Sentences with phrase «criminal prosecution of»

If administrative and local enforcement efforts are insufficient in aiding the collection of child support, the Deadbeat Parents Punishment Act of 1998, or DPPA, provides for federal criminal prosecution of the most severely delinquent child support violators.

The legislation threatened to make lawyers «a resource to be used in the criminal prosecution of their clients», their «offices turned into archives for the use of the prosecution»: Maranda v. Richer, 2003 SCC 67 (at paragraphs 205 and 216).

This is illegal in every state, but a criminal prosecution of the person who hurt you won't help you pay your medical expenses.

Represented a commercial airline gate agent as a witness in a criminal prosecution of a passenger

Attorney Novotny Calls for Criminal Prosecution of Guards Fired in Death of Restrained Patient at Bridgewater Hospital The Boston Globe September 27, 2014

The responsibility for investigation of corporate conduct lies with regulatory and prosecuting authorities (depending on the subject of investigation) but responsibility for criminal prosecution of corporate conduct always lies with the Prosecutor's Office (the Prosecutor).

Students from both schools have teamed up to blog and tweet the federal criminal prosecution of W.R. Grace & Company and five of its executives and managers in U.S. District Court in Missoula.

In his article, With No Evil Intent: The Criminal Prosecution of Physicians for Medical Negligence, Dr. James A. Filkins researched nine criminal medical negligence cases running from 1981 to 1995.

Acted for the South African Reserve Bank and assisted the South African National Prosecuting Authority in connection with a criminal prosecution of a prominent ultra-high net worth individual in South Africa.

Since the Lawyer Monthly award, probably one of the best examples of my work in the field of explosives was completed, and which involved an attempted criminal prosecution of a major international defence firm.

The First Amendment prohibits criminal prosecution of a U.S. Army paratrooper for racist statements he made online, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces has ruled in a July 15 decision, United States v. Wilcox.

Other speakers on the agenda include Utah Attorney General (and 2010 Senate candidate) Mark Shurtleff, whose topic is vaguely described as «Utah's Approach»; Kirk Torgenson, Utah's chief deputy attorney general, speaking on criminal prosecution of polygamy; Utah Legal Clinic attorney Brian M. Barnard on the constitutionality of laws banning polygamy; Salt Lake City criminal - defense lawyer Grant W.P. Morrison on family law and polygamy; and Ken D. Driggs, an Atlanta lawyer and polygamy historian, on legal case histories involving polygamy.

Before Brexit subsumed everything, the impetus for greater regulation and more effective criminal prosecution of serious fraud had been high on the political agenda.

Since 1998, the Washington State Medical Use of Marijuana Act has provided an affirmative defense against criminal prosecution of physicians for prescribing medical marijuana and of qualified patients for their medical use of marijuana.

Please promote your position rather than advocating the criminal prosecution of the dissenters.

And yet Gov. Cuomo has sought to shut it down at the urging of — you guessed it — the Sierra Club, NRDC, EDF, and a natural gas company implicated in the federal criminal prosecution of a Cuomo aide.

But it also comes up in many other areas — criminal prosecution of corporate entities, government demands for corporate data, punitive damages, and freedom of the press — to name only a few.

When Dr. Hansen came unglued a teeny bit and called for the criminal prosecution of energy company executives, my first thought was «he's REALLY frustrated from dealing with the Bush Administration», followed quickly by «Holy [expletive] cow, he's really worried; we're in [expletive] deep [euphemism: excrement]» as the significance sank in.

In most cases, criminal prosecution of animal hoarding can be a difficult process and may not be the most effective route, since hoarders are often emotionally troubled rather than criminally inclined.

Criminal prosecution of animal hoarding can be a difficult process and may not be the most effective route.

The word «genocide» was coined in 1943 by Raphael Lemkin, a Jewish Polish legal scholar, although it didn't enter common usage until the Nuremberg trials (the criminal prosecution of those responsible for the Holocaust).

At a press conference, Tilburg University's rector, Philip Eijlander, said that he would pursue criminal prosecution of Stapel.

According to him, although the rights of the girls were violated by the public humiliation, the rights «do not in any way close the door to the criminal prosecution of the act that they allegedly committed.»

It led to the arrest and criminal prosecution of the then Executive Director, Alhaji Alhassan Mohammed Imoro and 34 others.

In principle, a mental health examination could be ordered for the President, like anyone else, incident to a criminal prosecution of him for some crime committed in his personal, rather than official capacity, or by someone in his family seeking to impose a guardianship or conservatorship upon him.

