Some commanders tried to protect themselves by underreporting or reclassifying major crimes.
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Khosrowshahi wrote Trump that reclassifying workers would bring its own set of challenges.
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And reclassifying their drivers as employees would screw with the companies' business model.
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When the FCC tried to introduce net neutrality regulations without reclassifying broadband providers, it was rejected by a US appeals court, which said the FCC didn't have the authority to regulate ISPs without reclassifying them as Title II common carriers.
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"California took a step backwards today by reclassifying vapor products as tobacco," it said.
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Republicans like Pai denounced the FCC order for reclassifying internet service providers as utilities.
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Under federal law, third parties may petition these agencies to consider reclassifying controlled substances.
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But reclassifying "fixing Facebook" as a personal challenge doesn't indicate a willingness to cede control.
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The NPRM is focused on re-reclassifying broadband under Title I, where it was before.
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This involved reclassifying more countries as "safe" places of origin to return failed asylum seekers.
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The settlement offered drivers some concessions, but stopped short of reclassifying the drivers as employees.
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The settlement offered drivers some concessions, but stopped short of reclassifying the drivers as employees.
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There is nothing to stop the FCC in the next administration from reclassifying broadband once again.
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The practice of reclassifying people's race continued after the United States seized Puerto Rico in 1898.
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Of course, reclassifying someone as an employee isn&apost as simple as just checking a box.
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Not all non-monogamists agree that reclassifying the practice as an orientation would help the community.
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MSCI is also seeking feedback on reclassifying Pakistan as an emerging market and Peru to frontier market.
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It has, however, proposed reclassifying the unused drugs as hazardous waste, which would then prohibit flushing them.
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The privacy rules were passed under the authority that the FCC gained from reclassifying the broadband industry.
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By reclassifying broadband as an information service, the Commission placed broadband outside of its Title II jurisdiction.
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The company will begin reclassifying users of e-cigarettes as smokers in the coming weeks, he said.
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She said businesses might also seek to avoid the costs by reclassifying workers from salaried to hourly.
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Another accountant and Gates discussed reclassifying income as a loan, which would mean it wasn't taxable, Laporta said.
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For all soldiers re-enlisting or reclassifying, the bonus is paid out in one lump sum, Ricks said.
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It's also reclassifying promotions for specific customer groups in a market as operating expenses, rather than contra-revenue.
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In Oklahoma, they reined in the War on Drugs, reclassifying nearly all felony drug possession charges as misdemeanors.
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The agency said it was reclassifying Purell as an unapproved drug, rather than an over-the-counter product.
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His efforts to reduce the number of incarcerated people — in part by reclassifying certain felonies as misdemeanors — failed.
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Still, the more money you make, the bigger the tax break from reclassifying your income as business income.
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But this raises obvious possibilities for abuse, with every well-paid professional reclassifying herself or himself as a business.
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Republicans say they will erect guardrails to prevent workers from reclassifying themselves as contractors to exploit the lower rate.
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The FCC decided to avoid applying the type of utility-style regulations that came along with reclassifying internet service.
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She also supports reclassifying schizophrenia and other serious mental illnesses as a neurological condition instead of a behavioral condition.
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They suggest ending the practice of incarcerating those awaiting trial for nonviolent crimes and reclassifying some low-level offenses.
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It's not likely that FCC chair Ajit Pai is going to have a change of heart about reclassifying broadband.
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But reclassifying an employee from "exempt," or not overtime eligible, to "non-exempt," can be tricky for certain employers.
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Government officials say reclassifying manatees from "endangered" to "threatened" will not change the federal and state laws that protect them.
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Because government speech is outside First Amendment protection, reclassifying it this way would render the trademark outside First Amendment protection.
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Tax analysts have expressed worries that wealthy Americans could reap massive windfalls by simply reclassifying their incomes as pass-throughs.
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That would make it harder for high-income people to avoid taxes by reclassifying their labor income as business income.
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In September, Facebook's board blocked a plan that would have entrenched Zuckerberg's voting power even further by reclassifying the company's stock.
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His plan would scrap that "Title II" provision reclassifying the companies and hand over authority to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
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In California, the passage of Assembly Bill 5 (AB5) will help gig workers by reclassifying Uber and Lyft's drivers as employees.
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In California alone, reclassifying drivers as employees could cost Uber and Lyft $22019,275 per driver each year, analysts at Barclays estimated.
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Tax analysts worry that wealthy Americans could reap massive windfalls by simply reclassifying their incomes as so-called pass-through businesses.
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The FDA announced Friday it is reclassifying external pacemaker pulse generator devices as well as pacing system analyzers into class III.
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In 2015, the FCC approved a landmark set of rules codifying net neutrality by reclassifying ISPs as "common carriers" under federal law.
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This order cemented net neutrality protections federally by reclassifying ISPs as a telecommunications service that can be regulated like a public utility.
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However, the 250 bps majority came from reclassifying certain transitional/repositioning candidate properties, thereby removing them from the company's 'in-service' portfolio.
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States have done this by reclassifying certain drug offenses from felonies to misdemeanors or creating safety valve exceptions to mandatory minimum sentences.
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Simonds argued that reclassifying the ballot did not follow regular procedure and accused her opponent's campaign of not playing by the rules.
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Net neutrality lost its consumer-protection purpose when it became the FCC's rationale for reclassifying broadband as a Title II telephone utility.
