Sentences with phrase «brings us to the justice department»

Attention should be brought to the Justice Department to show that publishers are engaging in questionable practices involving the licensing of digital content to libraries.

Which brings us to the Justice Department's creative request.

Not exact matches

The Obama administration had brought the muscle of the U.S. Justice Department into Texas to help challenge both the maps and voter ID law.

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).

Prosecutors who specialize in terrorism, narcotics trafficking and organized crime, led by the acting head of the Justice Department's criminal division, will bring prosecutions designed to restrict the flow of money to terrorist groups, Sessions said.

The Justice Department and our state partners brought this case because substantial evidence showed that direct competition between Aetna and Humana led the companies to offer more generous benefits at lower prices.»

Maksim Zaslavskiy contends the currencies did not qualify as securities under federal law and so the Department of Justice lacked jurisdiction to bring the charges.

Negotiators for Bank of America and the Justice Department have not met in more than a week and have no plans to do so after a flurry of meetings did not bring them close to a settlement amount, sources said.

The lawsuit by Ms. Clifford adds weight to allegations in a separate legal complaint brought by Common Cause, a public interest group that has asked the Federal Election Commission and the Justice Department to investigate the $ 130,000 payment by Mr. Cohen.

Samson had pleaded guilty in July to bribery in a criminal case brought by the U.S. Justice Department.

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.

As per reports, the country's Justice Department has already started discussing ways to bring bitcoin under its AML Laws so as to bring forth more transparency with crypto dealings and reduce the chances of it being used for money laundering.

(Time Warner, a silent partner, has a 10 percent stake, which will go to AT&T if it prevails in the lawsuit brought by the Justice Department.)

Citigroup denied the handful of allegations brought by Stimpson, although it did admit to the felony charge brought by the US Justice Department of rigging the foreign currency market.

The brief comes after the close of the trial over the lawsuit the Justice Department brought to stop the two companies from coming together in an $ 85 billion deal.

Instead, the Justice Department simply hands out deferred prosecution agreements, putting the banks on three - year probation with a DOJ incentive not to bring further felony counts and deferred prosecution agreements until the three - year probation has lapsed.

Consequent on the Inspector General of Police, IGP Ibrahim K. Idris NPM, mni, deployment of high - powered Police Investigation Team, Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC), Three (3) units of Police Mobile Force (PMF) and Anti-Robbery equipment to Kwara State to carryout discreet investigation into the banks robbery, prevent further attacks and bring perpetrators to justice; the high - powered Police Investigation Team deployed in synergy with the State Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department have arrested the Nine (9) above mentioned Armed Robbers directly involved in the Banks Robbery and attack on a Police Station in Offa, Kwara State.

The Erie County Probation Department needs your assitance in bringing these absdconders to justice.

Whenever the police kill, brutalize, or otherwise violate a citizen's civil rights, the US Department of Justice should be brought in to investigate and file charges if warranted because the DA's and police are constant collaborators.

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.

Last week, Staten Island District Attorney Dan Donovan announced he would bring the case to a grand jury, but several speakers called on the U.S. Department of Justice to take over the investigation instead.

Speaking from a packed high school auditorium in the South Bronx, Mark - Viverito proposed a far - reaching overhaul of Rikers Island to bring it to the point of closing down and a plan to scrap old warrants from New Yorker's records — policies that could put her ahead of Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration on justice reform and in direct conflict with the city's powerful correction officers» union, the court system and the police department.

«Without a complete separation of Sheldon Silver from the Speakership and its powers, and a real reform of our conference, we will as a body remain mired in the swamp of dysfunction and chaos which is being brought to light by the United States Department of Justice,» he said in a statement.

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.

He said that following the Omoku massacre led by Waney, the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, set up a Special Police Joint Investigation Team, comprising the IGP - Intelligence Response Team, the Force Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department, Force Department of Operations and the Rivers State Police Command to bring the perpetrators to Justice.

The U.S. Department of Justice is now investigating the Garner case after a grand jury failed to bring an indictment.

«Without a complete separation of Sheldon Silver from the Speakership and its powers, and a real reform of our conference, we will as a body remain mired in the swamp of dysfunction and chaos which is being brought to light by the United States Department of Justice,» Mr. Wright said.

Which brings us, once again, to the question: What is going on in New York's prisons, and when will the U.S. Department of Justice take notice?

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.

Determined to bring the bad guys that did him in to justice, RoboCop sets out on a mission of his own, not realizing that the gang in question is actually in cahoots with the OCP, who for all intents and purposes, also own the city, the police department, and the machine side of him.