In May 2007, federal prosecutors brought a criminal prosecution of Purdue Pharma, the Stamford, Connecticut - based maker of OxyContin.

His departure, however, opened an array of new questions, about topics ranging from the fate of Schneiderman's many legal challenges to President Donald Trump, the possibility of a criminal prosecution of Schneiderman and the race to succeed him as the state's top law enforcement officer.

The same report led to the criminal prosecution of O'Hara's predecessor, Cappuccilli, who ultimately pleaded guilty to a count of official misconduct.

While we do not celebrate the criminal prosecution of Terry James, we laud District Attorney David Soares for investigating every assault at CDPC to ensure patients and staff are treated equally under the law.

Organized by the Rev. Al Sharpton, the march and rally was about the Garner case and demands for criminal prosecution of the police officers involved, but also about broader complaints and concerns around policing and racial discrimination in New York and throughout the country.

Oswego County District Attorney Greg Oakes says his office is focused on the criminal prosecution of the case, and has no influence regarding Doyle's position as a legislator.

«The ongoing arrest and criminal prosecution of predominantly black and brown New Yorkers for smoking marijuana serves neither of these goals.»

Some Senators led by Senator Sulaiman Othman Hunkuyi (APC Kaduna North), and Senator Kabir Marafa (APC Zamfara Central) called on their colleagues to sheath their swords and withdraw the petition that had ked to the criminal prosecution of the Senate President and his deputy.

Oregon's Supreme Court, which had already concluded that this question was irrelevant, dutifully answered that in its judgment criminal prosecution of Smith and Black would violate the federal Constitution.

And the European told me that in Europe, it's really a no - no to use customer funds for your own — to gamble with that at all, that this is so criminal that if there is no criminal prosecution of Corzine, if it turns out that he did take the money, then that is going to lead the European capital markets to withdraw their money from the American capital markets, because the whole — the whole of Wall Street would turn out to be gangsters, without any prosecution, without any rule of law at all.

Glenn Greenwald of The Intercept, who has also worked closely with Snowden, said the newspaper had «achieved an ignominious feat in U.S. media history: the first - ever paper to explicitly editorialize for the criminal prosecution of its own source.»

Laufer reassures us, «The Obama administration and the DOJ have issued the Cole Memo, which deprioritizes federal criminal prosecutions of marijuana crimes, when commercial operators are operating in accordance with state laws.»

A companion bill sponsored by Markey would eliminate the current statute of limitations for criminal prosecutions of alleged child sex abusers.

At the same time, the IDC would enhance the power of Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office to conduct criminal prosecutions of corruption.

NY Times reports that a federal judge reduced the prison sentence of former Assemblyman Brian McLaughlin for his help in the criminal prosecutions of former state Sen. Carl Kruger and former Assemblyman Anthony Seminerio: http://goo.gl/7jT9mS

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Although the federal government has not pursued criminal prosecutions of bankers at the heart of the mortgage operations that collapsed in 2007, it has stepped up civil lawsuits against the largest originators and securitizers of home loans during the boom.

The Coalition is comprised of teams dedicated to solving different aspects of the problem through its Minnesota Castration Clinic, Minnesota Hay Bank, assisting and providing resources to law enforcement in criminal prosecutions of horse crimes, assisting with temporary foster care, veterinary assistance and euthanasia.

So we could, in theory, create criminal penalties to take the place of civil wrongs, and spend much more on criminal prosecutions of those wrongs as they do elsewhere.

Family members must often deal with investigations, criminal prosecutions of the wrongdoers, and giving testimony in the penalty phase of criminal prosecution against the person responsible for the death of their loved one.

He represents the firm's healthcare clients in connection with criminal prosecutions of individuals and corporations accused of healthcare fraud, and has defended numerous healthcare clients under investigation by the Justice Department and the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services.

Since those companies were located outside the United States, the US used criminal prosecutions of their executives, who were then arrested as they happened to set foot in the country, often in transit at US airports.

These efforts have resulted in an increase in stolen vehicle recoveries and criminal prosecutions of hard - core and major organized criminal groups, as well as related crimes.

Coordinated with U.S. Attorneys» and local district attorneys» offices preparing for criminal prosecutions of alien and narcotics felony cases

A summary of fines and penalties from ICE reveals that this surge in enforcement of a legal U.S. workforce included a 500 percent increase in penalties from worksite enforcement actions (over $ 5 million), a nearly two-fold increase in I - 9 audits (2,200), a record - breaking 180 criminal prosecutions of employers, and the debarring of more than 97 businesses, compared to 30 last fiscal year, with average fines exceeding $ 110,000.