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Pai and other Republicans believe the Obama-era FCC overstepped its authority with the regulations by reclassifying the ISPs as common carriers.
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Legislation would basically prevent blocking, throttling and paid prioritization but doesn't go to the extreme of reclassifying broadband as a telecommunications service.
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But doing so required reclassifying internet providers as "common carriers"—the same classification that allows the FCC to regulate telephone companies like utilities.
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The 2628 order imposed the rules by reclassifying the broadband industry as telecommunications services, which brought internet service providers under the FCC's authority.
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The FDA is currently considering reclassifying and renaming what is now legally known as the "female condom," which could open up the market.
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First, let's assume arguendo that the FCC, as it stated in its order, was not reclassifying terminating access as a Title II service.
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Pai and other Republicans have argued the Obama-era FCC overstepped its authority with the regulations by reclassifying the ISPs as common carriers.
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They argue that the FCC went too far in its legal framework for the regulations by reclassifying internet service providers as common carriers.
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In 2015, the FCC codified net neutrality into federal law by reclassifying ISPs as "common carriers" under Title II of The Communications Act.
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The 85033 order imposed the rules by reclassifying the broadband industry as telecommunications services, which brought internet service providers under the FCC's authority.
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The only way Pai can restore the FTC's authority over broadband would be to reverse the FCC's 2015 decision reclassifying ISPs as common carriers.
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Reclassifying broadband providers as common carriers gave the FCC the authority to do much more than just stop internet service providers from blocking content.
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ISPs have strongly supported Chairman Pai's plan, but anyone with a brain can see how flimsy the technical justification for re-reclassifying broadband is.
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Reclassifying dispatchers with their fellow protective services would not cost a dime, and would give this vital occupation the dignity and respect it deserves.
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Industry groups are appealing the FCC decision, in the hopes that they can delay or prevent the government from reclassifying broadband as a utility.
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We merely want to do away with the rules through which net neutrality was established, because reclassifying broadband providers under Title II was bad.
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And despite Lyft's decision to settle on Monday, experts say the broader issue of potentially reclassifying drivers and workplace protections is far from settled.
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Title II is one of the key elements of net neutrality, reclassifying broadband as a utility and allowing the FCC to enforce the rules.
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The 2015 order imposed the rules by reclassifying the broadband industry as telecommunications services, which brought internet service providers under the FCC's tougher authority.
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The settlement was seen as an attempt to avoid reclassifying the drivers as employees, which would have possibly driven the company out of business.
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Whether the FCC reclassified termination (by virtue of reclassifying BIAS) or did not (leaving it an "information service") remains unclear and is still debated.
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After that, the central government may do more to drive production, possibly reclassifying pick-ups as passenger cars rather than commercial vehicles, he said.
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Meanwhile, reclassifying non-profit housing associations as private companies enabled the government to shift debt equivalent to 3.2 percent of GDP off its books.
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He is averaging 6.2 points and 2.7 rebounds over nine games since arriving in early December after reclassifying from the Sunrise (Kan.) Christian Academy.
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Responding to these fears, the FCC ultimately enacted "net neutrality" rules by reclassifying broadband access services under its Title II utility regulations in 2015.
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Officials also reconsidered 391 active regulatory proceedings by reclassifying them as long-term or inactive "allowing for further careful review," the White House said.
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The class is led by Bagley, an athletic 213-foot-23 forward was widely considered the No. 22 recruit of the 24 class before reclassifying.
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Based on the latest DNA evidence, a recent scientific paper (also led by Fennessy) calls for reclassifying the long-necked herbivores into four separate species.
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Houze Song of the Paulson Institute, an American think-tank, says local officials have been reclassifying loans so they no longer appear in official statistics.
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But programmatic enables performance advertising to be an "always on" expense, therefore reclassifying it from a discretionary operating expense to a cost of goods sold.
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The US Fish and Wildlife Service, which manages manatee refuges and sanctuaries, last year proposed reclassifying the West Indian manatee, which includes the Florida manatee.
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"We never considered anything along these lines like reclassifying unaccompanied minors or adding to the deportation priority list parents of unaccompanied minors," he told me.
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Moreover, as Benjamin Sachs has noted, worker flexibility doesn't require independent contractor status; reclassifying contractors as employees would have no necessary bearing on workers' schedules.
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" He added that "reclassifying broadband access as a public utility service reverses decades of established legal precedent which has been upheld by the Supreme Court.
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Charitable donations are still deductible under the GOP, so reclassifying state taxes as charity would enable residents to still deduct them at the federal level.
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But he also took issue with the argument, made by the individuals who objected, that a baseline settlement should include reclassifying the drivers as employees.
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Hanrahan suggested a set of policy guidelines, including reclassifying gig economy contractors as employees if they work 25 hours per week for a single platform.
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She said Gates told her in a conference call the income level "was too high" and proposed reclassifying a portion of it as a loan.
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The agency invited public comment last year after it proposed reclassifying the aquatic creatures, which weigh half a ton and range up to 13 feet long.
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The American Psychiatric Association took the right first step of reclassifying it medically, and raising awareness is one way to have people stop using the name.
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We have identified and are reclassifying all offending emails as spam, and have no reason to believe any accounts were compromised as part of this incident.
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Yet they voted, with 21990 percent support, to cut prison sentences by reclassifying certain property offenses and simple drug possession to misdemeanor crimes instead of felonies.
