Sentences with phrase «federal justice lawyers»
Labour Law: Federal Justice Lawyers Canada (Attorney General) v. Association of Justice Counsel, 2016 FCA 92 (37014)
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Justice Department lawyers argued in court earlier this month that the federal guidelines issued in May were non-binding with no legal consequences.
Lawyers say that the federal justice minister's response to recommendations by a Commons committee on how to improve legal aid in Canada is disappointing.
Now, the Common Cause watchdog group wants the Justice Department, the Federal Election Commission and Congress to investigate a $ 130,000 payment that President Trump's lawyer is alleged to have arranged weeks before the 2016 election for a former porn actress in an attempt to cover up her purported affair with Trump.
His lawyer Chief Bolaji Ayorinde, SAN, while arguing Amosu's bail application after he was arraigned before Justice Mohammed Idris before a Federal High court in Lagos, said his client had returned «collossal sums».
In a speech to a group of New York lawyers, a federal judge from Brooklyn assailed the criminal justice system in which he has worked for more than 40 years, saying that the country had to «jettison the madness of mass incarceration» and find an alternative to overly punitive sentencing to address the problem of crime.
The legal fight against the immigration ban will return to Brooklyn Federal Court today when a team of lawyers who filed an emergency motion to stay the deportation of Iraqi refugees Hameed Khalid Darweesh and Haider Sameer Abdulkhaleq Alshawi over the weekend will again face off with Justice Department attorneys.
Nearly a year after the federal Justice Department declined to bring civil rights charges against a white police officer who fatally shot a black college student in Pleasantville, Westchester County in 2010, the victim's family has agreed to a $ 6 million settlement, a lawyer for the family announced.
But in a brief filed this week in federal court, lawyers for the Justice Department tell U.S. District Court Judge Gary Sharpe that if he does set a primary for New York, that he make the date earlier than Aug. 18.
Again, A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr. Joe Agi, who is being prosecuted along with Justice Ademola of a Federal High Court, had told the Department of the State Service that Buhari's lawyer paid N500, 000 to Justice Ademola in 2015 at the time the judge was presiding over Buhari's certificate case.
U.S. Justice Department lawyers told Brooklyn Federal Judge Nicholas Garaufis that authorities were going to stick with the Oct. 5 DACA renewal deadline — a decision Garaufis called «unacceptable to me... as a human being, and as an American.»
Jury deliberations could begin Thursday in the federal trial of State Senator John Sampson, after lawyers presented their closing arguments Wednesday in his obstruction of justice case.
Justice Peter Affen of an Abuja High Court on Wednesday, ordered the Federal Government to grant the detained former National Security Adviser, NSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki, retd, access to his lawyers.
It would be recalled that similar orders had been made by Justice Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High as well as Justice Baba Yusuf of an Abuja High Court for the same purposes due to complaints of denial of access to lawyers by Dasuki even after all of them had granted him bail.
Following news reports that the U.S. Justice Department is probing his campaign finances, de Blasio has instructed a lawyer representing his 2013 mayoral campaign, Barry Berke, to call federal prosecutors on the mayor's behalf.
«In my statement, I said I knew Justice Yinusa for quite a long time back when he was a counsel at the Federal Ministry of Justice and we became friends as lawyers.
Justice Baba Yusuf of the Federal High Court, Abuja, Thursday adjourned the trial of the embattled former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd) due to the absence of the defence lawyers, Mr. Joseph Daudu (SAN) and Mr. Ahmed Raji (SAN).
When contacted on Friday, a senior lawyer in the CAU of the Federal Ministry of Justice, Mr. Pius Akutah, confirmed that following the judgment of the Court of Appeal setting aside the rulings from the courts in Lagos, the extradition suit would be refiled as soon and the US government sent a fresh request for the senator.
Giving the «particulars» of the said error, the lawyer argued, «The powers given to the first appellant (the IGP) under the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) and the Nigeria Police Act, Laws of the Federation 2004, sufficiently make the «Special Joint Investigation Panel» lawful and supportable under the Nigerian criminal justice system.
In addition to serving Cuomo since his election and during his tenure as attorney general, Lawsky is a former federal prosecutor, Justice Department staff lawyer and counsel to U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer.
Following the favourable court order, Mrs. Jonathan's lawyer went before Justice Mohammed Idris of a Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos, praying the judge to order the EFCC to release to Patience the sum of $ 15.591 m, which was seized from four companies by the anti-graft agency.
The news came a year after Attorney General Jeff Sessions disbanded the National Commission on Forensic Science, an Obama administration - era collaboration between the Justice Department and the National Institutes of Standards and Technology that brought together scientists, judicial players including prosecutors, defense lawyers, federal crime labs directors in an effort to improve forensic science.
Stewart Nozette, 54, made the confession yesterday in a District of Columbia federal court after learning that he was facing a sentence of 13 years negotiated by the Justice Department and his lawyers.
The justices have agreed to consider whether parents who are not lawyers have a right to represent themselves, or their child, in federal court in disputes with school districts over the child's educational placement.
Indeed, while serving as assistant attorney general in the Clinton Justice Department, and before becoming schools chancellor, Klein recalled how he was inspired to become a lawyer: He sometimes skipped school, he told an interviewer, so his father could «take me to the federal courthouse in Manhattan, and we'd just watch cases.»
