Sentences with phrase «justice department lawyers»

Just as the Crown in the provincial court, by whatever name at that time, in Cornwall and in Valleyfield, were not much interested, 40 some odd years ago, in a careful consideration of evidence before laying charges, much the same attitude prevails among Justice Department lawyers and the Indian Affairs officials for whom the Justice Department supposedly lacks.

Len MacKay, president of the Association of Justice Counsel, says morale has picked up a bit since the election and the union, which represents justice department lawyers, is pleased with Wilson - Raybould's appointment.

This was of course the legal definition of torture concocted by White House and Justice Department lawyers (and codified in what has come to be known as the «Torture Memo,» written by John Yoo and signed by Jay Bybee on August 1, 2002).

But Liz Cheney and her Keep America Safe organization have managed to do it with their McCarthy - like attacks on U.S. Justice Department lawyers, smearing and demonizing them as terrorist sympathizers for their previous legal work defending Gitmo detainees.

Yates told Justice Department lawyers not to make legal arguments defending Trump's executive order on immigration and refugees.

«This Week in The National Law Journal Main Ginsburg, GE Counsel Speak Up For Justice Department Lawyers»

Instead, like the Justice Department lawyers, they lose their souls.

I cringe when I hear the acronym BIOC used by Canadian Justice Department lawyers when they describe the interests of children in immigration law.

Eleven Chadbourne & Parke lawyers help kickstart Dechert's office in Kazakhstan, Fox Rothschild nabs three partners for its entertainment practice, and two Justice Department lawyers find homes at Kirkland & Ellis and Hunton & Williams.

Silverglate's first call came in the wake of news reports that Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey would not allow an investigation of CIA interrogators because they had acted in reliance on the opinion of Justice Department lawyers.

While the court acknowledged that Justice Department lawyers worked overtime and on holidays, the Department of Justice never «ordered or approved» overtime hours in advance.

If a respected private lawyer can be prosecuted for his legal advice, should not the same hold true for Justice Department lawyers?

Secret memos obtained last week by the CBC showed that senior Justice Department lawyers helped patch up the French case, misled the court and suppressed evidence that could have proved Diab's innocence.

Justice Department lawyers «expect the prices of Macmillans e-books will also decline,» as happened after settlements with the other publishers, Jamillia Ferris, chief of staff of the departments Antitrust Division, said in the news release.

Battalions of Justice Department lawyers can't make state education officials good at their jobs.

The DCCC memo also makes reference to the fact that several Justice Department lawyers in the voting rights division had serious concerns about the redrawn map, a revelation first reported in a blockbuster story by the Post's own Dan Eggen.

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.»

But in December 2005, The Washington Post reported, «Justice Department lawyers concluded that the landmark Texas congressional redistricting plan spearheaded by Rep. Tom DeLay violated the Voting Rights Act, according to a previously undisclosed memo,» uncovered by the newspaper.

In addition, according to the Post, Justice Department lawyers «found that Republican lawmakers and state officials who helped craft the proposal were aware it posed a high risk of being ruled discriminatory compared with other options».

Liz Cheney's group Keep America Safe, which has led the resurgent Republican attacks on President Obama's national security policies, is releasing a video this morning that questions the loyalties of Justice Department lawyers who advocated for detained terror suspects during the Bush Administration.

U.S. courts should not play a role in reviewing or restraining targeted killings, argues the Justice Department lawyers, since it would effectively enable them to «supervise inherently predictive judgments» by the president and his national security advisers «as to when and how to use force against an enemy against which Congress has already authorized the use of force.»

One official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations, said that Mr. Trump was sympathetic to the plight of the young immigrants, known as Dreamers — many have known life only in the United States and have few connections to the countries of their birth — but had been told by Justice Department lawyers that his predecessor's program would not survive a court challenge.

«Based on the extensive public comments and evidence garnered during that process, the department determined that such conflicts of interest are widespread and could cost investors in individual retirement accounts (in one segment of the market alone) between $ 95 billion and $ 189 billion over the next 10 years,» wrote the Justice Department lawyers.

Why not use Justice Department lawyers?

Justice Department lawyers argued in court earlier this month that the federal guidelines issued in May were non-binding with no legal consequences.

