ahead, albeit slowly.
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Yet, if Ghomeshi deserves his verdict, the complainants deserved far better than they received from the Canadian justice system.
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Henein skewered the complainants for misremembering certain details, for not being consistent between their media interviews and police statements.
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That being said, the levels of inaccuracies reported by the complainants are clearly unacceptably high and worthy of concern.
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This, while an understandable privacy measure, makes it practically impossible to reach out to the complainants for follow up.
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A request for immediate measures sought by nine of the complainants was being reviewed by a judge, it said.
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The complainants claimed the companies promoted the implants as lasting longer than devices that include ceramic or plastic materials.
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Some complainants saw that line as a warning of revenge and questioned his judicial temperament and possible political bias.
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Patton said there are multiple complainants against Pell, but gave no other details on the allegations against the cardinal.
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"The fourteen sample bid requests further prove that very personal data are contained in bid requests," the complainants argue.
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If a response doesn't go that far, what happens about the inevitable flood of complainants wanting their own justice?
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I have represented more than 150 students, both complainants and respondents, in campus disciplinary matters, including sexual misconduct hearings.
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In some cases, the complainants are talking about prestige films that didn't do a lot at the box office.
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Horkins, who delivered the verdict March 24, said the complainants' reliability and credibility were severely damaged under cross-examination.
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ABC said it has obtained eight police statements from complainants, witnesses and family members who were helping with the investigation.
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"Exactly how much the information we provide to complainants will be scaled back has not been determined yet," said Grabmeier.
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And, he says, more sexual violence cases should go through the civil process because it has certain advantages for complainants.
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Kotlikoff cited confidentiality policies set by Cornell and federal agencies that are supposedly designed to protect complainants, respondents, and witnesses.
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Australian police said in June Pell had been summoned to appear on charges of "historical sexual offences" from multiple complainants.
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After establishing that the threat was imaginary, she refused, and instead told the complainants to disembark if they felt unsafe.
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The decision was automatic upon the complainants' second request at a closed-door meeting of the WTO's Dispute Settlement Body.
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Google claims two of the consultants, Cristina Caffarra and Eugene Burrus, previously worked for competitors and complainants of the company.
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In many years of talking to whistleblowers and complainants about corporate abuse, I have not met any who emerged undamaged.
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But in a letter to complainants and Bay View's attorney, an enforcement branch chief in HUD's Midwest Regional Office disagreed.
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He also revealed a February 2007 text message from Mimi Haleyi, one of three original complainants in the superseding indictment.
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Complainants said that pole sexualizes young girls and that the origins of the sport make it unsuitable for underage participators.
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Monsanto is locked in a battle with Indian seed maker, Nuziveedu Seeds Ltd, one of the complainants at the CCI.
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And it omitted some kinds of data, such as how many complainants brought their cases to federal or state investigators.
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The decision has not yet been made public, but copies were provided to The Times by two of the complainants.
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A jury was expected to hear testimony from three complainants, who were children at the time of the alleged assaults.
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Mr. Hogan-Howe said the officer had misspoken after becoming "confused" by the need to follow guidance about complainants being believed.
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By being included, complainants could monitor whether their concerns were being taken seriously, and that the investigation was being conducted fairly.
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If Butt had it his way, he would empower complainants by giving them their own lawyer, paid for by the state.
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It would designate a person in the process to serve as "victim's counsel" to provide legal advice and representation to complainants.
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Complainants in the antitrust case argue that Google's "excessive control" of Android makes it more akin to closed than open source.
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In some cases, the complainants were pointed in the direction of the Federal Trade Commission, or a state consumer-protection agency.
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While complainants had to pay for legal representation, members of Congress and their offices could be represented by the House counsel.
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And they would lower the burden of proof for complainants, which, given the opacity of the Chinese system, is too high.
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"Courts must guard against applying false stereotypes concerning the expected conduct of complainants," Horkins concedes more than once in the document.
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Another report published by the inquiry last month said the Catholic church had paid compensation to about three-quarters of complainants.
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In December, the complainants filed a federal lawsuit against the University and its president about the University's response to their complaints.
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The manual also does not include a definition of a "pattern" of complaints, and no longer allows complainants to file appeals.
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The activity of the department under her mandate has clearly catalyzed complainants — creating a pipeline of cases for her to tackle.
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Following confidentiality requirements, Judge Barry's name does not appear on the order ending the investigation or the correspondence with the complainants.
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The E.E.O.C. can sue for damages on behalf of complainants, though Ms. Smith said she thought it unlikely in this case.
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Wallington ruled in February however, that the medical records of the complainants could not be supplied as requested, for privacy reasons.
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Complainants begin the dispute resolution process with a mandatory (yes, really) course of counseling that can last up to 30 days.
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Most of the felony charges were dropped or reduced to misdemeanors when the complainants and witnesses refused to testify or disappeared.
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Adrian, who is a native Bermudan, and his husband Shane, who is not, were among the complainants in the immigration case.
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In the Ghomeshi case, two of the complainants discussed the case in text messages, leading the defense to accuse them of collusion.
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" They also declined to use her real name in statements to BuzzFeed News "per our commitment to protect the privacy of complainants.
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Complainants often tell a prosecutor that they have changed their mind and no longer wish to press charges against their alleged assailant.
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But again here, complainants would argue that the way Google controls Android makes it akin to a closed platform at this stage.
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It would also remove the requirement that complainants go through mediation before continuing with a claim through OOC, instead making it optional.
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The complainants were given four weeks to substantiate their appeals cases, after which Kamp will be able to respond, the court said.
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Critics of the rule say class actions mostly benefit lawyers, while arbitration is quick, cost-effective, and renders large awards for complainants.
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Those complainants whose cases are determined to be supported should be able to file their allegation with the WTO within 30 days.
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Australian police said late last month Pell, an adviser to Pope Francis, faced multiple charges of "historical sexual offences" from multiple complainants.
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The report rejects an industry-commissioned proposal made earlier in the week to beef up the free-for-complainants Financial Services Ombudsman.
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Under federal law, complainants must undergo a confidential process, where co-workers who might be able to provide corroborating evidence are excluded.
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The police on Tuesday encouraged complainants to contact them and said an investigation could begin regardless of whether a complaint was made.
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"Justice delayed is justice denied, and justice for many complainants has been denied for too long," Ms. Hill said in a statement.
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Until the complainants had demolished, in advance, these conceivable excuses, the parish would not even be required to respond to the complaint.
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Trial delays can undercut the review board's prosecutions by making it more likely that witnesses or complainants disappear and cases goes stale.
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Complainants are asked to participate, but schools can proceed without them if they decide the claim poses a larger threat on campus.
