Sentences with phrase «justice lawyer who»
I blogged about it here and have summed up my concerns in the following letter to the Department of Justice lawyer who is heading up this initiative:
http://blog.privacylawyer.ca/
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.
Last week on the blog The Free for All, civil libertarian Harvey Silverglate issued a call for an ethics investigation of the Department of Justice lawyers who advised the CIA on the legality of its torture practices.
The decision names five Department of Justice lawyers who made «appearances» at the hearing of this matter but does not specify on whose specific advice CSIS was acting.
Not exact matches
Former Western Australian lawyer Michelle Gordon has been appointed as the next Justice of the High Court of Australia, replacing her husband, Justice Kenneth Hayne, who soon reaches the mandatory age
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.
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.
Two lawyers who have never met can nevertheless combine efforts to defend a complete stranger because they both believe in the existence of laws, justice, human rights — and the money paid out in fees.
President Donald Trump has nominated a former corporate lawyer — who previously said that AT&T's bid for Time Warner doesn't pose a «major antitrust problem» — as the U.S. Justice Department's next competition chief.
On Saturday, Trump lashed out on Twitter over a New York Times report that reported speculations that Cohen, his longtime personal lawyer who is under criminal investigation by the Department of Justice, could end up cooperating with government officials.
Insurance companies were branded as the large faceless corporations, while personal injury lawyers were superheroes, who would fight to get you justice.
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.
An Argentinian lawyer who made his fame prosecuting generals of Argentina's «Dirty Wars» of 1976 to 1983, he has, more than anyone, given the ICC a public profile of an organization assertively pursuing arch-war criminals and insisting upon justice.
In a letter to Justice Minister Mohammed al - Issa seen by Reuters, eight judges complained about foreign trainers who shave their beards contrary to purist Islam, the minister's meetings with diplomats of «infidel» states and plans to let women practice as lawyers.
Maybe justice and the good society are brought about precisely by lawyers and judges sending the jury out of the courtroom while they decide whether to admit the testimony of an old black woman who has been listening in on the whole trial of her son.
«I just had this sense that if I could do anything in the world, I would do this justice lawyering thing where you are an advocate on behalf of people who don't have a voice and who are being abused by others,» he says.
I. M. Swindler, who receives $ 15 million per year as chairman of Lawyers for Social Justice, says his group strongly backs the proposed measures as «an eminently fair arrangement for all the parties who matter.»
Black also recommends the reinstatement of mutual consent laws in order to slow down the process of divorce and give the reluctant partner (who is often also the custodial parent) more bargaining power in a process often driven not by justice but by whoever can afford the more skillful lawyer.
The five - member Committee comprises a Justice of the Supreme Court who is the Chairperson with two Justices of the Court of Appeal appointed by the Judicial Council and two other persons appointed on the advice of the Council of State, who are neither members of the Council of State, nor members of Parliament, nor lawyers.
As for lawyers, the so - called priests in the temple of justice, from the courtroom rookie to the silk, they are the contemporary equivalent of Eli's wayward sons, Hophni and Phineas, who turned their father's noble ministry into a heinous swindle.
Trump has decided to hire the longtime Washington lawyer Joseph E. diGenova, who has pushed the theory on television that Trump was framed by F.B.I. and Justice Department officials, to bolster his legal team.
Dissenting justice campaigners, legal aid lawyers and those who've witnessed the rot setting in (from swingeing legal aid cuts, curbs to judicial review, an interpreting service in freefall, probation chaos and threats to withdraw Britain from the Human Rights Act) will be highlighting the urgent need to halt the destruction of our justice system and abide by the principles of the medieval charter.
Epstein, whom Kavanagh supported, is a lawyer who works as the associate director of the Urban Justice Center.
«It's my client's position that the borough president's action violated the spirit, if not the letter, of Justice [Philip] Minardo's order,» said Richard Leland, lawyer for the Savo Brothers, who bought the property for $ 15 million in 2013.
