Also read about the refusal to grant an application for apartments in Roath here.
Plaintiff then brought suit in Federal District Court challenging on several grounds the I.N.S.'s refusal to consider his application.
The secretary's refusal to process the application was the same as denying it and was thus appropriately subject to judicial review, Mr. Goldstein said.
Immediately after the news conference, Ms. Almontaser's supporters released a statement criticizing the appointment as "illegitimate" because Ms. Almontaser's challenge to her dismissal, and to the Education Department's refusal to reconsider her application, is still pending in court.
Like so many of his contemporaries, he practiced what the political historian Tony Judt calls a system of "double-entry moral bookkeeping": "an insistence upon certain normative values" combined with "the subsequent refusal to recognize their application in selected cases".
When the Supreme Court ruled against Arizona's refusal to accept voter registration applications on the federal voter registration form because it did not comply with Arizona's proof of citizenship requirements, Secretary Kobach defended a similar provision in Kansas law in the "SAFE Act" that he drafted and championed in 2011.
But the refusal to process Mr. Bean's application, he continued, "was not contrary to law, it was compelled by law".
It issued an initial refusal to Dell, which filed its application 18 months ago, when the term was less widely used in industry conversations and marketing.
America's Federal Communications Commission is looking into its refusal to carry Google Voice, a telephony and messaging application for the iPhone.
New Jersey's bid came up needlessly and embarrassingly short because of a mistake in the application and the governor's refusal to sign off on an agreement that had been reached with the teachers' union.
An application by Norwich city council is to come under further scrutiny, but a refusal was given to applications by county councils in Bedfordshire, Cheshire, Cumbria, North Yorkshire and Somerset, plus Northumberland Districts.