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None of the original complainants agreed to be interviewed by her, citing concerns about bias and their ongoing suit against the university.
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Other criminal content would have to be blocked or deleted within a week and companies would have to inform complainants of any decision.
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"All of us need to learn how to handle these things better," says Elissa Newport, former department chair and one of the complainants.
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The complainants (whom HUD would not identify) alleged "discriminatory refusal to rent" and discrimination in rental terms based on disability and familial status.
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Further, the bill would get rid of OOC's requirement that complainants sign a confidentiality agreement in order to move forward with a complaint.
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As a result, complainants or witnesses often fear they will be retaliated against and will be more alert to any perceived retaliatory behaviors.
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The four complainants were Public Citizen, a public advocacy group, the Illinois Attorney General, a power cooperative and a group of industrial consumers.
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Campaigners argue that Twitter should be doing more to pro-actively identify posts naming sexual offenses complainants, and take down the posts swiftly.
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It has been locked in a battle with Indian seed makers, including Nuziveedu Seeds, which is one of the complainants at the CCI.
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"The atmosphere of these courts will be different from other courts so that complainants can speak their heart without any fear," he said.
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In July, online gossip blog TMZ dug up Facebook posts from Quantasia Sharpton, one of Usher's complainants, saying she "need[ed] some money".
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Current competition commissioner Vestager took up the post in 2014 — by which time complainants relating to the case numbered more than two dozen.
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Lawyers contacted by Business Insider said they were aware of other, previously unreported complainants, and that they expected more suits to be filed.
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The measure was passed during a special legislative session dedicated to health care issues, and complainants argued that it wasn't about health care.
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In correspondence with the complainants and in memos to the department, administrators repeatedly highlighted policies prohibiting retaliation against those who brought discrimination claims.
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At least two weeks of the hearing, which begins March 5, will be in closed court when complainants give evidence via video link.
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Australian police last year summoned Pell to return to his home country to appear on charges of historical sexual offences from multiple complainants.
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The report on Mr. O'Brien states that because the two complainants requested anonymity, their names and identifying information were omitted from the document.
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High-profile complainants include Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian, who was released by Iran last month, and Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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The IAB claims to have depreciated the v1 list but the complainants say it's still being used in the IAB's latest ad auctioning system.
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Now, OSU plans to scale back what it will share with complainants; anyone who makes allegations in the future could be somewhat shut out.
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Instructing police to "believe" complainants was intended to be an antidote to past problems, says Andy Higgins of the Police Foundation, a think-tank.
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She also urged the union to track the careers of complainants and monitor whether they'd been blacklisted, and to institute better mental healthcare policies.
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"The two former HML employees misappropriated the complainants' trade secrets which were then disclosed to the proposed company respondents," HML said in a statement.
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" In May, NBC announced that an internal investigation "found credible the four complainants' allegations that Lauer engaged in inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace.
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Streetmap is one of several mapping companies reported to be on the list of complainants associated with the EU's formal antitrust charges against Google.
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"The comments may show a pattern of behavior that will hurt Ailes' credibility as well as bolster the credibility of the complainants," Wu said.
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Protests and strikes from such drivers have been relatively common in China for decades, with complainants taking issue with high franchise and expenses costs.
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In 2017, an internal watchdog found that the city's police officers still lacked proper training in how to interact with L.G.B.T. victims and complainants.
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If the complainants go to the WTO and litigate, they may lose their right to compensation and simply open up years of legal wrangling.
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In fact, just days after filing their federal suit, one of the complainants beat both trans girls in a 50-meter indoor sprint event.
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They also fear the experience will likely be "distressing" for the complainants as their testimony is tested by the 76-year-old's defense team.
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Ardern said she was willing to meet the complainants but it would be best if the matter was kept out of the public domain.
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"I don't know if there were any extenuating circumstances that the governor was addressing, like confidentiality issues from the complainants," Mr. de Blasio said.
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While PDF versions of the IAB lists with special category and sensitive data highlighted by the complainants can be viewed here (v1) and here (v2).
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More important than whether a professor has explicitly broken the rules, the complainants believe, is whether discrete instances of discomfort are part of a pattern.
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The committee's findings will be released publicly; the complainants and commenters on the protest Facebook page say they doubt that the investigation is truly independent.
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In Canada's criminal justice system, courts usually do not take kindly to witnesses or complainants who communicate with each other during or before the trial.
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In a follow-up piece on the Walrus, Atwood briefly allowed that the complainants were hurt by UBC too, but overall staunchly defended her position.
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Rape charities have raised serious concerns over complainants' privacy and the fact that suspects aren't being placed under the same level of scrutiny by police.
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Anyone who has information of misconduct within our workplace is encouraged to contact Peninsula Group, which will ensure the protection and confidentiality of all complainants.
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The ruling, which is expected to be appealed, also rejected the complainants' argument that Australia's law unjustifiably infringed tobacco trademarks and violated intellectual property rights.
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When people do speak up, organizations usually fail to respond or hit back at the complainants, alleging, for example, that their performance has been poor.
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The backlash from LGBTQ creators continued through the summer however, with a group of eight complainants filing a discrimination suit against the company in August.
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The letter also "strongly discourages" schools from permitting the parties personally to cross examine each other because it "may be traumatic or intimidating" to complainants.
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Lawsuits have been brought by complainants who claim they were treated unfairly and, more frequently, by men who allege the proceedings were biased against them.
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Weinstein claims that many of the complainants objecting to the Bibles on the POW/MIA tables are Christians, but I find that very hard to believe.
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She says an option referred to as restorative justice would have focused on her needs, as opposed to criminal court, which she believes re-victimizes complainants.
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Harlander, who has begun corresponding with the other complainants and is planning to attend a protest in October, says that Balakrishnan should no longer be teaching.
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Police Lieutenant Tun Tun Win and an immigration officer - the complainants - appeared in a Naypyitaw courtroom on Tuesday and asked that the court drop the charges.
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His judgment repeatedly criticized the women for not being entirely truthful and said it was a dangerous assumption to assume sexual assault complainants are always truthful.
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The report states clear as day ... investigators say University administrators directly discouraged complainants from reporting or participating in student conduct processes ... contributing to a hostile environment.
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It is unfortunate the complainants decided to file suit, forcing the District to divert valuable funds from the education of our students to more legal costs.
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"The complainants have also failed to present, and the records do not disclose, any evidence of willful indifference to prevailing law or other misconduct," Gregory wrote.
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"No one took responsibility although an irrevocable nuclear accident happened," Miwa Chiwaki, secretary general of Fukushima Complainants Criminal Prosecution of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, told CNN.
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The legislation prevents plaintiffs (known as complainants under UK law) in sexual violence cases from being questioned about their sexual behavior without leave of the court.
