A number of judges have spoken out about questionable billing practices, generally in the process of rejecting fee requests.
"It is encouraging they value substance over style and have so overwhelmingly rejected fee increases linked to controversial plans to measure teaching quality".
The Liberal Youth group immediately called on the party's MPs to reject any fee increase.
The National Union of Students, which represents students across Britain, rejects higher fees for non-Scottish students, according to Mike Heffron, a spokesman for the group.
At the San Francisco hearing, called to give preliminary approval to HP's settlement of shareholder class actions, US district judge Charles Breyer rejected the fees attorneys would have recouped under the settlement.
Keith Vaz, the Labour MP for Leicester East, initially had his £1,995.94 claim for this year's service charges for his second home rejected, after fees officials ruled that the payment had to come from last year's allowances.
The majority of university presidents and the majority of the Länder (German states), governed by Social Democrats and the Green Party, rejected tuition fees as antisocial.
The authority approves or rejects proposed fee increases based on these assessments and economic factors, like inflation.
Gov. George E. Pataki, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and other political leaders have so far rejected these fee- and tax-based measures.
In August 2009, in the midst of the recession and after the industry spent $1.4 million on the campaign, Seattle voters rejected the fee.
