Sentences with phrase «justice department claiming»

The Justice Department claims that by providing admissions boosts to black and latino students, Asian American students are negatively affected.

At the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Federal Courthouse in Lower Manhattan, the attorneys argued in their opening statements that, contrary to Justice Department claims, the Nassau County state senator had never and would never change a vote or stance in order to secure sinecures for his son and thus had never engaged in a criminal quid quo pro arrangement.

Ed Next also published a timely study this fall looking at the effects of the vouchers on segregation «The Louisiana Scholarship Program: Contrary to Justice Department claims, students transfers improve racial integration»

The latest suit also marks the second time in a year that Jindal has locked horns with the federal government over education: He and the Justice Department claimed partial victories in a dispute over a private school voucher program that the feds said affected desegregation efforts in Louisiana public schools.

Not exact matches

Trader Joe's also agreed to enter a consent decree and pay a $ 500,000 civil fine to resolve claims it violated the Clean Air Act, the U.S. Department of Justice and Environmental Protection Agency said on Tuesday.

The settlement between the U.S. Justice Department and Red Granite Pictures, which was co-founded by a stepson of Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, also covers U.S. forfeiture claims against the producer's rights and interests in two other pictures, Daddy's Home and Dumb and Dumber To.

The document claims that the Department of Justice and FBI bypassed proper protocol when they sought a warrant to surveil a Trump campaign adviser.

In January, the Department of Justice announced that McKesson had settled, for $ 150 million, civil claims that from 2008 to 2013 the company had failed to warn the DEA about the large number of suspicious orders of highly addictive painkillers it had shipped to certain parts of the country.

In December 2014, Judy's reached a $ 2 million civil settlement with the Justice Department for claims of improper dispensing.

Warren also called for a criminal investigation of Stumpf, claiming that both the Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission should look into whether the CEO knowingly misled investors by not disclosing the opening of the fake accounts in financial statements.

In 2011, the Department of Justice announced a plan to resolve claims that women and other minorities were discriminated against by the USDA in making and servicing farm loans.

David Goodfriend said 29 of the last 30 times the Justice Department has brought this kind of injunctive claim, it has won the case.

As part of Verizon's settlement it is also paying about $ 355,000 to the U.S. Treasury and withdrawing a challenge to the FCC - New York City agreement while the Justice Department will end a False Claims Act investigation.

A major line of attack in efforts to discredit the Justice Department has been some variation on the claim that the Obama administration ordered politically motivated surveillance of the Trump campaign.

On Tuesday, Trump claimed that he sent a memo to the Justice Department «directing the attorney general to propose regulations that ban all devices that turn legal weapons into machine guns.»

He has attacked former FBI Director James Comey for releasing memos he claims are classified, and briefly blocked a Democratic memo from the House Intelligence Committee over its inclusion of classified information, yet he grandstands against redactions insisted upon by his own Justice Department.)

Bank of America paid the FHFA $ 6.3 billion to resolve claims similar to those made by the Justice Department.

Likewise, last October, the Department of Justice released a memo telling its federal agencies to allow maximum discretion to those claiming religious exceptions on the grounds that it was not the government's place to challenge «the reasonableness of a religious belief.»

«It's ironic as many of these companies complained to the US Justice Department four years ago that Google's Flight Search feature would undermine competition — a claim that's clearly not borne out by the facts.

Fried Frank Of Counsel and author of the leading False Claims Act treatise, John T. Boese (on left), and his partner Douglas W. Baruch, offered insightful analysis on two recent Department of Justice policy documents (the «Granston Memo» and the «Brand Memo») and their impact on FCA actions by both qui tam relators and federal prosecutors.

to settle claims brought by the Department of Justice that it had bilked taxpayers out of mortgage insurance through fraudulent foreclosures.

In May, the company paid $ 89 million to settle claims brought by the Department of Justice that it had bilked taxpayers out of mortgage insurance through fraudulent foreclosures.

The ad claims that Rosenstein's «incompetence and abuse of power» have «undermined congressional investigations» and tarnished the reputation of the Justice Department.

On November 19, 2013, the Department of Justice («DOJ») announced a $ 13 billion settlement with JPMC to resolve «federal and state civil claims arising out of the packaging, marketing, sale and issuance of residential mortgage - backed securities («RMBS») by JPMorgan, Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual prior to Jan. 1, 2009.