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The complainants had alleged that Facebook's face recognition feature that suggests "tags" on photos unlawfully collected and stored biometric data, in violation of the Illinois BIPA.
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The league said it was unable to get access to the hotel video and was not able to speak with the complainants in the hotel fight.
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For three years, the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights investigated DeSoto, visiting schools and meeting with parents and administrators, according to the complainants.
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As the trial unfolded, Ghomeshi's defense attorney, Marie Henein, exposed inconsistencies and omissions in three of the complainants' testimonies, surely in hopes of diminishing their credibility.
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Police Lieutenant Tun Tun Win and an immigration officer - the complainants - on Tuesday appeared in a Naypyitaw courtroom and asked that the court drop the charges.
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Mr. Assange, who is Australian, has always denied the accusations, and his lawyers have repeatedly accused the complainants of trying to unjustly slur the WikiLeaks founder.
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Complainants in the EU's earlier Google Shopping antitrust case continue to express displeasure with the outcome of the remedies Google has come up with on that front.
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The controversy prompted Smith's co-star Lucy DeCoutere, who was one of the complainants in Jian Ghomeshi's sex assault trial, to announce she was quitting the show.
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Douglas Wigdor of Wigdor LLP, who is representing multiple complainants in suits against Ailes, issued a statement to PEOPLE highlighting the murky legal fate of ongoing litigation.
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Following his February trial, Ghomeshi was acquitted of four counts of sexual assault and one count of overcome resistance by choking brought forward by three other complainants.
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But this is an extraordinarily irregular arrangement and it's only fair to have assurances that our confidential business information won't be shared with competitors or vocal complainants.
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It agreed that the measures applied to galvalume, used in metal roofing, do not constitute WTO safeguard measures, rejecting an argument of the complainants and Indonesia itself.
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"Respondent credibly testified that he asked the complainants to get out of his car because their conduct violated Uber's policy prohibiting sexual contact between passengers," she wrote.
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Cardinal George Pell, the Vatican's third-highest-ranking official, will stand trial on several charges of sexual abuse from multiple complainants, an Australian court ruled on Tuesday.
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In a news conference after the report was released, the complainants said they were disappointed in its conclusions but felt confident that it had corroborated their claims.
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"This is exactly the kind of transparency and accountability we've been looking for," Jessica Cantlon, one of the lead complainants on the University of Rochester case, told Gizmodo.
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" Ravi Naik, partner at ITN Solicitors, who is working with the complainants, also added in a statement: "Panoptykon's submissions add to the increasing focus on real time bidding.
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"I think this has unsettled our community," Jessica Cantlon, University of Rochester brain and cognitive sciences professor and one of the complainants on the EEOC filing, told Gizmodo.
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That rift continued to grow after the complainants filed with the EEOC—and especially when, on September 53, the full complaint appeared online and attracted national media attention.
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The investigation found that some of the accusations, including that he stared at one student's chest, likely happened as the complainants described, but did not violate university policies.
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The bill would also allow complainants to waive mediation and counseling, set up a victims' counsel, and require all congressional offices to go through harassment training every year.
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The suit boils down to this: The complainants allege that Fyre tricked attendees by promising that influencers like Kendall Jenner, Bella Hadid, and Emily Ratajkowski would be attending.
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"I think the highest-level deception is that they call [these medical support groups] safe," Fred Trotter, a security researcher and one of the complainants, told The Hill.
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"OIG-NYPD also found several investigative deficiencies, including instances of NYPD misclassifying complaints and failing to conduct the requisite interviews with subject officers and complainants," the report states.
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"I think the highest-level deception is that they call [these medical support groups] safe," Fred Trotter, a security researcher and one of the complainants, told The Hill.
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It would be a grave mistake for the STB to continue treating these belligerent shippers as legitimate complainants—a mistake the United States cannot afford to make again.
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"There will be complainants and new court rulings, but I am pretty confident this will stand," Justice Commissioner Vera Jourova said in a press conference unveiling the pact.
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A government lawyer said the investigating officer had some contact with the complainants before being assigned to the case, which could have created an appearance of potential bias.
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"The No. 1 issue is definitely that big change, of letting in those additional complainants in the case," said Shan Wu, a former sex-crimes prosecutor in Washington.
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The dispute comes at a time when Australia is increasingly being called the defamation capital of the world because of its strict and complex laws that favor complainants.
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The women said they were frustrated because they had little standing as complainants, and their approval was not required before the church and Mr. Heckman reached their agreement.
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"It is rare for a university professor to be fired," Kristina Larsen, an attorney who advised some of the complainants through the Title IX steps, told BuzzFeed News.
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A Washington Post investigation found Uber investigators were encouraged to protect the company, rather than complainants who in some cases made sexual assault allegations against drivers for Uber.
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In a letter to Blaine Calkins, one of the complainants, Ms. Dawson said she was looking into possible violations of rules barring cabinet ministers from accepting free transportation.
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Legally, it's difficult to argue with the judgment: The burden of proof in criminal cases is rightly high and there were inconsistencies in the testimony of all three complainants.
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They're also available directly to the complainants or "respondents" (defendants), the latter only once a lawsuit is pending, says EEOC spokeswoman and director of communications staff Kimberly Smith-Brown.
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Sixty-eight percent of the considered complaints contained allegations of discrimination based on race, ethnicity, color or national origin, and 66.5% of complainants were black, according to the report.
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"It is unfortunately a broken system," said Kristina Larsen, a lawyer who worked as an administrator at UC San Diego for two decades and now represents Title IX complainants.
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A report by Human Rights Watch in 2013 found Washington, DC, police accused several complainants of lying about being raped and explicitly threatened victims with prosecution for false reporting.
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The order covers the period between July 2016 and November 2017, when two complainants, including a group of Manila slum dwellers, petitioned the court to make details publicly available.
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The harm suffered by the complainants, meanwhile — both allegedly at Galloway's hands and then later, over the course of the investigation and its aftermath — was brushed aside as unimportant.
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Aptoide filed its first EU antitrust complaint against Google all the way back in 823, joining a bunch of other complainants crying foul over how Google was operating Android.
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The ACLU of Oregon sent The Associated Press copies of the agreements, signed by North Bend School District Superintendent Bill Yester and the complainants, Olivia Funk and Hailey Smith.
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Mr. Rother said that the complainants would ask the court to compel Deutsche Bank to turn over records that would shed light on the scale of the potential losses.
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However, he said there are rules that protect complainants from having a defense lawyer make assertions based on social-media posts that are irrelevant to the matter at hand.
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In May this year, a ProPublica investigation into Cloudflare's abuse reporting system led the company to amend the process — saying it would provide anonymity to complainants in certain circumstances.