Meanwhile, lawyers who work for three years at the Department of Justice can earn up to $ 60,000 in loan assistance (to qualify, you must have at least $ 10,000 in federal loans).
The complainant, retired Department of Justice antitrust lawyer Michael Hirrel, believes the utilities» abuse of their legitimate monopoly power violates federal antitrust laws, and he is urging the FTC to investigate.
At least that's the assertion offered by U.S. Department of Justice lawyer Wendy Ertmer, representing the DEA at a federal court hearing Nov. 14 in Bismarck, where she insisted before U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland that the agency's «administrative process» for granting the permits to grow the crop is, in fact, «not futile.»
Ultimately, awarding federal QCs to deserving federal government lawyers is in the interests of the public service, the Department of Justice, the legal profession and of the government of the day.
A Lawyer's Weekly interview dated March 1, 2013, of Federal Court Chief Justice Paul Crampton states that 20 to 25 percent of Federal Court litigants do not have lawyers.
As well, in the case of the RCMP, it is relying on advice from federal Department of Justice lawyers, most of which the government then maintains is privileged and inaccessible to the public, notes Fraser.
Criminal defence lawyers say certain provisions in the federal Liberal government's proposed bill C - 75 will increase, not decrease delays in the criminal justice system.
Lawyers representing the Department of Justice and the state of Washington made their arguments in front of three federal judges entirely by telephone — arguments that were streamed live across the globe.
«Court Urges Review of New York Judge's Immigration Cases That Are on Appeal»: The New York Times today contains an article that begins, «In a move that immigration lawyers say is highly unusual, a federal appeals court has recommended that a Justice Department appeals board review all immigration cases still on appeal involving a judge who has been criticized as being hostile to people seeking asylum.
While federal grants through LSC subsidiaries, such as the Northwest Justice Project, exist to help Americans in need, the income threshold of 125 % of the federal poverty line ($ 14,850 per year for an individual and under $ 30,375 for a family of four) means that many earn too much to qualify for help, yet too little to afford a lawyer.
The firm's partners have held several prestigious offices, including President of the American Association for Justice (AAJ), President of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, President of the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers, President of the Dade County Bar Association, President of the Miami - Dade Florida Association of Women Lawyers and Chairman of the Florida Federal Judicial Nominating Commission.
Canadian Doctors for Refugee Care (CDRC), the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers (CARL), and Justice for Children and Youth (JFCY) welcome the Federal Court judgment released today in
Almost anyone who regularly toils in courthouses across Ontario — judges, prosecutors and defence lawyers — would say that despite previous rulings on delays from the Supreme Court and judicial warnings from lower courts, successive federal and provincial governments have failed to properly resource the justice system in a way that would ensure its fairness and efficiency.
Federal Court Justice Sean Harrington found Alnaz Jiwa, a Scarborough lawyer, and his co-defendant Nagib Tajdin had breached the Aga Khan's copyright by reprinting copies of his religious teachings and that he had never given his consent to the publication.
The ABA Young Lawyers Division's Disaster Legal Service Program, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Virgin Islands Bar Association Young Lawyers Division and the Louisiana Civil Justice Center are working in partnership to provide this assistance, the ABA announced in a press release.
The new process — through which qualified lawyers and persons holding judicial office in Canada may apply to the Independent Advisory Board for Supreme Court of Canada Judicial Appointments through the Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs — was launched last year as Justice Thomas Cromwell prepared to retire from the Supreme Court; Malcolm Rowe became the first SCC justice to be appointed by this pJustice Thomas Cromwell prepared to retire from the Supreme Court; Malcolm Rowe became the first SCC justice to be appointed by this pjustice to be appointed by this process.
At the event, Sharon Eubanks, the former Department of Justice lawyer who led the historical suit against Big Tobacco, echoed the call for a federal investigation into Exxon.
The current federal election campaign provides a key opportunity for lawyers to shift the discourse and effect meaningful change towards greater access to legal and justice services.
The Bardehle lawyers analyzed all German patent validity determinations in 2010 - 2013: 392 rulings by the Federal Patent Court and 173 appellate rulings by the Federal Court of Justice.
Fortunately we know many good Illinois lawyers with a lot of experience defending federal charges, including many attorneys that used to work for the Department of Justice and now are in private law practice in Illinois.
When it comes to addressing aboriginal justice issues, yesterday's federal budget largely upholds the status quo, leaving some lawyers with mixed feelings.
In other provinces, CUPE Local 1949 represents legal aid lawyers in Saskatchewan, and until the until the Association of Justice Counsel became certified as bargaining agent, there was federal representation through the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC).
The Department of Justice is taking a further step towards mirroring private practice by including billable - hour targets in federal lawyers» performance reviews and increasing the numbers it expects them to meet.
A year after signing their first negotiated contract netting them a 12 - per - cent pay hike for the current year, federal lawyers will be heading back to the negotiation table in the next few months as the Association of Justice Counsel filed its notice to bargain Jan. 9.
This year's list also sees a strong cohort of new movers and shakers including Toronto lawyer Rocco Galati, who challenged the federal government's appointment of Justice Marc Nadon to the Supreme Court of Canada; Mark Morris and Lena Koke, who shook up the profession with the launch of their Wal - Mart store - based law firm; and federal government whistleblower Edgar Schmidt.