The sweeping anti-busing legislation — approved by the Senate as part of a bill providing funds for the Justice Department this year — not only forbids the Justice Department from bringing desegregation suits that could result in busing and limits the power of federal courts to order busing for such purposes, but allows Justice Department officials to support the removal of court - ordered busing plans already in operation.

The Justice and Education departments still have not determined how to address existing desegregation cases — and whether or where to bring new ones — and have received little guidance from the White House in crafting civil - rights policy, the Citizens» Commission on Civil Rights, a bipartisan panel of former federal civil - rights officials and other advocates, says in a report released last week.

Today's guidelines announced in Baltimore by the Justice and Education Departments brings the tortured logic of disparate impact to school discipline.

Gates had little choice but to dive headlong into politics after the U.S. Justice Department brought antitrust charges against Microsoft during the Clinton administration.

The successful lawsuits that result in these orders to integrate schools are sometimes brought or joined by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ).

While consumers and industry watchers alike have spent a fair amount of time waiting eagerly to see how the ruling handed down against Apple for anti-trust violations would actually impact the publishing industry, the tech company has made a statement of its own asserting that the decision by Judge Denise Cote in the case brought against them by the Department of Justice is overly punitive and harsh.

The failure of the Department of Justice to request additional information or to bring an action under the antitrust laws to challenge the formation or material modification of the joint venture shall neither give rise to any inference of lawfulness nor limit in any way the right of the United States to investigate the formation, material modification, or any other aspects or activities of the joint venture or business arrangement and to bring actions to prevent or restrain violations of the antitrust laws.

Three of the publishers — Simon & Schuster, Hachette, and HarperCollins — have agreed to settle with the Department of Justice and the various lawsuits brought about by different state courts in the US,... [Read more...]

Three of the publishers — Simon & Schuster, Hachette, and HarperCollins — have agreed to settle with the Department of Justice and the various lawsuits brought about by different state courts in the US, while Apple, Penguin, and Macmillan are still going through with a court proceeding.

In some positive news for publishers Simon & Schuster and HarperCollins, who have been dealing with the shift in the ebook market and the litigation settlements in the Apple price fixing case brought on by the Department of Justice, the publishers announced a partnership with Worldreader to bring their titles to... [Read more...]

But there appears to be another issue at the core of the conflict as well: which party will bear «the financial burden of e-book discounting» now that S&S has agreed to settle the price fixing suit brought against it and other publishers by the Department of Justice.

The big story this week was that the Department of Justice brought suit against Apple and five of the Big Six publishing companies for allegedly colluding to fix prices on e-books.

On Friday Macmillan actually agreed to settle three lawsuits all at once — the ebook pricing case brought by the Department of Justice, but also the parallel case led by a consortium of attorneys general for the states and even the class - action case filed on behalf of consumers.

On Monday of this week, Fortune.com reported that US Department of Justice dropped its probe of CitiGroup's libor rigging scandal from 3 years earlier, which involved 6 banks, and which was tied to trillions of dollars in loans and that the US government had no plans to bring any criminal charges against CitiGroup in particular.

One more limitation of SIGTARP, they had no ability to bring cases — they had to convince the Department of Justice or another prosecutor to take action.

However, the FHA loan program and its related benefits are under threat as the Department of Justice continues to bring investigations and actions against lenders under the False Claims Act.

You can discover the stories behind Chase McCain and other key players in the hunt for Rex Fury, including Chief Dunby, the head of the LEGO CITY Police Department; Chase's bumbling buddy Frank Honey; colleague Ellie Phillips, who chimes in through the Wii U GamePad; Natalia Kowalski, the apple of Chase's eye who's gone into witness protection; and a host of bad guys Chase must defeat to bring Rex Fury to justice.

Working alongside LA County's Probation Department, Department of Mental Health, Department of Public Works and LA County Office of Education, the LA County Arts Commission began partnering with the Arts for Incarcerated Youth Network (AIYN) to bring arts education to youth involved in the juvenile justice system.

These activists include Sharon Eubanks, a former US Department of Justice attorney who once helped bring a similar case against Big Tobacco; House Democrats Ted Lieu and Mark DeSaulnier; Canadian eco-loon Bill McKibben (who talks, with characteristic wry understatement, of Exxon's «sheer, profound, and — I think — unparalleled evil»); and, of course, Rhode Island senator Sheldon Whitehouse, another attorney determined to use lawfare to shut down the debate on climate change once and for all.