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One of the men told the officers he had HIV, "but they insisted and forced [him] to have sex with the two of us," one of the complainants said.
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Defense lawyer Michael Bachner, who is not involved in the case, said it seemed the jury had decided to convict Weinstein on the counts related to the individual complainants.
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So we're seeking transparency about the involvement of competitors or vocal complainants as part of our efforts to ensure that our confidential business information is not shared with them.
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The bill would also waive what's currently a months-long mandatory counseling and mediation process with the employing office and establish a victims' counsel to provide representation to complainants.
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The aim of the complaint was to secure international arrest warrants and to start investigations by the prosecutors' office against those responsible for crimes, said the complainants in a statement.
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Opinions varied as to whether Galloway got his due process — but couldn't the letter spare a word for the ancillary complainants who got smeared in the course of the investigation?
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With a backlog of some 25m cases and fewer than 20,000 judges to handle them, it will still take years for most complainants to have a chance of obtaining justice.
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Minority Rights Group International (MRG), one of three complainants, hailed the ruling as a "huge victory" which would have major ramifications for other communities living on protected lands across Africa.
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The ACLU of Oregon sent to The Associated Press copies of the agreements, signed by North Bend School District Superintendent Bill Yester and the complainants, Olivia Funk and Hailey Smith.
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United States, charges that the federal government has jeopardized complainants' constitutional rights (life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness) by prioritizing the fossil fuel industry's interests at the environment's expense.
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In response, the company filed a motion to force two of the complainants into arbitration—and it was Riot's binding arbitration policy that precipitated the May 6 action by employees.
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But German economist Markus Kerber and his fellow complainants argued the ECB's decision last month to resume purchases and carry them out "for as long as necessary" warranted new hearings.
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Striking a deal is one way for prosecutors to avoid departmental judges who can be skeptical of complainants, especially those with criminal records or those who have sued the city.
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In December, two of the complainants were included in Time magazine's list of "silence breakers" — women who spoke out against sexual harassment — honored as the publication's person of the year.
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Many complainants don't go through the civil process because they're either unaware the process is available to them, or because they can't shoulder the costs associated with hiring their own lawyer.
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Nine of the complainants — their identities are confidential — appealed to the conduct committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States, which serves as the policymaking body for the federal courts.
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Harassment cases are notoriously hard for plaintiffs to win — federal discrimination complainants prevail only 15 percent of the time, a lower win rate than in any other type of civil lawsuit.
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U.S., explaining that failing to consider the complainants' argument could give the government the green light to "poison the air" with impunity, if in fact that's what officials had been doing.
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Women are the main targets of anti-Muslim prejudice, accounting for six out of ten complainants, according to Iman Atta, director of Tell MAMA, a British organization that monitors such incidents.
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The Commission imposed a non-discrimination remedy, requiring Google to treat competitors the same way it treats itself, but it has been accused by complainants of not properly enforcing the remedy.
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If Cal/OSHA fails to respond or decides not to pursue the complaint within 21 days of receiving it, complainants could then file a lawsuit against the film's producers and distributors.
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Complainants included retailers and wholesalers such as Giant Eagle Inc and Guttman Energy Inc as well as Delta Air Lines Inc subsidiary Monroe Energy LLC, which operates a Philadelphia-area refinery.
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" In 1974, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals — the court Kavanaugh currently sits on — declared that the requirement is necessary because rape complainants "all too frequently" have "an urge to fantasize.
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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission — Justice Thomas's old workplace — reports receiving more than 12,000 allegations of sex-based harassment each year, with women accounting for about 83 percent of the complainants.
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This report not only documents Americans dropping a dime on their neighbors, it reveals that Voice stupidly posted online personal identity details, even Social Security numbers, of both complainants and accused.
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"Ironically, many of the complainants in the E.U. antitrust case against Google are U.S. companies, pursuing justice in Europe precisely because the U.S., has not acted," he said in an email.
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Last year, more than half of the agency's inquiries could not be completed because complainants or witnesses stopped cooperating, the agency could not reach them or because a complaint was withdrawn.
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The size of the agreement is expected to total up to $800 million, depending on the number of complainants who wish to seek the funds, MGM said in a press release.
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After the board's announcement on Wednesday, Levy said "the board has made a mistake" and vowed the complainants would try to press the board again in the coming days to reconsider.
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Among the 43 trial cases that concluded this year, complainants waited an average of 1873 days, or roughly 15 months, for prosecutors and defense lawyers to rest their cases at trial.
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"Sharpley figured out he wasn&apost going to be confirmed and decided to step aside," said John Tye, executive director of Whistleblower Aid, who is representing two of the complainants alleging retaliation.
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"This is an extraordinarily irregular arrangement and it's only fair to have assurances that our confidential business information won't be shared with competitors or vocal complainants," said Jose Castaneda, a Google spokesman.
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The regulator said it opened the sanctioning process after receiving allegations of non-compliance from unnamed complainants that included the alleged overconsumption of well water and the unauthorized construction of new wells.
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On Thursday, police in the Australian state of Victoria, where Pell was a country priest in the 1970s, said he faced "multiple charges in respect of historical sexual offences" from multiple complainants.
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The company said on Tuesday it signed agreement with complainants in two cases in the Eastern District of Virginia to contribute $22 million in cash and $14 million in store credit vouchers.
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The complainants in the Google Shopping case have accused the company of demoting rival vertical search services in its general search results, and thereby depriving their businesses of scale and market access.
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"But this is an extraordinarily irregular arrangement and it's only fair to have assurances that our confidential business information won't be shared with competitors or vocal complainants," Castaneda said in a statement.
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Both cases are pending, and several complainants told POLITICO they were considering further legal action to force data protection authorities to get moving via what's called an "urgency procedure" in the GDPR.
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The complainants also accused the company of ignoring a board-approved recommendation by former U.S Attorney General Eric Holder that its head of diversity report directly to the company's CEO or COO.
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The complainants filed a series of supplements ahead of Wednesday's meeting, including an additional filing earlier this month citing the recent guilty plea of Trump's former personal attorney and confidant Michael Cohen.
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"His eventual employer asked nothing of us and I was prohibited by our lawyers and by the complainants' wishes from sharing anything about these complaints," Ms. Wolfe said in an emailed statement.
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At 218, Mr. Wigdor has found himself as the courtroom general leading an army of Fox complainants largely because of his reputation as one of New York City's most aggressive employment lawyers.
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School administrators had examined the complainants' accusations in good faith and in compliance with university policy and federal law, the investigators wrote, and had not retaliated against faculty members for speaking out.
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Ms. White defended the integrity of her investigation, adding that although she did not speak directly to the original complainants, she reviewed statements and correspondence they had previously provided to university officials.