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But by reclassifying broadband companies as "common carriers" in order to protect net neutrality, the FCC assumed oversight of the privacy practices of internet service providers.
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Pai has criticized the rules for reclassifying internet providers as telecommunications services, which he believes is an example of regulatory overreach that could stifle the industry.
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Additionally, Democrats and some tax experts have expressed concerns that wealthy individuals would exploit a lower pass-through rate by reclassifying their salaried income as business income.
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Pai argues that the rules went too far by reclassifying internet service providers as telecommunications services, which makes the industry subject to tougher regulations from the FCC.
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It also alleges that Marc Sorrentino falsified business records produced to the Grand Jury by reclassifying taxable payments made to him as nontaxable payments and business deductions.
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Pai would target a Title II provision in the 22019 rules that gave the FCC the authority to regulate broadband providers by reclassifying them as common carriers.
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The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) issued a final rule in December reclassifying bump stock devices as machine guns and banning their private possession.
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To keep psychedelics as Schedule I substances makes researching them prohibitively hard, but to call for reclassifying them as Schedule II substances is unlikely to succeed either.
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In May, the FCC voted 2-1 to advance Republican FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's plan to withdraw the Obama administration's order reclassifying internet service providers as utilities.
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By reclassifying the industry, the FCC also gained the legal footing to impose rules on internet service providers prohibiting them from blocking, throttling or prioritizing web content.
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The tax law creates a new 85033 percent deduction for pass-through income and includes guardrails aimed at preventing people from reclassifying wage income as business income.
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Pai would target a Title II provision in the 2015 rules that gave the FCC the authority to regulate broadband providers by reclassifying them as common carriers.
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AT&T has been a staunch supporter of Pai's push to kill the regulations, arguing that the FCC overreached by reclassifying internet service providers as common carriers.
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At the same time, lawmakers wanted to avoid a situation where wealthy individuals were reclassifying their wage income as pass-through income in order to avoid taxes.
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MSCI also said it would seek feedback on reclassifying Pakistan stocks to emerging market status and Peru to frontier market status, with decisions also due in June 2016.
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The research of Dr. J. Calvin Coffey, foundation chair of surgery at the University of Limerick, is reclassifying this part of the digestive system as a contiguous organ.
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Conservatives and the broadband industry argue that the rules harm internet providers by reclassifying them as telecommunications services, which they are now saying has hurt their infrastructure investments.
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Conservative critics argue the rules go too far by reclassifying broadband providers as a telecommunications industry, which opened them up to public utility-style regulation from the FCC.
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The FDA will hold an advisory committee meeting on May 30 to discuss whether reclassifying the staplers for internal use as Class II medical devices would be appropriate.
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The legal battle mainly centers around whether the FCC overstepped its authority in reclassifying internet service providers and in preempting states from substituting their own net neutrality rules.
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And although reclassifying cartels as terror organizations wouldn't automatically authorize the president to launch overseas military operations, many are worried that Trump could attempt to push the limits.
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A British review of "modern working practices" urges changes such as reclassifying gig-economy workers as "dependent contractors" who would be entitled to employee benefits and social security.
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As companies like Uber, Lyft and Postmates are still trying to reach profitability, the costs of reclassifying their workers could have a negative impact on their respective bottom lines.
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In May, the FCC voted 2-1 to advance Republican FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's plan to withdraw the 2015 order reclassifying internet service providers as if they were utilities.
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Some experts and advocates argued that ending the University of Mississippi's de facto monopoly on growing research-grade marijuana was more important to spurring research than reclassifying the drug.
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This result suggests that after states slash corporate tax rates, some wealthy individuals are reclassifying their earnings as business income in order to take advantage of lower tax rates.
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"I'm not going to go through the hassle of reclassifying myself just to save $10," said Joseph Rosenberg, a senior research associate at the Tax Policy Center in Washington.
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At a bilateral dinner, President Xi Jinping committed to reclassifying fentanyl and related drugs as "controlled substances," and subjecting anyone caught making or selling the drugs to maximum penalty.
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Republicans and the broadband industry have argued that the Obama-era order went too far by reclassifying ISPs as common carriers, which opened them up to tougher FCC regulation.
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The government will also sell land from 11 cotton gins worth 27 billion Egyptian pounds ($1.5 billion), after reclassifying the companies' legal purpose from industrial activity to real estate.
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First, to accomplish mass prosecution, it needed to start separating hundreds of families a week by transferring the parents into criminal custody and reclassifying the children as "unaccompanied" minors.
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And Congress had passed legislation reclassifying grazing from the dominant use of public lands to just one use among many — all to be weighed and administered by the land bureau.
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In 2015, after years of debate and legal wrangling, the Federal Communications Commission codified net neutrality by reclassifying broadband providers as "telecommunications services" under Title II of the Communications Act.
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It accomplished this by reclassifying broadband as a "telecommunications service" under Title II of the 1934 Communications Act, and in so granted itself the authority to regulate broadband service nationwide.
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Debate over endangered species status The annual count comes as the US Fish and Wildlife Service mulls a final decision on reclassifying the West Indian manatee from endangered to threatened.
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It's offered to pony up $84 million, but recent reports suggest that the settlement could save it as much as $750 million compared to reclassifying its drivers as employees.[WSJ]
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Index provider MSCI said it has not yet considered reclassifying the recently upgraded Argentina stock index out of emerging markets despite the massive spike in volatility and decline in prices.
