Sentences with phrase «as a justice on»

One of our former partners, Dennis W. Archer, has served as a Justice on the Michigan Supreme Court and as the Mayor of Detroit.

Her record as a justice on the Georgia Supreme Court seems to be in line with the other justices on that court — broad unanimity.

He drove a number of change initiatives, such as Justice on Target (that reduced, for the first time in 18 years, the time to trial and the number of court appearances per criminal case), a health and safety initiative that reduced workplace injuries by 20 % in 3 years, the 4 Pillars of Family Reform, Civil Justice Reform, the largest funding increase in Legal Aid's history, and was part of a new approach to indigenous relations recognized by the United Nations.

Not exact matches

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he had directed the Justice Department to propose a ban on devices that modify guns, such as so - called bump stocks, which increase the rate of fire of semiautomatic firearms.

However, the Financial Times reported that the Justice Department's primary demand is for the sale of CNN, a leading cable news network that has frequently drawn the ire of President Donald Trump, who refers to the network and its journalists as «fake news» on a regular basis.

German Justice Minister Heiko Maas said on Thursday that he believes social platforms like Facebook should be defined as media outlets for regulatory purposes.

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.

At a Wells Fargo media and telecom conference on Wednesday morning, AT&T chief financial officer John Stephens said that closing the mega-deal for Time Warner «is now uncertain» even as he declined to elaborate on the company's ongoing discussions with the U.S. Department of Justice about securing regulatory approval for the transaction.

As part of his investigation, Mueller is focusing on whether Trump obstructed justice when he removed his national security adviser, Michael Flynn, and fired FBI Director James Comey, according to two U.S. officials.

Ashley Schapitl, a spokeswoman for Dianne Feinstein of California, the top Democrat on the committee, said the senator is working with the Justice and Treasury departments to get technical assistance as the bill moves forward.

«Israel doesn't have a strategy vis - à - vis the Palestinians generally or Gaza specifically,» said Zionist Union MK Tzipi Livni, who served as justice minister during the war in 2014, on Monday.

When prime - time hosts — who have never served our country in any capacity — dismiss facts and empirical reality to launch profoundly dishonest assaults on the FBI, the Justice Department, the courts, the intelligence community (in which I served) and, not least, a model public servant and genuine war hero such as Robert Mueller — all the while scaremongering with lurid warnings of «deep - state» machinations — I can not be part of the same organization, even at a remove.

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, during his daily press briefing, said the Department of Justice will be the lead on what Spicer referred to as «greater enforcement» of federal law concerning adult - use marijuana.

Yates was named deputy attorney general by then - President Barack Obama in 2015 and asked to stay on as acting head of the Justice Department by Trump.

Trump again characterized the criminal justice system as «rigged» during a rally in Florida on Friday, echoing comments he made last weekend following former national security Michael Flynn's guilty plea as part of Mueller's probe.

The strategy is intended to produce a bipartisan majority vote for Mr. Brennan in the Senate Intelligence Committee without giving its members seven additional legal opinions on targeted killing sought by senators and while protecting what the White House views as the confidentiality of the Justice Department's legal advice to the president.

On April 15, 2011, a day that would later become known as Black Friday in the online poker community, the Department of Justice shuttered two major online poker giants, PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, accusing the company founders of fraud, money laundering, and operating a Ponzi scheme.

The expected focus on Sessions» record on race, policing and immigration comes as the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division has surged in prominence under the Obama administration.

Trump quickly seized on the fact that the Russian «information warfare» effort, as it was dubbed by a top Justice Department official, began in 2014, before he declared his candidacy for president.

This is the first time the president has weighed in on the issue, but the Justice Department announced they would look into bump stocks as part of a review process on the legal definition of machine guns following the Las Vegas shooting.

Last year on the campaign trail, Trump, criticized the proposed AT&T - Time Warner deal and vowed that as president his Justice Department would block it.

Donald Trump, a frequent critic of Time Warner's CNN, attacked the merger on the campaign trail last year, vowing that as president his Justice Department would block it.

From 2006 to 2009, after the resignation of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and before the appointment of Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Justice Ginsburg was the lone woman on the court, a situation she found isolating and disturbing, as she told The New York Times.

If you want to know more about how the big guys work out problems, check out Justice on the Job, by David W. Ewing (Harvard Business School Press, Boston, 1989), a lively chronicle of the creative complaint systems in place at corporations such as Federal Express, IBM, and Northrop.