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Calling for the resignation of a mayor may be risky, but the correspondence read by Ms Fu and Mr Distelhorst shows that complainants are not shy about pointing fingers at lower-level officials.
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"We apologize for any pain these matters have caused and sincerely hope that the complainants feel able to help us with the review in the coming weeks," the charity said in a statement.
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"While it may be true that the complainants failed to adhere to the...fluid service interval requirement, the consequent sudden and complete loss of brake without warning is a concern," the NHTSA said.
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I've seen that a lot, where potential allegations and potential complainants choose not to come forward because they're afraid of being countersued or of having their lives torn apart with a counter investigation.
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Complainants Guy and Kim Abrahams, who bought CBA shares in the 1990s, decided to sue when the bank did not agree to name climate change as an investment risk in its annual reports.
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DeCoutere has become a high-profile voice for assault victims in the wake of the sexual assault case against former CBC radio host Jian Ghomeshi, where she testified as one of three complainants.
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Over the years, journalists and investigators, chasing leads from a whisper-network of women and a handful of complainants, sought to expose the accusations and hold him accountable, but largely came up empty.
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There is no current equivalent of the code for the high court, meaning that after 83 ethics complaints against Kavanaugh were dismissed, complainants had no mechanism to file new ones, according to Warren.
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With changes ahead, I will work to ask my school to maintain its commitment to both complainants and respondents, as has been done successfully at some but not all schools under current policies.
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Italian prosecutors investigating Bank of Italy Governor Ignazio Visco over the collapse and sale of Banca Popolare di Spoleto (BPS) have asked for the case to be shelved, a lawyer representing the complainants said.
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Perhaps the more complex question is whether her department can reach a conclusion on Android quickly enough to please complainants/restore any competitive imbalance, should the platform be found in breach of antitrust law.
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" However, "two of the four complainants who came forward said that they believe former NBC News or Today Show leadership knew or must have known about Lauer's alleged inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace.
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Instead, the office "engaged in actions that could be considered retaliatory [against whistleblowers]" and "likely diminished the desired confidence of whistleblowers and other potential complainants in the operations of the office," the report said.
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On Friday, the court accepted the prosecutor's request for Erdogan to be one of the complainants and ruled the trial should be heard behind closed doors, decisions that drew anger from the journalists' supporters.
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There were two complainants who accused him of sexual assault or harassment, but a total of five alleged victims testified, both male and female, who were in Harwood's department, according to the Kernel's reporting.
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Honduras indicated that it was likely to appeal, saying in a statement that the ruling contained legal and factual errors and appeared not to be even-handed, objective or respectful of the complainants' rights.
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Once posts naming complainants are flagged to Twitter, Westmarland believes that the social network should remove the posts as swiftly as they would take down other illegal material, such as content that promotes terrorism.
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The OIG examined the department's handling of 888 allegations and found 68 percent alleged discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, color or national origin, with black New Yorkers comprising the bulk of complainants.
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The delay rankled victims' rights groups and former complainants, particularly as the Senate wrestled with allegations of sexual misconduct against Brett M. Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearing for a seat on the Supreme Court.
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Now, as she returns these messages, she expects to hear that some of those complainants were evicted over the past 35 days or are facing debts because of the forced lull in their cases.
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It remains unclear which criminal activities can be authorized under the Third Direction, and to what extent; parts of the hearings were held behind closed doors, with lawyers for the complainants and reporters excluded.
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As Recode notes, both TripAdvisor and Yelp are complainants in the European Union's antitrust case against Google, which is looking into whether the search giant deliberately promotes its own products over those of rivals.
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The procedure required complainants to receive counseling and meet directly with the objects of their complaint and their legal representatives for a set period before they could request any kind of hearing or file suit.
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Paulo Trezentos, chief executive of Aptoide, a rival Portuguese Android app store that is one of the complainants in the European competition case against Google, said his company would welcome greater access to Android users.
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In July of 2010, they filed the wage-theft suit in federal court and the sexual harassment claim with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which can grant complainants the right to sue in federal court.
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The CCI said that complainants in the Indian case - which according to sources involve more than one person - have alleged that Google engaged in abusive behavior similar to the kind outlined in the European case.
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In glare of media spotlight Much of the known judicial action related to sexual misconduct was taken because of forces outside the established system, such as media coverage or complainants using other law enforcement channels.
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The investigation, which was led by NBCUniversal general counsel Kim Harris, focused on four complainants' allegations and resulted from nearly 70 interviews with current and former employees and over 30 focus groups with 262 current employees.
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The government is now also investigating public complaints of environmental infractions against a local iron ore miner and against OceanaGold's exploration of an area near its Didipio gold mine that complainants want for agriculture, said Jasareno.
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The complainants said people were taking less than needed or using expired doses, with some patients even intentionally skimping on insulin in order to get sent to the emergency room where they could get it free.
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The burden of proof lies with a victim to make his or her case beyond a reasonable doubt — which means, in the absence of physical evidence, all Horkins had to go on were the complainants' memories.
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Earlier this year a lawyer working with the complainants said they're expecting "a cascade of complaints" across Europe — and "fully expect an EU-wide regulatory response" give that the adtech in question is applied region-wide.
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Settlement Judge David Coffman reached the decision after complainants, including Chevron Products Co, and Valero Marketing and Supply Co, did not believe further settlement proceedings would "serve any constructive purpose," according to a filing issued Tuesday.
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Prosecutor Mark Gibson had said none of the complainants had resiled from their allegations against Pell under cross-examination and Victoria Police Detective Sergeant Chris Reed rejected Richter's suggestions of serious flaws in the police investigation.
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Customers must agree to the clauses as a condition of opening accounts, saying they will take any disputes to closed-door arbitration instead of joining class-action lawsuits, where complainants band together to share litigation costs.
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" In a copy of the document provided to VICE, the guidelines state that complainants who break the rules may be subject to "disciplinary behavior including but not limited to suspension and/or expulsion from Brandon University.
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Fidesz asked Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government to carry out a "national consultation" about Brussels' plans to distribute asylum-seekers in the EU, a week after the EU's top court ruled against complainants Hungary and Slovakia.
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"The misconduct, confirmed through our investigation and adjudication process, harmed the complainants, and that trauma rippled through our campus and university system," said UC Santa Cruz spokesperson Scott Hernandez-Jason, in an email to BuzzFeed News.
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They need to lay out a clear mechanism for reporting incidents of harassment, create a meaningful and predictable process for investigating claims, protect the confidentiality of complainants and explicitly prohibit retaliation against those who come forward.
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Complainants in that instance say Google uses Android's platform dominance like a "Trojan horse" to drive adoption of its services, squeezing out competing apps which — unlike Google's apps and services — require users to discover and download them.