Breslin concluded that the case should have been led by Albany County District Attorney David Soares, who is elected, not the Justice Center whose lawyers do not stand for election, as required in the state Constitution.
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.
It was the Justice Department, CP; specifically, the Attorney General, the nation's chief lawyer, who arrived at the considered opinion that DOMA is unconstitutional and proceeded accordingly.
These characteristics, the President noted, have sustained Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo's brilliant career as a lawyer, and which propelled her to the notice of the 1st President of the 4th Republic, His Excellency Jerry John Rawlings, who appointed her to the Supreme Court on 30th November, 1995, some 22 years ago.
Justice Abba - Bello Muhammad told a whistleblower and lawyer, George Uboh, and his organization, George Uboh Whistleblower Network, that they lack the legal capacity to decide for the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami, who to prosecute.
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.
So for instance, Speaker Bamford Addo, who was a Justice of the Supreme Court, trained as a lawyer at the Inner Temple Inn.
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.
At the resumed hearing, Rotimi Jacob who is prosecuting for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) informed Justice Husseini Baba Yusuf that the defendant refused to come to court on the ground that his lawyers, Joseph Daudu and Ahmed Raji would not be in court.
Gary Gordon, who is not related to Jim Gordon, was in state Supreme Court Friday when the grand jury indictments were handed up to Supreme Court Justice Raymond Elliott, and his lawyer told the judge he was ready to turn himself in.
The lawyer who represented Lord Rennard has accused Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrat president, Tim Farron, of defending a form of secret justice by demanding the peer apologise for actions for which there was no proof he had committed.
Former Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Martin Amidu, has said the lawyers for the Montie FM trio, as well as lawyers for the owners of the station who were jailed and fined respectively by the Supreme Court for contempt, failed to defend them adequately.
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».
Lawyers for the Brooklyn Democrat, who was found guilty last year of obstruction of justice and lying to the feds, made the request in lengthy court docs filed ahead of his May 19 sentencing.
WASHINGTON (AP / WBEN)- President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced his pick for FBI director - a former Justice Department official who served as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's personal lawyer during the George Washington Bridge lane - closing investigation.
Their lawyer, Mr. Eyitayo Fatogun, who filed the notice of appeal on behalf of the appellants, stated in one of the grounds of appeal that Justice Kolawole erred in declaring that the SJIP was unknown to the constitution and the extant Acts of the National Assembly.
General News of Tuesday, 8 May 2018 Source: mynewsgh.com Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo There is serious concern among Lawyers who have their cased being heard at the General Jurisdiction 5 (GJ5), the High court — Accra with their lamentations borne out of what they say is the unusual slow delivery of Justice.
General News of Tuesday, 8 May 2018 Source: mynewsgh.com Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo There is serious concern among Lawyers who have their cased being heard at the General...
His son - in - law, Jared Kushner, has hired Abbe Lowell, a longtime Washington lawyer who recently got the Justice Department to drop corruption charges against Senator Robert Menendez, Democrat of New Jersey, after a lengthy court fight.
That's when ACLU lawyer David Cohen (Tim Blake Nelson) and Sam Conroy (Will Patton), a local criminal defender who knows all the players well, step into Dee's life and help her in her struggle for justice.
Chadwick Boseman stars as future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, who as a young lawyer is sent to Connecticut by the NAACP to try a high - profile case.
After putting on his dancing shoes as James Brown in Get On Up, Boseman's latest turn is as the first African - American Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall in the simply titled Marshall, when he was just a strapping young lawyer who can punch guys.
The related idea that the justices who voted in Brown, or the lawyers who argued against segregation, would have had objections to voluntary efforts to integrate seems equally implausible.
«You are speaking in absolutes, and it isn't quite that,» Justice Sandra Day O'Connor said to Kirk O. Kolbo, the lawyer representing white applicants who challenged racial preferences in the University...
As his biographer, Genna Rae McNeil, noted in Groundwork, Houston trained his students to become superb lawyers and «social engineers» who used the Constitution and laws to help African - Americans achieve our rightful place in the nation and to make sure the system guaranteed justice and freedom for everyone.