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Pai and other conservatives argue that the net neutrality regulations overreached by reclassifying the broadband industry as telecommunications services, which opened the providers up to tougher regulations from the FCC.
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"The exact amount of money a soldier reclassifying will receive is based on rank and the number of years he or she commits to serving in the infantry," Ricks said.
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In the past five years, several state legislatures, including South Dakota, have introduced bills that would turn protesters into felons by reclassifying basic impeding actions as crimes rather than misdemeanors.
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What's being considered The US Fish and Wildlife Service, which manages manatee refuges and sanctuaries, last year proposed reclassifying the West Indian manatee from endangered to threatened -- a less serious status.
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Reclassifying the West Indian Manatees to threatened, will allow Crystal River to change their focus from a 'single species protection' (Endangered) to an 'expanded' focus of all wildlife in their area.
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The recession will force state and private-sector banks to keep reclassifying at least 90 billion reais ($913 billion) in troubled corporate loans, as bankruptcy filings doubled in the past year.
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A $1,21625 "donation" to the fund diminishes state income tax liability by $2900,220006, so there would be no state tax benefit due to reclassifying this tax payment as a charitable contribution.
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The zoning committee had announced that it would take no comments from the community; the members just wanted to rule on the procedural question of reclassifying the property to commercial use.
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Last month, Austria joined with nine Balkan states to impose a tough border policy, in the process inexplicably reclassifying Afghans as economic migrants rather than refugees and therefore barred from entry.
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By reclassifying Coinbase (and presumably all other exchanges, as well), VISA and Mastercard are doing their best to make it harder, slower and more expensive for people to invest in cryptocurrency.
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In May, the FCC voted 2-1 to advance Republican FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's plan to withdraw the former Obama administration's order reclassifying internet service providers as if they were utilities.
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Before the 1960s, census takers in the United States and Puerto Rico decided people's race for them, and applied whiteness liberally on the island, sometimes reclassifying people from black to white.
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Concerns around accounting of recourse and non-recourse accounting have been heightened in the Spanish concessions sector ever since Abengoa stunned investors by reclassifying a bond as non-recourse in November 2014.
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The Drug Enforcement Administration has rescheduled Epidiolex, paving the way for GW Pharmaceuticals to start selling the first FDA-approved drug derived from cannabis, but stopped short of reclassifying all cannabidiol products.
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The NPRM will have three elements: Reclassifying ISPs under Title I instead of Title II, eliminating the Internet Conduct Standard, and "seeking input" on the bright line rules on blocking and prioritization.
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According to a recent Barclays estimate, reclassifying employees would cost Uber and Lyft about $3,625 a driver, which could amount to several hundreds of millions in additional annual operating losses per year.
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The FCC in 2015 in reclassifying internet service said it had significant oversight authority, including the ability to set rates for internet service, but said it was opting not to use it.
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Some of the states with notable drops, including New Jersey, New York and Connecticut, pushed through significant policy changes, such as reclassifying felonies as misdemeanors and giving more discretion to sentencing judges.
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While the petition is under consideration, the Commerce and Interior departments have made a series of decisions including reclassifying uranium as a critical mineral and developing a plan calling for increased domestic mining.
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She added that the Commission did look into the impact of its planned rules and that its actions, notably reclassifying certain firearms as prohibited goods, were in line with the principle of proportionality.
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On Tuesday, Riverside police identified William "Bill" Coker as a suspect after officials uncovered evidence that may prove Cheryl vanished under suspicious circumstances, thus reclassifying her case as a homicide, according to WDTN.
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And Speaker Paul Ryan promised "aggressive oversight work in the House" of an alleged "quid pro quo" deal between the FBI and the State Department over reclassifying an email on Clinton's private server.
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In "Budget Options for New York City," a document whose prosaic title camouflages its value, the Independent Budget Office discussed the arguments for and against reclassifying the carried interest as ordinary business income.
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The plan also offered a 15 percent pass-through rate, which creates a loophole for the extremely wealthy to avoid paying their fair share to Social Security and Medicare by reclassifying their income.
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Sam FarrSamuel (Sam) Sharon FarrMedical marijuana supporters hopeful about government funding bill Marijuana advocates to give away free joints on Capitol Hill DEA decision against reclassifying marijuana ignores public opinion MORE (Calif.)* Rep.
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I think reclassifying the drugs has helped and obviously, as always, it is famous people who succumb to the same problems that everybody has, that gets the attention that then creates the change.
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While the Times described the order as reclassifying Judaism, in the government's view, as a nationality or race, a draft text of the order leaked on Wednesday ahead of the signing showed otherwise.
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The law's drafters have said that limitation was meant to prevent certain high-earning individuals, such as lawyers, from reclassifying individual income as pass-through income, in order to reduce their tax bills.
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Fractional falls in public sector net debt as a share of GDP were achieved mostly through sales of shares in Royal Bank of Scotland and reclassifying some public-housing providers as private-sector bodies.
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In 2016, Dorsey mentioned the live focus in almost every interview and earnings call, and fully embraced its crucial role in the journalism ecosystem by reclassifying itself as a news app in Apple's store.
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The central legal issue before the court is whether the FCC overstepped its regulatory authority in 2015 by reclassifying internet service providers, or ISPs, as "common carriers" under Title II of the Communications Act.
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On Friday, he announced that he would be staying a portion of privacy rules enacted last October under the authority the FCC gained by reclassifying internet providers to treat them more like public utilities.