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The complainants say the land is traditionally used for grazing, farming and hunting and provides habitat for rare plant species such as the white sap tree as well as the red-footed tortoise and Barbudan fallow deer.
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Laura Dunn, who represents sexual assault complainants in Title IX investigations, and Justin Dillon, who has represented students accused of misconduct, said they prefer the live hearing, which has not been historically required in Title IX regulations.
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The New York Times first reported Barry's retirement, saying Barry filed her retirement papers in February, just 10 days after court officials notified complainants that the matter was "receiving the full attention" of a judicial conduct council.
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" Jessica Cantlon, an associate professor in the department and one of the EEOC complainants, testified for the complaint about a faculty dinner party when Jaeger asked another professor, "So, what part of Georgia really does it for you?
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" According to the EEOC complaint, the complainants "only discussed the investigation with other [brain and cognitive sciences] colleagues when it was clear that UR would take no action to rein in Jaeger nor to protect witnesses, including Kidd.
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Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California said in the ruling that the dangers raised by the complainants were real and worldwide, and both parties accepted the science behind global warming.
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The Iowa Supreme Court sided with the League and other complainants, noting that our plan proved that it was possible to create a plan with districts more equally apportioned by population when not considering incumbent residency in redistricting.
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The dangers raised by the complainants are real and worldwide, and that both parties accepted the science behind global warming, Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California said in the ruling.
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She said complainants should be allowed to record their evidence when it is fresh in their minds, rather than be expected to repeat it many times over — and finally to be aggressively cross-examined in court years later.
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Even so, revelations of clerical sexual abuse would not have fully emerged without the work of two semiretired detectives, whose efforts to listen to complainants led to Father Greene's arrest in 1998 and to investigations into other cases.
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"All that the complainants are asking for is that Google restores the level playing field," said Shivaun Raff, a founder of Foundem, a British comparison shopping site that was the first company to file a complaint against Google.
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Anything published online and visible in Australia, including basic information like the number of complainants and what exactly he had been accused of, could lead to hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines and jail time for journalists.
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Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California said in the ruling that the dangers raised by the complainants were real and worldwide, and both parties accepted the science behind global warming.
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"As the complainants, there is value in publicizing complaints like this in order to put pressure on the defendant," says lawyer Mark Zaid, a Rochester alum who specializes in, among other things, cases involving the Freedom of Information Act.
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The PI had called at least three of the complainants and asked them about their stories — a tactic that they say was intimidating, and that some lawyers say violates the school's own policy and federal guidelines for harassment investigations.
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In April, the European Court of Human Rights ruled in favour of three French complainants on the grounds that forced sterilisation violated their right to a private and family life—something guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights.
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Watch: Amy Ziering On Campus Rape and Why No One Believes Women A Twitter spokesperson told the Times that it would be able to enforce a UK-wide ban on naming rape complainants if required by the British authorities.
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This is due, in part, to the extraordinarily strong remedy available to prevailing complainants in Section 337 cases — an exclusion order barring the entry of infringing articles into the United States, which is the functional equivalent of an injunction.
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" In fact, a report by the university itself concluded that Baylor had, "failed to take action to identify and eliminate a potentially hostile environment, prevent its recurrence, or address its effects for individual complainants or the broader campus community.
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The investigation has been dragging on for so long that more serious action will be needed to restore competition in the market, said Gary Reback, an of counsel at Carr & Ferrell LLP, who represents complainants in the EU case.
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Current and former employees have said complainants are often not told about the details of subsequent investigations, while some said they did not know they were being investigated by employee relations until questioned about what actions they had taken.
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And the spike in numbers show that "the issues are real ... the complainants are there, and that we've opened the doors and let people know that we actually will take your complaint seriously and intend to enforce the law."
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Gargi College has condemned the "outrageous incidents" that took place during Reverie, saying that it was committed to the security of students and would set up a "high-level fact finding committee" to meet with the complainants and eyewitnesses.
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On a recorded January 2019 call with one of the complainants, obtained by BuzzFeed News, CDC ethics director Carolyne St.Louis said that some high-level officials involved in the investigation felt the agency "botched" Luber's case and had resigned.
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Professor Jeremy Gans, who teaches on all aspects of the criminal justice system at Melbourne University, told CNN there are services in place to help complainants try to prepare to be cross examined, but it's not an easy process.
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Students across the University have protested and attended town hall meetings, and the lawyer of one of the complainants won the right to sue the university for discrimination based on sex, violating Title IX of the United States Educational Amendment.
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The complainants' lawyers took testimony from nine of the 11 women who allegedly avoided Jaeger "at the cost of their education," while the other two students' alleged stories come secondhand from a scientist who claims the students confided in her.
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BuzzFeed News was unable to obtain Columbia's full decisions but was able to reach two of the three original complainants, and confirm that all three professors are still employed by the university and have been for more than two decades.
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If the full package is passed by the Senate, it would remove the gag order, would allow staffers to work remotely while their complaint is pending, and would no longer force complainants to go through mandatory mediation before pursuing a complaint.
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The Interior Inspector General's office received seven complaints from a "wide assortment of complainants alleging various potential conflict of interest and other violations by then-Deputy Secretary of the Interior, David Bernhardt," according to a letter the watchdog sent to Sen.
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They didn't want to make their own complaints, but they thought their testimony might help substantiate that of MC. Instead, they say, they were told that they would be treated as ancillary complainants, a position they had no desire to fill.
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The complainants have also said they intend to file additional complaints in more markets across Europe, so more DPAs are likely to join the scrutiny of RTB, as concerned supervisory agencies, which could increase pressure on the Irish DPC to act.
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" In an email to Mashable, Russell said the terminology used to describe the new consent forms is "problematic when complainants don't have a full and free choice as to whether to agree to the scrutiny and storage of their personal data.
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Doty is currently one of eight complainants hoping to change the gender marker on their own birth certificates in a case with the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal, and is fighting to keep gender identification off of Searyl's birth certificate as well.
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It bundles beneficial victims' rights — like the rights of a victim to know the status of a defendant's case and whether or not he's been released from custody — with the potentially harmful rights, like allowing complainants to dodge discovery requests.
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A prosecutor called Topuz's contact with police a "reflexive acknowledgment of his crimes" and said the communication with police was "beyond the limits of consular work," according to the AP. The indictment reportedly lists Erdoğan and former ministers as complainants.
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Gibson rejected Richter's "attack" on the credibility of the complainants and the way the police operation was conducted by officers from the SANO Task Force, which was established by the state of Victoria to investigate historic and new abuse allegations.