But the warrant had been renewed three times — once by Trump's own Justice Department appointees — and law - enforcement sources claim that the judge had been, contra the memo, informed of the dossier author's political slant.

Salomon Inc. in connection with the Nasdaq antitrust litigation (United States Department of Justice and class actions) and the 1991 - 1992 criminal investigation and governmental claims arising from its conduct of treasury security auctions.

AT&T's Randall Stephenson began his court testimony defending his company's $ 85 billion acquisition of Time Warner against the Justice Department's antitrust claims.

It claims the FBI and the Justice Department abused their surveillance authority on Trump's 2016 Presidential campaign.

U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis rejected the Justice Department's claim that courts should not intervene in Trump's exercise of «prosecutorial discretion» to eliminate the protections former president Barack Obama created in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio struck back at claims made by the US Justice Department that the policy of clearing homelessness encampments — one pursued by the NYPD and other local law enforcement agencies nationwide — may be unconstitutional.

With questions still swirling over President Donald Trump's unsubstantiated claims that he was wiretapped on orders of President Barack Obama, the Justice Department declined to confirm statements a day earlier from the White House that Trump was not the target of a counterintelligence investigation.

The Republican chairman and ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee said new documents provided to Congress by the Justice Department provided no proof to support Trump's claim that his predecessor had ordered wiretaps of Trump Tower.

FBI Director James Comey blasted President Donald Trump's claim that his predecessor was wiretapping him — and he reportedly wants the Justice Department to back him up.

In response to Donovan and the Democratic candidates saying he betrayed voters when he pleaded guilty to tax evasion and quit weeks after winning reelection in 2014, he claimed he was the victim of a «corrupt» Justice Department.

He claimed there had potentially been voter suppression and called for the Justice Department to investigate.

In April 2009, officials at the United States Department of Justice acknowledged that the NSA had engaged in large - scale overcollection of domestic communications in excess of the federal intelligence court's authority, but claimed that the acts were unintentional and had since been rectified.8

SolarCity has agreed to pay $ 29.5 million to settle allegations that it lied to the federal government by submitting inflated claims through a solar energy stimulus program, the Justice Department said.

«Extremism in prisons is a real issue but it is also an area that both the Home Office and the Justice Department could claim to have ownership over.

Lev Dassin, the acting United States attorney for the southern district of New York, and Tony West, the assistant attorney general for the civil division of the Department of Justice, announced today that Westchester County has agreed to fund the building of 750 units of affordable housing in areas with low racial and ethnic diversity in order to settle a lawsuit brought against it by the United States under the False Claims Act as well as the Housing and Community Development Act.

Grimm responded to Donovan's claims on the website saying he had been a more effective representative when he was in Congress and said his tax conviction was persecution by the Obama administration Justice Department.

While the Uniform Language forbids an examiner from making «the unsupportable claim that the pattern of features in two prints come from the same source to the exclusion of all others,» Holt said in his letter to the Justice Department, «it does allow examiners to say they «would not expect to see that same arrangement of features repeated in an impression that came from a different source.

An Exxon Mobil Corp unit has agreed to pay $ 1.4 million to resolve U.S. government claims over a 2012 crude oil spill in Louisiana, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday.

Medicare loses billions of dollars to fraudulent claims every year, according to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Justice.

The Justice Department is targeting companies who are making false health claims (like weight loss and building muscle) on supplement labels.

The Department of Justice is suing Louisiana over its voucher program, claiming it slows the desegregation process.

Actually, that's what many people on the left do claim, and that was the basis for the Obama Administration's 2014 Dear Colleague Letter on the topic, which gave the Office for Civil Rights (and Justice Department) the authority to investigate school districts based on racial disparities in discipline rates alone.

Members of the group, a patchwork of community organizations called the Journey for Justice Movement, have filed several Title VI civil rights complaints with the Education Department Office of Civil Rights, claiming that school districts that shut schools are hurting minority students.

Last year, the U.S. Department of Justice attacked Louisiana's voucher law, claiming that it thwarted the DOJ's efforts to desegregate public schools.

The U.S. Justice Department has filed a civil lawsuit against Fiat Chrysler Automobiles claiming the automaker used software to evade emissions controls on diesel vehicles.

Of course, many of those condemning Rutherford and those like him also point to the Bowker report about the price of e-books not rising under the agency pricing model as evidence the Department of Justice is wrong in claiming prices will rise under the agency model.