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Mr. Khosrowshahi also defended Uber's position that it was a tech services company that would not be reclassifying its drivers as employees in light of a recently passed law in California on independent contractors.
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If Uber and Lyft end up reclassifying drivers as employees, drivers will likely have to choose between working for one or the other, and increased labor costs will likely be passed on to riders.
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Lyft's CFO, Brian Roberts, told investors at a conference hosted by Citigroup last week that any increased costs associated with reclassifying drivers or the backlog of employment lawsuits would be passed through to consumers.
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He leaves the issue of legalizing marijuana for recreational use to the states and supports reclassifying "cannabis as a schedule II drug so researchers can study its positive and negative impacts," his proposal said.
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Former Attorney General Eric Holder, in a newly released interview conducted after he left office, said he was in favor of reclassifying marijuana as something less than a Schedule I controlled substance comparable to heroin.
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Fitch views negatively IKKS' recently announced intention to approach its RCF creditors to reset the covenant levels following a review of the EBITDA calculation by reclassifying certain collection development costs from operating expenses into capex.
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California lawmakers passed Assembly Bill 5, adopting a narrow definition of independent contractor that could force Uber and other gig economy businesses to choose between reclassifying workers as employees or risking significant liability for misclassification.
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In a highly contentious move earlier this month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government scrapped the region's special status under Article 370, reclassifying the state of Jammu and Kashmir from a state to a union territory.
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They had been conspicuously quiet as Republican FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has launched proceedings to repeal the protections, arguing that the agency overstepped under the Obama administration by reclassifying internet service providers as common carriers.
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The new classification would be a hybrid between a 1099 worker and a W-2, enabling employers to give 1099 workers certain benefits without reclassifying them as W-2s and grants the workers collective bargaining rights.
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Suspending the current dividend requirements, instituting a fixed rate below the typical return on equity, and reclassifying a portion of these required dividends paid as principal repayment each amounts to yet another bailout for these corporations.
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Skeptics of that plan argued it would be easily gamed; companies could capture the tax break by reclassifying existing pay as profits distributed to workers, without benefiting workers or increasing ownership in a real, durable way.
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Reclassifying certain drug possession offenses from a felony to a misdemeanor not only reduces a sentence, but it also recognizes that drug addiction and substance abuse are health conditions that are better treated than incarcerated and ignored.
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But the court ruled that the FCC was justified in reclassifying broadband as a telecom utility because consumers see broadband as a pipe for internet service and a way to get online to use websites and apps.
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NEW YORK, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Index provider MSCI said on Tuesday it has not yet considered reclassifying the recently upgraded Argentina stock index out of emerging markets despite the massive spike in volatility and decline in prices.
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Not only did Brodsky's study give language to what appeared to be a familiar experience for many who read and shared the paper, it also horrified some lawmakers, prompting them to consider reclassifying the act as rape.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Uber's proposed settlement of a high-profile class-action lawsuit last week has drawn opposition from some drivers and other concerned parties as the ride-hailing service seeks to avoid reclassifying drivers as employees.
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The police used stun grenades and migrants threw stones in the clashes on the frontier with Macedonia, which recently closed its border with Greece to thousands of Afghans after reclassifying them as economic migrants rather than refugees.
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The repressive measures, in place since August 5, were introduced just days before the Indian government announced that it was withdrawing Article 370 of the constitution, reclassifying Kashmir's administrative status from a state to a union territory.
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In their legal challenge, the nation's largest cable and phone companies argued that the FCC overstepped its authority in 2015 by reclassifying internet service providers, or ISPs, as "common carriers" under Title II of the Communications Act.
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The Commissioner of the FCC, Ajit Pai, appointed to his post by President Donald Trump, has proposed reclassifying internet providers from utilities to information companies, and the rest of the commission is due to vote on it Thursday.
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MSCI, the world's largest index provider, whose emerging-market group of indexes has about $1.8 trillion of assets tied to it, also said it would start a consultation on reclassifying the MSCI Iceland Index to Frontier Markets status.
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For companies like Uber and Lyft, which have 600,000 active drivers (have taken at least four trips in past month) in the U.S. and 700,000 drivers, respectively, the cost of reclassifying all of the drivers would be steep.
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Where it stands: The report from NASA's Planetary Protection Independent Review Board suggests NASA should consider reclassifying parts of the Moon and Mars to better reflect what scientists now understand about the worlds and their suitability for life.
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As a result, the miner is reclassifying Pascua-Lama's 14 million ounces of gold, which were based on an open pit mine plan, to measured and indicated resources - a mineral category with less certainty of being mined economically.
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Washington (CNN)Two in three Americans support statehood for the US territory of Puerto Rico, a Gallup Poll released Thursday found, a figure that's largely consistent with where public support for reclassifying the island has been for decades.
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Sam FarrSamuel (Sam) Sharon FarrMedical marijuana supporters hopeful about government funding bill Marijuana advocates to give away free joints on Capitol Hill DEA decision against reclassifying marijuana ignores public opinion MORE (D-Calif.) who, along with then Sens.
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Pai has emphasized that he supports many of those principles, but the says net neutrality rules went too far by reclassifying internet providers as common carriers — a designation that opened them up to tougher enforcement from the FCC.
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According to campaign finance records from multiple states: Both organizations have given $1 million each to a group supporting an Ohio ballot initiative that would institute criminal justice reforms, including reclassifying drug possession crimes from felonies to misdemeanors.
