Sentences with phrase «civil charges against»

Provisions like North Carolina's 19A Statute, which ALDF used in the unprecedented ALDF v. Woodley case in Sanford, N.C., allow any private citizen or organization to bring civil charges against abusers for violating animal cruelty laws.

Outgoing Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, who first brought civil charges against Espada this spring, said of the senator's indictment: «I couldn't leave on a better note.»

Several people have called on Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. to be stripped of his leadership post in light of the recent civil charges against him, levied by Attorney General Andrew Cuomo.

The U.S. government has filed criminal and civil charges against a former Equifax Inc. executive over alleged insider trading linked to last year's massive data breach at the credit reporting company, officials said.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission also filed parallel civil charges against Sarao on Tuesday, calling him a «very significant player in the market.»

In a separate case, the Justice Department filed civil charges against S&P in February 2013, accusing it of failing to warn investors that the housing market was collapsing in 2006 because it would be bad for business.

The agency filed civil charges against Dominic Lacroix, his partner Sabrina Paradis - Royer and PlexCorps, for «misappropriating investor funds illegally raised through the fraudulent and unregistered» offer of PlexCoin.

In June 2013, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed civil charges against Corzine for using funds from MF's customer accounts for corporate purposes.

Not exact matches

Mr. Siegal is perhaps best known for his victory in defense of high - profile private equity financier Benjamin Wey against federal criminal and civil securities fraud and money laundering charges.

John Kennedy repeatedly appointed segregationist judges to the federal bench in the South, and the civil rights case that Robert Kennedy most vigorously prosecuted involved charges brought against Albany, Georgia, activists for violating the rights of a white storeowner by boycotting his business because he had served on a jury that cleared the sheriff who had shot a black man three times in the neck at point - blank range.

A grand jury report, released in February, not only led to charges against four priests and one parochial school teacher but has opened the floodgates for civil litigation.

If you truly do not recognize the Const!tution as being the Supreme Law that governs your physical life here in this country, then you have some options, like giving up your Citizenship and moving to a different country, or staying here and refusing to follow the law — in which case we can bring a tort action or other civil suit against you, file criminal charges against you, or have you committed to a psychiatric hospital.

Radovan Karadzic was finally captured on 7/23/08 and is charged with genocide, crimes against humanity and violations of the law of war - charges related to the 1992 - 1995 civil war that followed Bosnia - Herzegovina's secession from Yugoslavia.

Wisconsin Atty. Gen. James Doyle said Wednesday that his office filed civil antitrust charges against the nation's two largest makers of infant formula, Abbott Laboratories and Bristol - Myers Squibb Co., accusing them of working together to reduce price competition in bidding on a state - federal program to provide infant formula to poor families.

Case in point: a petition on the NAACP site urging the U.S. Justice Department to file federal civil rights charges against Zimmerman attracted so much attention that their servers...

Case in point: a petition on the NAACP site urging the U.S. Justice Department to file federal civil rights charges against Zimmerman attracted so much attention that their servers couldn't handle it:

It's likely Espada will soon face federal charges as well as the civil charges AG Andrew Cuomo brought against him.

Cuomo brought multiple civil suits against the Bronx pol, who lost the Sept. 14 Democratic primary to Gustavo Rivera, but did not bring criminal charges because, as I understand it, his office did not have jurisdiction to do so.

The New York Civil Liberties Union announced Tuesday morning the settlement of a federal lawsuit against the Buffalo City School District for what it charged was «the open and systematic discrimination of LGBTQ students at McKinley High School.»

Starting in the 1990s, Simpson led the charge in a federal lawsuit against the state that asserted the civil service test was biased against black and Hispanic state workers.

Paladino said Thursday a licensed inspector's mistake in the initial inspection and an overzealous federal prosecutor turned what should have been a civil matter into a criminal charge against one of his companies, Ellicott Development Co. of Buffalo.

Outgoing AG Andrew Cuomo plans to file civil fraud charges against Ernst & Young for its alleged role in the collapse of Lehman Brothers.

Sex abuse victims and child advocates turned up the heat on Cuomo, calling on him to support legislation that would extend the statute of limitations for criminal charges and civil suits lodged against accused abusers.

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.

The crown prosecution service subsequently confirmed no charges would be brought against Mr Green, although the civil servant who passed on information to him was sacked following a disciplinary hearing in April this year.