A court in Berlin on Tuesday referred to the European Court of Justice a dispute in which German publishers want search engine providers such as Google to pay them for displaying parts of their newspaper articles online.

Democrats could be expected to express their outrage by offering proposals to reinstate Mueller and to remove Trump as president, on grounds that he had obstructed justice.

Meeting on the first Monday in October, as required by law, the justices entered the crowded marble courtroom for the first time since their momentous decision in late June that upheld President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.

That sentiment was put to its ultimate test in 1994, when IDB Worldcom was acquired and the new owners gave Justice six weeks» notice of their intention to pull the plug on the switch that served as the physical hub of Justice's entire business.

As a textualist largely in the mold of late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Gorsuch has frequently advocated for interpreting laws based solely on text, regardless of the desirability of the outcomes.

Seeking clarity on what was already looking like a train wreck, Madam Justice Barbara Romaine nullified the firing of Concrete and appointed Ernst & Young as the receiver.

In the United States, which opened up its MLS to marketing - only services in 2008 as part of a settlement of an antitrust suit brought on by the Department of Justice, flat - fee brokers today represent about 10 % of the marketplace, and the FSBOs, according to a 2009 National Association of Realtors survey, 11 % (though, it's important to note, the U.S. market has been severely affected by the sub-prime mortgage crisis and had lower commissions in the first place).

As for the Justice Department, it has Donald Trump on its side, who called Apple «disgraceful» on Wednesday.

The most insightful work I know of on this topic is to be found in a brilliant 1996 paper by Caroline Whitbeck, called Ethics as Design: Doing Justice to Moral Problems.

While law enforcement attitudes toward legalizing marijuana seems to have relaxed, the nation's top justice officials have not changed their stance on marijuana as an illegal drug.

F. Lee Bailey listens as his attorney Peter DeTroy address justices at the Maine Supreme Judicial Court in Portland on Tuesday, January 14, 2014.

Miller reiterated that GE's newly raised reserve is based on those discussions with the Justice Department, as well as a «review of settlements by other banks.»

Sessions» early words and actions are consistent with the tough - on - crime reputation the former federal prosecutor cultivated as an Alabama senator, and they foreshadow an unmistakable pivot in critical areas of civil rights, criminal justice and drug policy.

He describes Browder as a «modern - day prophet» and his death having gave way to a discussion on the American criminal justice system's destructive treatment of impoverished black juveniles.

That group is back, spending more than $ 160,000 to air a new ad criticizing Justice Courtney Goodson as she seeks re-election to the state's highest court on May 22.

The European Court of Justice is expected to rule this year in a major case centered on whether Uber should be treated as a taxi service, which would mean it was subject to rigorous safety and employment rules, or merely as an online platform connecting independent drivers and waiting passengers.

Inside the White House, Cobb also acted as a moderating force on issues concerning the Justice Department.

** The U.S. Justice Department presented evidence on Thursday to show that AT&T, owner of DirecTV, viewed buying Time Warner as a way to make viewers stick with their pay TV service instead of moving to cheaper online providers.

«I would suspect the «know your customer» they're doing on their ad purchasers is probably driven more by what information they need for internal business purposes and to best sell ads rather than to satisfy information requests from any third parties, such as the Federal Election Commission, the Department of Justice, etc..»

The questions focused on conversations between the Russian government and his campaign, as well as actions Trump took related to possible obstruction of justice.

U.S. President Donald Trump, a frequent critic of CNN, attacked the deal on the campaign trail last year, vowing that as president his Justice Department would block it.

Conheeney thanked employees for their hard work and urged them to stay focused, and the attorney directed them to the Department of Justice's website for more information on the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations law, known as RICO, the people said.

But Justice Stevens defended the restrictions struck down on Thursday as modest and sensible.

In the same article we reported that while the Citizens United case was pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, Virginia Thomas, the wife of the Justice, created a nonprofit Tea Party advocacy group, Liberty Central, Inc., with a former lawyer for the Charles G. Koch Foundation, Sarah Field, acting as her General Counsel and a former Koch lobbyist, Matt Schlapp, serving on her board at inception.

RT was in fact forced to register in the United States in November, and Russia passed a law that month allowing foreign agent status to be conferred on media outlets.103 In December the Ministry of Justice designated Voice of America and eight media outlets associated with RFE / RL as foreign agents.104

But as with past Supreme Court ATS decisions, the justices once again failed to shut the door entirely on human rights activists: the ruling said nothing about the many ATS claims pending against American corporations.