This whole medicinal pot issue is a little thorny, since marijuana is illegal under federal law — period, end of story, even in states that have passed legislation or ballot initiatives making the drug legal for use by people who are sick, those individuals are still subject to arrest
by federal officials for possession or cultivation.
From 1997 to 2004, the number of hours spent
by federal officials investigating employers» use of unauthorized labor fell eighty - one percent from 714,000 hours to 135,000.
A campaign staffer for city Comptroller John Liu was arrested Tuesday afternoon, making her the second person associated with Liu's mayoral campaign to be
charged by federal officials in connection with questionable donations, according to court documents.
Laurie Osmond, an Onteora school board member, said undocumented immigrants fear they will not be able to notify family members if they are to be taken into
custody by federal officials.
The Democratic Speaker of the New York State Assembly was arrested early Thursday morning
by federal officials on corruption charges.
As released by the attorney general's civil rights bureau, the policies outline the limits local law enforcement can participate in federal immigrant enforcement efforts, including refusing to enact non-judicial warrants in civil cases, denying requests
by federal officials in holding people longer than 48 hours and limits on the access Immigration and Customs Enforcement or border protection officers can have with those currently in custoy.
Designed by the State Office of Education, it's been approved
by federal officials under a waiver from No Child Left Behind requirements.
In 2006, inspections at the Port of
Vancouver by federal officials found 50 containers filled with e-waste bound for China and Hong Kong, resulting in small penalties for 27 Canadian companies.
The company stopped production at the plant April 25 after being
notified by federal officials that frozen vegetables produced there had been linked by genetic testing to several people who had infections from Listeria monocytogenes.
In press gaggle earlier today, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said Cuomo's specific plan is yet to be
seen by federal officials.
And Newsday also has reported that the handling of the wiretapping of Oliva and the case of Macedonio are being
probed by federal officials.
Congressional Investigators Struggle to Find Source for Anti-Trump Dossier Congressional investigators are struggling to track down a source that allegedly provided some of the most salacious claims made in an anti-Trump dossier
cited by federal officials as reason to begin...
The guidelines issued last year by the Obama administration were recently
rescinded by federal officials, causing education officials across the country to speak out, including in New York State.
And she accused Pruitt of breaking the federal Hatch act, which prohibits specific political
activity by federal officials, when Pruitt was part of GOP fundraising efforts in his home state.
A New York congressional candidate given permission Thursday to use campaign funds for child care expenses called the
decision by federal officials «a game changer» for mothers as a record number of women run for office.
The de Blasio administration is under pressure to make substantial changes at Rikers: The United States attorney's office, when releasing the inquiry's findings, gave the city 49 days to come up with a plan to reduce violence or face
intervention by federal officials.
The study challenges the
estimate by federal officials, based on the amount of oil on the sea surface, that around 5000 barrels (800 cubic metres) of oil per day are pouring into the sea from the site where the BP - operated drilling rig Deepwater Horizon was destroyed by fire last month.
In the speech, his first from the Oval Office, Obama said the plan should be designed
not by the federal officials but by the gulf states, tribes, businesses, and other stakeholders.
Announced by federal officials on 17 October, the policy halts new federal funding for so - called gain - of - function (GOF) studies that make a pathogen more transmissible in mammals or more pathogenic.
(Calif.) Already a key reporting requirement of the state's new accountability system, attendance rates would now also become one of three measures
used by federal officials to gauge school performance in California.
The Legislative Reference Division has the important role of being the central clearing house across the Federal Government for proposed legislation or
testimony by Federal officials.
It is marking the end of a trail of deceitful, shallow reporting on climate issues by mass media, and denoting the end (hopefully) of widespread propagandistic manipulations of environmental
science by Federal officials.
CFACT policy advisor Larry Bell reports on the disastrous mismanagement of America's Western
forests by federal officials and the tremendous cost in human and plant and animal life and quality of life these policies have fostered.
That's why it's critically important for robust planning now, starting with the government's 2017 - 2022 offshore oil and natural gas leasing program that's currently being put
together by federal officials.
A committee of women's health providers led by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has proposed an update to the current guidelines that is under
review by federal officials.
The house Silver controlled for some 20 years made its judgment when they forced the speaker to step down in January after he was formally
charged by federal officials.
Howe's marathon testimony led to his being taken into
custody by federal officials a week ago after Howe admitted under cross-examination to attempting to bilk his credit card company out of the cost of a $ 600 overnight stay at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel.
Keith Raniere, was
arrested by federal officials in Mexico, where he has lived for the past five months, and is scheduled to appear today at a hearing in Texas.
If ongoing risk reviews
by federal officials «identify significant unmanaged security or safety concerns, the government should consider making compliance with certain oversight or reporting measures mandatory for all researchers... regardless of funding sources,» the report says.
With US Centers for Disease Control workers on enforced furlough, several outbreaks in North America are not being tracked or investigated by federal officials