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Details: Mary Kendall, the agency's deputy inspector general, told the 8 Democratic senators who requested a formal investigation that she had received 7 complaints from "a wide assortment of complainants alleging various conflicts of interest and other violations" by Bernhardt.
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Weinstein's defense team has a request for the DA's office to disclose all materials relating to DiGuadio's discussions with all "would be complainants or witnesses to be disclosed by the DA's office" at the time he was working on the case.
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Google and the IAB set the RTB specifications used by the online ad industry and are thus the main targets here, with complainants advocating for amendments to the specification to bring the system into compliance with the bloc's data protection regime.
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The solution Ryan and the other complainants are advocating for is not pulling the plug on the online ad industry entirely — but rather an update to the RTB spec to strip out personal data so that it respects Internet users' rights.
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"How can you justify putting resources into an international airport when the basic services that are required by a community are still not in place?" one of the complainants John Mussington told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by telephone from Barbuda.
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One target for GDPR complainants is so-called 'forced consent' — where consumers are told by platforms leveraging powerful network effects that they must accept giving up their privacy as the 'take it or leave it' price of accessing the service.
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"On behalf of the Labour Party I apologise to the complainants for the way this matter has been dealt with," Ardern said in a statement, adding that she has accepted the resignation of the president of the party, Nigel Haworth.
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Pell's legal team successfully won its bid to raise undisclosed materials from a victims advocacy group, the Victorian police force, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and lawyers involved in the area of historic sexual abuse, as well as from the complainants themselves.
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But lawyers for embattled drug company Valeant are arguing that British Columbia's Supreme Court shouldn't the grant class action certification since the case has "no real complainants," even though a study shows that the drug is less effective than a sugar pill.
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"Texas has requested, and we have provided, over 100,000 pages of information about our business even as we seek assurances that our confidential business information won't be shared with competitors or vocal complainants," Google spokeswoman Julie Tarallo McAlister told CNBC in a statement.
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While reading his not guilty verdict in Ghomeshi's sexual assault trial last month, Justice William Horkins said he found the post-incident behavior of the three complainants "odd" in that they continued having friendly interactions with Ghomeshi after they said he hurt them.
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"Consequently, the panel finds that, through its actions and omissions, Unmik was responsible for compromising irreversibly the life, health and development potential of the complainants that were born and grew as children in the camps," the panel concluded in the 79-page opinion.
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The rest of their demands are aimed at curbing the abuse of power—with a safe and anonymous harassment reporting procedure, increased corporate transparency around harassment, and an end to forced arbitration in harassment cases, which often advantages the company over complainants.
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That next phase must be done carefully, to ensure that, "the procedures we put in place do not negatively impact the complainants and also don't impact potential criminal investigations," Jonathan Darche, the executive director of the board, told board members at the meeting.
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The main reasons for dissatisfaction were the length of time taken to resolve an issue, not being kept up to date with the progress of the complaint and suppliers not providing complainants with a clear idea of how long a resolution would take.
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But Honduras, one of the four complainants in the WTO case, said in a statement that the ruling contained a number of legal and factual errors and did not appear to have been even-handed and objective, and indicated that it would appeal.
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The Competition Commission of India (CCI) ordered a full-blown investigation into Alphabet Inc's Google in April for alleged abuse of its Android platform to hurt rivals, but the complainants' names came to light only when the order was made public last week.
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"We have been working constructively with the Texas attorney general and have produced a substantial volume of information in response to his inquiry even as we seek assurances that our confidential business information won't be shared with competitors or vocal complainants," a Google spokesperson said.
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Complainants said they believed he lied not only about the events raised by Ford but in other statements during Senate testimony last September and earlier testimony in 2004 and 2006 when he was up for his appeals court seat on the District of Columbia Circuit.
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The environmental law firm Earthjustice sued the E.P.A. in Federal District Court in California on behalf of the complainants in the Beaumont, Chaves County and Pittsburg cases and two other groups, alleging that the E.P.A. "unlawfully withheld and unreasonably delayed" action on the cases.
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Analyzing "deaf ear" syndrome, the article, by a group of academics at the University of North Carolina, compares companies that close ranks against complainants to narcissists "who need to maintain a positive self-image and engage in 'ego-defensive' behavior to preserve their self-esteem".
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Another piece of evidence now attached to the RTB complaints shows a set of sample bid requests from the IAB and Google's documentation for users of their systems — with annotations by the complainants showing exactly how much personal data gets packaged up and systematically shared.
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Update: In a further statement, the complainants have rejected the IAB's characterization of their complaint as "false", arguing that the ad association is misrepresenting the argument at the core of their complaint — "which is about the security of sensitive personal data in the advertising ecosystem".
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"I asked the rochester authorities today about certain student-faculty relations and I am in no danger," he wrote in April 2007 to Dr. Celeste Kidd, one of the complainants, according to a screenshot of a Facebook conversation Dr. Kidd provided to The Times.
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Kristina Rapuano, one of the six named complainants (the seventh is identified only as Jane Doe), said in an interview on Wednesday that Professor Kelley began harassing her by enlisting her as his drinking buddy, and making his academic support conditional on her cooperation.
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"The fact is, I'm stunned with how poorly the witnesses in this case have been vetted before they were allowed to serve as complainants in a criminal case that has the potential of a sentence of life imprisonment," Mr. Brafman said during a phone interview.
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Cardinal Pell previously denied knowing about abuse in the 1970s and '80s, but the description of the crimes that have been made available to the public would suggest that he is now being accused of having been personally engaged in sexual offenses by multiple complainants.
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Under the administration's proposed new rule, builders and civil rights groups could never win such a case at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, even though Justice Kennedy cited the case as exactly the kind that civil rights complainants should be able to win.
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That meant some complainants received emails about their cases from an investigator at the Obama-era office one month and then from the same investigator at the new Trump whistleblower office a few weeks later, sowing doubt that it was a new office at all.
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In fact, the 200-page report said that while the accused professor, Dr. T. Florian Jaeger, had at times acted inappropriately and offensively, and while administrators had missed opportunities to address complainants' concerns, Dr. Jaeger's behavior ultimately did not violate university policy at the time.
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The sister of one of the complainants, who asked she not be named to protect her brother, said that while her family was disappointed at the collapse of the second trial, it was "overjoyed" that Cardinal Pell was found guilty in the earlier one.
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Before the BuzzFeed News story was published, the Ohio AG's office had received at least three complaints from citizens concerned that Epperly's ideology was doing harm, and had informed complainants that their queries had been passed on to the FDA or the State Medical Board of Ohio.
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In addition to internet complaints suggesting otherwise, the Federal Trade Commission has received more than 1,000 complaints over the last 5 years from consumers who say the company has contacted them without consent; some complainants also wanted to know how the company had found out about their medical conditions.