Justice Department lawyers said in the brief that they had refrained from pursuing the iOS source code and signing key because they thought «such a request would be less palatable to Apple.

Philip Bartz, a partner at Bryan Cave and a former U.S. Justice Department lawyer, said during his arguments that DOL's rule embodies «overreach» by DOL to «do things that Congress never intended» and that it's «at odds» with state insurance law.

Two Democrats, David Calone, a former Justice Department lawyer and the head of an investment fund, and former Southampton Town Supervisor Anna Throne - Holst are vying to oppose Zeldin in November.

Even more disturbing was the disdain Klein, a former Justice Department lawyer, showed for the law.

After Mr. Bloomberg persuaded the Legislature to give him control of the schools, he appointed Mr. Klein, a former Justice Department lawyer and media executive, as his chancellor.

A U.S. Justice Department lawyer said at a court hearing that it could take «weeks or months» before regulators decide whether to approve a software fix for Fiat Chrysler diesel cars.

«Apple told publishers that Apple — and only Apple — could get prices up in their industry,» Justice Department lawyer Lawrence Buterman said during opening arguments, as quoted by Reuters.

In addition to President Bush, others Velvel wants to put on trial include Vice President Richard Cheney, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and former Justice Department lawyer John Yoo.

But the brief by Justice Department lawyer Michelle R. Bennett argues that the law is constitutional.

Before becoming a judge, Jones was a Justice Department lawyer focusing on organized crime and a federal prosecutor in the office of U.S. Attorney Rudy Giuliani, who recently joined Trump's legal team.

Despite allegations by veteran Justice Department lawyer Edgar Schmidt that the Criminal Justice Department's vetting standards are inadequate, Justice Minister Rob Nicholson asserts there is «no question» that the series of criminal justice reforms introduced by his government will stand...

Today, Justice Department lawyer John O'Quinn pushed that argument further, telling Robertson that detainees charged in the commissions have no access to the district court if a military judge designates them an «unlawful enemy combatant.»

As per Fortune, a former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Justice Department lawyer, asked recently, «If it's not a security, then what is it?»

Not exact matches

To avoid such a danger, the Justice Department creates a «taint team» of lawyers not involved in the case to review records and decide which ones shouldn't be seen by prosecutors on the case.

There is a recent case that provides a roadmap for what could happen to President Donald Trump and his longtime lawyer Michael Cohen after the FBI conducted raids on his office, home, and hotel as part of a Justice Department investigation.

And a second time in the now - infamous Footnote Nine, copied below, in which Department of Justice lawyers cite Levison (In re Under Seal...) as precedent for seizing Apple's source code and its private electronic signature.

But company lawyer Jesse Binnall said the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, which upheld the lower ruling, did so on procedural grounds, so that the Justice Department's win would not influence much elsewhere.

Antitrust lawyers were scratching their heads Wednesday over published reports that the Justice Department is insisting that AT&T sell its CNN cable network, or its DirecTV satellite television unit, if it wants to win approval to buy Time Warner.

Richard Painter, former White House lawyer, and Kevin Arqiut, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, discusses the Department of Justice suing to block the merger deal between AT&T and Time Warner.

But Eisinger reserves his sharpest barbs for what he sees as the clubby culture that has emerged between the top levels of the Justice Department and white - collar defense lawyers.

It's a lawyer from outside of government named by the attorney general to take over an investigation that poses a conflict of interest for the Justice Department.

Department of Justice lawyer Elizabeth Chasson said Loblaw Financial Holdings took steps to have Barbados - based Glenhuron Bank Ltd. appear to be a foreign bank in order to avoid paying tax.

So Trump's tax return could tell how much income they made, offering fresh information about the financial health of his organization, according to Robert Kovacev, a lawyer at Steptoe & Johnson and former Justice Department Tax Division official who represents taxpayers in high - profile tax disputes with the IRS.

But she said she expected some of the priorities she established to remain intact through career lawyers at the Justice Department.

On Wednesday, the White House announced that it had hired a veteran lawyer who helped President Bill Clinton weather impeachment, while Trump's top personal lawyer expressed new defiance towards special counsel Robert Mueller and his Justice Department superiors.