(Unpaid interns were previously unable to press charges against employers in New York, as the city's civil rights code did not recognize them as employees.)

Norman Seabrook — the disgraced former president of the city corrections officers» union who skated on criminal bribery charges in a mistrial last month — just scored another win Monday when a Manhattan federal judge tossed the related civil suit against him.

The defendants pleaded not guilty to the charge leveled against them and were granted bail in the sum of N5 million with a surety in like sum who must be an officer not below Grade Level 15 in the Federal Civil Service.

Pantaleo is also still modified as a federal grand jury continues to mull whether to file civil rights charges against him.

Top, federal agents seized records from the Soundview HealthCare Network in the Bronx as part of an inquiry into business and political activities of the Senate majority leader, Pedro Espada Jr., above, who defended himself against civil charges.

He held a conference call with 100 reporters last week after filing a civil suit against the state Senate's majority leader, Pedro Espada Jr., on charges of siphoning more than $ 14 million from health clinics he founded for vacations, campaign expenses and $ 20,000 in takeout sushi.

A Civil Servant absolutely must charge the time against accurals, may even be denied permission to do so and if they do anyway can be charged with insubordination, and may not do anything in violation of the Hatch Act even on their own time if they are even partially Federally funded.

Several members of New York's congressional delegation, including Reps. Charlie Rangel, Jerrold Nadler, Gregory Meeks and Hakeem Jeffries have called on the Justice Department to investigate federal civil rights charges against Zimmerman.

Ramarley Graham's dad said charges against his sons were sparked by their civil lawsuit against cops.

Federal prosecutors said last year that there was insufficient evidence to file civil rights charges against Haste.

Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara announced last March that there was «insufficient evidence» to file federal civil rights charges against Haste.

In no distant time, the Independent Corrupt Practices and other - related offences Commission will file criminal charges against ex Chairman, House of Represensatives, Ad hoc Committee on Fuel Subsidy Management, Farouk Lawan, and Boniface Emenalo a civil servant.

Support for charges against Pantaleo was especially strong among Black adults, with 85 % stating that the grand jury was wrong not to bring an indictment and 86 % expressing support for federal civil rights charges, according to the New York Times / Siena College poll.

Based on a popular graphic novel by Marasume Shirow and directed by Rupert Sanders («Snow White and the Huntsman»), Ghost in the Shell is a visually stunning experience with a fine core performance by Scarlett Johansson («Captain America: Civil War»), but it borrows so much of other, mostly better science fiction films and TV series, that charges of grand larceny should be levied against writers William Wheeler («Queen of Katwe»), Ehren Kruger («Transformers: Age of Extinction») and Jamie Moss («Street Kings»).

Therefore, the board of education should not file criminal charges against the parent of the child due to the fact that the due process procedure provides a civil remedy enabling it to recover the assessment for tuition.»

Their suit charged that the state's teacher - certification exam discriminated against blacks, violating their 14th Amendment protections and federal civil rights laws.

Even if you're not criminally charged with fraud, you can still be incarcerated in some states if the bank gets a judgment against you in civil court.

Thank you, it's for $ 637.00 from Walmart credit card I got into a little financial difficulty was unable to make my payments and a civil suit was charged against me.

Providing prohibited services can lead to severe professional penalties, and may include the filing of civil or even criminal charges against the vet assistant.

In 2003, both men were charged with tax evasion related to the one - day transaction which included acquiring 62 works of art, selling 58 works of art, and earning about $ 17 million in taxable capital gains, according to a civil lawsuit filed against Gagosian and Brant by then - U.S. Deputy Attorney General James Comey in Manhattan.

The Heartland Institute had already signaled that it plans to seek charges and civil action against the person who extracted its documents under a false identity.

The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) and Common Cause filed an 18 - page supplemental complaint to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) calling for the termination of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)'s status as a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization and requesting civil and criminal charges be brought against ALEC.

Justice O'Connell noted that the father was not pursuing criminal charges against the mother, but rather was pursuing a tort (i.e. civil wrong) claim.

However, victims and families must pursue compensation through civil courts, regardless of whether criminal charges are filed against wrongdoers.

Successfully represented Vermont municipalities against charges filed with the Civil Rights Unit of the Vermont Attorney General's Office and the Vermont Human Rights Commission