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The survey of around 3,100 complainants - carried out every two years - found that satisfaction has improved since the last survey in 2016, with a third (32 percent) of domestic customers satisfied with how their complaint was dealt with, an increase of five percentage points from 2016, Ofgem said.
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Related: Independent Voters Are Pissed They Can't Vote for Trump or Sanders in New York Leonard Joseph Campanello, one of the complainants, said that he registered to vote as a Democrat in 2009, but recently learned from the Board of Elections that he is now registered as a Republican.
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The University of Rochester and its relevant employees, the complainants claim, have violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, Title IX, and New York State law by subjecting a subset of them to hostile work or educational environments, retaliating against seven of them, and constructively discharging two of them.
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Justice Anthony Kennedy will again be the swing vote and while no one can predict the court we will see if the Constitution and religious liberty will be upheld, which in this case does not hinder the ability of the complainants to go get a cake when they need one.
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The bill would also streamline the cumbersome claims-reporting process established in the 1995 Congressional Accountability Act; it would eliminate the current process of mandatory mediation and the "cooling off period," where complainants have to wait a certain amount of time before submitting an official complaint, lawmakers and aides confirmed.
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But the flight attendants, who also are not named, did not report the incidents to anyone else, did not request law enforcement be contacted to meet the plane upon landing, and did not cooperate or assist the complainants with getting evidence or the identities of the assailants or possible witnesses.
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If Secretary Zinke and his lieutenants are serious about ending the culture of impunity that dominates certain segments of our public lands agencies, they will ensure that every agency has a strong, multi-faceted anti-harassment policy in place, and they will encourage complainants to come forward without fear of retaliation.
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Buonpane has on occasion questioned complainants about what they experienced and witnessed in a way that upset them — in one case, the inquiry led a longtime North End Grill staffer to feel that Buonpane didn't fully believe her account of repeatedly witnessing Korsh's bad temper and unwelcome touching, the staffer said.
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The complainants involved in the second trial did not want their case jeopardized, and with most of our competitors abiding by the order, would it have been right, legally or morally, if The Times had played a role in that by disregarding an order meant to ensure a fair trial?
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But whether or not someone enjoys group sex has no bearing on whether that person was raped — legislators in many states have recognized that someone's sexual history is not relevant to their testimony of sexual assault, and have passed rape shield laws to protect complainants from pointless scrutiny into their sexual past.
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A decorated veteran of World War II, Judge Wapner ran his television courtroom from the show's debut in 1981 to the end of its original run in 1993 with stern, mesmerizing discipline, cutting off onscreen complainants who displeased him and threatening to levy unspecified penalties on those who dared to interrupt him.
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"It is next to impossible to change clothes and boots mid-climb as there is a danger of frostbite and we are cent-percent sure that photographs were taken either at a base camp or at a studio and later it was meticulously morphed or cropped," mountaineer Surendra Shelke, one of the complainants told PTI.
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According to the publication, a group of seven complainants, including a federal judge, several religious leaders, and a former chair of the White House Council on Faith and Neighborhood Partnerships, first filed a complaint in June citing evidence of the president's character flaws as reasons for the control board to deny his hotel's liquor licenses.
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Prosecutors methodically presented evidence from both complainants and built a case showing that Cardinal Pell — a physically imposing former athlete who carried nicknames like "Big George" and "the ambitious Australian bulldog" — had the opportunity and ability to commit grave acts of abuse in a relatively private section of the cathedral that he knew intimately.
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"In terms of national concern, if EPA is not going to be able to acknowledge them in this case, we're pretty dubious that they are going to reach that finding for any civil rights complainants anywhere in the nation," Claudia Wack, a member of Yale University's Environmental Justice Clinic, which represented Uniontown residents, told Inside Climate earlier this year.
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" The labels want more revenue per stream in their next licensing deals But industry experts like Schrupers are quick to point out that YouTube offers some of the most advanced tools for copyright protection: "It is important to recognize that while complaints about the DMCA often cite YouTube, YouTube is actually one of the few platforms that already offers what complainants ask for.
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The complainants include Democrats who blame the digerati for letting the Russians manipulate their platforms to throw the election; progressives who want more restrictions on hate speech; Republicans who think those same tech companies are hopelessly biased against them; conservatives who have called for nationalizing the platforms (hello, Pravda!); others who want to impose strict rules over privacy; and still others who want "anything goes" to prevail.
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While some prominent members of the national team have moved to teams abroad — notably two of the E.E.O.C. complainants, Alex Morgan and Carli Lloyd — most of the national team players compete for teams in the N.W.S.L. Their league salaries are structured as part of their national team contracts, and thus paid by U.S. Soccer as part of its ongoing subsidization of the domestic league.
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But maybe the loudest criticisms came from people who thought the entire thing was a big shakedown of the federal government, that this was all a reparations scam and white people and the federal government didn't owe these folks anything, that the complainants were frauds, that they were making this up, that they were terrible, horrible farmers who were masking these complaints of racism to hide their own incompetence as farmers.
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It's now almost a year and a half since the ICO was the recipient of a major complaint into RTB — filed by Dr Johnny Ryan of private browser Brave; Jim Killock, director of the Open Rights Group; and Dr Michael Veale, a data and policy lecturer at University College London — laying out what the complainants described then as "wide-scale and systemic" breaches of Europe's data protection regime.
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The proposed Trump Administration rule throws up many technical roadblocks to filing and pursuing such a complaint, but one new procedural hurdle wouldn't even let the black homeowners get in the door: Before the city would be required to provide a rationale for its failure to keep assessments current, the complainants would have to imagine every conceivable justification that the city might assert, and prove that each was not legitimate, without knowing what actual defense the city might claim or what standard of legitimacy HUD would impose.
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Sens. Chuck GrassleyCharles (Chuck) Ernest GrassleyHouse Republicans voice concerns about White House's impeachment messaging Dems: Trump can't interview whistleblower Trump rails against whistleblower, 'spy' within administration MORE (R-Iowa), Mike LeeMichael (Mike) Shumway LeeDuring impeachment storm, senators cross aisle to lessen mass incarceration Intel community watchdog appears to push back on Trump allegations of changes to whistleblower rules To win the federal paid family leave debate, allow states to lead the way MORE (R-Utah) and Ron JohnsonRonald (Ron) Harold JohnsonKennedy announces bill banning family members of U.S. officials from profiting in Ukraine Intel community watchdog appears to push back on Trump allegations of changes to whistleblower rules GOP senators urge Barr to probe Clinton, Ukraine MORE (R-Wis.) wrote to Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson on Monday asking for clarity about a reported change in the whistleblower complaint process that no longer required complainants to have firsthand knowledge.
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