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A long procession of on-demand startups, including Instacart, Shyp and Sprig, have very publicly begun reclassifying their workers as employees rather than independent contractors to avoid looming lawsuits across the nascent industry over employee status and benefits.
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As a result, Epidiolex's launch remains at the discretion of the DEA, which must now evaluate the drug and consider reclassifying it as a substance that has medical properties, so as to allow GW to begin selling it.
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In May, index provider MSCI announced changes to its indexes as a result of its semi-annual market reclassification, including reclassifying Pakistan, and the addition of 57 securities and removal of 28 securities from its All-Country World Index.
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Congress and the IRS already struggle to design and enforce rules preventing high earners from reclassifying their wages as "business income" to avoid payroll taxes, and this tax break would create an even greater incentive to use such schemes.
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Uber won't be reclassifying its drivers from independent contractors to employees in light of a new bill that passed in California, largely because the bill doesn't specifically require them to do so, the company's chief legal official argued Tuesday.
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Mr. Paul's support for reclassifying possession of "very small amounts" of controlled substances as a misdemeanor is a far cry from calling for the across-the-board decriminalization that a true libertarian would promote (at his or her political peril).
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By reclassifying internet access service under Title II of the Telecommunications Act, the 2822 Open Internet Order gave the FCC the power to keep ISPs from intentionally congesting interconnection points—rendering services such as voice-over-IP unusable by their subscribers.
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The danger with this proposal is that high-income people who pay the top individual tax rate could reap enormous windfalls simply by reclassifying their wages and salaries as pass-through business income to qualify for the new low rate.
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The rule, which Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is now reviewing as part of the Trump administration's push for deregulation, seeks to eliminate the incentive for earnings-stripping by reclassifying certain loans as equity under Section 385 of the U.S. tax code.
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Whether women who dance in strip clubs should be classified as independent contractors has been up for debate for years, and since 1998, several courtcases have been settled that involved reclassifying dancers from independent contractors to employees to receive back pay.
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This week, we include our colleague Nicole Phillip's essay on being black outside the U.S.; the plan to save tigers by reclassifying them; and the women who have replaced nearly half of the 201 powerful men brought down by #MeToo.
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A day after this story was published, Mildner said an OSHA official called her to say the agency was reclassifying her case from "improper work refusal" and opening an investigation into Trader Joe's policy of barring cashiers from wearing gloves.
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The repressive measures, in place since August 5, were introduced just days before the Indian government announced that it was withdrawing Article 370 of the country's constitution, reclassifying Jammu and Kashmir's administrative status from a state to a union territory.
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Bloomberg News reported Wednesday that DiNapoli contacted executives last week from Visa, American Express, Mastercard, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and other companies to ask them to consider reclassifying gun transactions as high-risk purchases, similar to pornography or illicit drugs.
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Biden has also called for reclassifying marijuana from the list of Schedule I drugs, which the federal government considers to have no currently accepted medical use, to Schedule II, which would make it easier for scientists to research its impact.
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Rigorously applying the IHRA standard to Title VI enforcement could, then, result in reclassifying campus advocacy for the Palestinians as anti-Semitism — forcing universities to either crack down on student free speech or risk losing a whole lot of federal funding.
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And the Obama administration reclassifying internet providers as "common carriers" under Title II of the Telecommunications Act, which subjected them to the tough regulations around blocking and throttling that are currently in place, may not be the perfect or even long-term answer.
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MSCI had moved Argentina out of that index to the smaller frontier market index in 2009 due to curbs on capital movement but it has proposed reclassifying the country as an emerging market again, with the outcome due to be announced in June.
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Ajit Pai, whom President Donald Trump named in January to chair the FCC, said at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that the agency made a "mistake" in 2015 when it adopted landmark "net neutrality rules" reclassifying internet service like a public utility.
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Though he's hit the ground running since being named chairman, Pai has yet to reveal how he's going to handle going after the net neutrality rules, which he has criticized for reclassifying internet service providers to treat broadband as a public utility.
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The UK has a long and storied history with ecstasy, but so does the US. In 24, a club in Dallas called Starck legally sold ecstasy, which, in part, led to the DEA reclassifying it as a Schedule I narcotic later that year.
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But when the order was published late Wednesday after the president signed it into law at a White House event, some experts said the actual document was very different from that portrayed in The Times report — and made no mention of reclassifying Judaism.
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Finally, the court accuses the FCC of trying to have its cake and eat it, too: the agency repealed net neutrality by reclassifying ISPs to reduce its authority over them, then granted itself power over states... using the old classification it had just rejected.
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Net neutrality is worse for online privacyPai argued that reclassifying ISPs as common carriers and therefore returning them to FTC jurisdiction would be the "best path toward protecting Americans' online privacy," because "the nation's most expert and experienced privacy regulator" would be regulating it again.
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The order established the principles of the open internet in law, reclassifying internet service providers (ISPs) as "common carriers" under Title II of the Telecommunications Act; it also banned them from violating certain "bright line" rules, like blocking or prioritizing traffic to certain websites.
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Instead of restating its results, the company's finance team, in conjunction with its auditor, PwC, decided to essentially fudge things, reclassifying the $109 million amount in dispute for the third quarter and deducting that amount from its fourth-quarter results, Whitaker told The Journal.
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Earlier this year, the Food and Drug Administration said it was reclassifying mesh used to treat pelvic organ prolapse transvaginally from class II, or moderate risk, to class III, for high-risk devices, which will require manufacturers to submit extensive data to establish the devices' safety.
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In May, index provider MSCI announced changes to its indexes as a result of its semi-annual market reclassification, including reclassifying Pakistan as an emerging market from frontier market, and the addition of 57 securities and removal of 28 securities from its All-Country World Index .
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Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), Norma Torres (D-Calif.), Sam FarrSamuel (Sam) Sharon FarrMedical marijuana supporters hopeful about government funding bill Marijuana advocates to give away free joints on Capitol Hill DEA decision against reclassifying marijuana ignores public opinion MORE (D-Calif.) and Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.).
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" The Urban researchers concluded: "Reclassifying drug possession from a felony to a misdemeanor can reduce the negative impacts imposed on people and communities by felony convictions, reduce imprisonment of people convicted of drug possession, and redirect limited resources to treatment and prevention without negatively impacting public safety.
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If you've never heard of a pass-through business or are unfamiliar with its definition, you are not alone: they disproportionately benefit the wealthy, because they are a way of reclassifying the income of business owners so that they are not taxed at higher, individual rates.
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Local law enforcement can safely reduce these numbers in several ways: These include reclassifying misdemeanor and lower-level felony offenses that do not threaten public safety into non-jailable offenses, using citations instead of arrests for all low-level crime and indefinitely postponing all parole and probation office visits.
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In the meantime, enacting this CRA will simply mean that the FCC will police broadband privacy case-by-case — just as it has done for the two years under Democratic leadership since the FCC's Open Internet Order deprived the FTC of jurisdiction by reclassifying broadband as a common carrier service.
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"Reclassifying REITs and real estate operating companies (REOCs) into a standalone sector, apart from providing a more accurate description of the companies themselves, will likely raise the profile of real estate fundamentals overall," said Jamie Anderson, managing partner of Tierra Funds, which offers the Tierra XP Latin America Real Estate ETF.
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Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) and Sam FarrSamuel (Sam) Sharon FarrMedical marijuana supporters hopeful about government funding bill Marijuana advocates to give away free joints on Capitol Hill DEA decision against reclassifying marijuana ignores public opinion MORE (D-Calif.); Blumenauer has since replaced the retired Farr as the Democratic co-sponsor.
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Specifically, reclassifying cannabis from I to II (or even to Schedule III) continues to misrepresent the plant's safety relative to other controlled substances such as methamphetamine (Schedule II), anabolic steroids (Schedule III) or alcohol (unscheduled), and fails to provide states with the ability to regulate it free from federal interference.
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In describing what the "Restoring Internet Freedom" proposal would do, Cohen writes (emphasis mine): In addition to reclassifying broadband Internet access service as an information service, these FCC efforts can include the adoption of clearly defined net neutrality principles – no blocking, no throttling, no anticompetitive paid prioritization, and full transparency.
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The 2017 increase came after a two-year decline in investment; progress was immediate once the FCC reversed the 2015 order reclassifying broadband under Title II. And in 2018, broadband download speeds in the U.S. rose 85033 percent and upload speeds climbed 22 percent from 2017, according to internet speed-test company Ookla.
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At the heart of the appeal is the FCC's controversial decision to reverse nearly two decades of bipartisan policy by reclassifying broadband Internet access from a lightly regulated "information service" under Title I of the Communications Act to a heavily regulated common carrier "telecommunications service" under Title II of the Communications Act.
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Few who follow the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the history of its efforts to enshrine network neutrality rules into law were surprised yesterday when Chairman Ajit Pai announced that he would make public a proposal to deregulate broadband Internet access by "reclassifying" it as an information service under the Communications Act of 1934.
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Sam FarrSamuel (Sam) Sharon FarrMedical marijuana supporters hopeful about government funding bill Marijuana advocates to give away free joints on Capitol Hill DEA decision against reclassifying marijuana ignores public opinion MORE (D-Calif.), who also attended Tuesday's press conference, highlighted his role as ranking member of the House Appropriations subcommittee that controls FDA funding.
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The rating action follows the announcement by Creval of a business plan, which envisages a EUR700 million capital increase aimed at accelerating the clean-up of its balance sheet through the disposal of about EUR2.1 billion of doubtful loans, after reclassifying EUR7503 million of loans as doubtful loans from unlikely-to-pay exposures previously.
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Dana Rohrabacher (R) and Sam FarrSamuel (Sam) Sharon FarrMedical marijuana supporters hopeful about government funding bill Marijuana advocates to give away free joints on Capitol Hill DEA decision against reclassifying marijuana ignores public opinion MORE (D) have sponsored this spending measure in previous budgets passed by Congress, but it expires on April 28 and must be renewed each year.
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While it remains unknown how DEA will respond to the current rescheduling efforts before it, it is apparent that reclassifying cannabis from I to II — the same category as cocaine — falls woefully short of the sort of federal reform necessary to appropriately reflect America's emerging understanding of the marijuana plant and how best to regulate its consumption.
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Sam Kamin, a professor of marijuana law and policy at the University of Denver, believes this move could be a step toward reclassifying cannabis, because the federal government has been essentially insisting it needs more clinical trials to make such a switch—despite the fact that 33 states have medical marijuana programs, and 11 have legalized it recreationally.
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The United States Telecom Association is suing the Federal Communications Commission over network neutrality, and this week, on behalf of the country's telecom companies, the organization unveiled its case against the commission, arguing the FCC overstepped its authority in reclassifying mobile and fixed line internet service providers as traditional telecommunications providers—a move widely hailed as a victory for network neutrality.
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Zuckerberg and his co-founder pour millions into midterm initiatives Facebook co-founders Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz are backing campaigns to support housing and criminal justice reforms in November, David McCabe reports: Both organizations have given $1 million each to a group supporting an Ohio ballot initiative that would institute criminal justice reforms, including reclassifying drug possession crimes from felonies to misdemeanors.
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Reclassifying marijuana from a Schedule 1 drug to a Schedule 2 drug would have made it easier to get federal approval for studies of its uses and paved the way for doctors to eventually write prescriptions for marijuana-derived products that could be filled at pharmacies, like other Schedule 2 drugs such as Adderall, which is used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
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Some measures, like one passed in 2018 requiring the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare to gather information on abortion-related health complications (exceedingly rare, particularly in the first trimester, when most abortions take place), seem to exist solely to stigmatize the procedure; others, like one proposed but not passed in 2019, seek to punish patients and providers by reclassifying termination as murder.
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" Allison Kelley, executive director of nonprofit trade organization Romance Writers of America, a networking and advocacy group, told me in an email that the organization is "aware of and very concerned" about this situation, "particularly because Amazon is erroneously reclassifying hotter romance and erotic romance as erotica without explanation... While we're still researching, based on what we've seen, readers who are looking for books in certain categories aren't going to find them.
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Read: The Trump administration wants to hold immigrant kids in prison-like facilities long-term Under the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policy this spring and summer, DHS took nearly 2,600 immigrant children away from their parents — sometimes separating families who crossed the border legally through a port of entry — and put the kids in the Health and Human Services shelter system, reclassifying them as "unaccompanied," despite their having traveled to the U.S. with an adult.
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While everyone agrees that it is important to have a free and open internet, the crux of the problem has always been legal—that is, does the Federal Communications Commission have sufficient authority to protect consumers under its previous bi-partisan "light touch" approach under Title I of the Communications Act, or must it invoke the nuclear option and subject the internet to a law intended to govern the old Ma Bell monopoly by reclassifying broadband internet access as common carrier telecommunications service?
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But some of the greatest hits include making rear seats removable from smaller vehicles to get them reclassifying as "storage bearing SUV's or light trucks," manufacturing super small cars they know won't sell very well just to bring down overall fleet mileage averages, installing "skip shift" devices into sports cars that almost all users knew how to disable, producing "flex fuel" vehicles that can use ethanol but almost no one does, and making SUV's meant for passengers just a little bigger to get them classified as heavy duty trucks with correspondingly more lax emissions rules.
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Sam FarrSamuel (Sam) Sharon FarrMedical marijuana supporters hopeful about government funding bill Marijuana advocates to give away free joints on Capitol Hill DEA decision against reclassifying marijuana ignores public opinion MORE (Calif.), Susan Davis (Calif.), Jim Cooper (Tenn.), Madeleine BordalloMadeleine Mary BordalloThis week: Lawmakers return to mourn George H.W. Bush Guam New Members 28500 Overnight Defense: VA pick breezes through confirmation hearing | House votes to move on defense bill negotiations | Senate bill would set 'stringent' oversight on North Korea talks MORE (Guam), Jackie Speier (Calif.) and Beto O'Rourke (Texas).
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While officials in Brussels have joined Ms. Merkel in decrying unilateral steps by countries along the migrant trail to limit the flow of people, it is not clear whether European Union leaders can reach some sort of accommodation before spring brings a new surge of migrants and the potential for more violence of the sort that broke out on Monday The police used stun grenades and migrants threw stones in the clashes on the frontier with Macedonia, which recently closed its border with Greece to thousands of Afghans after reclassifying them as economic migrants rather than refugees.
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Jim McDermottJames (Jim) Adelbert McDermottBottom Line Promoting the voice of Korean Americans Lobbying World MORE (Wash.), Marcy Kaptur (Ohio), Jackie Speier (Calif.), Bill Keating (Mass.), Richard Neal (Mass.), Elizabeth Esty (Conn.), John Carney (Del.), John Larson (Conn.), Donna Edwards (Md.), Bennie Thompson (Miss.), Filemon Vela (Texas), Ed Perlmutter (Colo.), Sam FarrSamuel (Sam) Sharon FarrMedical marijuana supporters hopeful about government funding bill Marijuana advocates to give away free joints on Capitol Hill DEA decision against reclassifying marijuana ignores public opinion MORE (Calif.), Tammy Duckworth (Ill.), Tulsi GabbardTulsi GabbardNative American advocates question 2020 Democrats' commitment The US can't seem to live without Afghanistan 2020 Democrats release joint statement ahead of Trump's New Hampshire rally MORE (Hawaii), Alan GraysonAlan Mark GraysonFlorida's Darren Soto fends off Dem challenge from Alan Grayson Live results: Arizona and Florida hold primaries The Hill's Morning Report: Frustration mounts as Republicans blow up tax message MORE (Fla.), Earl BlumenauerEarl BlumenauerAirports already have plenty of infrastructure funding Climate protesters glue themselves to Capitol doors, confront lawmakers Here are the 95 Democrats who voted to support impeachment MORE (Ore.), Lloyd Doggett (Texas) and Rosa DeLauro (Conn.).
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